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Leila is a ten year-old Iranian girl seeking asylum in Britain with her family. They end up staying with Leila's aunt, where Leila meets her cousin, Sara, who has been brought up in Scotland. How will they cope?

Falling in love only lasts as long as a piece of string.

Short animation by Shynola & Ruth Lingford

Father Mychal Judge was the New York fire chaplain and the first victim of 9/11. His body was captured on film being carried from the ruins of the twin towers. This is the unique story of a man considered by many to be a Saint.

The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist’s impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity – that cinema fuels memory.

In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton sweeps us away on a journey into the world of travel, opens up our mind to new pleasures and possibilities, and enriches our experience of travel and life. Alain sets out on four separate journeys: a Mediterranean cruise, a city break in Amsterdam, a fly-drive holiday around former East Germany and a holiday at home in a caravan park in Kent. On each of his journeys, he reflects on the strange business of going travelling and has encounters, some poignant, others hilarious, with fellow holiday makers. He mixes his own thoughts together with those of famous artists and writers: Vermeer, Edward Hopper, and John Ruskin among others. The result is a beguiling and beautiful film that modestly suggests how we could learn to be happier on our journeys

In the Palace began with a daydream to enter inside two inaccessible places, to penetrate the tinyness of Giacometti’s surrealist sculpture The Palace at 4am (1932) and to move beyond the flatness of various photographs of early Modern stage and dance productions. In this film, Giacometti’s sculpture (which in a sense already resembles a theatrical model) is streamlined and scaled up to become a stage set proper; the posed theatrical stills are restaged as tableaux vivants.

Cutting-edge music, free to experiment, bred from a rich cultural mix-up and fed on an independence of spirit - that has always stood on its own terms. Sounds of the West 1 is the first part of a showcase for this music and it includes commentary by Phil Johnson. It focuses on three formats: Techno, Drum 'n' Bass, and Dub Out West and features artists such as Pete Kowalski, Way Out West; more.

Scottish group Franz Ferdinand have established themselves as one of the more exciting groups to come out of the garage rock/post-punk scene. In this exciting 2009 concert filmed at the O2 Arena, they feature all their big single hits.

In 2003 the stage was set for the closest WRC final ever. This explosive DVD covers the battle for the 2003 FIA World Rally Championship where after thousands of miles across 14 events it all came down to one final rally in Wales. At 200mph helicams track the cars across hostile terrain, whilst on-board cameras put you at the heart of the action as you experience every gut wrenching twist and turn of the WRC. As well as the full review of the WRC season, get the inside track on WRC with over 70 minutes of additional features including: gravel driving techniques, the clash of the constructor bosses – Frequelin vs Provera, farewell profile of Tommi Makinen, unseen edit of the final stage of Wales Rally GB and three complete unseen stages from in-car cameras including Tommi in Finland for the last time. All providing a unique 360-degree view of the 2003 season.

This mock-documentary follows the cast and crew of 'The War Against Terror: The Musical!' as they struggle towards the opening night.

Besides the events of Orwell's life and the universal impact of his work, the film looks at the connections between Orwell's ideas and his continuing contribution to the world today. As Orwell developed into one of the most significant writers of modern times we look beyond the public persona, to uncover the heart, humour and humanity of the authentic Orwell.

Wildlife film. South African naturalist Mike Rutzen is crazy about great white sharks. He never saw Jaws, so he doesn't share the terror that makes these sharks the world's most feared predator. For ten years, Mike has swum with great whites without the protection of a cage. He has spent so much time in their company that he has learnt to read their body language and to think like a shark. It is this knowledge that keeps him safe. Mike's quest to understand them better now takes him into the heart of a seal ambush site, where he hopes to witness their hunting behaviour underwater.

The East London Line was filmed just a couple of years before its closure and total metamorhosis. Nowadays, forming part of the London Overground, here we can see the old Metropolitan stock as many of us remember them running on the East London Line. Services alternated between the two southern termini of New Cross and New Cross Gate. Our journey on board an ‘A’ stock train begins at the former and takes us through the very oldest part of civil engineering on the underground network, Marc Brunel’s 1843 tunnel under the Thames. Peak services continued to Shoreditch, which is where our journey ends.

After fighting a hard-core drug habit for most of her life, Christa Päffgen aka Nico -- the striking European supermodel who sat in as an occasional lead singer with the Velvet Underground -- succumbed to a tragic death in 1988 at the age of 50, the result of a bicycle accident. Resurrecting her ghostly vocals, this rare collection of footage captures two of her final public performances, filmed in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.

