A community worker sets the world to rights teaching prostitutes' children the art of photography in a red light area of Calcutta. As she befriends them she takes it on herself to 'rescue' them from their fate, their friends and their families by getting them enrolled in private education schools to help them change their destiny. Zana is such a powerful person that, as the follow up DVD extra 'Reconnecting with Born into Brothels' demonstrates, she succeeds. This is a superb film animated by th
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MODERN LIFE (2008)
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Director and photo-journalist Raymond Depardon traverses the hills of the Cévennes region of southern France chatting to and about the lives of several generations of a disappearing breed of French farmers, many of whom he has known and earned the trust of over the last ten years (in fact, and inconsequentially, this is the third and final documentary he has made of these peoples' lives). This humanist film never romanticises the life of the hill farmer, but, with astute cinematography, attracti
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