The War You Don’t See trailer

(120m/Directors: John Pilger & Alan Lowery. Editor: Joe Frost. Executive Producer: Christopher Hird. A Dartmouth Films Production)

A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.

As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?

John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists… have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else’s country… That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is.

For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home… In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us… Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power."

Premiered at the Barbican in London on Tuesday 7 December 2010 and on British television on Tuesday 14 December 2010.

Official website : http://agadem.co.uk/war-you-dont-see

Ashes to Honey: for searching a sustainable future

(135ｍ/ Japan/ Director: Hitomi Kamanaka/ Production: Group Gendai Documentary Film Production)

For 28 years, the people of Iwaishima Island , living in the middle of the bountiful Inland Sea, have been opposing a plan to build a nuclear power plant. The island has a 1000 – year history during which people have preserved their traditional festival. Takashi, the youngest on the island , is struggling to earn his living. He dreams of a life based on sustainable energy. Meanwhile, communities in Sweden are making an effort to implement such lives. The people living in the Arctic circle have taken action to overcome damage from the global economy. On Iwaishima, Mr. Ujimoto has begun sustainable agriculture by reclaiming abandoned farmlands. But a power company tries to fill in a bay to create man-made land. The people of the island set sail together to stop the construction of the nuclear power plant. A fight breaks out on the sea

Comment : We must have the right to chose what we use for electricity, which is made from nuclea, wind or solar, and the right is one of our living rights."" Ryuichi SAKAMOTO (musician)

Official website : http://888earth.net/

Burma VJ

(84m/Norway,Denmark,UK,Sweden, Director:Anders Østergaard, Production:Magic Hour Films)

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching.

Comment:"Burma VJ brings out the powerful dramatic aspects of this true story in a way that rivals any fiction film. However, it is ultimately the purer documentary elements-the immediate, electric footage shot by the DVB video reporters-which make Burma VJ a compelling and important piece of cinema"(Fimmaker Magazine)Award: Featured in The 82nd Annual Academy Awards/Winner of over 40 international awards

Official Website: http://burmavjmovie.com/
DVD website: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002KHT3PO
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2VNqC4xxAU

Into Etenity

(75m/Denmark,Finland,Sweden,Italia, Director:Michael Madsen, Magic Hour Films)

ntroduction: In Finland the world’s first permanent repository of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is being building, that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.How is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left behind?
Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the future.

Comment : "I am tempted to call Into Eternity the most interesting documentary, and one of the most disturbing films, of the year so far…"(A.O. Scott/The New York Times)

Award : 2010 Grand Prix FIFE, Paris France/2010 IDFE Green Screen Award, Amsterdam The Netherlands/2009 Audience award CPH:DOX,Copenhagen Denmark

Official Website : http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/
Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCdp_uHZ8e4

Breaking the Silence

(131m/Japan, Director:Doi Toshikuni, Production:SIGLO)

Palestine, Israeli-Occupied Territory, Former soldiers begin to speak out about the reality of occupation.
This is part 4 of the four-part feature documentary series "Unheard Voices: Palestinians, Israelis, and the Occupation" which has been edited from hundreds of hours of footage that Doi Toshikuni has shot in that region in the 17 years since 1993.
Comment:"This is true of all wars, all occupations. That’s why we must face this reality. That’s why we must brek the silence"(John Junkerman/film director)
Official website : http://cine.co.jp/chinmoku/english.html
DVD website : http://cine.co.jp/php/detail.php?siglo_info_seq=112