A look at the rise and fall of Adam Ant. From his early 80's success, to his struggle with depression.

A short film about mountaineering.

Charting the beginnings of the time, through the descent of man, on to an uncertain future - all shot throughout the seasons in the garden of S, who lives in the wilderness and builds contraptions.

One of several short films. Claymation that follows the misadventures of a mad anthropomorphic frog chef, often facing mishaps and disaster in his kitchen.

While the world’s attention has been fixed on the war in Iraq, Dispatches reporter Sandra Jordan and producer Rodrigo Vasquez risk their lives to reveal the shocking level of daily violence and murderous hate in the Gaza Strip.

The tender love between father and child portrayed through a passionate dance of trust and innocence, set against archive footage of the violence of Zimbabwe today. This is a short plea for peace in Zimbabwe, especially for children.

Matthew Collings will reappraise the Impressionists. The four stars are Courbet, Manet, Monet and Cezanne. In two hours their stories and their art will intertwine. Matt will unpack the principles of Impressionism - the strength of colour, the flatness, the patterning and the way in which ordinary life is pictured with startling truth - and argue that this is the best thing that has ever happened in modern art. He will also show that although the contemporary art world seemingly despises Impressionism it is only because of Impressionism that the avant-garde came to be.

Based on an English academic’s memoir on stalking and being stalked, a digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. It is a story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, and of modern technologies which define the urban stalker as they do the new terrorist.

Filming began immediately after the destruction of Jenin Refugee Camp by Israeli forces. The devastation of a desperate people is poignantly portrayed. Images of a harsh reality are prominent - mass burial pits and piles of rubble where homes, businesses and villages once stood. Includes images from Nablus and other West Bank towns invaded by Israel in early 2002.

A brand new show from one of Britain's best-loved comedians, recorded during his sell-out 2004 UK tour, 'Joe Pasquale in The Everything I Have Ever Done and The First of Many Goodbye Tours'.

Skateboarding is the ultimate Escape from Boredom. On this dvd we share many of the good times with you (and a couple of the bad) we've had around the globe in the last 18 months.

“Black film stock is repeatedly cut and rejoined. The cuts are made with the angled blade of a splicer normally used for joining sound film. At each cut we see an angled flash of light followed by a thud of sound. The film combines rhythmic intervals from one cut per second to twenty-four cuts per second, spread across 6 projectors”.

Steve Rider presents this guide to motor car rallying during the 80s; a decade which saw the sport become more hi-tech, high profile, faster and more dangerous.

Documentary about 13-year-old Deborah Drapper, who, unlike other British teens has never heard of Britney Spears or Victoria Beckham. She has been brought up in a deeply Christian family and her parents have tried to make sure she and her ten brothers and sisters have grown up protected from the sins of the outside world. Deborah is a bright, confident girl who has big ambitions for her life and the film spends a summer with her as she ventures out in the world to see what life outside her family could be and starts putting her beliefs forward to a wider audience.

This documentary uncovers the tensions and conflict between the Queen Mother and Prince Philip in the build up to Princess Elizabeth's coronation in 1953

Film scholar Jean-Pierre Berthome discusses Max Ophuls' original script for his 1952 film LE PLAISIR and its relationship to the three stories by Guy de Maupassant on which the script is based.

At 9am on 20 January 1607, a massive wave devastated the counties of the Bristol Channel. It came without warning, sweeping all before it. The flooding stretched inland as far as the Glastonbury Tor. Two hundred square miles of Somerset, Devon, Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire were inundated. Up to 2,000 people died. Yet for 400 years, the killer wave of 1607 has been forgotten. Timewatch relives the terror and the human tragedy of 1607 and follows the research of two scientists who are increasingly convinced that the wave was not simply a freak storm but a tsunami.

David “Screaming Lord” Sutch (1940-1999) the flamboyantly, bipolar, berserk rock singer, emerging from a coffin, armed with prop knives, axes and skulls, and belting out his song Jack the Ripper. But David Sutch was also the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time he stood in numerous parliamentary elections.

"The States of Things" is a B&W film of a Salvation Army jumble sale that is set to an old Egyptian love song by Um Kolthoum. Elderly ladies rummage through jumble at a sale held by the Salvation Army in Glasgow. 'Jumble sales aren't part of the normal capitalist system, so it doesn’t look quite like a Western Europe in the 21st century. And the music also makes the viewer unsure when or where this is.’

A series of silent images in various locations; the traces left by tents (Cornwall); derelict houses in Wales; an automaton in an amusement arcade on the south coast; Bekonscot model village; a fragmented poster on City Road London; film slipping through the gate.

