Novara Docs

Under Threat: the Sengwer Minority

Kenyan authorities and the EU are now negotiating the resumption of a controversial forest conservation project suspended in 2018 due to serious human rights concerns. The Sengwer, one of Kenya’s marginalised minorities, face eviction from their ancestral land. Despite a moratorium on evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and huge pressure from human rights groups, […]

The Extradition of Julian Assange

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange shot to fame in 2010 with a series of revelations that shook the world. 10 years later Assange faces up to 175 years imprisonment pending an extradition hearing this September. Whatever the outcome of his case, the political implications for whistleblowing, journalism, and indeed democracy itself may depend on the fate […]

Reclaiming Work

Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants. Directed and Produced by Cassie Quarless and Usayd Younis of black & brown (https://blackbrownfilm.com)

Who Was Rosa Luxemburg?

Rosa Luxemburg was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. She was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy scandalised people at the time both from the left and the right. We sent Eleanor Penny to Berlin on the 100th anniversary of her death […]

Return to the Commons

On a 14-square mile patch of western France known as Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a world is being constructed, a way of living, formed through common endeavour and a knowledge of and sensitivity to the landscape and its ecosystems. It’s a messy process that was started 10 years ago when climate activists started to squat the area to […]

The Cargo Women of Melilla

Embedded in the Moroccan coast, the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla represent Europe’s southernmost border. There is no formal customs agreement between these two autonomous cities and Morocco, giving rise to a system where goods are smuggled across the border as personal luggage to avoid customs charges and taxes. The burden of this work […]

The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia

Visible from space, the vast concentration of plastic greenhouses in Almeria supply more than half of Europe’s fruit and vegetables. An economic boom in this previously poor region of Andalucia has come at the expense of the African migrants who work in these greenhouses, under slave-like conditions. Approximately 200 workers live there during peak season. […]

Cafe Corbyn

Hussein is an ordinary guy, he owns a cafe in Finsbury Park. He has been friends with Jeremy Corbyn for 9 years. A film by Whalebone Films for Novara Media.

Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On

40 years later, workers, writers and politicians remember the historic 2 year strike led primarily by South-Asian film processing workers at the Grunwick Lab in Dollis Hill, North-west London. How did Grunwick pave the way for further suppression of trade unions and independent worker organisation?

God’s Own Country For Tories

As Cameron steps aside, where better to examine his legacy than in his own constituency in Oxfordshire where county council cuts have destroyed vital public services, putting hundreds of people at risk.