Projects in categories: Documentary

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The Lawes of the Marches documents the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings all along the border of England and Scotland. These ridings are about marking and commemorating the past with as much relevance today as when they began in 1500.

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Ten years after fleeing the regime in Serbia, Marko finds himself defending some of the very people that he fought against while he lived there, including the notorious Radovan Karadzic.

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Part of the ongoing work, 'Fucking Finland', exploring unintended cultural chinks and links in the old Iron Curtain, 'Your Silent Face' follows the dockers of Rostock at rest, as a Baltic ferry leaves port for Hanko in Finland.

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After his blind aunt dies, the London-born fillmmaker realises that his cantankerous emigrant father is also approaching death. In a bid to get closer to him before it's too late, and in order to try and work out what to do with the family's ancestral twelve acres of prime Punjabi farmland, the filmmaker returns to live in Punjab and learns to be a farm landlord. Along the way he discovers that when it comes to inheritances, all families have some serious issues to resolve...

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A three part series film: VIETNAM AND THE WAR; THE TV WAR; FALLOUT & RECOVERY
This is the story of America's War with Vietnam and how it began. The film takes us on a journey from the fight for freedom from the French, the escalation of American involvement and contemporary US politics. Well known journalists contribute. Music of the era informs the film.

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A hilarious, heartfelt and heart-breaking documentary portrait of the longest running and lowest budget pantomime in Nottingham.

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Montreal is an island where the indie scene is blossoming like nowhere else in the world. And in the true spirit of the music, Timothy George Kelly's DIY film takes us to pop-up shows on rooftops, in subways, at playgrounds and in parking lots.

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Night Will Fall tells the story of the liberation of the German Concentration Camps. Using remarkable archive footage and testimony from both survivors and liberators, it tells of the efforts made to document the almost unbelievable scenes that the Allies encountered on liberation.

The film explores how a team of top filmmakers, including Sidney Bernstein, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock, came together to make a film to provide undeniable evidence of what the Allies found, but the film was stopped in its tracks by the British Government and only now 70 years on, has it been completed. Each new generation deserves access to this evidence.

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A field-recorded encounter with some of the more eccentric folk rituals of the Norfolk Broads - as seen through the eyes of one indigenous storyteller.

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A musical road movie following two best friends and Muslim converts – Sukina and Muneera of the Hip Hop duo ‘Poetic Pilgrimage’ – on their quest to spiritually reconcile Islam, music and female empowerment despite criticism from cultural and religious traditionalists who believe their work is haram.

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Inspired by the words of Nelson Mandela, OF THE UNKNOWN explores the living conditions of Hong Kong’s
so-called ‘cage dogs’.

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A song cycle with texts written by World War I poets all of whom, apart from the English painter-poet David Bomberg, lost their lives during the war... This innovative song cycle combines chansons vieilles from European poets, archival visual excerpts, and fragments of World World I-era musical motifs, in which Michael Nyman evokes everything erased from our memory: the unknown soldiers - those who have never been found or have lost their lives.