Projects in categories: Documentary

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In the UK, euthanasia and assisted death is illegal. However, recent landmark cases have highlighted the issues surrounding assisted death and may be shifting public opinion in the direction of greater freedom. Yet it is one of the most challenging and complex debates of our time, with varied viewpoints presenting society with difficult questions, for which there are no easy answers. In a world of idealised autonomy, legislation providing for assisted dying in the UK might, if ethically acceptable, not be risky. But we do not live in that world and there are wider implications to this most complex of issues. The arguments, both for and against a change in the law are nothing if not complicated, but one thing is for sure, these legal challenges are not going to go away, and more people are taking advantage of Switzerland’s rather coarsely coined ‘suicide tourism.’ Whatever you conclude, however, these most recent legal challenges come nearly 20 years after the issue was first voted on in the House of Commons.

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Based on documents found in Berlin archives, 'Four Parts of a Folding Screen' explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. A voice, enigmatic and sometimes uncertain, foretells of, relates and recalls the routine processes of injustice and their legacy: the creation of a diaspora of household objects, scattered amongst buildings that no longer exist. As the camera probes the secrets of ordinary spaces, streets and buildings around the city of Berlin, semblances of a person and a history begin to emerge and coalesce. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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A poetic documentary animation based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean prostitute, exploring what it is like to be the subject of other people’s pleasure. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Lust to Love and in Between programme - World premiere Official Selection Animafest Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film 2019 - Student Film Competition Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026

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As a child, Ivanka was chosen by fairy women for the special task of entering the realm of the dead to discover the future. As an old lady, the spirits have left her, so how does she navigate between the two worlds now?

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Frank, funny and moving drama about four young women's abortion experiences, told verbatim from real interviews, with spoken word and urban-afro music. Adapted from a successful theatre show. Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Persister - International premiere

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Every one can make a film about refugees but do you think the refugees can make movies about themselves? It's about the Syrians , Palestinians , Africans and the refugees from around the world lives in Germany specially in Berlin and we can see from the beginning of the movie they are traveling to Paris by bus for tourism as they said to the camera , and we found during the time passes they are going to Paris for political issues ,

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A fictionalised documentary essay, tracing the politics of the Thames River, from colonialism to global financialisation, through the prism of Joseph Conrad’s 'Heart of Darkness'. Two unseen people meet in Shoeburyness, where the Thames River meets the North Sea. With a visually distinctive use of tableau shots of locations along the Thames, they narrate their journey to London’s Docklands. The woman quotes from 'Heart of Darkness', but instead of travelling up the Congo River into the heart of Africa, their journey ends in the heart of London’s Docklands, where contemporary darkness reigns. A self-proclaimed ‘accelerationist’, the woman plans to destroy the financial district and accelerate capitalism towards its end, while the man is more concerned for the ecology of the river and our debt to nature.

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LEAVE OR REMAIN was filmed on a compounded North African migrant boat in Sicily, August 2017. Migrant boats are known locally as 'ghost boats', piled up in rubbish dumps on the island, awaiting destruction by the Italian authorities.

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When Marko Lauronen was diagnosed with manic depression he realised he could no longer function in mainstream society. Marko chose to leave everything behind to rekindle his boyhood obsession for gold prospecting. The film follows Marko’s search across the frozen tundras of the arctic circle as he ponders the true value of gold.

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Film about the creators of the ‘Skinhead Moonstomp’ album. The British Jamaican Ska band that engaged a generation of working class teenagers.

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April 24th 1915: Under cover of the darkness of war whilst the British are preparing landings at Gallipoli, mass arrests of Armenians are taking place across Constantinople. Poet Taniel Varoujan's home is broken, his poetry scattered, name checked and ticked on ordered list – never to be seen again.

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This 360-documentary experience traces the journey through childhood in three of the toughest environments on Earth. Meet 3 year-old Amina in the distant 'Afar' region of Ethiopia, trying to find enough food and water to survive during the worst drought in 30 years; 10 year-old Changkouth, living in conflict-ridden South Sudan, trying to get an education and avoid being recruited as a child soldier, in the country with the highest proportion of out-of-school children in the world; and 18-year-old Mani in Chad - ostracized by her community because she is living with HIV, but determined to change minds and using social media to rally support. (SXSW brochure) Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2018 - Virtual Cinema - World premiere