In Dakhla (in the southernmost part of Morocco), one of the richest fishing regions in the world, hundreds of Moroccan fishermen, pushed by the increasing shortage of resources in the north, huddle together in tents sprayed by the ocean. However, their quest for a miraculous catch has revealed itself to be a tragic trap. As they have no licenses, they are sentenced to remain a few yards from the shoreline and catch what they can, while foreign trawlers equipped with the latest in sonar technology, captures the sea's riches to export them to other continents.
The documentary tells Freud's life in four chapters: "The Jew", "Freud Becomes Freud", "Love/Death", and "Exile". It covers Freud's Jewish identity in antisemitic Vienna, his discovery of the unconscious, his cancer diagnosis and the deaths of his daughter Sophie and his grandson, and his flight to England in 1938 following the Anschluss. The film features commentary by psychoanalysts and Freud scholars including Adam Phillips, Christfried Tögel, Lisa Appignanesi, Rémy Amouroux, Michael Molnar, Eran Rolnik, and Anat Tzur Mahalel.
The film opens before the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, and shows peasants at work in fields along the Volga, shepherds looking after their sheep on the steppes, and crop cultivation in Ukraine. It then deals with the consequences of the invasion, including the role of women in the war effort and Russian factory production.
In Freedom Park, a squatter settlement in South Africa, a group of HIV-infected former sex-workers, created a network called Tapologo. They learned to nurse their community, transforming degradation into solidarity and squalor into hope. Catholic bishop Kevin Dowling participates in Tapologo, and raises doubts on the official doctrine of the Catholic Church regarding AIDS and sexuality in the African context.
The area was originally considered worthless and was fenced off and abandoned. The town was established around the turn of the century, with German settlers. It then boomed with the soldier settler policies after the first and second World Wars.
This documentary portrays a great Sudanese filmmaker, Gadalla Gubara (1920-2008), one of the pioneers of cinema in Africa. Through his works, Gadalla shows us a mysterious and misunderstood country, Sudan. Despite censorship and the lack of financial backing for over sixty years, he produced an independent and unique cinema in a country where freedom of expression is a rare luxury.
