A schoolteacher and an artist, two newlyweds, leave their lives in Hong Kong and wrestle with the promise of freedom in Canada.
Social Justice
A Bigger Place (Un Lugar Más Grande)
Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. When the people of Tila and other villages run the town hall out of their territory, they face the challenge of exercising self-governance. “A Bigger Place” explores the day-to-day construction of autonomy, revealing a broad interweaving of people, generations, spirits and landscapes. It plunges us into the heart of a collective process, where self-governance becomes a responsibility towards oneself and others. A Zapatista-inspired adventure in Ch’ol Mayan territory
People, Gods and other Creatures
On the remote Greek island of Gavdos, a sanctuary for free spirits and dropouts from across the globe, a dancer named Pavlina struggles to unite the divided island community, whose clashes over tradition, globalization, and individualism mirror the turmoil of the modern world.
As I Witness (As I Witness قهر )
The act of writing collapses the past and the present into the dissonant experience of witnessing the colonization of the body.
Letter To My Tribe
Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother and I have had numerous arguments. These form the backbone of this video essay in which journalists, activists and a rabbi are interviewed, and in which documentation of actions on the ground are woven with more personal family histories and journeys to Iraq and to Poland. The work addresses historic and contemporary moments of urgency.
It Needn’t Be This Way (Na pewno tak być nie musi)
A small delivery ward goes against the grain, rubbing the whole medical community the wrong way. But some women travel even 500km to give birth there.