Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award® nominee César Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Piggot Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a post-war life as an architect in Brazil. As the world struggles with the current refugee crisis, RED TREES is a timely look at a family besieged by war who finds peace across an ocean.

A single evening at a house party in 1908s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.

In 1960s and 70s Guinea-Bissau, militant rebels took up arms against the colonial power. A documentary fable based on historical research. 　　During Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence from Portugal in the 1960s, rebel leader Amílcar Cabral launched an ambitious education programme to fight the Portuguese colonial power. In ‘Mangrove School’, Filipa César and local historian and activist Sónia Vaz Borges explore the history and impact of the movement. In the 1960s and 70s, the nomadic guerrilla schools under the mangrove trees became symbols of the people’s anti-colonial struggle, including against the colonial mentality itself. A school system set up by militant rebels, which for the same reason became the target of bomb attacks during the country’s long struggle for independence. Based on historical research, and at the crossroads of art and political theory, César and Borges revisit the history of the mangrove schools in a documentary fable of resistance, independence and autonomous forms of education.

Long hours want to admire the giant trees, thousands of years extending to the light. The soft bark sekvoy under the influence of the sun changes its hues from bright - red to chocolate - brown. Enjoy serene calm of evergreen forests, thickets which hardly break silvery sunlight. If you go down the stream clear streams, you amaze crystal purity of the water column through which so clearly visible foundation of huge stones, lying motionless on the bottom.