A few days before his wedding, commercials producer Frank Meutstege is invited as a guest of honour at an African gala event. Exactly fifteen years ago Frank visited Africa to record his heart-rending and world-famous commercial ‘Help Malinda’, which launched his international career. Back in Africa, Frank meets Africa...
In Close up Kurdistan, documentary maker Yüksel Yavuz provides a personal account of the Turkey-Kurdistan conflict. Yavuz seeks out old friends and activists in Europe, Turkey and Northern Iraq. He shows how the lack of willingness to compromise from both the Turkish side and the Kurdish side ultimately leads to a...
Slaves is an animated documentary short in which conversations with two freed children from southern Sudan, who were kidnapped by a government-supported militia and forced into slavery, were recorded on sound in a documentary way. The conversations took place in 2003, when the 20-year-long civil war in southern Sudan w...
The genocide in Rwanda, which took place from 6 April to 4 July1994, was one of the cruellest events of the twentieth century. The conflict took between 800 thousand and 1 million lives, which gave the Rwandan massacre the highest death rate per day of all genocides. The provocation was the assassination of Rwandan pre...
Shortly after the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006, 28-year-old reservist Yariv Mozer is called to the frontline, armed with a gun and a camera. Mozer’s documentary My First War offers his personal account of a war which Israel would gladly forget.Preceded by th...
Images from the military dictatorship of Burma (Myanmar) are rarely seen outside the country. In 2007, thirty anonymous Burmese video reporters became Public Enemy No. 1 by providing the world's press with secret recordings of human rights violations, thereby risking their own lives. As a result of the images of these ...
Images from the military dictatorship of Burma (Myanmar) are rarely seen outside the country. In 2007, thirty anonymous Burmese video reporters became Public Enemy No. 1 by providing the world's press with secret recordings of human rights violations, thereby risking their own lives. As a result of the images of these ...
Sudanese-born hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal has had charthits in England and the USA. Before becoming a successful rapper, however, he was forced to flee his village as a six year-old, when rebel forces attacked. After his mother was murdered, Jal fought for five years as a child soldier in the Sudanese People's Liberati...
The 19-year-old Ala’a Basatneh helps coordinate the Syrian revolution from a Chicago suburb, armed with all imaginable social networks. While the war rages, the question arises which is the most effective means to remove a dictator: social media or an AK-47?With 1,200 Facebook friends and 2,000 followers on Twitt...
The 19-year-old Ala’a Basatneh helps coordinate the Syrian revolution from a Chicago suburb, armed with all imaginable social networks. While the war rages, the question arises which is the most effective means to remove a dictator: social media or an AK-47? With 1,200 Facebook friends and 2,000 followers on Twitter, A...
Logline When a young Canadian woman who was sold as an infant in post-Ceaușescu Romania returns to reclaim her identity, she uncovers the machinery that trafficked the sister she never knew, one of 30,000 children “exported” for adoption. Synopsis Almost thirty years after she was adopted from a marginalised Roma community in Călărași, Romania, by...