Ben Hopkins

In Search of Monsters

Ben Hopkins, John Goetz

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Follow a formerly imprisoned and officially exonerated alleged al-Qaeda terrorist on his search for his torturers. He wants to take revenge - by forgiving.

Yearning

Ben Hopkins

A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life - but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city - its past, its secrets, its ghosts. Gradually he succumbs to obsession.

Footprints

Ben Hopkins

Documentary about unexploded ordinance and the effect it has on the landscape of post-war countries.

37 Uses for a Dead Sheep

Ben Hopkins

To preserve their culture, the Pamir Kirghiz people have migrated across Central Asia from the U.S.S.R to China to Afghanistan to Pakistan and finally to remote eastern Turkey, but now they face the most serious threat to their traditions, globalization.

Pazar Bir Ticaret Masalı

Ben Hopkins

Tayanç Ayaydın, Genco Erkal

A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.

Simon Magus

Ben Hopkins

Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend

Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz

Ben Hopkins

Tom Fisher, Ian McNeice

The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.

Lost in Karastan

Ben Hopkins

Matthew Macfadyen, Noah Taylor

A filmmaker from England is hired to direct an epic production in the Caucasus region of Europe.

Napoli: City of the Damned

Ben Hopkins

When thinking of devastated cities in the Second World War, Naples is often forgotten, but when it was liberated by the Allies it was on its last legs, with 200,000 homeless and no power, transport, food or running water. The Allies quickly brought food to the starving population and medicine to the sick, but the introduction of many troops and lots of supplies led to the creation of a huge black market involving almost the entire population. One third of women became prostitutes as Naples became a kind of Sodom and Gomorrah, a city of vice, crime and chaos where everything that could be sold and stolen was sold and stolen. Perplexingly, the Americans decided to introduce Italo-American criminals into positions of power in southern Italy, such as Vito Genovese, a gangster escaping a murder rap in New York. Genovese began setting up a crime empire in Naples - after Mussolini had effectively suppressed organised crime in Italy, the Allies brought it back. (Storyville)