The New Ten Commandments (2008)

Directed by

Nick Higgins, Sana Bilgrami, Kenneth Glenaan, Anna Jones

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

8.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary is a collection of short films made by different directors, each illustrating one article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The film focuses on human rights issues as seen from a Scottish viewpoint.

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What happens

The New Ten Commandments is an anthology documentary film which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008. This documentary film is from a Scottish perception. The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott and Anna Jones. The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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