"Black Lives Matter" is a short film about Police brutality faced predominately by the African-American population due to deep-rooted racism. A fictitious Police officer writing uncountable times Black Lives Matter on a chalkboard wall as a form of non-violent penalty.   Concept & Directors: Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko Actor: Joseph T. Shavel Producers: Sasha [...]

Progress vs Regress is a feature documentary film about how today's technological innovations have transformed social relationships, as seen through the eyes of the elderly.  The film investigates how the myth of technical progression affected and continues to affect attitudes towards labor, money, time and emotions. Are some feelings becoming extinct because of our [...]

A substantial part of life is claimed by boredom. Beauty, love, work sometimes it just isn't worth getting out of bed. A girl in a strawberry pie factory, a stressed desert nomad, a Wall street stockbroker, the last living WW2 female spy, a painter who paints. Time for 42 years, the first school shooter [...]

Sasha Dees and Philip Powel (festival directors) founded Black Soil, the first International Hip Hop Film Festival in Europe, in 2003. Black Soil took place every year in the last weekend of November in Rotterdam and the first weekend of December in Amsterdam. Black Soil's scope is across the board and puts Hip [...]

A mythopoetic feast of self-discovery that crosses three continents and three generations, E MINHA CARA traces the filmmaker's journey to Salvador Da Bahia, the African heart and soul of Brazil, as he seeks the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams. Paralleling the journey his mother made twenty years before to Tanzania in search [...]