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  • Balika

    Dipendra and Sushmita are two Nepali orphans living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. One day, Dipendra's family contacts him and they invite him to travel to his hometown. Sushmita decides that when she grows up she wants to be a nurse.

  • Springtide: A Burmese Tale

    In a fishermen's village of the Bay of Bengal, a group of young Burmese kids live their happy-go-lucky life with a unique obsession: surfing. They are the first, the only ones. Meanwhile in Yangon, a determined craftsman begins to shape the very first teakwood surfboard; a symbol for the future g...

  • My Promise To PJ

    A promise is made between friends where even death cannot interrupt the fulfillment of that promise, and a great adventure follows through love, loss, addiction and triumph. Test www.greenpeace.com

  • The Curse Of The Terracotta Warriors

    The remarkable story of the discovery of one of China's greatest treasures--the magnificent Terracotta Warriors, guardians of the tomb of China's first emperor.

  • My Blood Is Red

    Against the violent background of a genocide, a teenage poet and rapper struggles to define himself as a young indigenous man.

  • Idomeni

    Idomeni is both a place suspended in time, and a film shaped by scenes from the parallel lives of adults and children in the camp. The children do not go to school but live in their own world and take care of each other, having little contact with their surroundings. The film catches their bubb...

  • Propaganda

    Controversial to its core, this hard-hitting anti-Western propaganda film, which looks at the influence of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world from a North Korean perspective, has been described as ‘either a damning indictment of 21st Century culture or the best piece...

  • Circuits of Care

    By 2036, one in three people in Japan will be over the age of 65. While the nation wrestles with a shrinking labour force, the Robot Revolution Initiative was launched to expand robotics into every corner of Japanese economy and society. Circuits of Care follows anthropologist David Prendergast a...

  • About The War

    A reflection on war, on what the human being is capable of doing and on the job of reporter at the front. Fourteen years after recounting the conflict that shook Lebanon in 2006, Gianluca Grossi returns to the Land of the Cedars to confront a question that, over time,has become increasingly cumbe...

  • Our Days

    On a journey through the corners of large cities such as Milan, Napoli or Venice, and small towns such as Erice or Matera, the gaze stops at the privacy of family industries, luxury crafts, shops, cooperatives and recovered factories; in the one-on-one encounter of women and men who work, with th...

  • Echoes Of The Empire : Beyond Genghis

    Mongolia: for most of us, it brings to mind Genghis Khan's mighty empire. But in the present day, there is also a rich culture in the nation that grew from the ashes of Genghis Khan's triumphs, and a complex history aside from the bloodshed and conquest. A stunning cinematic view of the country's...

  • The Museum On The Mountain

    60-minute documentary on the concept, design, and construction of the Miho Museum, near Kyoto, Japan, the most recent building of renowned architect I. M. Pei. Filmed over a six-year period from 1991 to 1997.

  • Lessons for Luca

    Uncle Ezequiel is serving a six-year prison sentence. What crime did this Cuban farmer commit? Answer: He sold his own cow. Filmmaker Salvador Gieling, a cousin by marriage, just can’t get his head around it. And if he can’t, how will Luca – Salvador’s two-year-old son and Ezequiel’s nephew – eve...

  • A Greenland Story

    Intimate stories from locals along Greenland’s west coast reveal a people at a cross roads between tradition and modernity. Feeling the devastating impact of climate change, uncertain times lay ahead.

  • The Cowboy Hat Movie

    One cowboy embarks on a quest to find the ultimate cowboy hat while exploring the origin, evolution, quintessential stylings, and solidification of this iconic American West expression.

  • An Italian Youth

    Sokuro emigrated from Burkina Faso fifteen years earlier and lives in a town in northern Italy with his father and his little brother Nassir. Sokuro decides to visit his mother, who still lives in their native village; he then marries young Guienne, and thus restores a bond with his own origins. ...

  • Man Up

    Man Up! offers a critical look at the powerful role men can play in bringing about change within their homes and communities in order to lead more gender equitable and fulfilling lives. The film follows Sikhangele Mabulu and Monwabisi Mbetane as they reflect on their childhood socialization that ...

  • Slow Fashion

    Slow Fashion is a documentary that explores cultural appropriation of indigenous designs in Mexico by an international fashion designer and the way weavers and block printers in Laos and India are working with new sustainable designers, whose principals and practices are based on equality, not hi...

  • OMG Oh My God

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    This series takes an inviting & insightful look at the spiritual teachings, customs & daily lives of families of different faith. Experiencing a vast array of traditions & social activities it explores faith through the eyes of youth, their families and social connections as it takes a light-hea...

  • Pacific Capture

    How Chinese money is buying the Solomon Islands
    The signing of a new security deal between the Solomon Islands and China has raised alarm bells for some foreign policy experts, particularly in Australia and the United States. Among Solomon Islanders, there are anxious murmurings surrounding the p...

  • Our Territory

    Mathieu Volpe returns to the territories of his childhood, armed with a few feet of film, to meet those who were absent from his summer memories: the migrants from Northern and Southern Africa, gathered together for picking in modern plantations. With grace and humility, he reveals a parallel eco...

  • Made In China

    The celebration of the Chinese New Year is coming and Yu Liang Yuan (21 years old) starts his journey from the industrial colony where he resides in Shenzhen to his birthplace in Henan (inland of the Asiatic giant). But these aren't any regular holidays. his year, his visit is crucial for his fu...

  • Cries From Syria

    Covering five years of conflict, Cries from Syria serves as a record of Syria's brutal disintegration and the dangers faced by its many refugees. Incorporating gripping first-hand accounts from activists, child protesters, and a former army general who joined the uprising, this compelling documen...

  • Sorojchi

    "Sorojchi" is how altitude sickness is known in Bolivia and it is something that is felt in the cities of El Alto and La Paz. It is here where we learn the story of four urban artists who, through their work, share their views on Bolivia and Bolivians, immersed in a big social and political crisis.