Projects in categories: Documentary

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Fields is a meditation on war filmed at First World War battlefields in Belgium and Northern France in Spring 2002. Through breathtaking landscapes and an evocative soundtrack, the film asks the viewer to consider the continuum of violence in the world since 1918.

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The film tells the touching story of victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Laos and Afghanistan, turning their homelands into a hostile environment for a very long time. It is less a reportage and more an audio-visual reflection on these issues and the landscapes in which they are acted out.

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In Spain, young men go out into the farms at night to secretly fight bulls. By performing this 'ritual' of 'making the moon' they hope one day to become fully-fledged matadores.   The film focuses on one Spanish boy, Jorge Contreras, and his efforts to become a bullfighter. Jorge is helped mostly by his father, who has always dreamt of becoming a torero himself. The relationship between father and son tells us a lot. Not only about bullfighting and Spain, but also about courage, freedom, killing and Oedipus.

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Documentary filmmakers par-excellence Samuel Dale and Darren King provide the definitive account of the Luton Institute For Christian and Moral Ethics, (LICME) campaign to prevent notorious rock group Smear of Filth performing in their town. The documentary also contains the only filmed interview with Sven Vader before his untimely death.

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This is the story of a remarkable 93 year old man. Leon Greenman survived five Nazi concentration camps, was the subject of Nazi medical experiments, endured a death march, a gruelling five day journey in open carts upon Germany's retreat and lost his wife and baby in Auschwitz. Where others choose to try and leave this horrific era in history behind, Leon has dedicated his life to educating against extremism. He has talked to over a milion youths since 1946 and for his effort was awarded with an OBE by the Queen.

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A doc-drama following a day in the life of two homeless girls. The film looks at how we view that which we see everyday, those dispossessed of a home, yet questions how we use that information.

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A sequential collage of bizarre and revealing images found by putting the term Human into an internet search engine is combined with the quirky, fantastical and often hilarious desriptions of the human race by children, to give the audience a disconcerting sense of alienation from their own species.

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On a transatlantic quest to discover the identity of The Muse, filmmaker and artist Kathy Hill asks other creatives "What Inspires You? Is It Divine?" Features interviws with movie star Rutger Hauer, Oxford Classic don Jasper Griffin, Hollywood Script Consultant Linda Seger and Bafta Award winning film director Ben Hopkins.

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Kawah Ijen is an active volcano. It is also the site of labour intensive sulpher mining. There is no machinery, only a stream of hardy local labourers.   A contemporary twist on the myth of Sisyphus, the film follows these miners on their gruelling journey - from crater to wage clerk - ultimately questioning the ritual of labour.

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Imagine what it must feel like to be forced to leave everything you know and love in order to stay alive. This was the situation for Jean Baptiste, a journalist in Rwanda. Letters Home is a poignant and very personal portrayal of his experiences since arriving in England as a refugee, through his letters home to his family.

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Marc Isaacs sets himself up in an East End of London tower block lift with his camera and waits for new residents to reveal their lives. The result is both funny and moving. Sometimes the residents ignore him. One of them offers him food and a lady sticks holy pictures above his head.

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The men of the London Irish are made up of people from all walks of life: Accountants, Solicitors, Builders, Chefs - Disparate, different individuals who come together regularly to become a cohesive fighting force constantly honing their skills. Here they go on a shooting weekend at the Ranges completing the Annual Personnal weapons test and also practicing on the ardous Individual battle kills range. London Irish at the Ranges is a short documentary produced and directed by Tipu Sultan.