The quiet opening film, Ellen Evans’ 13-minute Motherland, hits hard. An elderly man, dignified, deeply disappointed and bewildered, a ‘proud Black Britain’ of the Windrush generation, is marooned in Jamaica because the UK passport he’d held from his youth hadn’t allowed him re-entry to the country where he had spent almost his whole life.
Another powerfully understated doc, Carol Salter’s Left Coast, records, in the everyday work and chat of foodbank volunteers and clients, the humanity, kindness and solidarity that keeps life and soul together for many in austerity.
