Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes.
A crew of Rastafarians evacuated to London after a volcanic eruption in Montserrat, adjust to life in inner city London.
The Rastamen reinvent themselves as 'rude-boy' rappers and small time hustlers. They pitch between enjoying the thrills of the city and committing to Rastafari ideals.
An investigation into the commercial uses of ganja in the island of Jamaica. A documentary into using mariuanja for food, fuel, fibre and medicine in Jamaica.
Shanghai Below the High Rise is a cutting-edge documentary about Shanghai's 'underclass'; a group of millions made up of both impoverished local residents and migrant workers, who are all paying the ultimate price for the city's ongoing development programme in the lead-up to the 2010 World Expo.
In an attempt to get the stories of those worst affected, the film journeys into the city's poverty-stricken backstreets, uncovering a way of life that could very soon be gone from the city forever.
Among the many conflicts explored, we see a backstreet neighbourhood ravaged by an incomplete construction project; migrant workers forced into the city's 'hidden' economy; and former state employees left jobless, and with limited future prospects.
This is a Shanghai rarely seen in the West. This is a Shanghai from below the high rise.
Animated music video to "Stay In My Memory" by Bim (www.bimmusic.com). A magical story where a girl ventures through a pop up book in search of her lost love/memories of her lost love.
Don Letts is an unsung hero of British music. Told in Letts' unique voice, Superstonic Sound is a documentary about his family legacy that mirrors the history of Bass in the UK and his fighting for identity being the first generation of British born Black. A journey from Dub and Reggae to the legendary very first Punk club 'The Roxy' in the mid-seventies, crossing Hip Hop towards Dubstep; a musical, cultural and personal travel between past and present.
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom.
Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadors, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
A dying psychic, consumed with bitterness, corrupts the naïve inhabitants of a small, sea-side village and in the process, alienates her daughter. Can the dying commune with the dead?
Noir-influenced black comedy.
Alex, a young and unemployed actor, is chosen by a film-maker to make a documentary.
When Alex lands a part in a stage play about a film-maker turned serial-killer Alex’s life takes an unexpected turn. Strange and violent things happen to him…but the ‘documentary’ is starting to look good.
By the time he realises that this is all too much to be random it is too late for Alex to escape his close-up.
