Rolling Family 6 Dec 2006 Director: Pablo Trapero Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK 2004 103 min Family chaos ensues when a wedding invitation inspires a grandmother to take her family to the wedding. Four generations of the family squeeze into a broken-down a mobile home and hit the road in this enchanting and upliftingly comic… Continue reading Familia Rodante
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Exils
Exiles 7 Feb 2007 Director: Tony Gatlif France, Japan 2004 104 min Two Algerian immigrants are outsiders in France, Zano and his girlfriend Naima decide to travel back to the land that their families were forced to flee when France colonised Algiers. The lovers travel from Paris making new friends along the way. The couple… Continue reading Exils
Voces inocentes
Innocent Voices 10 Jan 2007 Director: Luis Mandoki Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico 2004 120 min Based on a true story of Luis Mandoki’s embattled childhood. This is a poignant tale of Chava, an 11-year-old boy, who finds he has to grow up quickly in war torn El Salvador. At the age of 12 the government… Continue reading Voces inocentes
Bin Jib
3 Iron 7 Mar 2007 South Korea, Japan 2004 88 min Director: Ki-duk Kim Tae-suk is a drifter who enters strangers’ houses, when they are away, to sleep and eat a little food. He repays their unwitting kindness by doing the laundry and making small repairs. His life, however, is to change when he enters… Continue reading Bin Jib
Born Into Brothels
2 April 2008 Directors: Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman India, USA 2004 85 min This i a chronicle of Calcutta’s red light district through the eyes of children of the prostitutes who work there. Filmmakers, Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, work with these most stigmatised children and inspire them to photograph their world in their… Continue reading Born Into Brothels
Maria Full Of Grace
5 Dec 2007 Director: Joshua Marston USA, Colombia 2004 101 min Maria is a bright and vivacious seventeen year-old. She supports her family by stripping thorns from roses in a flower plantation. She loses her job and is offered the prospect of travelling to the USA. However, to do so she must become a drug… Continue reading Maria Full Of Grace