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- It was 30 years ago that 14 year old Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police, his only crime being that he was a Kurd. After 25 years in exile, Karzan, now a British citizen, has returned to his childhood home to vote in Iraq's first democratic election. Having been banished for so long, Karzan now asks the people of Kirkuk if they accept the path promoted by the West...a path that will inevitably lead to a divided Iraq or a bloody civil war. In this incredible documentary, Karzan exposes a city that sits on one of the world's largest oil deposits as a place where old ethnic and sectarian divisions are still rife. Kirkuk, he says, is a microcosm of the new Iraq. During the year it took to make the program, Karzan confronted old demons from his past and met with the heroes and villains who are fashioning the country's dangerous and uncertain future.
- In Enschede too, the boys and girls of the baby boom generation were gripped by the new pop culture. From beat music to jeans; the teenagers of the 1960s found great examples in England and America. The new idols, like themselves, turned out to be ordinary boys, working-class boys from industrial towns who conquered the world with their own music and much bravura. The latter was not necessary for most, but being world famous in Enschede and its environs was certainly feasible.
- A Wave of Compassion is a journey into the heart of addiction, as it follows summer days in the life of Jimmy, a surfer, whose honesty sets the tone for the film, and the resilience of his addiction sets its challenge.
- Annette married a millionaire she never loved, in order to satisfy her mother and her dreams of grandeur. But because of her infidelity and her husband's violent jealousy, she almost lost her sight.
- AC/DC's explosive stage performances are subjected to an in-depth analysis, featuring rare footage of the band on stage.
- August 2005. Poland celebrates the 25th anniversary of Solidarnosc (Solidarity). Klementyna was born at the beginning of the movement that changed her country's history.
- A young policeman is ordered to keep an eye on a suspect who will also be his roommate.
- A new breed of evil lurks in the Valley of the Sun. To stay alive, Michael joins forces with twin cowboys, known as the Williams Brothers. The twins are self-proclaimed vampire-killers and lead the battle between good and evil in the hot Arizona Desert.
- Documentary about the history of the civil rights movement in America, the role that both major political parties have played in it, and the voting habits of Blacks in America today.
- A fan's journal of life on the road chasing the legendary NYC art rock combo Sonic Youth and their loyal following. Featuring live performances in clubs and theaters around the country.
- Documentary about English-style change ringing. Starting from the origin and hanging of the bells, the film explores the advanced mathematics of bellringing methods, modern-day ringing and bellringing societies.
- Raghava is the proud owner of a salon. Lavanya has fallen head over heels for Raghava. Ali, a jealous employee spreads rumors about Raghava being married. Raghava clears all the baseless rumors.
- China is history and china is also a mystery. This film is a roller coaster ride across China with a bit of history, people and the transformation in chinese soceity. Shot in China, written in India, narration from US and it highlights the problems of progress both for the chinese and the rest of the world.
- On the 10th of August 955 Germans and Hungarians fought the Battle of the Lechfeld. The comedic documentary explains the importance of this nation building moment in history.
- Tommy Irish is a documentary filmmaker who's short on talent, funds and time. He's mortgaged his boyhood home to the mafia for funds to make his documentary. Will he finish his film on time?
- The Abduction of Europe is a mix of fiction, animation, and documentary about intertwining stories regarding the construction of a sculpture transported from Crete to France, while a mother tries to regain the remains of her deceased son.
- Lazy drunkard, Koofori, travels from his home in a small African village to London and meets Zoe, who shows him around the city and changes his way of thinking.
