Films

Operation Fine Girl: Rape Used as a Weapon of War - Lilibet Foster (2001, USA, 47 min)
Told through the personal stories of three young girls who were abducted, to be "rebel wives" and sex slaves - held by force for many years, film is an intimate story about the strategic use of rape as a weapon of war in Sierra Leone.

Tolerance, intolerance  - Lauraine Debaisieux, 2002, France, 26 min
The film shows a communication between the two sides, in a conflict over, for them, extremely important issues. Mathilde is an active member of French right-wing party The National Front is on one side and Algerian Nasser and his family are on the other. Their opinions over the status of Nasser's family in France are diametrically opposed. Despite that, both sides have accepted a suggestion for Mathilde to spend four days in Nasser's family.

War Conspiracy - Stephen Marshall (2004, USA, 4 min)
In the 1970s, at the height of the Vietnam War, an English professor at Berkeley completed a startling book called The War Conspiracy. The Central Intelligence Agency suppressed the book.

Angels of Love - Barbara den Uyl (2002, Netherlands, 42 min)
Hedije, the child of an Israeli mother and a Turkish father, becomes a prostitute at the age of fifteen. She openly talks about possible causes of such life path.

Nima - Annelies Kruk (2004, Netherlands, 15 min)
A portrait of a Somali girl named Nima who, with her mother, fled from war in her country and has since that time lived in a refugee camp in the Netherlands.

Children of Leningradsky - Hanna Polak (2004, Poland, 35 min)
Over 30,000 children live in the streets of Moscow. The makers of this documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand-to-mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky.

Blood Diamonds Forever - Halfdan Muurholm, Stefan Schaaf, Thomas Aders (Denmark, 40 min)
The film follows the trail of the trade in diamonds from Angola, the country ravaged by a cruel civil war. In this country, both sides use diamonds as a source of financing the bloody conflict further.

Arif Hossein ETV Dhaka - Ole Tornbjerg (2002, Denmark, 28 min)
A documentary about thirteen-year-old Arif who lives and works in a slum in Dhaka. His father does not earn enough money to support the family, and therefore Arif has to work - just like about ten million other children in Bangladesh.

Roy - Duco Tellegen, 2004, The Netherlands, 26 min
Abandoned gold mines in Peru are often places where unplanned settlements are often built up or poor population moves in abandoned miners' villagers, trying to find gold remains in already processed rocks and empty mining shafts. Since the families have no appropriate equipment, the physical work is the most important. Children are a part of it every day, helping parents to solve their existential problems. Because of difficult conditions, children are often seriously injured, but they do not have appropriate health care.

Toti - Duco Tellegen, 2004, The Netherlands, 28 min
Toti is a fourteen year old girl from Massai tribe. When she was eleven, her mother told her she would be married off. The cattle her family would gain from her marriage are necessary for them to survive. Toti decided to run away so her twin sister was married off instead. Three years later, Toti tries to renew contacts with her sister and family and goes back home upon her mother's invitation. Their meeting is tense and full of emotions.  

Yoshi - Duco Tellegen, 2004, The Netherlands, 29 min
Yoshi is a story about sixteen year-old Yoshinori who has Asperger Syndrome, a disorder related to autism. He was enrolled into special school for children with learning problems, but he dreams of attending a regular secondary school with normal children of the same age.

Lena - Duco Tellegen, 2004, The Netherlands, 28 min
Twelve year-old Lena lives with her stepmother Gala in a village close to Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Lena's biological mother lives in Minsk, where the level of radiation is significantly lower. However, she can not take care of Lena, who suffers of serious health problems (brain cancer probably) and hopes Lena will accept to live with an Italian family who wants to adopt her. Gala tries to influence Lena, hoping she will decide to stay with her.

(Hate) maschine - Phil Caron (2005, Canada, 4:45 min)(Hate) Machine is director's response to the concept of media truth and is meant to provoke a closer inspection of the words and images that we rely on to interpret our world.

Bush for Peace - Sarah Christman and Jen Simmons (2004, USA, 1:56 min)It is Bush as you have never heard him before in a re-mix of U.S. foreign policy, created from the Commander-in-Chief's "Moment of Truth" speech delivered on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.

The News Is What We Make It - Nickey Robare (USA, 2005, 8:21 min)Animated film, which has intention to make media issues accessible and understandable to all people of all ages and backgrounds.

B is for Bomb - Carey Schonegevel (USA, 2004, 10 min)
It is a short history of the nuclear age as told by a child.

No Child - Gabe Cheifetz (USA, 2006, 8:19 min)
Short documentary film about military recruitment in high schools, and its relationship to President Bush's No Child Left Behind law.

We Were Humans - Allysson Lucca (Italy, 2002, 1 min)
The uproar of the poor becomes more acute when one thinks about the enormous cost that the "arms race" presents.

Cold Wa(te)r - Teresa Villaverde (2004, Portugal, 5:56 min)
This short film is made up of images we see everyday on television and which pass by our eyes as though they were nothing but a Formula 1 racing car. They have been reworked, reframed and set to a slower speed.

Paris by Night - Tony Gatlif (France, 2004, 4:50 min)
Three young adults freshly arrived in Europe underneath a truck.

Invisible State - Aisling Walsh (Ireland, 2004, 5 min)
There is an invisible state in Europe that is made up of the thousands of nameless - stateless - and disenfranchised citizens. Refugees.  Asylum Seekers.  "The recycled.  The turned away." 

2 - Tal Kfir (Israel, 2005, 14 min)
Two young women take part in a self help group called "Bereaved Families
Supporting Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance". Shirin has lost a brother and Tal a sister in the long Israeli- Palestinian conflict.

Berlin Diary - Ester Amrami (Germany & Israel, 2005, 15 min)
Short semi-documentary film portrays the life of a young Israeli woman in Berlin.

Evropa - Damjan Kozole (Slovenia, 2004, 4:15 min)
The film speaks about the fact that state borders among EU members are disappearing, but on the other hand, new borders are emerging.

The European Showerbath - Peter Greenaway (United Kingdom, 2004, 5:24 min)
Fifteen countries of Europe, brightly identified with their national flags body-painted on their vulnerable naked flesh, and personified in their political economic history by older or younger, fatter or thinner corporeality, step one by one, optimistically into the warm showerbath of the European Community.

Bico - Aki Kaurismaki (Finland, 2004, 4:51 min)
"Bico" is a documentary about a tiny village in the mountains of northern Portugal.