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- Democracy in China exists, that is, in a primary school in Wuhan where a grade 3 class can vote who they want as class monitor.
- Rafea is a Bedouin woman who lives with her four daughters in one of Jordan's poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border. She is given a chance to travel to India to attend the Barefoot College, where illiterate grandmothers from around the world are trained in 6 months to be solar engineers. If Rafea succeeds, she will be able to electrify her village, train more engineers, and provide for her daughters. Even when she returns as the first female solar engineer in the country, her real challenge will have just begun. Will she find support for her new venture? Will she be able to inspire the other women in the village to join her and change their lives? And most importantly, will she be able to re-wire the traditional minds of the Bedouin community that stand in her way?
- Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent of the population.
- Follows four teenagers over the course of two years as they grow up deep in the southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Very little happens in the village of Ha Sekake, but from their perspective, a lot is at stake.
- In ancient times in China, education was the only way out of poverty. In recent times it has been the best way. China's economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that to study is to escape poverty. But these days, China's higher education system only leads to jobs for a few, educating a new generation to unemployment and despair.
- Voices of El Alto is filmed in a city over 4000 meters above sea level, a tent is set up in a marketplace to collect stories from random by-passers. Film raises a story within a story told by bolivian people.
- A look at the achievements and struggles of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman elected as President of the African nation of Liberia.
- 75 per cent of Mali's population are farmers, but rich land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agri-business farms. Tackling questions of food sovereignty, land ownership and development in Africa, the film asks who owns Africa.
- Follows a young trans man as he wanders through the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, showing his film in remote villages, schools and communities. The spectators react with surprise and curiosity but also offer remarkable warmth, love and acceptance.
- A depiction of the three stages of democracy as seen through the eyes of a girl growing up in Kenya.
- Kinshasa 2.0 tells the story of how the arrest of Marie-Thérèse Nlandu, a woman from a prominent political family in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was publicised through the Internet and resulted in filmmaker Teboho Edkins visiting Kinshasa to see how the arrest has affected the family. His film explores a tense, militarised Kinshasa, where it is extremely difficult to film, and using 2nd life a 3D virtual chat program - he looks at his friend Carines attempt to keep in contact with her aunt Marie-Thérèse after she is released and goes into exile in Belgium. The film moves between the real city and the heightened world of 2nd life accompanied by a silent observer a wooden soldier that appears on the edge of most scenes observing, waiting, watching
- The right to freedom of speech is an essential element to democracy. In our so-called democratic countries, is there space for a concrete exercise of such inviolable right? Or is its guarantee a utopian Constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spread throughout Italy, as an answer to the lack of public access television and a statement against the oligarchic control over the most influential medium. INTERFERENZE explores the intriguing story of what became known as the Telestreet network through the personal experience of the members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station who initiated the movement.
- Farahnaz Shiri, the first female bus driver in Tehran, has made her own little society in her bus. Mrs. Shiri is struggling to prove herself in this society and resisting a series of injustices that she faces as a woman in Iranian society.
- Paco Pascual used to run one of Spain's top refurbishment firms, a large family business he and his brothers made successful by winning lucrative government contracts. But 50.000 small businesses have gone bust in Spain in the last year. And Paco's is one of them: "My company is like a shark that is eating me" he says. The world used to be viewed in terms of the developed and the developing world. Has the global financial crisis changed this? Is it time to move on from a 'them and us' mentality?
- A Miss Democracy competition judged by none other than a Greek philosopher, a famous football player, a well know gigolo and a celebrity stylist. Is this about democracy, good looks, or money and power?
- When 25,000 camels gather in a small town for a week, the resulting camel dung can be a mountainous problem for most people...or a solution for a few.
- In the Jaintia Hills of northeast India, a young boy descends everyday into the 'rathole' coalmines. He works in these hard and dangerous conditions, so he can support his family. But in the dark he dreams of digging to the 'other end of the world'. He cherishes the hope of a better life. Even the darkest tunnel is no limit to the boy's imagination and courage. But does the boy's dreams carry a burden too immense to overcome? Are the inequities of the world too vast for the boy's hope to become reality?