- Amidst its garish neon lights, eight-lane superhighways and Blade Runner-esque skyscrapers, that's Shanghai today. No other city in the world has experienced the incredible velocity of change that has occurred in Shanghai since 1990 - the year Deng Xiaopeng gave his official blessing for the city to re-emerge as China's trading and financial center. Since Shanghai's re-birth, more than 4,000 new skyscrapers have been built (with another 300 currently under construction). Its population has increased by 23 percent to 16.4 million, making it the world's fifth largest metropolis. And its economy has grown at an annual rate often double that of China's turbo-charged national average of 7-8 percent. Once a gray, oppressive Communist metropolis, Shanghai is now - as a Time magazine cover story recently proclaimed - "The Hippest City in Asia" For the last five years, the Canadian photographer, Greg Girard, has been working on a project that represents his attempt to document these incredible changes. Every night at twilight, Girard heads out with his large format camera to document the old houses, apartments and residential lanes that have been disappearing as a result of Shanghai's relentless growth. What Girard's project is concerned with is not just the disappearance of the historic buildings that were erected before the Communists came to power in 1949. But the disappearance of a singular, Shanghainese way of life. "I'm documenting the people who live beneath the bright lights, the shadow of the city" says Girard, a soft-spoken Canadian who has worked in Asia for the last 25 years. "The people who are being left behind and yet whose lives are being affected the most." Today, Shanghai exists in a window between two worlds; a new city is rising as the old Shanghai disappears. In the film, we follow Girard as he photographs the end of one Shanghai - and the beginning of another. We will take viewers into a Shanghai that outsiders never see. Into the old Art Deco and Art Nouveaux villas, houses and apartments designed by the British and the French in the early 1900s where the majority of Shanghainese have lived since 1949. It is a world of cramped living quarters, shared kitchens and common stairwells. A world that became even more over-crowded when hundreds of thousands of workers and their families were forcibly moved into these old buildings during China's Cultural Revolution. It is this world that is, in many ways, the soul of Shanghai. The only life the residents of this city knew for the half-century between Shanghai's liberation by the Communists and its ascension to its current position as China's most modern metropolis. To have grown up and lived in these old, densely populated houses built by foreigners is, for many, the essence of being Shanghainese. Whereas other Chinese cities were ancient villages that became towns that became cities under Communist urban planning, Shanghai was a fully realized foreign city that was effectively taken over by its Chinese inhabitants. It is this foreign-built environment that gives Shanghai its unique character. And in the old lanes and alleyways of the former French and International Concessions, Shanghai exists much as it has for the last 50 years. Neighbors gossips with neighbors they have known for decades, the elderly sit outside their tiny apartments playing mahjong and children help their mothers with laundry at the outdoor sinks or do other after-school chores. It is an urban existence unlike any other. One shaped not only by colonialism, Communism and the tumult of China's Cultural Revolution - but also by an urban landscape unlike any other in all of China. Yet as skyscrapers continue to rise above these old lanes and the city continues its untrammeled march toward its singular brand of hyper-modernity, it is a Shanghai that is disappearing by the day. The film will follow Girard on a journey from the old disappearing Shanghai to the new Shanghai that emerging in its place. Articulate, intellectual and passionate about the project that has been his obsession for the last five years, Girard will serve as both the film's subject and its narrator. Though the film's structure is that of a traditional documentary - with distinct sequences where Girard interviews the different characters as he goes about photographing them for his project - the script will take the form of an essay. As we see Girard at work, interacting with the characters, his voiceover will explain why does what he does. Why photographing these old houses and the Chinese who inhabit them - these people "who live beneath the bright lights" - is more than just an attempt to document the end of one era and the beginning of another. It is a search for a city's soul. And through that search how he hopes to understand not only where Shanghai has come from, but also where its future will take it.
- Thirty years after Edward R. Murrow's 'Harvest of Shame', Third World California illustrates the continuing plight of farm workers and explores the forces that keep their lives so desperate.
- Celebrates pop songs through a whole new generation of confirmed talents or emerging artists. No blah-blah, no interviews, no promo. Each artist is presented with an appropriate filming device reflecting his personality and own universe.
- Captain Ekumu has a lot on his mind: his son Ika is dying and he does not have the means to find treatment for him, which is driving his wife Ezéni to despair. A mysterious radio broadcast interrupts the speech of President Baby Zame. It talks of a golden mango tree, of a day to come, of the freedom of poets. Liberty holds sway on the airways it pirates for fifteen minute periods from its hiding place in a truck. Colonel Paturau is ordered to announce a bounty prize to anyone able to arrest pirate Liberty. But how can you arrest a voice that has no body? A culprit must be found. For Ekumu, this could be the solution to his family tragedy.
- Herleik has had an impressive production of graphic art, celebrated at exhibitions around the world, living in a home for mentally retarded. "Herleik" is a warm, human portrait, spotlighting the way we treat outsiders today.