Film
Fish Tank
A film that gets inside the mind and feelings of a young person deeply at odds with the world. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold.
Birdwatchers
The reality of indigenous life in the Amazon. Directed and co-written by Marco Bechis
Three Miles North of Molkom
At a new age festival in Sweden, a group of people who’ve never met before explore tree-hugging, sweat lodges, shamanism, tantric sex.
Sin Nombre
A road movie cum Western. Or, rather, it's a railroad movie and the 'West' - where innumerable migrants are headed on railroad wagons - is more accurately the 'North', the US.
Burma VJ – reporting from a closed country
This is the story of ‘Joshua’, an underground video journalist. By Anders Ostergaard
Black Wave – the legacy of the Exxon Valdez
This film documents the corporate chicanery and disinformation that has followed since the Exxon tanker dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound.
Orgasm Inc
US documentary-maker Liz Canner takes on Big Pharma over the creation and marketing of a disease called ‘female sexual dysfunction’.
Episode 3 - 'Enjoy Poverty'
A gritty, uncomfortable offering from Renzo Martens that brought outraged responses from some of the NGO and media people in the audience.
Defamation
Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir challenges the idea that there is a ‘new anti-Semitism’.
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Directed by Jamie J Johnson, yes, it is about Eurovision, and many of the songs are appalling, but what comes over is the solidarity between the contestants, and how un-egotistical they are.
Sugar
More than a sports film: Sugar explores the American Dream, competitiveness and simple human values.
Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi
This is a rallying cry that shows the way in which people in many parts of the world are resisting seed privatization through actions big and small.
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Hillywood dreams
In the hills of Rwanda, Tom Cropper finds the world’s most unique film festival.
President Blair: The great escape
Anna Chen heaves a sigh of relief as Tony's plans to conquer Europe are halted.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for?
What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for
that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a
10-point economic detox programme.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on
biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was
born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
abortion in Colombia.
The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.
The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin
Alavi explains.
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