DocEdge: Mr Toilet review

“Turn­ing poop cul­ture into pop cul­ture is the fastest way to solve the san­i­ta­tion cri­sis.” Hav­ing grown up in self-described slums of Sin­ga­pore before san­i­ta­tion arrived, Jack Sim has per­son­al expe­ri­ence of its val­ue. After being unsat­is­fied with his ear­ly suc­cess in busi­ness, he had a rethink, and made it his mis­sion to bring toi­lets […]

A still from Honeyland

DocEdge preview: Honeyland

Hon­ey­land Direct­ed by: Ljubomir Ste­fanov, Tama­ra Kotevs­ka Dressed in a high-necked yel­low blouse, mot­tled long skirt and pat­terned head­scarf, the leath­ery Hatidze Mura­to­va nego­ti­ates a moun­tain ledge to find a remote hive where she extracts just the right amount of hon­ey so that both she and her bees thrive. Back home in her ancient stone […]

DocEdge preview: The Silence of Others

DocEdge kicks off in Welling­ton on 13th June (run­ning to the 23rd) and we’ve been for­tu­nate enough to pre­view some of the films that will be show­ing. First up… The Silence of Oth­ers Direct­ed by Almu­de­na Car­ruce­do and Robert Bahar María Martín pins up her long grey hair with gnarled hands, then strug­gles with a […]