Tens of thousands of people live in Zabbaleen, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, they all make a living out of recycling the entire capital city’s refuse. Their whole town is a slum providing the inhabitants with almost everything they need: from kids’ toys to fodder for livestock.
Untouchable Love follows five love stories in India. Each couple fight to stay together for love - although their partner was born in a lower caste. A recipe for disaster in a society where the caste system is everything.
Baraka is a documentary film with no narrative or voice-over. It explores themes via a compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period.
In 2015 an earthquake shook the mountains of the Langtang Valley, Nepal, causing landslides and avalanches taking hundreds of lives. A year later Nima Gyalmu, a woman of strength, dignity and humour rebuilds her house in this remote and shattered place while trying to come to terms with her new world in the heart of the Himalayas.
Sunrise Ceremony is a short documentary focusing on the Apache Sunrise Ceremony - a rite-of-passage tradition where girls transition into womanhood and are recognized as adult women by the tribe.
Explore the world of mildly interesting things together with The Dull Men’s Club. They indulge in the curiosity of what appears at first glance to be rather uninteresting to the average person.
Cobra Gypsies offers a contemporary and colorful window to the amazing ancient culture of the nomadic Kalbeliya tribes, living in rural Rajasthan, Northern India. The film explores their culture of eternal dance, syncopated music, snake charming, colorful fashion and the nomadic way of life of these exotic looking castoffs, ancestors to the modern Roma Gypsies living in Europe today.
What is life like when you live in a four-square-metre room for the majority of the day? This short documentary seeks to investigate those who choose to live in Manboos - small cyber cafe rooms in Japan.
Situated in poverty stricken western Africa, this documentary shows how a small African village burned and collected charcoal, dug ore and created flux, built a kiln to smelt iron and forged that iron - all in effort to create a single iron hoe tool.
Since the 1970's Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. Humble yet passionate and philosophical about his work, Payeng takes us on a journey into his incredible forest.