Director: Svetlana Rodina & Laurent Stoop Year: 2021 Country of production: Switzerland Original language: Russian On the island of Ostrov in the Caspian Sea the inhabitants, left alone by the Russian state after the collapse of the Soviet Union, survive through poaching. Ivan regularly goes…
Time dimensions emerge from the relation between the visible and the imagined, between memory and the experience of the present. A unique place emerges through the entanglement of music and archive footage. The cine-concert moves across the soundscape of Brazilian sugar cane fields intertwining live…
The world of competitive yacht racing is fast, exciting, and glamorous. From the America’s Cup to the Olympics to billionaires racing across exotic seas it is a world dominated by men. Gracing covers of yachting magazines the world over images of these sailboats and their crews are captured…
A dog film that explores themes of humanity. Community, love, conflict and legacy all come into play when a healthy litter of puppies is suddenly paralyzed and no one knows why. Vets recommend putting the dogs down, but a group of courageous women rally together to save the pups. Nothing is off the table…
Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what is possible. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Lonnie found himself on the frontlines of climate…
Anthropologist and filmmaker Carolina Arias Ortiz returns to Costa Rica to visit her estranged father. When he is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, death suddenly draws close. During this time she meets the archaeologist Ifigenia Quintanilla, who is conducting research into one of Costa Rica’s…
Looks at the reasons which forces millions of poor Brazillians off the land to pile up in sprawling shanty-towns in the coastal cities where there is high unemployment, inadequate housing, schooling, medical facilities and where food is expensive. Made by a Brazillian film team led by well-known film-maker…
Chimpanzees and gorillas are mankind's closest relatives but throughout the forests of Africa these great apes are in peril. The hunting of these species for their meat and for babies as pets is taking a devastating toll. Shows the results of an investigation into this trade in four African countries.…
An introductory film for those wanting to know why the Cruise Missiles which have been added to the NATO arsenal have aroused such antipathy from the anti-movement. The film includes archive film of the second world war flying bomb and other antecedents of the Cruise. Joan Ruddocks of the Campaign for…
Dr Helen Caldicott has left her patients in America to travel and lecture on what she considers the most important issue of our time - the nuclear threat. She addresses herself particularly to women, and to doctors, but all should listen to her. War is the greatest threat - the possible extinction of…
Are the claims made about computers exaggerated? Will they really be able to think? What about young fantatics who seem to prefer the company of machines to humans? Some of these have cracked the code of big businesses and educational concerns, illegally, and can cause havoc. Then there is the example…
A documentary about the imprisonment and eventual release of a family of political prisoners in Argentina. In 1975 Juan Carlos Rodrigues and his pregnant wife Marisa were arrested and like thousands of other political prisoners, suffered severe physical and psychological abuse. For a year they had absolutely…
