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Business as Usual
Directed by Lucy Pardee
Everyone knows about Ground Zero in New York, but have you bought into the memory? Big Mike, Tyrone and the other street vendors will sell you part of the disaster...
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The Day I Will Never Forget
Directed by Kim Longinotto
The documentary explores the local dimensions of the female circumcision debate in Kenyan societies. In a region of Kenya that is home to Muslims, Massai and Somali and crosscut by...
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Drive it, Crash it, Paint it
Directed by James Bolchover
Kelzo grew up in Hulme and has been writing on walls, wrecked cars and other urban surfaces since 1984. But now that he is a ‘graffiti artist’ whose work is...
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Distant Temple
Directed by János Tari
The last orthodox synagogue in Makó was renewed and inaugurated in 2002. The little temple, as they call it, is more than hundred years old and represents the link between...
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Indo Pino
Directed by Gabriel Chabamier, Gérard Nougarol, Martine Journet
The small ethnic group of the Wana Wewaju live in Indonesia in the eastern part of Sulawesi (Celebes Island) among the dense equatorial rain forest of the Tokkala Mountains. The...
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Letter to the Dead
Directed by Andre Iteanu, Eytan Kapon
The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals...
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Little Waterfall
Directed by Joshka Wessels
Shallalah Saghirah (‘Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient...
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The Most Admired Man
Directed by Julia Berg
Wise’? ‘Serene’? ‘A Sage’? Mythologized as the Daoist physician from the Jade Dragon Mountain of Lijiang Province in southwest China , Dr Ho receives hundreds of visitors in search of...
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Native
Directed by Rachel Greenwood
Through his clothing, a young South African fashion designer of mixed race urges freedom and unity in post-apartheid South Africa. His message is reaching not only his fellow South Africans,...
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The Ragged Ones
Directed by David Griggs
The Basotho live in Lesotho, a kingdom of high mountains surrounded by South Africa. Afflicted by famine, poverty and AIDS, they carry on making a science out of their witchcraft...
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Ravi and Bhajay
Directed by Rachel Webster
Street boys Ravi and Bhajay lead a tough life on the pavements of Mumbai in India. To get away from it, they visit the nearby holy city of Ujjain with...
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Self Defence
Directed by María Elena Planas
With the Shining Path guerilla movement in decline, the government in Peru set up a Commission for Peace and Reconciliation to hear the testimonies of those who had suffered in...
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Street Fiction
Directed by Dominic Elliot
Through combining their own dramatic reconstructions and real life observation, this film tells the story of children who run away from their homes in search of a better life on...
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The Sweet Life and All That Goes With It
Directed by Anne Schiltz
Although the Saxons arrived in Transylvania, Romania over 800 years ago, they have retained a strong sense of their distinctive identity and still speak German. After the Revolution of 1989,...
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They Say We’re All Winners
Directed by Mari Finnestad
The Zimbabwean girls’ team comes to Norway to take part in the world’s largest kids’ football tournament. The film questions the outcome of this well-intentioned cultural exchange because some of...
RAI FILM Festival 2025
The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.
