A GOOD MAN A film by Safina Uberoi | Australia | 2009 | 79' | 55'
			Chris Rohrlach is not your typical Australian sheep farmer. Willing to try anything to make the money needed to keep his quadriplegic wife of 14 years, Rachel, out of long-term hospital care, he decides to open a countryside brothel.

			A PLACE WITHOUT PEOPLE A film by Andreas Apostolides | Greece | 2009 | 55'
			When the world's most famous East African nature reserves were created in the 50's and 60's, few people know that the indigenous people, who had lived there in harmony with nature for 3000 years, were evicted from these areas. Still today governments, the tourist industry and conservation organizations advance the idea that the native Africans are intruders into what was once their own pristine wilderness.

			A promise to the dead A film by Peter Raymont | Canada | 2007 | 90' Produced by Peter Raymont Produced with ITVS/HUMAN/BBC FOUR/SVT Sweden/SBS TV Australia
			An exploration of exile, memory, longing and democracy, as seen through the eyes and life experiences of writer, Ariel Dorfman ( "Death and the Maiden") Born in Argentina, growing up in New York and then Chile, Dorfman became cultural advisor to Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende. When the Allende government fell in the military coup of September 11, 1973, Dorfman had to make the most crucial decision in his life. Later he was told that his life was spared because "someone had to live to tell the story".

			A SEA CHANGE A film by Barbara Ettinger | USA | 2009 | 83' | 55'
			A shocking story that draws attention to a very urgent but little-known crisis. Top scientists warn that a catastrophe may in fact play out in coming generations unless widespread awareness is raised to stop acidification of the world's oceans. Imagine a world without fish.

			Addicted to Plastic A film by Ian Connacher | Canada | 2007 | 52' Produced by Cryptic Moth Productions Inc.
			For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there's so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up.

			American Fugitive A film by Jean-Daniel Lafond | Canada | 2006 | 75' | 52' Produced by InformAction Films
			Revealed to the world in the highly acclaimed 2001 Iranian movie Kandahar, David Theodore Belfield - the film's African American "doctor" - is in fact wanted in the U.S. for the 1980 killing of an Iranian diplomat, and now lives in exile in Iran. The story of an unrepentant assassin and an articulate accuser, AMERICAN FUGITVE explores a web of international intrigue and state-sponsored violence.

			An Ordinary Family A film by Fredrik Gertten | Sweden | 2005 | 58' Produced by WG Film
			What would you do if you woke up one morning and all your savings had vanished? Argentina went bankrupt in a very short time. Before, the Borroni family's future was bright: He managed an oil company, she studied medicine, the children attended private schools, great house, new car, credit cards etc. But one day it was all over. We follow the Borroni's during 3 years and see how they managed to put their lives back together again.

			ANOTHER PERFECT WORLD A film by Jorien van Nes and Femke Wolting | Netherlands | 2009 | 70' | 55'
			The utopias of the future will be created online, in digital worlds capable of rendering photo-realistic depictions of whatever the mind can imagine with technologies that allow people from around the world to join in. We now have the chance to build new worlds from scratch. If you were going to do so, on which principles would you establish it?

			Beyond the game A film by Jos de Putter | Netherlands | 2008 | 76' Produced by DIEPTESCHERPTE BV Produced with HUMANIST BROADCASTING CORPORATION
			What moves the Warcraft generation? Behind the scenes and into the minds of the world's most famous Warcraft players.

			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.

			BREAKING THE SILENCE A film by Hélène Magny and Pierre Mignault | Canada | 2010 | 75' | 52'
			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.

			Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan A film by Petr Lom | USA | 2004 | 50' Produced by Petr Lom Productions
			When a Kyrgyz man decides to marry, he often abducts the woman he has chosen. Typically, he takes several friends, hires a car, stakes out his bride-to-be's movements, and snatches her off the street. This first film ever to document the ancient custom of bride-kidnapping which is a common way of marrying in Kyrgyzstan, follows the dramatic stories of four of these non-consensual kidnappings.

			Celebration A film by Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens | Netherlands | 2005 | 55' Produced by Submarine
			Celebration is the town that Disney built in 1995. A real town with real people that takes you back to a safer place where neighbours greeted neighbours. 350 people became the pioneers. Nowadays it is the home of 8000 residents. The film shows six couples in search of utopia. Walt Disney always said that dreams can come true. Is Celebration a dream come true in a world gone wrong?

			China Blue A film by Micha X. Peled | USA | 2005 | 87' | 53' Produced by Teddy Bear Films
			CHINA BLUE takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don't want us to see how the clothes we buy are actually made.

