A community worker sets the world to rights teaching prostitutes' children the art of photography in a red light area of Calcutta. As she befriends them she takes it on herself to 'rescue' them from their fate, their friends and their families by getting them enrolled in private education schools to help them change their destiny. Zana is such a powerful person that, as the follow up DVD extra 'Reconnecting with Born into Brothels' demonstrates, she succeeds. This is a superb film animated by th find out more...

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

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School. Remember that? When life was all crayons and small glass bottles of milk and the winters were colder and summers dragged out for years..... aaaaaah. Aside from that great scene in Fanny And Alexander when the dad tells his kids the history of a green chair, this beautifully made documentary is about as powerful an evocation of childhood you can get on film. The crew manages not to intrude on the class and as a result we get brief sincere glimpses of children at their most open, childish find out more...

I Am Cuba is an epic poem to Communist kitsch - a dramatic journey though the decadence of Batista Havana set against the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. find out more...

'My Winnipeg' is an outstanding achievement in cinema that combines private experience with collective memory to exemplarily explicate the meaning of so simplistic and yet so complicated a term such as 'home'. Maddin creates a stunning and intelligent reflection of his home town, breathing new life into traditional modes of cinematic language. A superb film and an absolute must-see. find out more...

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In the USA suicide is far more common than homicide, someone taking their own life every eighteen minutes, with the iconic Golden Gate Bridge confirmed as the most popular suicide destination in the world. Inspired by an article written by Tad Friend of the New Yorker, entitled 'The Fatal Grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge', Steel and his crew watched the bridge for all of 2004, filmed most of the 24 deaths, prevented several others and recorded the suffering and desperation of so many of the ju find out more...

A top notch documentary following an undercover team, who in a daring act of espionage, record the bloody annual slaughter of over 2,000 dolphins in Taiji National Park, Japan, by the local fishing community. This slaughter is commercially driven not only by the sale of cheap 'whale' meat to supermarkets, but the huge value of those taken alive for dolphinaria, a craze that, to his everlasting sadness, was introduced by current activist, project instigator and once trainer of dolphins for the find out more...

Six short films by one of the most leftfield directors of modern American cinema, all introduced by the man himself (although don't expect that to make things any clearer!). find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...