Portraits

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  Time of Closure

  Switzerland | 2006 | 52/63min

  Emaciated from aids and cancer forty-four-year-old Giuseppe Tommasi will spend the last months of his life at the Zurich Lighthouse hospice. Facing death he begins to reflect on his life, his family and starts to question himself and his actions. Read More

   
   
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  Trudell

  USA | 2005 | 54/75min

  With a rare film that only a literate filmmaker could create, Heather Rae demonstrates sophisticated craft and builds an Indigenous aesthetic essential to the intellectual exploration of the power and fragility of an Indigenous icon, John Trudell. Read More

   
   
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  Virgin Diaries

  Belgium / Germany | 2002 | 56min

  A young Moroccan woman defies all taboos and embarks on an extraordinary quest in search of answers to urgent questions about sex, virginity and Islam. Read More

   

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  Weightless

  Norway | 2002 | 52/82min

  A film about having the courage to live, when life seems meaningless. Read More

   
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  Young Freud in Gaza

  Sweden | 2008 | 58/90min

  “A million psychologists are needed in Gaza,” says Ayed, a 28-year-old Palestinian who works as a field psychologist at the Jabaliya refugee camp. A comic yet tragic film from the “secret rooms” of Gaza. Read More