			China's Sexual Revolution A film by Miro Cernetig & Josh Freed | Canada | 2007 | 52' Produced by Arnie Gelbart/ GalaFilm
			Chinese society is going through massive social changes, from 60's style "free love" to spiraling street prostitution and a new female power, driven by a shortage of 30 million wives. This is China's sexual revolution- filmed undercover. A China as you have never imagined it.

			Cola Conquest A film by Irene Angelico | Canada | 1998 | 3x50' Produced by DLI Productions
			This is the story of Coca-Cola - the "sublimated essence" of all that American stands for - and its century-long competition with its rival, Pepsi-Cola. Challenging, irreverent, serious and funny by turns, we explore the delicious paradox at the heart of Coke: How did an innocuous soft drink, more than 99% sweetened water, come to wield such enormous economic and marketing power? What does it say to us about who we are and what we are becoming?

			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".

			Devil's Bargain A film by Shelley Saywell | Canada | 2008 | 58' | 80'
			Devil's Bargain examines the proliferation of small arms, which kill more than 500,000 people a year worldwide and destabilize entire regions. From the gun markets of Somalia to the Security Council countries selling their wares during commercial trade-shows in Paris. Devil's Bargain examines the ways in which the guns slip from legal to illegal markets via the so-called Grey Zones. When 200,000 AK47's missing from Bosnia stockpiles flown on illegal flights into the netherworld, activists try to push initiatives to the UN. But the call for a treaty similar to the Land Mines Treaty is blocked and- loopholes "large enough for Antonov-12s to fly through" continue to destabilize our world.

			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.

			El olvido (Oblivion) A film by Heddy Honigmann | Netherlands | 2008 | 58' | 93' Produced by Cobos Films Produced with IKON & ZDF-ARTE
			Heddy Honigmann's long awaited return to Peru in a film about poverty and poetry in a country plundered by the powerful. But also a film where the powerless resist being consigned to oblivion ( Awarded Silver Dove/ Fipresci Prize and Oecumenical Award at Leipzig 2008)

			Flying On One Engine A film by Joshua Weinstein | USA/INDIA | 2008 | 52'
			Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives to travel to India to perform free operations. In contrary to the life in his Brooklyn apartment, in India the eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god. FLYING ON ONE ENGINE shows how this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character overcomes his own ailments by helping others.

			Forever A film by Heddy Honigmann | Netherlands | 2006 | 95' | 57' Produced by Carmen Cobos Produced with NPS Television,YLE Teema Finland, TV Estonia, SBS Australia and SVT Sweden
			Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art and a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

			Forgetting dad A film by Rick Minnich and Matt Sweetwood | Germany/USA | 2008 | 83' Produced by Olaf Jacobs Produced with ZDF
			After a seemingly harmless car accident, a 46-year-old man suffers total amnesia. Sixteen years later, his filmmaker son investigates why his father's memory never returned.

			Full Battle Rattle A film by Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss | USA | 2008 | 94'
			FULL BATTLE RATTLE is the story of a real war and a fake town. In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "movie-set like, Iraqi, small town" - a billion dollar setting for urban warfare simulation - and with hundreds of exiled Iraqis living in the US as role-players.

			GARBAGE DREAMS A film by Mai Iskander | USA | 2009 | 84' | 55'
			The story of three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic for "garbage people." Far ahead of any modern "Green" initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect.

			GOOGLE BABY A film by Zippi Brand Frank | Israel | 2009
			A dramatic journey across three continents telling the story of the up and coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. Israeli entrepreneur Doron proposes a new service - Baby production- providing customers with a cost effective solution using outsourcing of the surrogacy element to India as way to lower prices. The customers arrive only at the end of the nine month pregnancy period to pick up their babies. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 <strong>World Premiere Docaviv 2009 - Best film award</strong>

			Huxley on huxley A film by Mary Anne Braubach | USA | 2008 | 58' Produced by Jonathan Dana
			Italian born Laura Huxley, a teenage violin virtuoso, left the concert stage to become a renowned psychotherapist and author. In 1956 Laura married Aldous Huxley, literary giant and prophet of the 20th century. Huxley wrote BRAVE NEW WORLD in 1933. Laura and Aldous maintained a compelling personal and professional union until his death in 1963. Laura Huxley continued writing and giving seminars until her death in 2007 at the age of 96. Laura Huxley's candid recollections offer a compelling glimpse of her life with Aldous.

			I BOUGHT A RAINFOREST A film by Jacob Andren & Helena Nygren | Sweden | 2010 | 58'
			Jacob Andrén, an ordinary kid going to school in the 80's, was, as at many schools in the western world, involved in fundraising actions to "save the rainforest" Their teachers urged them to help by "buying a tree". Now a grown up young man he is wondering about what happened to all those trees that he and his classmates bought with the money they made by selling stuff on the flea market. He remembers getting a certificate, but that was 20 years ago. Jacob decides to buy a plane ticket to try to find his tree and to find out if their effort did make a difference.

