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Is a quiet, powerful story of two young women
Watching Belfast Girls, I felt like a Kalahari tribesman watching National Geographic «Hey, these guys have come to my country and they’re putting it on screen like it was something odd or exotic!».
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Generation clash between old and new Sweden
A substitute teacher working in the suburbs of Stockholm finds himself increasingly disillusioned about his job. He calls his mentor, a 75-year-old veteran, who travels to Stockholm. Together they try to make a difference in the student’s lives.
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FESTIVAL REPORT 2005: Eating Popcorn in Toronto
Films on the theme of democracy are in fashion at the moment, with the 'Steps for Democracy' project on its global road show.
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FESTIVAL REPORTS: Street Fighting at Hot Docs
Any filmmaker will tell you that getting your title right is half the battle. Canada's annual international documentary festival is blessed with the coolest name in the business: Hot Docs.
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A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
Evelyn Glennie is a Grammy-winning classical percussionist whose solo work is unrivalled. She is also profoundly deaf. For Evelyn, sound is palpable and rhythm is the basis of everything. Without vibration, there is nothing. From silence to music, sound is felt through every sense in our bodies.
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The hope of Afghanistan lies in it’s women
Filmed shortly after the fall of the Taliban, Iranian actress and documentary filmmaker Yassamin Maleknasr crosses the border and does a round trip through the major areas of war torn Afghanistan, documenting the voices of a scarred and battered people.
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Daily life inside the biggest jail in Latin-America
Portrait, filmed partly by the inmates themselves, of the daily life in Carandiru, the largest prison in Latin America.
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Historical swimming pool
A documentary film about the Kosice swimming pool where history came to bathe.
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Interactive documentary: When Spectators Become Players
LUCINDA BROADBENT participated in Mediamatic’s workshop Non-linear Storytelling for Documentary Makers’ at IDFA November 2002. She shares her experiences in creating an interactive documentary using the «korsakow system».
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Music used in the fight for freedom
A stirring documentary that salutes the formidable role black liberation music played in the long and arduous struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
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The story of Cuban refugees
Balseros (Spanish: Rafters) is a 2002 Catalan documentary co-directed by Carles Bosch and Josep Maria Domènech about Cubans leaving during the Período Especial.
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Journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism
The film covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998, as well as the nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests. It also explores the ill-effects of the Indian test on the surrounding population and the reactions to the test among the government and the public.