a film by Hery A. Rasolo In the South of Madagascar, the “raketa mena”, a sort of cactus introduced in the early 1900’s, has wiped out all the native flora and dried all the fields used for food production. Furthermore, climatic conditions and industrial fishing deprive the local…
These, questions and answers cover common and uncommon neonatal conditions. These questions and answers cover common and uncommon neonatal conditions. They are intended as a revision course for students and nurses.
Eating disorders women encounter in the search for slimness. A film about food, fat and dieting. From an early age, women learn that to be thin is to be happy, and that constant policing of our food intake, politely called dieting, is essential. But is it? Do diets even work? Could it be that they…
Le dictateur nord-coréen Kim Jong Il était le dirigeant le plus secret de la planète. Un tyran caricatural avec le doigt sur la gâchette nucléaire. Rarement une figure politique aura été plus énigmatique. La légende, ou plutôt sa biographie…
Il est le Dieu vivant de la 9ème puissance nucléaire du monde. C’est un jeune homme élevé en secret pour prendre la relève de la dictature nord-coréenne, une entreprise familiale qui se transmet de père en fils. On ne connait de lui que les images…
A film by Curtis Levy. The story of Hephzibah Menuhin is as rich as a novel by Henry James. A child prodigy like her violinist brother, Yehudi, she toured the world giving piano concerts from an early age. In 1938 Hephzibah, aged 18, married Lindsay Nicholas, Australian heir to the Aspro fortune,…
Directed by JOHN DARLING. Produced by JOHN DARLING and SARA DARLING. For Australian documentary filmmaker John Darling, the tragic events of 12 October 2002 compelled him to re-establish his links with Bali that spanned some 30 years. John had lived, researched and made films in Bali for 17 years…
HATRED is an award-winning Australian documentary - a personal journey that asks big social questions about identity and prejudice in the modern world. What makes us who we are and how do we learn to hate? This is an important question for Australians at this time, as the line is tested between the…
DIGITALLY REMASTERED. A series of four films by Australian filmmaker Solrun Hoaas, about the tiny depopulated island of Hatoma, in Okinawa, Southern Japan. A fluent speaker of Japanese, Solrun Hoaas began a series of filming trips to Hatoma Island in the late 1970s, working on 16mm film (using a…
Directed by STEVE THOMAS. Produced by JOHN MOORE. In the late 1940s, Harold Blair emerged as one of the most renowned Australian tenors of the concert hall, at a time when very few Aboriginal people could break through the barriers of the repressive Queensland reserve system. HAROLD takes us on…
A major documentary classic from 1989, HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES offers a passionate global history of nursing, using Australia as a case study but with comparative input from American and British counterparts. It highlights the complex social, political and professional challenges faced by nurses today. <b>The…
DIGITALLY REMASTERED - a film by Solrun Hoaas. 'No Japanese women, or any half castes either, will be admitted to Australia . . . they are simply not wanted and are permanently undesirable,' stated a 1948 instruction from the then Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell. GREEN TEA AND…
