Mohamed Al-Daradji
Irak, Great Britain
2010 | 35 mm | 1:25:00

Mohammad Al Darradji's documentary looks at the harrowing, perilous business of making a feature film in post-invasion Baghdad. "Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness" tells the story behind the making of Ahlaam, the second feature film shot in Iraq during the post-Saddam era. Caught between local militias, foreign fighters and suspicious American forces, Mohamed Al Darradji and his motley crew of volunteers face immense danger and huge hurdles as they try to make art in a war zone.

Claudia Nunes
Brazil
2010 | Digital | 1:07:00

Claudia Nunes captures the thoughts, impressions, histories, secrets and joys of abandonated street children. Her obsersavations, just following the youngsters, are quite surprising and don't fit in standardised pity models.

Marc Isaac
Great Britain
2010 | Digital | 0:58:30

Inside a North London magistrates’ court, judges hear an endless litany of criminal cases, from the hapless to the horrifying. Outside the court, filmmaker Marc Isaacs waits with a camera. Over four seasons he speaks to people on their way in and out of the building, sympathetically documenting their stories. Frenchman Michel, who has been troubled most of his life, is up for carrying a weapon. He planned to use it against a security guard, but ended up remorsefully handing himself over to police before committing the crime. Alcoholic Mark has repeatedly breached his parole, by coming into contact with the son whom he desperately misses. Isaacs’ subjects are not big time criminals, but vulnerable repeat offenders who tell very candid, often moving stories. Not surprisingly, drug and alcohol abuse lay at the heart of much of these tales of woe, with addicts often looking to the justice system for more help than it can provide.

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Italy, Mozambique
2010 | Digital | 1:00:00

A group of volunteers from an Italian ONLUS started up a laboratory at Mundzuku Ka Yina of photos, videos and digital elaborations of images. The students are able to talk about their work and their daily life without the pity with which we are used to regarding this type of reality, thus shattering the taboos of the politically correct thanks to the sincere and authentic vision of the authors. By the way the term “frammenti” means a “puzzle” announcing a collective work.

Pawel Kloc
Poland
2011 | Digital | 1:36:00

Phnom Penh Lullaby is an intimate story of a man looking for love and acceptance. Ilan Schickman left Israel dreaming of a new life. He now lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with his Khmer girlfriend Saran and daughters Marie, 2 years old, and Jasmine, 6 months, trying to make ends meet as a street fortune-teller.

Jessica Rodriguez Sanchez, Horizoe Garcia
Cuba
2010 | Digital | 0:22:00

A simple man has his secrets. The pleasure of observation can't be shared. Overwhelming phantasm spread out in daily circumstances. A study about solitude and emotional surviving.

Jakub Piatek
Poland
2010 | Digital | 0:11:00

Tables screwed to the floor. One hour that must suffice for two weeks, sometimes even a month: the visiting room of a Polish jail. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers. The film depicts the world of a mother who comes to visit her son: her devotion, her solitude, and her constant waiting.

Rajesh S. Jala
India
2011 | Digital | 0:30:00

The compelling story of the widows of Banares. According to Hindu tradition, when a husband dies, the wife breaks her bangles and exchanges her colourful sari for a white one. Many of them end up in Banares, the city of widows and Radha followers. This powerful cinéma-vérité observes their silence, sadness and endurance.