Focusing on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House – a unique municipal site that straddles the jurisdictions of Canada and the United States – the work continually recasts the border as at once powerful yet facile, absurd yet lethal.
Filmed on location to activate the legal and symbolic potential of the site, 45th PARALLEL unfolds as a monologue in five acts, performed by acclaimed filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel. The story centres on Hernández vs. Mesa, a judicial case covering the fatal shooting in 2010 of an unarmed fifteen-year-old Mexican national by a US Border Patrol agent. At the supreme court Mesa’s bullet, which crossed the US/Mexico border, began to implicate missiles fired in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. If this murder could be tried in the US, so too could 91,340 drone strikes.
Official Selection New York Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
As the Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s doomed airport, Annina witnessed the unearthing of a terrible secret - a mass burial ground of 8,000 formerly enslaved Africans. Haunted by this injustice - and echoes of her childhood in Apartheid Namibia - she now fights for memorialisation of these forgotten victims.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2022 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
A reflection on how the weight of the past walks with us and the indifference of the ever-present, observant sea.
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2022
An Arabic-language opera about mourning and inherited trauma. Performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, it fuses Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Masha’al, a traditional Palestinian song.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - International premiere
NO ONE WANTS IT tells the story of two activists using noise as a form of protest against the destruction of human liberties in Hong Kong. The film uses a non-conventional documentary style to bring a more abstract and fluid style, reminiscent of the new wave.
This film depicts the harrowing effect of climate change on the lives of girls and women globally, and features over 400 pieces of handmade artwork from 150 refugee and marginalised women in 17 Commonwealth countries worldwide and climate activists, these were created during ARTconnects workshops. The film calls for climate justice and presents personal accounts of how women and girls lives are directly being affected by climate change.
The film raises awareness of the devastating impacts climate change has on the globe, as well as promote diversity and spark meaningful discussions on this human rights issue to promote cohesion.
As our world strains under the weight of unprecedented global migration and colonial extraction, this animated virtual reality documentary immerses participants in one of the largest forced migrations in human history: the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
CHILD OF EMPIRE takes audiences through a deeply personal perspective of this epic historical event. Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - New Frontier - World premiere
An animated short film on "invisible conditions" and the experiences of those affected – it features the voices of Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Outlander), Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Man Down, Damned), Weruche Opia (I May Destroy You, Bad Education, Sliced), and members and friends of the NPUK/INPDA community.
This project has been developed closely with the charity's community in order to illustrate the many emotions and challenges an individual with an invisible condition can face on a daily basis. By using a mixture of animation, photography, and narrated lines read by stars from both outside and inside of our community, the film hopes to raise awareness of both Niemann-Pick disease(s) and invisible conditions more broadly...as "not all that you can see, is everything that is there"…and there are far more similarities than differences when it comes to the lived experiences of those affected by rare, genetic and/or invisible conditions.
A mixed reality exhibition that preserves memories of public and private events from the austerity era. Combining verbal testimony, original music and ground-breaking volumetric capture, this powerful documentary records stories of disabled benefit claimants who died between 2010-2021, inviting audiences to contemplate close-up the human impact of austerity.
Delving into our historical, societal and scientific relationship with psychedelic substances, THE GOOD DRUG explores the new discoveries being made about the historical uses of psychedelics and the modern renaissance of clinical research for their therapeutic properties for a host of mental health problems.
In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Official Selection CAMERIMAGE - International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Cinéfondation - La Cinef 2022
