Britain’s Shari’a Council presides over hundreds of cases every year. This parallel legal system remains unknown to much of the wider population, yet this court has existed for over 20 years. This film takes us inside the workings of Shari’a law in Britain, and the human stories behind…
Monica Whitlock former BBC correspondent retraces the steps of the 2005 massacre, which she reported before being thrown out of Uzbekistan with all other foreign journalists. After five years she was able to trace some of the people in exile who had been given up for dead. Their families are still under…
Skijoring is a sport that combines fast horses with daredevil skiing through a slalom course in small towns throughout the western United States. Follow Ebbie Hansen, a Montana cowgirl, as she chases her third National Championship. Official Selections 2019: Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Wasatch…
An informative and entertaining Prime TV documentary, All In The Mind takes Kiwi brain development specialist Nathan Wallis on a journey around the motu to present compelling science about a very big life question: Is a bloke’s grey matter the same as a Sheila’s? Are male and female brains…
The above prices are for private use only. To license for educational institutions or libraries please contact info@yiddishdances.com. BENJAMIN ZEMACH (1901, Bialystok-1997, Israel), was an active and famous 20th century Jewish cultural figure from the 1920s until his death and remembered very fondly…
What does it mean to be an owner? In We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream, employee owners from New Belgium Brewing, Namasté Solar and DPR Construction answer this important question. Successfully thriving in the global economy of the 21st century and beyond will require new…
During the Catalan independence referendum, Marie, a dominican filmmaker, documents the cultural identity of Sory, a small business owner, single mother and lesbian. Despite becoming friends and after having agreed to being filmed from the outset, Sory turns away Marie’s camera from the hair salon…
Peter Galison and Pamela Hogan Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma explores the secret late-1940s/early-1950s debate over whether to build the H-bomb. In the wake of the destructive power unleashed by the atomic bomb, nuclear physicists found themselves in an agonizing moral quandary over whether or…
For the Community Liaison Unit of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. This film tells the story of Narina Anwar’s dramatic escape, with her two sisters, from the threat of forced marriage in Pakistan.
Documentary for BBC Northern Ireland/TnaG/RTE/Irish film board in production with Glass Machine. Titled after the autobiography of Mici MacGowan, who left his native Donegal for the United States in the late 1880s, this documentary portrays the Irish experience in America at its harshest. MacGowans early…
Documentary about the strike at the Grunwick film processing factory in North London, 1976-78. A film about the modern "civilised" state. The predominantly migrant and female workforce at the photo processing plant began to strike in August 1976 against the long working hours (8am-10pm),…
I SOGNI DI ROMA is a five-part film installation which explores the resilience of imagination in the unpredictable times of a pandemic. Romans impart their own dreams had in the first 50 nights of quarantine, as the camera traverses spaces real and imagined. // In March 2020, the whole of…
