"Director: Kim Longinotto"

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  • Shinjuku Boys / Gaea Girls [DVD]Shinjuku Boys / Gaea Girls | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Shinjuku Boys / Gaea Girls

  • Sisters in Law [2005]Sisters in Law | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £3.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (904.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

    An award-winning and uplifting work focusing on justice in the Muslim village of Kumba Town Cameroon. The town is overseen by the progressive female partnership of a prosecutor and the court president who together help women to speak out and fight back against patriarchal privilege in modern-day Africa.

  • Love is All (DVD)Love is All (DVD) | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £13.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (42.99%)   |  RRP £19.99

    A hundred years of love and courtship on the silver screen, with music created by Sheffield celebrated singer-songwriter-produce Richard Hawley. Love is All takes us on an exquisite journey through the twentieth century, exploring love and courtship in all of its shapes and sizes on the silver screen across decades of unprecedented social upheaval. From the first kisses ever caught on film, through the disruptions of war and on to the birth of youth culture, free love and gay liberation we follow courting couples as they flirt at tea dances, kiss in the back row, shack up together and fight for their right to love whoever they choose. This celluloid love letter is directed by Kim Longinotto (Divorce Iranian Style) and edited by Ollie Huddleston (From the Sea to the Land Beyond) using a selection of spellbinding footage from British archives, including the BFI National Archive and the Yorkshire Film Archive, all set to a stunning Richard Hawley soundtrack. Features: Archive short films Booklet with film notes and complete credits Other extras TBC

  • Dreamcatcher [DVD]Dreamcatcher | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £6.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (166.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

    For 25 years Brenda Myers-Powell called herself Breezy and she dominated her world or that's what she thought. It was a world that had turned her into a teenage drug-addicted prostitute. After a violent encounter with a john Brenda woke up in the hospital and decided to change her life. Today she is a beacon of hope and a pillar of strength for hundreds of women and girls as young as fourteen who want to change their own lives. Dreamcatcher explores the cycle of neglect violence and exploitation which each year leaves thousands upon thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive. By following the very charming charismatic and truly empathic Brenda we enter the lives of young women and see in verite footage their realities from their points of view. While the world may overlook these women and men thankfully Brenda has not providing an unflinching expose which contrasts seeming hopelessness against the difference that one person can make in the lives of many.

  • Divorce Iranian Style / RunawayDivorce Iranian Style / Runaway | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £11.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (14.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Two films by one of Britains foremost documentary filmmakers Kim Longinotto. Divorce is a hilarious tragic stirring fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court. It provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women's lives; Runaway: Set in a refuge for girls in Tehran and follows the stories of five young runaway girls who arrive there having fled their homes due to domestic discord. The film explores their experiences of male authority their longing for freedom and respect and their hopes for a more positive future.

  • Shooting the Mafia [DVD] [2019]Shooting the Mafia | DVD | (13/04/2020) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    Kim Longinotto directs this documentary focusing on Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia. Battaglia narrates her life from her working-class upbringing in Palermo, Sicily, marrying young, and beginning her photography career in her forties, when she became the first female photographer to be employed by an Italian paper. Despite setting out to document women, children and daily life on Sicilian streets, Battaglia instead found herself capturing acclaimed images of the ever-present violence around her during the 1970s and '80s.

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