Bandung Productions Movie Trailers

Partition Trailer (1987)

19 August 1987

The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film.

Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. He probes her campaigns against contraception and abortion and her questionable relationships with right-wing political leaders.

Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos Trailer (1993)

15 May 1993

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his work - as the limits of existence, of life and death, of language and communication.

Carlo Levi Stopped Here Trailer (1992)

28 July 1992

The deep North-South divide in Italy is explored through the eyes of northern anti-fascist writer and painter, Carlo Levi, who is exiled by Mussolini to a remote village in Southern Italy.

Spinoza: the Apostle of Reason Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

Drama based on the life and thought of Spinoza, who was born in sixteenth century Amsterdam to a family of Jewish refugees from Portugal.

Iranian Nights Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory.

Images of Atlantis: The Photography of Milton Rogovin Trailer (1992)

19 March 1992

Milton Rogovin is an 82-year-old photographer in Buffalo, New York, who began taking photographs in the ‘50s.

Memories of Sekoto Trailer (1993)

24 August 1993

Gerard Sekoto was a pioneer of 20th century urban black art. Self taught as a painter, he was the first to reflect South African township life in all its colour, richness and struggle, before travelling to Paris to study and enhance his unique reputation as an artist.

A Life of Dissent: Edward and Dorothy Thompson Trailer (1993)

13 July 1993

E. P. Thompson, a British historian, poet, novelist and activist, was a voice of dissent in the dogmatic political environment of 20th century Europe.

Wittgenstein Trailer (1993)

26 March 1993

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language.

Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth Trailer (1992)

05 May 1992

Presented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflects on director Gillo Pontecorvo's youth and politics in an attempt to understand his approach to filmmaking.

The Painter & The Pest Trailer (1985)

02 June 1985

The story of how 60-year-old abstract impressionist painter Harold Shapinsky was discovered the previous year by Akumal Ramachander, an Indian professor of English.

Viv Trailer (1985)

26 December 1985

Documentary about West Indian cricket captain and batsman Viv Richards, looking at his home in Antigua and his illustrious career for Somerset and the West Indies.