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A film by Juliet Jordan about her Uncle John. She says: ‘Uncle John was a keen and prolific amateur film-maker and my father kept the reels of film and sound that John left behind when he died. Using these...
Originally intended as a film about feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, the film is portrayal of the lives of modern Egyptian women in Islamic society. Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris,...
Documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch. Eventually he returns home to a welcoming family and an uncertain future, for he must find work, the lack of which led him to...
Shows an annual ritual held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. The allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as national...
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has been commissioned by the Venezuelan government to prepare reading primers in Panare as part of their literacy programme. She is shown gathering a range of materials...
In 1996 the troubles in Northern Ireland continued to the sound of beating drums and marching feet. This documentary tells the story of a Protestant family in rural Ulster and their fight to remain British...
An account of an attempt to represent the world as it appears to a man who has lost his sight. The world around him is a blur, but strong visual images of the things that are important to him live on in his...
A series of interviews with an Australian Aboriginal, Dundiwuy Wanambi, filmed over 12 years between 1970 and 1982, showing the struggles of one man in the face of the huge changes brought about by the...
It is 60 years since Robert Flaherty made MAN OF ARAN. Looks at how the people of the Aran Islands remember the experience and what they feel about the image the films give of their land.
Follows the lives of three hosts in the ‘New Marilyn’ nightclub in Tokyo, where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. Although young heterosexual women who visit the club often have...
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