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Drought

Drought takes us through the arid landscape of the Brazilian Sertão. The camera accompanies a water truck through several villages while it supplies the local population with water. The result is a documentary road movie full of powerful images, revealing aspects of the ‘drought industry’ and an extremely pressing issue: water scarcity.

Brothers

Markus (14) and Lukas (11) live in an old, yellow townhouse in Oslo. Here the brothers grow up with their dreams and longings for the future. Markus loves football and wants to be a professional. Lukas is the philosophical one and likes to think all kinds of thoughts. This close and personal documentary about childhood and brotherhood is filmed by their mother in a period of five years.

Cities of Sleep

Cities of Sleep takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleeper’s communities as well as the infamous ‘sleep mafia’ in Delhi where securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for many people. The film trails the lives of Shakeel, a renegade homeless who has slept in a diverse range of improvised places, and Ranjeet, who runs the ‘sleep-cinema’ community.

Hero and the Cloak

A middle-aged man, whose ancestor was the first hero of an ancient Iranian town two hundred years ago, had a dream of his ancestor asking him to find the cloak he lost to his opponent in his last wrestling match and to restore the family’s honour. A street performer of heroic acts, the man has been looking for the trace of his ancestor's cloak in near and far villages for three years.

Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals and Sashimi

An out-of-school Subanen boy named Dondon went to Sitio Tangalan in the barangay of Kawayan to work in a rubber plantation. At a tender age, he was already exposed to hardship and toil being a son to a seasonal harvester. This is a coming-of-age story, the contractual farm workers’ saga, the fisherfolks’ way of life and everything in between told in a free-flowing yet melancholic manner.

The Road

For more than three years, the director filmed the making of a section of a highway through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Chairman MAO was born. Local villagers and temples are forced to move and migrant workers endure very difficult working conditions, while the management of the construction company wants their share of the financial apple.

Remote Control

Tehran, June 2013. Massed in front of their TV, the Iranian people comment on the presidential campaign broadcast by national channels. After the post-election riots in 2009, do they still believe in politics? In the privacy of their homes, facing state propaganda and images of the West, Egypt or Syria, women and men freely talk about their hopes, anger and fears.

Jade Miners

In the end of 2012, when the Burmese army waged a war on Kachin Independence Army (KIA), many corporations working with the government on jade mining in the area were forced to stop their operation. Workers from all over the country flocked to the jade mines in Kachin State to dig illegally for jade. They risked their lives for a piece of valuable jade that will transform their lives.

The Mountain

For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under different colonial rules. Each regime left their footprints on this island. Only the indigenous people of this island experienced them all. They were given different names during different periods of colonisation and their cultures have been changed. Through the life of a Truku elder, we see the history of aboriginal recertification movement.

Wansei Painter - Tetsuomi Tateishi

TATEISHI Tetsuomi was born in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period in 1905. He was once regarded a promising painter, but his achievements were to be forgotten when he was repatriated to Japan at the end of WWII and lost most of his paintings. This film reveals his ambition and struggle and reflects the dramatic political, cultural and social change in Taiwan.