Folk artists from diverse communities in Rajasthan reflect on their art and memory of their beloved patron John Singh.
Each year, the slow-paced lifestyle in Mexico’s largest desert in the Baja Peninsula is given a turbo boost by the Baja 1000, the largest off-road motorsport race in the world that takes place crossing the Mexican-US border. In this modern-day western, José Permar tells a unique story…
In the tradition of Harun Farocki and João Moreira Salles, this personal film essay by Federico Atehortúa Arteaga examines the relationship between film footage, the events of the war in Colombia, his family’s story, and the origins of cinema in the country. On March 6, 1906, four…
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) left a million dead and over 500,000 refugees. Mexico welcomed about 20,000. Among them were the filmmaker’s grandparents, parents, and some of their friends. In Exile: A Family Film tells some of the forgotten stories of memory and history -personal accounts…
The Accelerator is a feature documentary about Robert R. Wilson, the visionary medical physicist whose life bridged humanity’s most destructive and most life-saving scientific breakthroughs. In 1942, the United States launched the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb. Among its…
Free elections were held in Nicaragua in 1984 for the first time for 45 years. Seven politcal parties, from the extreme left to the Conservative Party participated. This film looks at the development of this democratic system from the point of view of the people: their hopes, beliefs and their culture.…
Tells the story of the first vital stages in a programme that will take many years, and aims to rid the world of a disease that strikes particularly the children. Each year some half a million children in the third world are killed or crippled by Polio, yet if they had been immunised by the age of two,…
A powerful, multi-award-winning North East documentary - directed by Hartlepool-born filmmaker Russell Smith From 1899 to 1993, the villages of Blackhall, Horden and Easington in the East Durham Coalfield extracted millions of tons of coal that fuelled British industry and warmed homes across the…
El invierno transforma el monte mediterráneo en un mosaico de contrastes forestales. Las encinas, los alcornoques, los enebros de la miera, las sabinas, los madroños, los sanguinos, los pinos resineros y piñoneros, contrastan con los quejigos, melojos, fresnos, arces, espinos, cornicabras,…
Just Like You – Diabetes is an award-winning short documentary that offers an intimate look into the daily lives of four children living with Type 1 diabetes, alongside their closest friends and supporters. Through honest, age-appropriate storytelling, the film explores what it feels like to…
Just Like You – Cleft Lip & Palate is a short documentary that offers an intimate look into the life of Billy Eckles, a young boy growing up with a cleft lip and palate, alongside his closest friend. Through honest storytelling, the film explores what it feels like to navigate visible difference,…
Just Like You – Facial Anomalies is a Mid-American Emmy Nominated and Oscar qualified documentary that follows four children living with facial anomalies as they share what it’s really like to navigate the world—socially, emotionally, and physically—when you look different. Through…
