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  • The Hunger Season

    The Hunger Season

    A new feature documentary on the food crisis gripping the planet. This film asks why, in spite of the Millennium Goal...

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  • Only When I Dance

    Only When I Dance

    ‘Only When I Dance’ is a real life Billy Elliot story set in the Favela's of Rio, following the fortunes of two ...

  • China's Stolen Children

    China's Stolen Children

    Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very differen...

  • A World Without Water

    A World Without Water

    The world is running out of water
    All of us will face it soon,
    some of us are facing it now.

  • Who Is Dayani Cristal?

    Who Is Dayani Cristal?

    An anonymous body is discovered in the Arizona desert. The only identifying feature is a tattoo reading 'Dayani ...

  • The Games

    The Games

    In 2012 the Olympic Games will come to London. With it, come promises of regeneration, opportunities for young peopl...

  • We Are Together

    We Are Together

    Filmed over three years, WE ARE TOGETHER (Thina Simunye) tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children...

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  • The Boy Mir

    The Boy Mir

    Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, THE BOY MIR will cover not one year but ...

  • Kimberley

    Kimberley

    An intimate portrait of the directors friend, as she fights her family's long-term poverty and emotional problem...

  • Town of Runners

    Town of Runners

    Many of the world’s greatest runners hail from Bekoji, a small town in rural Ethiopia. Town of Runners follows a grou...

  • DETROPIA

    DETROPIA

    Can Motor City rise from its ashes? Americans hope so, as there is a growing feeling that as Detroit goes, so goes th...

  • A Small Act

    A Small Act

    A Kenyan boy's life is dramatically changed when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, ...

  • Moving Windmills

    Moving Windmills

    In 2001, William Kamkwamba dropped out of school due to a devastating famine. Through self-education, he saw a windmi...

  • Africa10

    Africa10

    The game of soccer is transforming Africa in fascinating and powerful ways. Africa10, a documentary film and a multim...

  • Dear Mandela

    Dear Mandela

    Three young South African shack dwellers resist mass eviction from their slums while leading a new generation who fol...

  • $H*T!

    $H*T!

    $H*T! follows radical solutions that turn human waste into green energy. It opens up possibilities for whole new and ...

  • Addicted in Afghanistan

    Addicted in Afghanistan

    In a country devastated by the horrors of war & poverty what hope is there for its children?

    Addicted in Afghani...

  • On the Streets

    On the Streets

    On the Streets is an observational documentary about homeless people shot over eight months. Rough sleepers, from Pau...

  • Anatomy of Poverty

    Anatomy of Poverty

    Anatomy of Poverty (working title) follows several characters in order to explore the impact and progress of foreign ...

  • Not On the Label

    Not On the Label

    The story of the cocaine trade and the war against it - a war that cannot be won and whose victims are the poor, the ...

  • The Revolutionary Optimists

    The Revolutionary Optimists

    Children are saving lives in the slums of Calcutta. Using dance and street theater, Amlan Ganguly empowers children t...

  • Saving Africa's Witch Children

    Saving Africa's Witch Children

    In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervour is combined with a belief in sorcery and...

  • no image

    Storage Dreams

    Set in the birthplace of self storage, Storage Dreams is a film about lives being literally up for sale, giving us a ...

  • The Market Maker

    The Market Maker

    Eleni Gabre-Madhin is a woman with a dream. The charaismatic Ethiopian economist wants to end hunger in her famine-pl...

  • Hungry In America

    Hungry In America

    America is one of the world’s wealthiest nations. Yet we remain the only country in the developed world where million...

  • Five Ways Out of a Favela

    Five Ways Out of a Favela

    Four kids: Five ways out. Will they make it?
    In the slums of Rio around 6000 children are working in the drug trade. ...

  • Untitled Global Health Documentary

    Untitled Global Health Documentary

    Partners In Health is a remarkable global public health organization, insisting on quality health care as a basic rig...

  • Justice for Sale

    Justice for Sale

    Justice for Sale; “when the system fails, everyone is a victim”

    Justice for Sale follows a young, courageous human...

  • What's Going On?

    What's Going On?

    The Burgers and the Johnsons are rival gangs who have been killing each other in a postcode war in Birmingham for fif...

  • American Village

    American Village

    Baltimore, 1972: a father of thirteen is murdered. Three boys are arrested, represented by a famous civil rights atto...

  • Dawn of a New Day

    Dawn of a New Day

    Three West Africans, including a ten-year-old boy with a disfigured leg, are in need of specialized surgery but are w...

  • Devil's Lair

    Devil's Lair

    More than 3000 prisoners are released back into society every month. Many become the bone and marrow of the illicit d...

  • Dirty Money

    Dirty Money

    A compelling and unique perspective on the world, work and environmental value of informal street recyclers in Johann...

  • Ntsika

    Ntsika

    In Grahamstown, South Africa, people are talking - is a white principal going to cope in a township school? This docu...

  • OUR SCHOOL

    OUR SCHOOL

    Three Roma children from a small Transylvanian town participate in a project to desegregate the local school, struggl...

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