A DECENT FACTORY
Is there a sort of softer, Nordic capitalism behind Nokia’s worldwide success?
55 or 79 minutes, dir. Thomas Balmes, Making Movies Oy & Margot Films. Release 2004
ANOTHER ROAD HOME
Maybe the best film ever about Israeli/Palestinian relations – because it is about family!
59 or 79 minutes, dir. Danae Elon, QI Films. Release 2004
BLOWING UP PARADISE
The horriying story about the French nuclear testing in the Pacific
59 or 80 minutes, dir. Ben Lewis, Bergmann Pictures. Release 2004
BLUE COLLAR WHITE CHRISTMAS
A warm-hearted documentary about being human
82 minutes, dir. Max Kestner, Lynx Media A/S & Koncern Tv og Filmproduktion ApS. Release 2004
BORN INTO STRUGGLE
Filmaker Regad Desai takes us on an intimate journey mapped out by the scars etched onto his family’s life.
52 or 74 minutes, dir. Rehad Desai, Uhuru Productions. Release 2004
BRAVE NEW ART WORLD
The film the Art World doesn’t want you to see.
2x45 / 60 / 90 minutes, dir. Ben Lewis, Bergmann Pictures Ltd.. Release 2009
CHAIRMAN GEORGE
1 billion fans can’t be wrong: In China, George is Elvis. In Canada, George is Greek. In Greece, George has a dream…
45 or 69 minutes, dir. Daniel Cross & Mila Aung-Thwin, Eyesteel Film. Release 2005
CIRCUS SCHOOL
Acrobatics is considered as the national quintessence of China. It has existed on this land for over a thousand years. This film relates the hard experiences of a group of children before they become acrobats.
52 / 78 / 107 minutes, dir. Guo Jing & Ke Dingding, Guo Jing & Ke Dingding Productions. Release 2006
CONTROL ROOM
This film is a masterwork of the war seen from the vantage point of Al Jazeera
57 & 85 minutes, dir. Jehane Noujaim, Noujaim Films. Release 2004
DEADLINE
In Fall of 2002 Illinois Governor George Ryan faces shocking findings about flaws in his state’s capital punishment system.
53 or 73 minutes, dir. Katy Chevigny & Kirsten Johnson, Big Mouth Productions. Release 2004
FACING CHANGES
This is a film about the concept of face in Chinese culture and in Chinese mindset. Through the concept of face we will approach the Beijing middle class and see some ways it reflects the rapid changes in the society around it
52 / 75 minutes , dir. Mika Koskinen, Making Movies Oy. Release 2008
GAME OF THEIR LIVES, THE
In 1966 North Korea created the greatest shock in World Cup history.
52 or 80 minutes, dir. Daniel Gordon, Very Much So Productions. Release 2002
GHETTO
Is the American War on Drugs a genocide in disguise?
60 / 90 minutes, dir. Eugene Jarecki, Charlotte Street Films. Release Fall 2009
HAMMER AND TICKLE
The Communist Joke Book
90 or 2 x 45 minutes, dir. Ben Lewis, Alegia. Release 2006
MADRID CONNECTION, THE
Killing 191 persons and injuring almost 2,000 the Madrid bombings in 2004 is considered to be the worst terrorist attack in Europe ever
90 / 58 minutes, dir. Justin Webster, JWPproductions. Release 2007
MECHANICAL LOVE
Can robots substitute human affection and can robots make people feel love?
52 / 75 minutes, dir. Phie Ambo, Tju Bang Film for TV2/DANMARK. Release Ultimo 2007
MOSQUITO PROBLEM, THE
The epic story of a village turned concentration camp, turned a city, turned nuclear power plant and it’s population, swamped between regimes, fried fish, ideologies, mass murder, pop-folk music, guilt, redemption, hope and mosquitoes…
52 / 100 minutes, dir. Andrey Paounov, AGITPROP. Release May 2007
MY AMERICAN FAMILY
Gaetano Merenda and his son Antonio travel to America to attend a family reunion and discover that it wasn’t the distance which broke off the family for 100 years ago but an unsuccesful bank robber.
82 minutes, dir. Jerzy Sladkowski, Hysteria Film. Release 2004
RESERVED TO FIGHT
Every war brings home shell shocked veterans. Coming home from Iraq is definitely not an easy task. The young soldiers find themselves neglected by the Military and isolated in a society that cannot recognize their distress
57 / 77 minutes, dir. Chantelle Squires, Mirrorlake Films. Release 2008
RIKER'S HIGH
New York City’s Rikers Island Prison is the location of the city’s most extreme high school.
60 / 90 minutes, dir. Victor Buhler, Rikers High LLC . Release 2006
SOLO - DECLINE OF A POPSTAR
How does a young man fall from stardom to outcast in the blink of an eye, tore down by the ones that built him up?
52 / 77 minutes, dir. Kasper Torsting, Fridthjof Film. Release 2007
SREBRENICA: NEVER AGAIN
This is the story of three people whose lives were overturned by the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995.
53 or 79 minutes, dir. Leslie Woodhead, October Films for BBC and WDR. Release 2005
TOOTS
Toots Shor was friend to the famous, crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum, but most of all he was the owner of America’s greatest saloon.
85 minutes, dir. Kristi Jacobsen, Catalyst Films. Release 2006
TWO TOWNS OF JASPER
A Texas Murder in Black & White
72 minutes, dir. Marco Williams & Whitney Dow, Two Tone Productions. Release 2002
USA vs AL-ARIAN
USA vs AL-ARIAN is a close portrait of an Arab-American family facing terrorism charges leveled by the U.S. Government.
52 / 98 minutes, dir. Line Halvorsen, Dalchows Verden . Release May 2007
WHY WE FIGHT
An inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine