Journeyman Pictures (Firm)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The sun glints on crystal clear waters, mist floats above the towering falls that flow into a lush green basin. Today, the incomparably beautiful Amazon rainforest is a vast laboratory for experiments that are redefining the relationship between humans and nature. But what's the worth of this invisible commodity? And who should profit from it? This glorious, cinematic film looks for answers as it plunges into a sensory journey through the rainforest....
2) Trafficker
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nigeria is a hub for human trafficking. Victims are transported to 33 countries, mostly as part of the $100 billion dollar sex trade. The documentary underlines the human costs behind the statistics. Its tender, devastating interviews reveal an all-too-common tale: African women turned prostitutes spend years paying off their trafficking debt in Europe. Few ever escape the shackles of their nightmarish ordeals and many find turning traffickers themselves...
3) FEMMEfille
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the fashion world, Isabelle Caro was known as the face of shocking campaign NO-Anorexia. But what is the story behind the woman whose emaciated body adorned Oliviera Toscani's billboards? Looking above and beyond her illness, this documentary turns back the clock on Isabelle's troubled life and reveals the true desires and ambitions of a young woman struggling to overcome her childhood trauma and enter the adult world.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From birth through to death, water plays an essential role in every stage of life. And in India, as with most poorer societies, it is women who are responsible for finding water, and using it. Women and Water is a beautiful, poetic examination of Indian society through the prism of water and shows how this most elemental of resources is denied to the most needy. Life is water, water is life - no matter whether you are rich or poor.
5) Landmine ER
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The war ended in Cambodia in 1991, but for rural Cambodians the legacy of landmines has extended the violent history into their present-day lives. Satya Yorman lost a leg to a landmine. Through Satya, we experience the painful effects of a landmine injury and coming to terms with a crippling disability. His story illustrates the life-changing consequences of Cambodia's six million unexploded landmines. Will Satya ever be able to walk again?
6) Days of Hope
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Three immigrant stories interlace to offer a portrait of the brave souls who leave Africa for Europe but who always stay connected with home. We rarely see immigrants on the move as humans. Do they have lives separate from the process of immigration? But in fact in a globalized, connected world immigrants are as we are. As the narrative unfolds we learn that each of the 3 characters has motivations very similar to those that drive us all.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Felix Lehner's workshops in Switzerland and Shanghai are where the ancient art of metal casting meets the modern art world's most visionary ideas. No commission is too outlandish or exacting for Lehner's team of craftsmen, who have brought the fantasies of artists as diverse as Urs Fischer and Katharina Fritsch to life. Discover the mesmerizing world of molten metal behind the doors of Lehner's world-renowned Art Foundry.
8) Godforsaken
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Karachi, Pakistan's poverty-stricken port city, organized criminals peddle heroin to the weak and vulnerable, while corrupt government officials line their pockets. Half a million heroin addicts, many of them children, are left to live in squalor on the streets, often prostituting themselves for money. Ignored by the government and ostracized by their communities, they are an underclass that this religious society would rather ignore.
9) Buffer Zone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami killed 40,000 and left half a million homeless, aid agencies rushed to the rescue of Sri Lanka. Inland resettlement, funded with hundreds of millions raised in Western countries, was a welcome solution for a country living in fear of another seismic sea wave. Ten years on, cracks are appearing in the aid effort. What long term problems has this wave of humanitarian support washed up on the shores of Sri Lanka?
10) High/Low
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With gambling in China illegal, Hong Kong and Macau have become the premier destinations for Chinese gamblers. In China gambling has long been part of life, but with a society increasingly divided by rich and poor, the Chinese have become obsessed with winning easy money. As they pin their hopes on games of luck and fortune, four larger-than-life gamblers bring us on an emotional search for belief and identity in money-centric modern China.
11) Lumberjacked
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Cameroon, the largest exporter of African wood to Asia and Europe, illegal and unregulated logging by foreign companies is posing a real threat to the country's most valuable economic and ecological resource.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Do those who have violated all principles of humanity deserve protection under the law? The Serbian Lawyer has this question at its heart as it examines the ongoing impact of the Bosnian genocide. Focused on the personal dilemmas faced by the lawyer tasked with defending war criminal Radavan Karadzic, this doc presents us with juxtapositions of emotion and principle, and asks us whether protection of the law should extend to its worst transgressors....
13) Still Tibet
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a deep journey through one of the most remote ethnically Tibetan areas of China's Sichuan Province, filmmaker Miguel Cano hitchhikes, motorbikes and takes to foot to reach parts of the region that usually go untouched by tourists. With incredible cinematography, he journeys throughout the holy region to discover those fighting to preserve their spiritual and national identity, exposing a vulnerable civilization that retains an extraordinary...
14) Gold Fever
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Goldcorp Inc. arrives in a remote village in Guatemala. Soon follows blown up mountains, despoiled water supplies and broken promises over jobs. As the gold frenzy brings in a profits bonanza for the company, the community launches a powerful resistance struggle. Dynamic and beautiful quality, this film provides a powerful look at the reality of what it means when gold miners dig into the 3rd world.
15) I Am in Space
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An exploration of life in orbit. A day in a space station consists of 16 dawns and 16 dusks. However, unlike the cycle of the Earth, life in a space station is never so predictable. Utilizing unseen footage filmed by astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and interviews with astronauts and their psychologists, we discover what it's like to go to space. Combining the domestic with science, this revelatory film digs deep into the daily challenges astronauts...
16) Football Hell
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Qatar, allegedly 4000 workers will die to put on the 2022 Football World Cup. This staggering figure indicates the slave-like conditions the builders of football's most expensive construction project are enduring. Qatar's capital Doha is a beautiful desert oasis of incredible wealth, built by migrant workers who are almost slaves. Bullied, abused, yet somehow still grateful? Their choice is between dehumanising conditions or a return to poverty...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This blockbuster of a doc gets inside the drug world with unprecedented access. Travelling from the growers to the drug mules, poverty to prison, cocaine factories in the Colombian jungle, and dealers on the streets of Mexico and Baltimore. It is a fascinating and unusual insight into how the drug world functions. Features exclusive interviews with the political leaders of Latin America and drugs czars on both sides of the Atlantic.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Want the perfect baby? Now you have to cross your fingers and hope for the best. But imagine if you could go down to the local baby clinic and max out your credit card. You could ensure your child was beautiful and intelligent. You could even guarantee they would never become an alcoholic. It may sound farfetched but the groundwork is already in place. But what are the dangers of tinkering with our genetic makeup? Who owns human genes and should they...
19) Chernobyl's Cafe
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after the famous nuclear reactor explosion, Chernobyl is once more showing signs of life. As the fears of older generations are replaced by the fascination of the new, Chernobyl is emerging as a popular tourist destination, and local industry is on the rise. But with radiation levels still dangerously high, questions remain over whether the region can ever truly recover.
20) Secret Uprising
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern province a 3-year uprising has been raging, hidden from the world. With unprecedented access to activists' own footage, this report offers an unfiltered look intothe biggest protest movement in Saudi history.