Seeds of All Things (2018), is a an intimate depiction of the first few months in the life of a family who was forced to leave Iran and arrive in the USA just a few weeks before the 2016 elections.
Drama therapy by Dorothy Heathcote in what was a mental handicap hospital. The film shows two weeks of drama therapy in a hospital for people with learning disabilities. The drama course is led by a group of 22 secondary school teachers working under the supervision of Dorothy Heathcote. At the core…
Three successive years of drought has meant no harvest in most of Ethiopia. Thousands of children are dying in spite of the feeding centres which are being setup up. There are hardly any doctors and the people are too weak to do anything. The film shows a woman who walked 30 miles to try and save her…
Filmed in Ethiopia over a three year period (from 1983-86) is a unique chronicle of how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. It focuses on the village of Ansetta in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia, some 500 km north of Addis Ababa.…
Sixty years of producing standardized fruit and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their nutritional content. In the past 50 years, vegetables have lost 27% of their vitamin C and nearly half of their iron. Take the tomato. Through multiple hybridizations, scientists…
Alvin Queen is one of the best jazz drummers of all time. A child prodigy, he played with the greatest masters (Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Pharaoh Sanders... ) He is also a very nice person who has a lot of wisdom to transmit. Deutsche Untertitel verfügbar: Alvin Queen…
Carla Haddad Mardini was born with bombs blasting at the worst period of the Lebanese Civil War. She embarked on a career in the humanitarian field where she experienced a meteoric rise, quickly holding leadership positions, first at the ICRC and now at UNICEF in New York. One of her greatest successes…
Patrick Delarive defines himself as a “serial entrepreneur”. A modern version of the mythical King Midas, everything he touches turns into gold (finance, real estate, show business... ) But for him, money is an energy that always needs to circulate. And the most important is not to be…
What do you do when you are fired from your own company — a company you founded more than 20 years ago? Serge Huber was seven years old when he fell in love with computers. By the time the web was born, he was already building companies on it. He survived the dot-com crash, dusted himself off,…
Born in a small and deeply conservative city in Pakistan, Sitara Jabeen is a rebel by nature. She has had to overcome personal, familial, societal, and cultural barriers to become what she always wanted to be: a fully independent woman. But for Sitara, that’s only the beginning — she now…
A "beauty rebel with a cause", Anju Rupal founded and leads ABHATI, a global brand that enhances beauty inside and out, and empowers women in places that need it most. Deutsche Untertitel verfügbar Anju Rupal gründete und leitet ABHATI, eine globale Marke, die die Schönheit…
A retrospective on one of Britain's most accomplished street photographers. Dorothy Bohm is one of Britain’s finest street photographers, arriving in the UK in 1939 after fleeing Nazi persecution in Lithuania. At 92 she continues to take pictures, capturing moments in life with humanity…
