Hilarious, tragic and stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women's lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16 year old trying to divorce her 38 year old husband; and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters, this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with which they confront biased laws, a Kafakaesque administrative system, and their husbands' and families' rage in their efforts to gain divorces.
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Today's aggressive management techniques and the cult of outsourcing and speed have spawned new monster-companies, proud of those very values they had been criticized for. One of them is Office Tiger, a transnational hybrid specializing in document-processing for big enterprises. As with the bubble of start-up dotcoms, there comes a time when work itself takes second place and what matters is the staff's attitude – in part ambition, in part a heroic, self-punishing sense of dedication.
UntitledThis film explores the lives of a refugee community, the Saharawis, whose land was stolen and they were condemned to live in a forgotten corner of the Sahara desert. The human face of this long struggle for independence is shown through a child called Hussein and his family.
UntitledA hand-processed portrait of Jake Williams – who lives alone within miles of forest in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Jake always has many jobs on at any one time, finds a use for everything, is an expert mandolin player. He has compost heaps going back many years. He has a different sense of time to most people in the 21st Century, which is explicitly expressed in his idea for creating hedges by putting up bird feeders. It struck me straight away that there were parallels between our ways of working - I have tried to be as self-reliant as possible and be apart from the idea of industry - Jake's life and garden are much the same - he can sustain himself from what he grows and so needs little from others. To Jake this isn’t about nostalgia for some treasured pre-electric past, but more, a very real future.
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