Everyday children in Cusco, make a living by selling trinkets to tourists in order to survive and pay for their schooling. Melissa is 10 years old, Osmar 11 years old. They are only 2 out of thousands of children that live and work in the streets of the cities and towns of Peru.
Naomi lives alone with her manic-depressive mother. Despite the difficulties that the illness causes, they learn to deal with it and its unavoidable reality. This film openly discusses their feelings, their common everyday joys, and their fears of a hereditary illness.
A film made in Holland about a young teenage girl and her father who is in prison in Venezuela for drug trafficking.
A film about a young Iranian asylum seeker in Holland who is being promoted as one of Holland's stars in the field of chess... the family of Ali have lost their asylum case and Ali is faced with going back to Iran.
Rico is 8, he is cheeky, bright and adventurous. He lives in a small Aboriginal community nestled on the outskirts of Alice Springs, Central Austrailia. Wirriya is a moving story which follows Rico through an ordinary day in his life.
Until he turned 12 John Wiliam had been working for the guerrilla, harvesting cocaine plants, he knows how this drug, the weapon and dollars made him... ' It depends upon the trade value for a kilo of cocaine, sometimes the price drops, sometimes the price rises, like the dollar it rises and falls, like an accordian, it just depends...'.
A brief look at the secrecy of the life of graffitti artists in Glasgow...
A turbulent video installation produced by Kooj Chuhan and drama students at Lostock High School, based on the book 'Refugee Boy' by Benjamin Zephaniah, in which a series of doubts and myths are overcome in the joint efforts to stop fellow student and refugee Alem Kelo from being deported. This is the result of a series of workshops at Lostock Community High School in Trafford, Gtr Manchester, which began with a set of sessions called 'Borders Between People' to discuss the issues around asylum, devised by Kooj Chuhan and teacher Mark Krantz.
This documentary covers four events that took place in 2003. The large anti-war protest in Glasgow, which culminated in a rally outside the S.E.C.C at the Labour Party Conference. An S.T.U.C. organised protest ouside the Dungavel Detention Centre. A demonstration by Firefighters in Glasgow and a protest outside the sweatshop employers GAP in Edinburgh.
'Discussion'
Filmmakers: Jak Milroy, John McPhail, Kooj Chuhan, Peter Burton