When xenophobic attacks broke out across South Africa in 2008, many were caught off guard, shocked by violence that felt like a violation of the principles of their newly democratic nation. Over two months, 62 people were killed, hundreds injured, and many more left homeless. In the midst of the violence, many young people picked up pangas. Other youth, clad in the bright greens and maroons of their school uniforms, looted neighborhood shops while some of their classmates, refugees themselves, fle... more

Out of love for her newly adopted country, Sibel Edmonds agreed to join the FBI as a translator in the wake of 9/11. But the world of this young Turkish-American soon gets turned upside down. Sibel reports to her supervisors that one of her colleagues is secretly working for Turkish targets of top secret FBI investigations. As a "reward" for her whistle blowing, Sibel is fired from the FBI. Today she is fighting for the very ideals on which American democracy relies, and is facing, agains... more

My film "Stand" is about: -Black-on-Black crime -race and diversity -a lack of leadership in the Black community

The filmmaker Elena Beloff is a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years. Her film explores stereotypes of Russian women that emerged in the 1990s; unfortunate stereotypes that arose from the media and hearsay. Elena’s method was to follow five Russian women for six months, interviewing each one in her environment: a rapper in a Sheepsheadbay Church, a salesperson at La Perla Madison Avenue Boutique, a model at home, a showgirl at a Brighton Beach restaurant, and a... more

"Memories of Rain" tells the story of Jenny C. and Kevin Q., two South Africans, her from the white world, he from the Black, who fought as commanders in the intelligence service of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) against the apartheid government. The film is not a historical study of the armed struggle of the ANC but the story of two people’s personal experiences, of how they grew up and became involved in the underground, of their goals and ideals, and of the struggle t... more

"Ellis Island", the film, is a short audio-visual piece of work shot in the surroundings of what used to be called the “immigrants’ squat”, close to the cross-Channel harbor and the former Cherbourg seaport. "Ellis Island" questions the condition and the place of the immigrant through a reflection on “biopower”; its starting point is the following concern: the way a society can create weak human beings such as “immigrants”. Homesickness, lack of future, and emptiness of presen... more

"Foreigners" is an animated documentary about foreigners who live in London. Based on interviews with ten young people from all over the world who live in the city, the film pieces together vignettes from multiple points of view that reveal London as an international metropolis that is both exciting and alienating. The interviews suggest a fresh look at contemporary English culture, and raise more fundamental questions about cultural differences and human nature.