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- Andre's Lives - The story of Andre Steiner, dubbed "the Jewish Schindler," who saved thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust.
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- Angel on the Right - After 10 years in Moscow, gangster Hamro returns to his native Tadjikistan village to tend to his dying mother, but he gets more than he expected from the quiet countryside village.
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- Border Cafe - Reyhan, an Iranian widow and mother of two young children, reopens the roadhouse formerly run by her husband, but as this is taboo for women, she encounters much resistance.
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- Buffalo Boy - Set in the lowlands of southern Vietnam, this powerful coming of age tale is a richly textured and stunningly visual reflection of the rhythms of daily life and culture determined by water.
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- Choropampa - When a devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation hits a quiet peasant village in the Peruvian Andes, a courageous young mayor emerges to lead his people on a quest for healthcare and justice.
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- Chronicle Of A Genocide Foretold - Shot over three years, CHRONICLE OF A GENOCIDE FORETOLD follows several Rwandans before, during, and after the 1994 genocide.
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- Democracy on Deadline - A survey of journalists working in various media and languages around the world, as they grapple with their relationships to government, and the dangers of speaking truth to power.
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- Facing the Demons - Follows the entire process of creating an extraordinary event - a "conference" between those responsible for a terrible murder, and the family and friends of the victim.
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- Fang - Mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's 100 year journey - a whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes!
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- Fuse - This brilliantly controlled debut feature opens with a jolt symbolic of the dangers buried beneath the surface of a small rustic village in Bosnia.
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- Hollow City - Following a massacre in his village, 11-year-old orphan N'dala is airlifted to Luanda, Angola, and comes to rely on other street children as he transitions into life in a dangerous city.
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- In the Battlefields - In the war-torn Beirut of 1983, a family struggles not only with nightly bombing in the city, but also with the battle taking place inside their own home.
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- Investigation of a Flame - An intimate look at the Catonsville Nine who on May 17, 1968 walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and incinerated them with homemade napalm.
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- Justice and the Generals - Investigates the human rights and legal issues involved when two Salvadoran generals face suit in an American court for atrocities (such as the murder of four American churchwomen) committed during El Salvador's civil war.
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- Kabala - A Malian feature film about the necessity of accepting both technology and the enduring power of traditional ways in a small village.
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- Khorma - When orphan Khorma becomes the professional announcer of marriages, births, and deaths in his small Tunisian town, things don't work out as he, or the townspeople, expect.
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- Lili's Apron - The love story of Ramón and his wife Lili, whose life together is dramatically impacted by Argentina's abrupt economic crisis.
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- Margarette's Feast - In an ode to classic silent films, a working-class everyman in Brazil escapes from his desperate life through the power of imagination.
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- Max and Mona - A black comedy about a South African village boy with extraordinary mourning skills, who journeys to a daunting city to become a "white doctor."
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- The Night of Truth - In an imaginary country in Africa with economic and political conditions like Sudan and Sierra Leone, after ten years of civil war the president and the rebel leader agree to hold a night of feasting when a peace agreement will be signed.
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- Our House - A groundbreaking documentary that explores what it's like to grow up with gay or lesbian parents, as Americans struggle to re-define family values.
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- Punitive Damage - A woman takes on the Indonesian Government over the killing of her son in East Timor.
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- Rachida - A moving story about an Algerian community, and above all about the women in it, living under the continous threat of terror.
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- Raise the Dead - The travels of evangelist H. Richard Hall along the back roads of the American South; an exploration of the land, people and milieu of a misunderstood and largely undocumented religious tradition.
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- Red Hook Justice - Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.
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- Seeing is Believing - From Rodney King to Osama bin Laden, handicams aren't just for weddings and vacations anymore!
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- Shadow Play - With recently declassified documents and interviews with newly liberated Indonesians, offers a startling new interpretation of events that shaped modern Indonesian history and changed the destiny of Southeast Asia.
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- Stolen Life - Yan-ni, a withdrawn, sullen young woman convinced that her fate is out of her hands, is accepted to college, but a chance relationship triggers a series of unfortunate events.
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- Thomson of Arnhem Land - The story of Donald Thomson, a young anthropoligist who devoted his life to fighting for Aboriginal rights.
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- Ted's Evolution - Reputations and careers are on the line as scientist Ted Steele takes on the establishment in a battle that could revolutionize the theory of evolution.
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- Thirst - It has been 10 years since Abu Shukri and his family fled a scandal involving his older daughter Gamila and settled in a dusty, arid valley in the middle of nowhere, far away from their hometown.
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- Ticket to Jerusalem - Jaber, a Palestinian, escapes the troubles on the West Bank by showing films to his community. But trouble is all he gets when he tries to organize a screening in Jerusalem.
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- Today and Tomorrow - The seemingly unavoidable downward spiral of Argentina's middle class during the current economic crisis is vividly brought to life in the character of young, street-smart Paula.
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- Travis - The inspirational story of a 10-year-old boy with full-blown AIDS.
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- Uncle Chatzkel - Chatzkel Lemchen survived the Russian revolution, two World Wars, the Holocaust and a communist regime, using his skills as a linguist and lexicographer.
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- Uniform - Filmed on a shoestring budget in the city of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, this deceptively simple first feature perfectly illustrates a Chinese saying "the clothes enter before the person."
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- The Uprising of '34 - The story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers.
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- A Veiled Revolution - Considers the possible reasons for modern Egyptian women's turn back to tradition.
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- What's a Human Anyway? - The phases of becoming a man in Turkish society are explored in an urban apartment building where neighbors and family live in close quarters.
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- Whisky - An inspired and beautifully assured tragic-comedy about Jacobo, a sixty-year-old owner of a small, outdated sock factory in Uruguay.
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- Women's Prison - A taboo-breaking film based on years of fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran.
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