Documentaries
Karaoke Angels, Young Dubliners, and Happy France portrait-based films that mix humour and emotion to tell the stories of ordinary people. Trashopolis, a doc series, tells the history of cities through their waste management.
Karaoke Angels
Set in an isolated Welsh village, the film is a wonderfully gentle and involving look at the lives of a number of the townspeople who are linked by their once-a-week karaoke release. As a backdrop, the karaoke club is a fine and funny canvas, but beneath the surface exist lives of realised and unrealised dreams, innocent ideals, personal conflict, and refreshingly joyous, despite sometimes difficult, stories.
Young Dubliners
A portrait-documentary following young people making their way in Dublin. An estate agent, a politician, a plumber, a seminarist, a midwife, a morgue technician, a refugee and two Mormon missionaries walking the city in search of converts.
Happy France
A doc series telling the lives of mainly British expatriates living in the Tarn region of southern France. Young families, retirees, a mother facing cancer, a Franco-American couple divorcing, and Stanley, who flies his plane every Christmas Day.
Trashopolis (Petites histoires de nos ordures)
A doc series telling the history of five cities through their waste management: London, Paris, Rome, New York and Cairo, how the way they dealt with their waste made them the cities they are today. Among others, we meet a mudlark on the Thames in London, freegans and recyclers in New York, the cleanliness inspectors of Paris, a historian of Rome's ancient sewers, and the composters and pig farmers of Cairo.