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Bam - imageBam

A modern animated adaptation of the myth of Hercules: where does rage come from? Psychological? Environmental? Or something altogether more primordial?

National Film Board of Canada | 2015 | 7 minutes
Banking Nature - imageBanking Nature

By assigning financial value to elements of nature, can markets save the planet?

Icarus Films | 2014 | 90 minutes
Banking on Disaster - imageBanking on Disaster

The grave consequences of building a road through the heart of Amazonia.

Bullfrog Films | 1988 | 78 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Banking the Unbanked - imageBanking the Unbanked

As a team of managers in Gambia try to build a microfinance business, they learn that the loans may be small - but the stakes are very high.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 56 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Barber Shop - Ep 1: Clacton-on-Sea / UK - imageBarber Shop - Ep 1: Clacton-on-Sea / UK

How possibly could the UK vote for Brexit? In Clacton-on-Sea, a small seaside town, barber Susan and her clients reflects on current European issues like migration, religious extremism, economic decline and the position of the UK vis-à-vis the EU.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes
Barber Shop - Ep 2: India - imageBarber Shop - Ep 2: India

Soniya has a beauty parlour and barber shop in New Delhi. She survived an acid attack several years earlier. She makes it her mission to give beauty and self-respect to the women around her.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes
Barber Shop - Ep 3: Detroit / USA - imageBarber Shop - Ep 3: Detroit / USA

The car industry moved away to low-wage countries and over a million citizens left the city: ‘Motown’ became ‘Ghost town’. Barber Shop Detroit tells the story of nostalgia and pride against a background of economic recession.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes
Barber Shop - Ep 4: Rio De Janeiro / Brazil - imageBarber Shop - Ep 4: Rio De Janeiro / Brazil

Brazil has well prepared itself for the Olympic Games of 2016, to embrace sports enthusiasts from all over the world. However, the people from the favela’s have, as always, been forgotten. Barber Shop Brazil talks about current state of the favela’s and of the common man’s fear, not of drug dealers, but of the police.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes
Barber Shop - Ep 5: Smara Refugee Camp / Algeria - imageBarber Shop - Ep 5: Smara Refugee Camp / Algeria

Set in the Western Sahara, Barber Shop Algeria tells the story of the last colony in Africa: since Morocco illegally annexed the territory of the Sahrawi, this nomad population has been living in refugee camps along a long Moroccan wall built in the middle of the desert.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes
Barber Shop - Ep 6: Pretoria West / South Africa - imageBarber Shop - Ep 6: Pretoria West / South Africa

South Africa has known a turbulent history of occupation, discrimination and violence against the black population. The white middle class is slowly slipping away into poverty, resulting in violence, excessive drugs and alcohol abuse.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes

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