Discussion starter about teenage behaviour problems 15 year old Mike apparently refuses to ‘fit in’, either at school or anywhere else, and his unconventional behaviour gets him into trouble with the law. Clearly Mike needs ‘straightening put’ – or does he? Part of a…
Discussion starter – Robert must choose between his mother and his girlfriend Just as Robert is thinking of getting married his widowed mother is struck with a disease that will leave her helpless for life. Forced to choose between his mother and his girlfriend, Robert discovers that concern…
The rise, fall and rebirth of The Notic, an upstart streetball collective from Canada in the early 2000s.
A divorced funeral director swipes his way through diminishing prospects on Tinder. An employee prepares his father for a final goodbye. Patrick Ginnetty and Bowie Alexander’s bleakly humorous film brings the darkness of the pandemic into the light of day, revealing a New York mortuary stretched…
Handling the Heart is a documentary exploring patient experiences following major heart surgery - how to understand these experiences and how to live with them. Through the stories of four ex-patients, including the filmmaker himself, this documentary indicates the complex diversity of emotional and…
Handling the Heart is a documentary exploring patient experiences following major heart surgery - how to understand these experiences and how to live with them. Through the stories of four ex-patients, including the filmmaker himself, this documentary indicates the complex diversity of emotional and…
“Handmade” is a documentary film that tells the inspiring story of Nukufilm, the oldest surviving stop-motion animation studio in the world. Founded in 1957 by Elbert Tuganov, the studio emerged as a result of his work at Tallinnfilm, and his first film, "Little Peter's Dream,"…
Shaun Greenhalgh was once a prolific forger. Based in a garden shed in his parents' house in Bolton, he fooled the experts for three decades with an impressive array of fakes. Obsessed with the techniques of the past, Shaun could make anything - from medieval church carvings to Islamic drinking…
A major documentary classic from 1989, HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES offers a passionate global history of nursing, using Australia as a case study but with comparative input from American and British counterparts. It highlights the complex social, political and professional challenges faced by nurses today. <b>The…
Dom Gregory De Wit created a vast body of religious art that spans Europe and the United States, but his strong personality and bold artistic choices often met incisive criticism. Discover the story of a monk who left his monastery in Belgium to paint a mural in the United States and then was unable…
Using interviews, photos and archival footage, Hand on the Pulse is the poignant story of Joan Nestle, political and sexual “bad girl.” Hand on the Pulse traces Joan’s life; finding her community in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, celebrating the body in her writings and in her public…
hands off student unions supports the students’ struggle to preserve the autonomy of their union from the conditions of state control embodied in Thatcher’s education proposals. It includes footage of demonstrations in Oxford, Birmingham and Brighton; talking heads of various student activists;…
