Acht Jahrzehnte nach der Befreiung der KZs stellt sich die Frage der Erinnerung an den NS Terror so drängend wie nie zuvor! Wie halten die letzten Überlebenden die Erinnerung aufrecht? Was können sie und die Gedenkstätte gegen die zunehmende Relativierung des Holocausts und gegen…
Die Brüder Günther und Heinz Barisch sind sich oft nicht einer Meinung. Doch wenn es um ihre Heimat geht, leuchten beider Augen gleichermaßen. Das kleine Städtchen Zülz heißt heute Biała und gehört seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges zu Polen. Für Heinz und Günther…
Tandem Local est un film-documentaire citoyen et engagé réalisé en Belgique par une équipe bénévole qui, au cours d'un tour à vélo, s'interroge sur la réalité de la production alimentaire locale, bio et de saison. L'équipe…
A poetic journey through post-war Novi Sad, where memory, trauma, and resilience shape the everyday lives of those left behind. SYNOPSIS Five years after the NATO air raids during the Kosovo War, filmmaker Michal Kosakowski accompanied a friend back to his hometown of Novi Sad, Serbia. Once Yugoslavia’s…
Deep within the protected jungles of Ecuador’s Yasuní National Forest, two lifelong friends set out on a life-changing mission to deliver basic medical and survival supplies to the voluntarily isolated Waorani people. With guided access that took years to gain, this adventure was far different…
The film tells the story of French philosopher, activist, and mystic, Simone Weil (1909-1943)-- a woman Albert Camus described as "the only great spirit of our time." On her quest to understand Simone Weil, filmmaker Julia Haslett confronts profound questions of moral responsibility both within…
For Michal Kosakowski, the images of end-of-year celebrations, with all their rituals, are overlaid by the hidden realities of war that no one wants to see. As festivities unfold and the relentless consumer machine runs at full speed, elsewhere bombs explode and lives are lost. The sparkle of New Year’s…
A classroom of junior school children paint portraits of children suffering from measles. Two little girls interview one another about what it is like to have measles. A reticent measles victim shows her discomfort and parents are urged not to let their children suffer unnecessarily from this disease.
In 1951 Ernest Bader, an industrialist and a Quaker, gave his multimillion pound plastics busniess to men and women who worked there. Based in the grounds of a manor house in Northamptonshire, the Scott-Bader Commonwealth now has 400 members and is one of the largest co-operatives in Britain. A fork-lift…
This World in Action programme takes a look at the medical service in UK prisons in the early 1980's, and uncovers some rather disturbing cases, like the boy who had cancer while on remand for robbery, and the court was not informed. He was sentenced to borstal, and died soon afterwards. Unqualified…
Pope John Paul visited Nicaragua as part of a tour of Latin American countries. The film focuses on his visit but addresses the wider implications of the Catholic Church's role in Latin America. Many people had looked to the Pope for a lead in condemning the corrupt right-wing dictatorship of El…
A programme which takes the African country of Mali as a typical example of the difficulties of getting aid from other countries to the people who need it most, the poor people in the rural areas. Foriegn aid must be channeled through the government of the countries concerned, and the organisations like…
