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  Belfast Girls  
Belfast Girls
A film by Malin Andersson | Sweden | 2006 | 52' | 58'
Produced by WG Film
  Teenage girls Mairéad Mc Ilkenny (Catholic) and Christine Savage (Protestant) are growing up in post-war Belfast, in the same city but cut off from each other by high 'peacewalls' to keep the two communities apart creating divisions as brutal as ever, nearly a decade into the peace process. The legacy to the young generation is clear: You don't mix! But this year their lives will take turns they never in their wildest dreams could imagine...






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  Black wave : The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez  
Black wave : The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
A film by Robert Cornellier | Canada | 2008 | 99' | 52'
Produced by Robert Cornellier and Paul Carvalho
  On March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez super-tanker runs aground in Alaska and becomes the biggest environmental catastrophe in North American history. For twenty years Riki Ott and the fishermen of the little town of Cordova, Alaska have waged the longest legal battle in U.S. history against the world's most powerful oil company - Exxon Mobil.








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  BREAKING THE SILENCE  
BREAKING THE SILENCE
A film by Hélène Magny and Pierre Mignault | Canada | 2010 | 75' | 52'
  New
  The Burmese Junta in power since 1962, has promised elections in 2010. This new documentary, clandestinely shot in regions where few foreigners have dared to venture, looks at one of Burma's most dangerous zones (the Karen region) and meets
people hiding in the jungle in order to resist forced relocation by the military regime, disclosing the secret networks of militants fighting along the Thai border, inside and outside Burma.

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  Crimes of Honour  
Crimes of Honour
A film by Shelley Saywell | Canada | 2001 | 44'
Produced by Bishari Films
  Throughout the Islamic world, each year 100's of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they have "dishonored" their families. Losing their virginity, the refusal of an arranged marriage, leaving an abusive husband, or even if a woman is raped, she risks to pay the price as any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. Crimes of Honor documents the terrible reality of "honor killings".
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  Diamond Road  
Diamond Road
A film by Nisha Pahuja | Canada | 2007 | 96' | 3hrs'
Produced by Robert Lang
Produced with TVOntario, Knowledge Network, Discovery Times (USA), Discovery HD Theatre
  A fascinating three-part series looking into the meanings diamonds have for all those part of the diamond pipeline - an international prospector, impoverished miner, child cutter, celebrity jeweler, high-end dealer.


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  Hans Joachim Klein, My Life as a Terrorist  
Hans Joachim Klein, My Life as a Terrorist
A film by Alexander Oey | Netherlands | 2005 | 70' | 58'
Produced by Submarine
  On December 21, 1975, six terrorists led by Carlos 'The Jackal' forced their way into OPEC headquarters in Vienna and took seventy ministers hostage. After a gun battle, three people killed and one terrorist seriously wounded, the terrorists managed to escape to Algiers. The wounded terrorist was HANS-JOACHIM KLEIN. For the first time he retraces his steps and tells his life story.
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  Letters to the president  
Letters to the president
A film by Petr Lom | Canada | 2008 | 52'
Produced by Petr Lom
  Petr Lom was allowed to follow Iran President Ahmadinejad on his trips around rural Iran where he preaches his domestic populism and anti-US foreign policy. As part of his strategy, Ahmadinejad has set up a Presidential Letter writing center that pretends to solve the many personal problems of ordinary Iranians. The center has received more than 10 million letters.


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  My Country, My Country  
My Country, My Country
A film by Laura Poitras | USA | 2006 | 90'
Produced by Praxis Films
Awards
  MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY follows the story of Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate in Iraq's January 2005 elections. As Election Day approaches, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY reveals the agonizing predicament and gradual descent of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the US occupation of Iraq and its project to implement democracy in the Middle East.




