​(2004 - 60 min - w/Randy Bell)​

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'Orphans' examines the lives of former street children now living at the Good Samaritan Children's Home, an orphanage and school in the sprawling Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. These children, many orphaned by HIV/AIDS, slipped through the fraying net of Kenyan family structures and social services. They sniffed glue, scoured trash bins for food, and slept under cars until they were brought to the Home. By following their lives at the orphanage, the film lays bare the complicated relationship between poverty, violence, disease, Christianity, tradition and the orphan crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.​

Orphans of Mathare

Occupation

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​(2010 - 54 min - w/Maple Razsa)​

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Three Croatian activists struggle to change the world. As children, they lived ​through the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. But now, amid the aftershocks of socialism's failure, they fight in their own way for a new leftism. In the middle of the struggle, a skeptical American is won over by their cause and even goes to jail with them. The activists, whether clashing with police or squatting in an old factory, risk everything to live their politics. But as the setbacks mount, will they give up the fight?​

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The film, shot during years of fieldwork with a Croatian anarchist collective, applies EnMasseFilm's unique blend of observation, direct participation and critical reflection to this misunderstood political movement. Its portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching—an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country's youth.​​​​​​

​(2013 - 118 min - w/Stephanie Spray)​

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High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship Manakamana.

 

MANAKAMANA was produced through the Harvard Film Study Center and the Sensory Ethnography Lab.