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Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency (MNA) emerged out of the ashes of the second Intifada to become the only independent news network in the Palestinian Territories and an increasingly prominent and influential journalistic force in the wider Middle East. Live: From Bethlehem tells MNA's remarkable story. It chronicles the agency's struggles and successes through the eyes of the station's reporters, producers, and photographers, in the process quietly revealing the humanity of ordinary Palestinians as they go about their daily business. The documentary focuses on people rather than abstract issues, without losing sight of the myriad social and political forces and pressures that Ma'an journalists are forced to negotiate as they try to gather and report balanced information. What results is an admirably nuanced portrait of how news gets produced, and how Palestinians live, in one of the world's most troubled regions.

How our lives become entangled in media, and media becomes part of our lives. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

In the Mexican Desert of Chihuahua Mennonites live as two centuries ago ... until electricity arrives in their “perfect world”. Refusing technological progress, the orthodox begin an exodus to one of the world's most isolated places, the Bolivian forest. The film tells the stories of four protagonists living in the two Mennonite colonies of El Sabinal and El Capulìn, the first rejects any modern technology, the latter accepting such innovations as electricity and cars. In balance between tradition and modernity, between past and future, the four protagonists are longing for their “perfect world”.

“We have to protect everything that the State and the catholic Church have built over the past 300 years. I don’t see any contradictions between apartheid and the Church: as Christians, we believe in the development of non-whites and we try to help them by building churches and helping them in their pastoral work. But these people prefer to stay in their own churches, and if that’s what they prefer…”

A butcher, a Civil Guard, a gravedigger, a stripper, a pig's breeder and an unemployed woman speak us about the identity of the worker and the social repercussion of their own jobs. Through their speeches, work is questioned as the only possible option in life and it invites the audience to reflexion about a universal subject: the human being against work.

2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.