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The failure of law enforcement
This films questions outdated ‘war on drugs’ policy, and suggests alternatives with examples from Evo Morales’ Bolivia. Today US funding has created civil war-like conditions involving the army, drug lords and political opportunists.
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The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Melbourne 2011: The human condition
When faced with the choice of starvation or survival, the family chooses to trade their younger daughter
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Sheer animal survival instinct
This ethnographic-style documentary vividly observes the lifestruggle of a group of adolescents surviving on the busy streets of kathmandu. its characters are scruffy, underfed, boisterous, angry and ultimately tragic.
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A slice of life in society
Director Azari often uses silence as a tool to elicit a thoughtful response. The subjects talking about last year’s election in Iran, unhesitatingly entrust the filmmaker with secrets.
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Portrait of the grief
A contemplative “portrait” of the grief felt by the unemployed in Greece today
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Captured by a mobile phone
For Neda is the tragic story of 29-year-old Neda Agha Soltan whose death, during a street protest against the 2009 elections in Iran, was recorded on a mobile phone and shared via the Internet. This footage went viral, igniting national and international outrage.
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Nero’s guests
Over the past 10 years, more than 200,000 farmers in India have committed suicide. The current oligopolistic structure of international food trade has translated into sustained degradation of food security amongst nations, while bringing small-scale farmers to the brink of annihilation.
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The house as a living space
This documentary about a renowned masterpiece of the architect Rem Koolhaas evaluates architecture from a “lived” perspective. It is a portrait of the real and changing vitality of one of those monuments we consider immortal.
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A deeply personal film
A German film director travels to Anatolia to meet his Turkish father and gets to know his wife and two half sisters in the process.
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Glimpse into the world of off-shore call centres
Screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2006, “Bombay Calling" is set within the claustrophobic world of a busy call centre in Mumbai, India