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An intimate, character-driven portrait of Iraq-bound and returning US soldiers as they go under the tattoo needle - professing their pride, sharing their secrets and confessing their fears. Set in a Texan tattoo parlour serving the US army base of Fort Hood, the film shows how tattoos cross lines of gender, class, and political affinity revealing the inner lives of young men and women as they live through the horrors of the Iraq war. The film’s narrative moves from the early expectations and excitement of 18 and 20 year olds through cynicism and anger to a sense of a psychological aftermath that will never be erased. Each soldier’s story is an evocative, poignant, and highly personal look at the human and cultural cost of war. “A sensitive and heartbreaking journey into the psychological casualties of war.” Richard Linklater, Filmaker
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The film will be shown in the US on PBS stations in November 2009. Here are the details:
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| War Feels Like War
In the build up to the Iraq war over 3,000 journalists gathered in Kuwait City. A chosen minority were allowed to live and move with the armed forces. The rest, who became known as unilaterals, were stopped from entering Iraq. This is the story of those who were trapped in Kuwait and those who managed to cross the border to find out what war really feels like. Read More In Focus Productions / Uyarra Films for BBC and TV2 / Danmar |
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The Headmaster & The Headscarves A unique insight into a group of French Muslim schoolgirls who face dramatic life decisions following a government ban on wearing headscarves at school. Filmed over several months, with unique access to events at a Paris school, this observational documentary captures the anguish of veiled schoolgirls, teachers, and the school authorities as they grapple with rules which threaten to inflame the very tensions they were designed to calm.
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Massacre in Luxor is the moving story of a group of bereaved relatives from three families who died that day. They travel from Japan and Europe to Egypt to come to terms with their loss and to look for answers to their many questions. Who was behind the attack? What drove the young gunmen to such brutality ? Why was the temple unprotected? Should tourists have been warned that they were being targeted? The group bring with them a petition calling for a permanent memorial to the victims of the attack.
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