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  No Past to Speak Of  
No Past to Speak Of
A film by Jeremy Gans | Canada | 2006 | 56'
Produced by Minute:Thirty Productions
Awards
  We follow the story a five-month-old baby girl brutally raped in a Johannesburg slum and Claudia Ford, who adopted her and is faced with the immense task of undoing Vyanna's past and introducing love and stability to a life. Through interviews with leading academics, researchers, activists and social commentators, the documentary also critically examines why infant rape occurs so often in South Africa.
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  Our Brand is Crisis  
Our Brand is Crisis
A film by Rachel Boynton | USA | 2003 | 86' | 57'
Produced by Boynton Films
Awards
  The story of the rise and fall of the last President of Bolivia, focusing on his American political spin doctors. Clinton's and John Kerry's consultants - the Greenberg Carville Shrum team -, get him elected, counsel him through riots, and ultimately cannot save him from being violently overthrown by the population frustrated by globalisation and fed up with poverty.
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  PAX AMERICANA and the Weaponization of Space  
PAX AMERICANA and the Weaponization of Space
A film by Denis Delestrac | France-Canada | 2009 | 90' | 55'
  New
  In a language tinted with irony and peppered with shocking facts, the film examines the origins and reality and future of the militarization of space and opens a debate that until now has been reserved for the specialists, some of whom maintain that the arms race in space can only lead to apocalypse.





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  Satellite Queens  
Satellite Queens
A film by Bregtje van der Haak | Netherlands | 2007 | 52'
Produced by Submarine
Produced with VPRO
  Lebanese Rania, Egyptian Fawzia, Palestinian Farah and Saudi Muna run a popular womens TV talk show Kalam Nawaem ('Women Talk'), bringing provoking debate into millions of Arab living rooms.
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  Seoul Train  
Seoul Train
A film by Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth and Aaron Lubarsky | USA | 2005 | 54'
Produced by Incite Productions
Awards
  With its riveting footage of a secretive underground railroad, SEOUL TRAIN documents the lives and deaths of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland via China. It exposes this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis that sits on top of the complex geopolitics around North Korea, a crisis that threatens to undermine the stability of East Asian peace.live death in television history.
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  The Battle for our Minds  
The Battle for our Minds
A film by Monika Halkort | Germany | 2004 | 58'
Produced by Zero Films
  Computer and Videogames have become dominant forces in today's popular culture. Sales figures outperform the movie box office worldwide. But what is the social and cultural impact of these games on the players and our society? Using the microcosm of game fans in the USA and Korea and game developers working for Microsoft as a magnifying glass to reflect upon the broad social, moral and political impact of this new medium the film explores to what extent these games have impacted individuals identities and lives today.
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  The Brooklyn Connection  
The Brooklyn Connection
A film by Klaartje Quirijns | USA | 2004 | 52'
Produced by Amago Films
Awards
  How are guerrilla armies formed? Where do they get their money? And how do they get their weapons? One of the driving forces behind Kosovo' s fight for independence: Florin Krasniqi takes us "shopping for weapons " on the open and legal market in the United States.
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  The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt  
The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
A film by Victoria Bruce & Karin Hayes | USA | 2003 | 74' | 56'
Produced by Urcunina Films LLC
  On May 26, 2002, filmmakers Hayes and Bruce were in Colombia to document the campaign of controversial presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt. But on Election Day, Ingrid never arrived. Earlier that morning, Ingrid was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is her story and her family's desperate quest to free her and keep her campaign alive Ingrid Betancourt is still captive and there has been no news from since years.
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  The Nuclear Comeback  
The Nuclear Comeback
A film by Justin Pemberton | New Zealand | 2007 | 58'
Produced by Megan Jones and Justin Pemberton
  In a world living in fear of climate change, the nuclear industry has put its hand up as the solution. It claims that nuclear power produces zero carbon emission and that it is clean. But is it that simple?
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  The Ungrateful Dead  
The Ungrateful Dead
A film by Judy Jackson | Canada | 2006 | 58'
Produced by Judy Films
  We trace the evolution of international law and justice from the tribunals of the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, through the arrest of General Pinochet in London, to the opening of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This film also looks at the US, who opposes the new court, and visits Iraq, Kosovo, Northern Uganda, and Darfur. As the perpetrators of unspeakable war crimes largely operate with impunity we are charting a path to international justice.




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  WEAPON OF WAR  
WEAPON OF WAR
A film by Femke and Ilse van Velzen | Netherlands | 2009 | 59'
  New
  Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. In the Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In this unique film military perpetrators unveil the hidden motives and strategies of rape as a war crime. Filled with trauma, an ex-rebel rapist attempts to reconcile with his past, by meeting one of his victims. Captain Basima is working as an army priest and confronts soldier/rapists. He urges them to change. Just like he did.

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