Novara Docs

The Cargo Women of Melilla
The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia
Cafe Corbyn
Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On
God’s Own Country For Tories
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.