Projects in categories: Documentary

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Earlier this year the Kansas duo that make up Truckstop Honeymoon, Katie Euliss and Mike West visited Folkestone, as part of their European Tour. The pair who travel with their Four children stayed with us on their brief visit and we managed to make this short documentary film of their stay.

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Stories from the North Sea. From the fjords to the lochs. From brown to blue. Surfing's sepia dipped North Sea tales foretold. Uncommon Ideals is part of a project to document the experience and culture of surfing in and around the North Sea.

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The UK is known as ‘Billet’ in Bangladesh, a desired place where millions of people want to go. This film reflects my personal journey to Billet, or Blighty, and explores what it is like to make a home to a foreign country.

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A short documentary about three bohemian characters in a small village Japan: A Junk Collector, an Organic Farmer, and a Circus Trainer. Through their gentle portrayal, the viewer learns more about the positive and negative aspects to rural life in Japan.

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This cross-media documentary (film, installation and website) explores the life and writings of Daniel Paul Schreber. Now famous as an Outsider Artist, Schreber was a successful lawyer, who in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a ‘Writing Down Machine’ that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next nine years confined to an asylum: this is his story.

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A group of British teenagers compete in the international mathematical Olympics

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Nick Broomfield ("Biggie & Tupac"; "Kurt & Courtney") goes in pursuit of Sarah Palin, interviewing her family and friends, for a decidedly unauthorized perspective on this growing force in American politics.

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Filmmaker and historian Mark Cousins adapts his book of the same title into a 15-hour exploration of cinema's artistry with a global perspective from the silent era to the digital age.

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A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

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Husham works tirelessly to build the hopes, dreams and prospects of the 32 damaged children of war, under his care at a small orphanage in Baghdad’s most dangerous district. When the landlord gives Husham and the boys just two weeks to vacate a desperate search ensues.

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Luc Besson takes on the inspiring true story of Burmese pro-democracy activist, leader and political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and the tenacious long-distance bond she maintained with her British husband, Michael Aris (David Thewlis) while under house arrest for over a decade.

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Agnes was diagnosed with dementia in her fifties. Five years have passed and she is still struggling with her new identity, and the loss of who she once was. We follow Agnes in her quest for renewal and along the way our notions of what it means to have dementia are challenged and given a fresh perspective.