Society

During the day, Sabrina does housework to renovate the house from which she might be expelled. At night, she works as a stripper in a city night club to pay for her nursing studies. Greater than all past pains and shames is the bright dream of one’s own of a better profession and a job. A minutely o...

After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Imam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization. The courtyard becomes the theater where the future of a...

The risk and adrenaline rush of skydiving can heighten the feeling of being alive. In this compelling documentary, five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute jump. The camaraderie inspired by the rigorous training and team-building exercises encourage the men to...

Filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, examines with charm and humour modern attitudes towards race in Barking, a white working class town to the East of London. Through the lives of five key characters from different ethnic backgrounds, Isaacs, a prominent but unseen presence, questions prejudices, and pries at p...

In 2013 a trial put an end to a paedophilia case that took place from 1969 to 2001. Those kids now adults between 30 and 50 years old, testify and help us understand why silence and guilt have kept them from denouncing their aggressor as they were trapped in a system they were unarmed to fight. It ...

Since the 19th century, the fate of cows has been tied to new methods and progress in animal science. Genetics and new ways of rearing animals have accelerated bovine biological transformation and manipulation. These are no longer the same cash cows of yesteryear; men have adapted the bodies of catt...

Fifty years ago the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place in order to lease the largest island to the US Navy so that it could install a military base. Now Chagossian exiles embark on a struggle to return home....

In the 90’s, for the first time ever, an efficient fight against the mafia was born when a group of storekeepers formed a collective action against racketeering and publically revealed the identity of the racketeers, summoned in an Italian courtroom. This nonviolent and almost unheroic action led ma...

For over 6 months, filmmaker Fabienne Game followed the marketing team at Dove, flagship brand of the multinational Unilever. From briefings to debriefings, from a product campaign to a 'corporate' campaign, from the launch of a new shampoo to that of a slogan claiming every woman is beautiful, “Any...

The latest trend among the Russian oligarchs is to purchase works of art, a way to get into the Kremlin’s good graces, to gild their image… and to cover up the origin of their fortunes, often acquired in the shadow of post-soviet power. Following these new amateurs in the footprints of the well-kno...