Jill Daniels

The Border Crossing

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:10:09 +0000

In this innovative 47 minute film set in the Basque country, award-winning filmmaker Jill Daniels creates an evocative story of her own past through the wanderings of a young woman on both sides of the French/Spanish border while an unnamed man drives through the rain at night.

Not Reconciled

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:18:04 +0000

Rosa and Carlos, the ghosts of young Spanish civil war republicans, roam the ruins of Belchite in Northern Spain, waiting for the discovery of their unmarked graves.

Lost In Gainsville

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:21:23 +0000

Hector was eight when his father brought him to Gainesville, in the heart of the American south. Olga was twelve when her father swam the Rio Grande with her on his back. Thomas was sixteen when his mother put him on a bus alone, with a bag of tacos for the 2000 mile journey. ‘Lost in Gainesville’ retraces their journey,

Small Town Girls

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:29:47 +0000

2007, 94 mins.
Shot over five years, a unique portrait of three adolescent girls, it shows the harsh realities of life in two small towns at either end of England at the start of the 21st century.

Next Year In Lerin

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:33:10 +0000

2000, BetaSP, colour, 45 mins.

In 1948 during the Greek civil war, 28 thousand children, Greek and Macedonian, were taken from their villages by the communist-led Democratic Army and raised in orphanages in Eastern Europe. The Greeks never allowed the Macedonian children back.50 years later the ‘children’ mark the anniversary of their journey. They dance and sing and yearn for their lost villages.

I’m In Heaven

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:18:00 +0000

Rachel is a Jewish woman living alone in a council flat in a tower block in the city. Never leaving the flat, Rachel stands at the window gazing out, making the bed, tidying, polishing, cooking, throwing away the food she has carefully prepared which will not be eaten, playing the piano badly, as though reminiscent of an earlier happier life.

Spirits

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:45:08 +0000

A homage to Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Spirits explores the undercurrents of fear and violence when two opposing worlds collide.

Fools Gold

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:43:56 +0000

In a moving portrait, Fool’s Gold peels away the layers of affluent colour-co-ordinated shops, cafes and big cars to reveal a community, where people like Myra and Thomas, live out life untouched by the prosperity of tourism, who struggle with poverty but share the little they have with others.

Exiles

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:14:32 +0000

Ruben House is a Jewish old people’s home. Sixty people live intimately, side by side. They measure their days by meal times where salt and sugar are passed reluctantly and pills are taken unwillingly; by keep fit classes and film shows; by Biblical quizzes whose answers are unknown, forgotten or irrelevant.

Skin Deep

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:44:20 +0000

Daniels tells the story of her Jewish Grandmother Edith who emigrated from Romania to England in 1906 when she was eight years old.