"Intense, beautiful and significant" - Dagbladet "Perhaps this year's most significant film" - Aftenposten "Brave and honest" - Fædrelandsvennen Amanda Winner 2022 In 2017 Petter (24) decides to end his life, but at the very last moment, is stopped…
Presenter Michael Dorgan, a recreational runner and filmmaker, is concerned that every month a marathon runner dies, average age just 33. He questions whether these deaths were preventable. He investigates the deaths & sets out to find out if he is putting his own health at risk by being fit.…
Western values versus tradition for Muslim children in Britain Muslims make up the largest religious and cultural minority in Britain. Workers started coming to Britain in the ‘60s, and soon communities were established. We meet the children of the first generation of Asian Muslim immigrants,…
Jane is a bright active child of 17 months who is in foster care for 10 days. At this age she cannot keep a clear image of her mother in her mind, and makes a strong attachment to the foster mother. Although she copes and relates well, there are times of confusion and she cools towards her visiting father.…
Kate is a lively and talkative child of 2 years 5 months whose stay with the Robertsons becomes extended to 27 days because of complications in the birth. She is old enough to have some understanding of the situation. Kate is under considerable strain because of the prolonged absence of her mother…
Lucy, 21 months, a sturdy serious child, is in foster care for 19 days. Like Jane she is too young to carry a clear image of the absent mother and readily accepts the foster mother’s care. Lucy is helped by her fathers daily visits, and by her relationship with her substitute mother. Despite…
Thomas is an active little boy of 2 years 4 months who is in foster care for ten days. He speaks well and has a good understanding of the reasons for the separation from his mother. He is well supported by a father who visits every day, and who shows much understanding of his son. There are times…
In a nursery and separated from his mother for nine days, John becomes very distressed. At 17 months John is a placid, easy to manage child. He spends nine days in a residential nursery. The nurses are young and friendly, but the system of care does not allow any one of them to substitute for the…
For digital streaming licenses and institutional use, please contact artny@bestweb.net. This tape features the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Fun Gallery, Francesco Clemente at the Sperone Westwater Gallery and Julian Schnabel at the Leo Castelli Gallery. Interviews with Jean-Michel Basquiat and…
A 17-year-old nomad boy quitted school to become a novice monk in a Tibetan monastery, but soon began to reconsider his decision when half of the monks left monastic life for various reasons. 17-year-old Jigme quitted school and became a novice monk in Rongwo Monastery. It is located deep in the…
Filmmaker Philip Haas traveled to the southernmost tip of Madagascar to meet Efiaimbelo, a man in his mid-sixties who works as a funerary sculptor. The film follows Efiaimbelo as he travels to an isolated area in the countryside to cut down a special tree for sculpting. He makes it into a pole of geometric…
A fictional took at the complexities and difficulties of young marriage. A revealing look at the complexities and difficulties of young marriage as, prior to their own marriage, Dorie and Alan visit old friends who have been married for just about a year. Made in 1975 this film reflects the cultural…
