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Solo Films - Howrah Station  

HOWRAH STATION - CALCUTTA

Howrah Station in Calcutta is one of the busiest railway junctions in Asia.In and around Howrah Station we witness the buzzing activity of travellers, porters, cars and minibuses, We also meet the slum dwellers living alongside the railway track. The narrative style of this documentary shows the maker's background as a photographer.
No dialogue, no commentary, no voice-over. Events develop within a carefully selected frame, edited to create a seductive stream of images.
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Solo Films - CHILDREN OF STALIN

 

 

CHILDREN OF STALIN

My soul is like a snowflake. You are melting it."
Time does not exist in the psychiatric hospital in Surami, Georgia. Excruciatingly slowly, the days roll by in an endless stream. The patients wait. They wait for the soup to be ladled from the huge tureens, for a psychiatrist to find the time to examine them, for a breath of fresh air on the central lawn. But mostly, they wait for cigarettes.
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Solo Films - A DOUBLE STIGMA   A DOUBLE STIGMA

HIV/AIDS is spreading at frightening speed in former Soviet Central Asian Republics like Tajikistan. Disintegration of the former society, the social insecurity and lack of perspective are major factors in this process. Was formerly alcohol the preferred way to distance oneself from this all, the proximity of Tajikistan to neighbouring heroin producing Afghanistan makes drugs readily available and dangerously cheap.
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