A trailer for a short documentary by Luke and John Tchalenko featuring human-rights lawyer and popular writer, Raja Shehadeh (Orwell Prize, 2008). The idyllic West Bank landscape is contrasted with the devastating Arab-Israeli ideological divide. A remarkable player of the ancient Nye flute invokes the vanishing landscape as a Bedouin tribe struggles for existence.

**** Raja will be giving launching his new book with a showing of the full 30-minute film at the South Bank Centre, London on Monday, Sept. 13. Do come along!

Get tickets for the talk here - they may sell out soon!

Ukraine has the largest incidence of HIV in Europe. A devastating problem that is still growing and crossing over from high-risk groups to the general population.

People Like Us shows the lives of some of those living with HIV in Ukraine and the efforts of Red Cross Visiting Nurses and other groups to care for them and stem the further rise of the disease.

For more information on the IFRC’s work on HIV/AIDS, please visit their site here.

Please visit the Ukrainian Red Cross to see how you can help.

The Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC) programme is the government ‘transformation programme’ for services for disabled children and their families in England from 2008 – 2011.

The programme commits £430 million to local authority disabled children’s services.

This film aims to show the parents of disabled children and local authorities what can be done to transform the lives of disabled children.

Website Film from an Interactive Project in Progress

Nick Allen’s book in progress, EMBED – Among the World’s Armies in Afghanistan, offers a unique, first-hand look at the experiences of foreign contingents deployed in Afghanistan. Some are engaged in heavy fighting while others in more stable areas still face the challenge of working with communities that after three decades of war and oppression are endemically suspicious of outsiders.

This film shows a path through the pilot website, giving a taste of some of the videos, text and photos available.

Nick Allen worked as a journalist in Moscow from 1996 to 2006, when he moved to Pakistan as the German Press Agency’s Islamabad bureau chief, responsible also for Afghanistan. Allen first visited the country in 2001, and has spent up to three months in the field at a time, visiting members of the 41-country International Security Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan and filing numerous articles on the conflict. This is his first book.

This is an online film project that dust+scratches is developing with the author. We are presently editing the footage Nick has filmed over the last two years in Afghanistan to expand the site and launch it with the book.