Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For Mészáros, the concern for the situation of children left orphaned during the Second World War is autobiographical: the director directly experienced the absence of parents in her own childhood.
Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various professional fields, of different ages and even of different ethnicities, pointing out the benefits that the communist organization had brought to their daily lives. A special emphasis is placed on their status as mothers and on the role of nurseries and socialist kindergartens not only in making their lives easier, but also in giving them the time they need to build a career. Another concern of the filmmaker, starting from the concrete case of one of the protagonists, is to highlight the differences between the happy present and the not-too-distant past in which someone with her social status should have dedicated herself exclusively to raising children, in hygienic and extremely difficult lives.
A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes - in a montage reminiscent of the Soviet avant-garde school of the 1920s - all kinds of shooting techniques and frame combinations.
With the help of hidden camera, Danish TV 2 documents how a known Danish imam teaches Muslim women about Islam's violent rules of adultery.
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.
This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.
Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.
Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.
In the heart of the Camargue region, in the south of France, Jawad and Belka find freedom in their love of Camargue races. For these young Maghrebi men, the event is more than a simple tradition. Facing off with a bull is an opportunity to establish their place in the arena—and in French society. But at what cost?
"This wonderful age in life where every thought strives toward an ideal, toward work, toward the future." Sahia Studios propaganda flick about how adults and their "those darn kids" attitudes affect adolescents.
Three arrested and detained undocumented immigrants must navigate the system to fight impending deportation.