Projects in genres: Human Rights

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Made entirely in Unreal, during lockdown in the UK, in a week in which VE day celebrations collided with Black Lives Matter protests, this film questions the persistence of nostalgia as a form of social control.

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Ding Ling, a research scientist who fled Indonesia in the wake of rising sea levels, disembarks from the cargo ship on which she had been living. She moves onwards to explore new/old territories, revealing something of her past in Indonesia and China via Singapore. The episode DING LING AND SENAIT is a moment in Shezad Dawood's episodic film series 'Leviathan Cycle', shifting the narrative from one of breakdown and fragmentation to a focus on methodologies for surviving the future.

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In a forgotten seaside town in the north of England, seventy-eight year old Dave hands out food and kindness to those in need. After ten years of austerity, this nuanced portrait of a volunteer-run food bank penetrates the harsh reality of contemporary Britain.

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Two men share their experiences of working in the food industrial complex, challenging our traditional ideas of food production. Dealing with a patriarchal paradigm in crisis, disjointed offers a performative space to heal from trauma: work movements become a way of embodying the inaccessible.

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The cruelty of confinement and the struggle for liberation contained within in hand-drawn animation and archival footage. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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EVE is an intimate story of a 9 year old girl called Eve, living in one of the oldest off-grid communities in the UK. Follow her journey returning to school and becoming a young climate activist.

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Set on the outskirts of London, where Portuguese immigrant couple Bela and Jota are struggling to make ends meet. Things are getting worse, and the wellbeing of their deaf seven-year-old daughter is in jeopardy. When social services grow concerned for her and for the safety of all three of their children, the parents must do everything in their power to keep their family together. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2020 - Orrizonti

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Under the watchful eye of their vogueing mother, a young dancer in Rio de Janeiro finds acceptance on Brazil’s Ballroom scene. Set in a world where it is increasingly dangerous to be visibly queer, MOTHER is a coming of age story about the power of chosen family. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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When a robotic rover starts drilling for signs of life on Mars, the race is on for one tiny rock-beast to save her native community from the invader from Earth.

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Does school prepare you for adult life? Does hardship build character? A personal and unconventional documentary about a teacher who left deep scars on the psyche of his former pupils.

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A documentary exploring the Norfolk Mental Health service through the experience of 10 patients impacted by waiting lists that can run for years.

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A series of sketches about the miseries of life in the 21st century and its effects on the human condition. During the course of the series the negativity is gradually replaced by positivity, turning misery into a mere passing necessity thus providing a guide to surviving the unexpected.