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Filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, examines with charm and humour modern attitudes towards race in Barking, a white working class town to the East of London. Through the lives of five key characters from different ethnic backgrounds, Isaacs, a prominent but unseen presence, questions prejudices, and pries at p...

For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. For hundreds of migrants it is the final barrier in the desperate search for a new life in England. This intimate film weaves together character driven stories of refugees, migrants and English ...

When filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, decided to make a documentary about a lift in a London tower block he had no idea how the residents would react and what they would reveal of their lives. He simply set himself up in the lift with his camera and waited for the right moment to ask questions. The result is...

The film shot in the financial place of The City, focuses on several Londoners from various social classes during the 2008 economic crisis. From a high-end hedge fund manager to a spiritually oriented street sweeper seeking peace, Isaacs fluidly balances sensitive portraits of people striving to fin...

Silent moments from a number of the filmmaker’s previous films play on a loop....

A notebook film for a future film that was never made set out on the remote chars in rural Bangladesh. ...

Filmmaker Marc Isaacs spends 6 months outside Highbury Magistrates Court in London as he takes an intimate look at the lives of those passing through the legal system. On the street outside the court, he speaks to armed robbers, long-term thieves, addicts and anxious relatives all awaiting judgement...

Set in a single location—the inside of a burger truck—this story unfolds as passersby answer Marc's questions while they slurp tea and eat bacon sandwiches. The result is an illuminating blend of anxiety and insecurity as attitudes towards outsiders begin to shine a light on why England is going thr...

In a quiet corner of England, a former rabbi is living a life based on the ancient patriarchy of the Old Testament. Six years ago, God told the rabbi that he was to become a Hebrew King, and like a good patriarch, he was to take multiple wives. Now he raises horses, runs four second-hand furniture s...

A montage piece of the OUT OF TIME installations set to music by Matej Dimlic. ...