Java Films (Firm)
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a documentary on the War on Terror’s impact on civil liberties. For the past 15 years, the phrase ‘War on Terror’ has been used to justify everything from mass surveillance and spying to the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without evidence or trial. Throughout history, governments have applied security surveillance programmes to people they considered a political threat. But surveillance...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An exclusive look at the world of the Pashtuns, Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group. Fifteen years ago, when war broke out Merwais left his home in the Kunar Province for a new life in Europe. He returns to the notorious Valley of Death, the dangerous tribal area bordering Pakistan, to find out what happened to his friends and family after the American invasion. Travelling to an area closed to most western journalists, he tries to find out why the...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2014, thousands of young Russians came to Eastern Ukraine, in the Donbass region, to take up arms, doped by the propaganda of Russian state television, persuading them to carry out their patriotic duty. Among them were Oleg and Max. Oleg was designated commanding officer, and Max became a soldier. Their story took a tragic turn during the night of June 3rd 2015, when Oleg led his men to their death. The battle destroyed a part of...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A new type of activism is emerging that uses an unusual weapon to condemn injustice; laughter. We follow some of this new generation of activists to see what they do and if it works. In Europe the ironically named ‘Save the Rich’ and the ‘Yes Men’ are trying to raise awareness of social issues through humour. But mocking the system can be a dangerous activity in some parts of the world. We also meet Syrians making sketches as the bombs fall...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Berlin, Germany. August 1936. Hundreds of thousands of spectators gather to watch as Hitler and the Olympic delegates arrived at the opening ceremony. Olympic flags hang cheerfully side-by-side to the banners bearing the Nazi swastika.. What really happened behind-the-scenes at this spectacular international sporting event?. Combined with interviews with specialists and footage from Léni Riefenstahl’s 1938 film, OLYMPIA, the film investigates the...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the space of just a few years, Chechnya has undergone a remarkable transformation. Gone are the minefields and piles of rubble, replaced with broad avenues, luxury boutiques and glass-fronted skyscrapers. It’s virtually impossible to see there was ever a war. Award-winning journalist, Manon Loizeau, spent the past 20 years covering the Chechen conflict. She returns to the places she knew so well, filming undercover in Chechnya, to reveal how...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The march towards the dominance of GM products in agriculture started 15 years ago but where will it end? Today in Argentina all agriculture is transgenic but after 15 years the weeds have adapted and the Glyphosate no longer works. In response farmers have started using hazardous chemicals in an indiscriminate and unregulated manner. In some areas the rate of serious genetic deformities in children has exploded. We meet the families and doctors convinced...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
There hasn’t been peace in the Congo for 20 years, the army and the various militias are locked in a constant battle over the country’s precious mineral resources. The fighters on both sides have been profiled often but this documentary looks at a group often thought of as merely victims of the war; women. On both sides there are female combatants. Some are fighting for what they believe in, others because they have nowhere else to go and nothing...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What’s it like to live without running water? In Peru’s sprawling capital, Lima, this is the everyday reality for 1.5 million children and adults, forced to pay up to a week’s salary for just one day’s water. And the problem isn’t confined to the capital, across the country, the shortage of water is putting lives in danger and provoking conflict, as it displaces communities and threatens their agricultural livelihoods...Climate change is...
10) Poisoned Lives
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Alice, Kenton, Bucky, and Rachna are the hidden victims of the chemical industry. They all grew up in either India or in the US, in towns built around plastic and pesticide factories. For a long time, their resounding success has masked the darker reality behind their practices. For several decades, their factories have secretly dumped their toxic products into rivers, groundwater systems and soil. This pollution has affected thousands, causing disabilities,...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
There is an invisible war going on in the West Bank. The Israeli settlers are waging a daily war on the Palestinians who remain; they harass their neighbours, attack their houses, move their livestock and generally make life unbearable for them. And after years of violent resistance a new generation of Palestinians have undertaken a new strategy and are fighting back with video cameras rather than guns. They post their videos online to show the world...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At the end 2015 the United Nations, while celebrating their 70th anniversary, will announce the results of the Millennium Development Goals initiated in 2000, and the new agenda for the coming years. Foremost among the objectives was the eradication of poverty. Mozambique: a country which embodies the dilemmas and contradictions of the development policies implemented. Through this case study, we will carry out a critical examination of the concepts...
13) Show Me Lisbon
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The best way to discover a city is through its people. ’Show Me Lisbon’ reveals the city as seen by thirteen locals, or lisboetas – who were either born there or moved there by choice and who are of different generations, areas and backgrounds. The result is a dynamic, relaxed and realistic portrait of Lisbon that looks at themes such as what it means "to be a lisboeta”, the light, the river, the food, the sounds, the history, the ethnic mixes,...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For several decades up until the 1980s, thousands of young Swiss people were thrown into jail without trial, sent to live with foster families or forced into children’s homes, or even sterilized. Their crime? Behavior that was judged to be threatening by a society obsessed with order and conformity. This documentary uses witness testimony, personal archives and original documentation to tell the story of the ordeal suffered by these children, and...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It’s considered a temple of global diplomacy and the world’s largest humanitarian organization. But for decades, one scandal after another has battered the UN’s reputation. From the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, to claims it was responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti and multiple accusations of waste, corruption and unaccountability at all levels, the UN’s credibility and integrity has been repeatedly undermined...In this film, we investigate...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Madrid and in Paris, Boti, Empar, Micheline and Jocelyne, four lesbian women in their seventies tell of their fears, their desires, their differences...
. They are still active, or activists, and will not give in to the passage of time; they refuse to be pushed aside because of their age. They look at others, and at society, with curiosity. They live their everyday lives to the fullest, taking advantage of all opportunities. They show us their...
17) Luce Mia
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago Lucio Vilgierchio was diagnosed with leukemia. His symptoms have abated, and today he has a family and leads a fairly "normal"life. But he is still scared...So he went back to the leukemia ward in search of the part of himself that he felt he had lost. There he met Sabrina, who was battling the same disease he had. He decided to join her struggle, their struggle. In search of that moment when you stop being a patient and go back to...
18) A Genuine Forger
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
He’s the master-forger, famous for duping the art world for 30 years and flooding the market with thousands of fakes. His Picassos, Matisses and Chagalls sold for millions, were authenticated by art experts and remain on the walls of many galleries and museums. But he never copied anything. Instead Guy Ribes painted pictures that could have been made by the great artists themselves...In this remarkable film, which screened in French cinemas for...
19) RAID
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dealing with the most delicate and dangerous issues of security and safety, the RAID unit intervenes not only in terrorist attacks, but also in dismantling drug networks, transferring dangerous prisoners, and handling hostage situations. It was this unit charged with neutralising and arresting those behind the deadly attacks in Paris in November 2015 and on Charlie Hebdo...We follow these elite men at work and through their difficult training period...
20) CIA vs KGB
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history...But the war between the secret services was one dimension of a much larger conflict. A confrontation that almost boiled over just under the surface of the cold war. Economic pressures, secret diplomacy and espionage...