"A documentary portrait of a Haitian midwife and healer"13 November 2004Factual76 mins
A cinéma vérité documentary portrait of a wise old Haitian midwife and healer who runs a rural health clinic from her modest thatched roof hut near the Jacmel River along Haiti's southern coast. Madanm Ti Zo offers a rare glimpse into traditional life of rural Haitian peasants.
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy.
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west.
Based on one of the most famous mysterious disappearances in the world, Richard John Bingham, the Seventh Earl of Lucan, was accused of the murder of 29-year-old nanny Sandra Rivett on 7 November 1974, at his family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, in London.
On a wintery January afternoon, a girl walks in a park by herself. As groups of boys play football, she strolls about, observing the activities of her fellow park-goers.
This adventurous feature film is a sequel to Paul Verhoeven's legendary youth series from 1969. In this modern film version - the Middle Ages are more imaginative and larded with anachronistic jokes - the story revolves around Floris (grandson of Rutger Hauer's character from the series), a peace-loving bloke whose father despises him because he refuses to carry on the family tradition of stout-hearted knights defending freedom: Floris is an actor.
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