Lyrical, disconcerting science film about clinical and cultural aspects of voyeurism.

A film made by Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association residents who talked to other ISHA residents about where they live and how they got there.

A story about Nashville based Kurt Wagner and his band Lambchop, his parents, his dogs and his incredible basement. The man who wants to be just a normal blue collar worker and his mother who took him to the theater.

Available on VHS cassette only. Waiting For The World really defined Blueprint as a team and opened everyone's eyes to the talent of the riders and what the UK has to offer.

Travelling aboard a Greenpeace ship along the West Coast of Africa The Deadline unravels a multi-billion dollar pirate fishing scam. Hidden far out at sea and without surveillance, fish are caught by unhygienic unlicensed rusting trawlers using slave labor. Set within a high seas drama this catch is then smuggled back to port in official European Union boxes through the Canary Islands for Westerner's dinner plates with no one the wiser it has been stolen from the poorest people on the planet.

A troubled transsexual becomes obsessed with her video camera, recording abuse against her, but it soon becomes a drug that only helps her avoid reality.

Doctor Mordred wants to replace humans with plants. A misanthrope, he lures Dr. Falicia Fairweather into Venus' trap. Represented by six incarnations, she wrestles with Mordred. Are they different versions of one another? We follow their battle via images of light, air, dance, horror, water, fire, tarot cards, masks and swords. Supervised by a Master of Ceremonies, each gender makes 'love'. Who will win? Can you wait till the end to find out? Starring: Jonathan Bowden, Lisa Garner, Nicola Henry, Jane Robinson, Katie Willow, Nicole Wiseman, and Claudia Minne Boyle. Directed by Andrea Lioy. Produced by Jonathan Bowden. Screenplay by Jonathan Bowden & Andrea Lioy. Based upon the short story by Jonathan Bowden.

Full highlights from Liverpool's most successful campaign, under manager Gerard Houllier, since their heyday in the 1980s. Having won both domestic cups, against Birmingham and Arsenal, they went on to complete the treble by winning the UEFA cup in a nine-goal thriller against Spanish club Alaves, with the winning goal coming from veteran midfielder Gary McAllister. In the Premiership they also secured the third Champions League spot, together with Premiership champions Manchester United and Arsenal. Notes About Additional Content

Classical Kids follows members of the National Children's Orchestra of Scotland through selection and rehearsal to the big night of the concert.

In a small Scottish town, a teenage girl is forced to visit her grandfather. When his infirmity turns their outing from a chore into outright humiliation, she must make a stark choice: his dignity or her own?

The Pickers shows a group of Romanian migrant workers at a UK strawberry farm who alternate their intensive strawberry picking with the editing and mediation of a 20th century film archive of British migrant hop pickers. Sited in a parallel reality, distinctions are blurred as to where and when events are set, as they are between notions of labour and leisure, and the identity of an archive and its dissemination.

Short documentary on the history of 20th century satanism and the people who influenced the movement, featuring a lengthy interview with writer/satanist Gavein Baddeley.

In 1953, the BBC made a point-of-view film from the London to Brighton train. In 1983, they did the same again. This is a film made of both runs at once, with every bridge, siding, tunnel and station running side by side in unlikely synchronisation.

The ex-steeplejack takes his obsession with Britain's industrial past to the extreme as he attempts to reconstruct a coalmine in his back garden. A 100-foot deep shaft, complete with pithead gear and a fully operational steam-powered winding engine? It's an ambitious project, but if anyone has the passion to see it through, it's Fred Dibnah.

Created as "disposable art" circa 1830, the woodblock print of "The Great Wave" by 70-year-old Katsushika Hokusai has earned acclaim and a place of honor in the art world. Scholars and critics discuss the work's creation and wide influence.

Rollin' Through the Decades celebrates skateboarding's journey from London's South Bank underneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, spiritual home of skateboarding since the early seventies through to today. Rollin' Through the Decades encapsulates the positive atmosphere of skateboarding and shows a true picture of its influence on our time. Showcasing historic, rare and unseen skateboarding footage. Featuring some of the finest tunes from the 80s and 90s and music especially composed for the film. ROLLIN interviews over 100 inspirational and legendary skateboarders, photographers and filmmakers.

Charles' views on architecture, religion and medicine haven't always made him popular.

A look at the world of Asian skin lightening.

Piece by piece, a menacing machine-system is constructed. Combining live action, stop-frame animation and a kinetic sculpture, Harrachov explores the effect of an arcane force that, like a black hole, exerts an irresistible power upon certain objects and materials.

Hand drawn abstract film, looking at seductive marks on the surface. Circle, Square, Triangle.