Martin Webster

In Iraq 2003 Corporal Martin Webster filmed fellow soldiers beating Iraqi youths during rioting in Al Amara. Two years later, a British newspaper obtained his footage. The story that ran led to outrage across the world.

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.

Amateur's Riot (Shirōto no ran) is a Japanese association of activists, committed to the living conditions of the poor people (binbōnin) in Tōkyō. The association was founded in 2005 by Matsumoto Hajime, Yamashita Hikaru, Futatsugi Shin, Mochitsuki Rui and Ogasawara Keita. The protagonists of Shiroto no Ran played an important role in the anti-nuclear demonstrations that appeared in response to the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.

As a centuries-old black community, contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants, comes to terms with the loss of its ancestral home, one man standing in the way of a plant's expansion refuses to give up.

The Hundred Squares: "No more delays," the cry of citizens echoes from the lives of those barely holding out against discrimination and hatred. Struggling with diverse identities in their daily lives, citizens reflect on the meaning of "discrimination" through their own experiences and testimonies. They question and reflect on what is needed to eliminate it and speak out before the camera. The Blooming Equalities: discrimination law that has been on hold for 20 years. A lawyer, a researcher, a religious figure, a writer, and an activist stand in the square again after a year, and, in this time of rampant right-wing extremism and hate, they speak of an anti-discrimination law as "the right answer to ending the insurrection, the last line of defense for human dignity, a current that can no longer be held back, a square that cannot at all harm families, churches, and the nation, and a place where the voices of the less fortunate can be heard."

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.

Found-footage short film about the paths connecting our global lives. Also, a plea against genocide.

Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening  of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and pieces of Indian culture back home with  them, creating a distorted version of Indian religion that’s practiced widely across Europe.  The number of yoga institutes, ashrams, and Sanskrit institutes in Germany indicates that  younger generations are far from giving up on this trend. Some are so enamored by this  version of Indian culture that they travel thousands of kilometres to meet their spiritual  advisors in tents, attend yoga sessions at 5 in the morning, and, in some cases, even adopt  Indian names and clothes to try and connect more with this Eastern way of living.  But exactly how prevalent is this trend?