An Alberta couple gets more than they bargained for when their attempt to adopt a child through the foster system results in a transformative path to parenthood they never could have imagined.
During the 1960s, the U.S. Army built a clandestine camp, Camp Century, in northwestern Greenland with a plan to shuttle nuclear warheads under the Greenland Ice Sheet. Glaciologists at the camp drilled a mile into the ice, extracting sediment from under it. The sediment was forgotten to science for…
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…
Eine 30-minütige Reportage von und mit Helge Schneider aus dem Jahr 1998.
Die Dokumentation erzählt Alfreds Geschichte. Die Zeit als Verdingkind im Berner Oberland hat ihn sein Leben lang begleitet. Er spricht über seine Hoffnungen und Ängste und erzählt, wie er trotz aller Benachteiligungen sein Leben meistern konnte.
Un film de Laurent Hasse Laurent Hasse capture le processus de création de l’oxymorique « Mort Joyeuse », spectacle de danse « baroque contemporaine » chorégraphié par Béatrice Massin autour du Requiem de Mozart. Avec la caméra la plus…
Un film de Philippe Lainé et Stéphanie Magnant Dans les musées, des hommes et des femmes surveillent nuit et jour les œuvres d’art. Leur travail consiste à regarder, protéger : les gens, les œuvres, le bâtiment. Confrontés à l’ennui…
Un film de Aubin Hellot Portrait croisé de deux jeunes en 1942 : la résistante Noëlla Rouget et le collaborateur qui l’arrêta et la fit déportée à Ravensbrück, Jacques Vasseur. Après s’être caché 17 ans chez sa mère,…
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…
Looks in detail at three different schemes: volunteer befriending, educational home visiting and parent-to-parent links from a nursery school, and suggests the key questions that should be addressed before setting up and at the standards of practice to the observed in the running of a scheme Useful for…
Made specially for schools this film puts forward the plight of starving people, especially in Ethiopia, very graphically, and relates it to our lives in the rich countries. Interviews with Bob Geldorf and other pop stars, and plenty of music.
The causes and effects of severe salds on children.
