Imbued with nostalgia and striking a wide range of emotional notes, filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel travels to the Lebanese refugee camp of Ain El Helweh to explore how the camp's displaced people use the World Cup series to articulate their own ideas of home, community, victory and hope (TIFF 2012).
"Being the life of the night can take its toll sometimes. Sometimes you just want to be alone. Alone with yourself..." A short tale about a beautiful, yet deeply flawed socialite.
The Kogi civilization still survives hidden on Colombia's highest mountain. They believe they are guardians of the world. Their leaders are trained from infancy in darkness to connect with 'aluna', cosmic consciousness. They perceive 'black lines' that connect special sites essential to life. In 1990, convinced that we were destroying the earth, they sent a warning through a British film-maker and then withdrew. They have realised that we have ignored the warning and the world is in danger. So they recalled the film-maker and instructed him to film their demonstration of these connections, using 400km of gold thread.
People who have no wheel or writing travel to England for the thread, and discuss dark energy with a leading astronomer. But as their journey goes on they realize that the film-maker has no idea what they are trying to demonstrate and their own arguments are treated as fantasy. So they change tack, taking us up into their mountain to show exactly what they mean, and then coming down to join forces with leading scientists who recognize that they are communicating important cutting-edge knowledge.
One in three girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, conflict or discrimination. This animated film shows, in 2000 fun still photos of 15 children in their village in Malawi, how education can give girls the chance to move from poverty to opportunity.
Bob is a loser and seems to attract bad luck wherever he goes. Working as an accounts administrator for a vending company he hates his job, but he neither has the motivation or aptitude to better his life. However, today might just be the catalyst for change.
Demi, an isolated teenage girl surviving High School in Salford, is at a crossroads. In a desperate split second she makes a life-changing decision.
But her very own baby isn't hers for long.
Colin and Michael have been meeting in Colin's flat once a month for a year. Colin decides to celebrate their anniversary by providing tea and snacks for Michael while they both wait for the important phone call from Colin's boss.
Emily is a film that revolves around troubled protagonist, Kenelm Scott. The film follows Kenelm through his day to day patterns & routines. 'Emily" explores the issues around voyeurism and its routines, and what happens when Kenelm's routine is disrupted.
He's a sadist, she just runs away. They meet urgently, quickly, in dark alleys, closed kebab shop and take aways. Both married, both successful - best companions in severance. A harsh, ruthless portrait of two characters and a city that doesn't love them back.
London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.