			Inside the Great Magazines A film by Irene Angelico and Abbey Neidik | Canada | 2007 | 3 x 52' Produced by Abbey Neidik and Irene Angelico for DLI productions Produced with Global Television (Canada), Téléquébec (Québec), and TFO-TVO (Ontario).
			From the established players like Vanity Fair, Playboy, Time, to young upstarts like Wallpaper* and Shift, Inside the Great Magazines is a behind-the-gloss look at our favourite magazines. We watch them being created, enjoy their glamour, and weigh-in the price we pay for reading them. The series will reveal the stress and creativity, conflicts and brilliance of the people who make these magazines so appealing to billions of readers worldwide.

			INTO ETERNITY A film by Michael Madsen | Denmark | 2010 | 75' | 58'
			Every day large amounts of high-level radioactive waste are placed in interim storage, vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters or changes in society. In Finland, the world's first permanent repository is being cut out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last the entire period the waste remains hazardous: 100,000 years.

			Jimmy Carter A film by Jonathan Demme | USA | 2007 | 120' Produced by Participant Productions, Clinica Estetico Productions
			Director Jonathan Demme's documentary following President Jimmy Carter on his recent promotional tour in support of his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."

			John F.Kennedy A film by Robert Drew | USA | 2008 | 85' Produced by Anne Drew
			When John F. Kennedy launched his bid for the presidency, Robert Drew was there, always a step behind him, catching history on camera as it happened. In the years that followed, Kennedy continued to allow Drew and his team unprecedented access-to his office, to the members of his administration, and to his high level briefings on such signal matters as nuclear disarmament and civil rights. Though much of that footage has been seen before, this new, tightly edited documentary composed from the Drew archives provides a timely "view of a President widely respected by his fellow countrymen and celebrated across the world."

			Jump! A film by Dan Emery, Mathieu Wacowich and Jon Deitcher | Canada | 2008 | 52' Produced by Endorphin Films
			Jaume Marquet is an eccentric outsider striving to become famous by streaking in front of the cameras at major televised sporting events under his alter ego "Jimmy Jump". "Jump! follows Jimmy's journey from Barcelona to Madrid where he will attempt to streak at the largest football match in Spain - "El Classico" live in front of 80,000 spectators and 100 million people watching worldwide. But if Jimmy wants to be the best, he has to compete with a handful of streakers who are all competing for the same crown, and his journey to Madrid will open the doors into the eccentric world of professional sports streaking.

			Keep the River on your Right A film by Laurie Gwen Shapiro & David Shapiro | USA | 2000 | 93' Produced by Lifer Films
			In 1955 Tobias Schneebaum began a journey that brought him to the edge of "civilization" in Peru. With only the scant directions "keep the river on your right," Schneebaum sought out a remote mission and the Amarakaire Indians, rumored to be cannibals. When Schneebaum reemerged from the jungle a year later, naked and covered in body paint, the public was shocked to learn via TV talk shows that he had participated in local tribal war, complete with killing and cannibalism . . .

			Kidnapped! A film by Melissa Kyu-Jung Lee | Australia | 2005 | 52' Produced by Eight Gauge Productions
			From early 1970 to the mid-80s, ordinary Japanese citizens disappeared without a trace. KIDNAPPED! tells the extraordinary story of 3 families' dramatic 25-year struggle in search for the truth. In 2002 it was finally revealed that their family members, had been abducted by North Korean spies in a sinister plot of espionage! This is one the most controversial issues in Japan today and unveils a tangled web of political manoeuvrings and international espionage.

			KZ A film by Rex Bloomstein | England | 2005 | 98' Produced by Rex Entertainment
			When the story and images of the unspeakable have been heard and shown a thousand times, where do you go from there? Mauthausen today: How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp? How does it feel to work here as a guide? How does it feel to live here as a local? And what of those who've chosen this town to be their new home?

			La Corona A film by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega | USA | 2008 | 40' Produced by Sheila Nevins/HBO
			The contestants are murderers, guerillas and thieves. The winner will be crowned Queen, but she won't be invited on a press tour as a role model for young girls. Instead, she will be escorted back to her cell. LA CORONA (THE CROWN) is a one-hour documentary that follows four inmates competing for the crown in the annual beauty pageant of the Bogotá Women's Prison.

			La Sierra A film by Scott Dalton & Margarita Martinez | USA | 2005 | 84' | 53' Produced by Andrew Blackwell
			LA SIERRA, a small neighbourhood in Medellin, Colombia, is ruled by a gang of young men, mostly teenagers, affiliated with Colombia's illegal paramilitary armies. Over the course of a year, the documentary follows the lives of three young people and their experiences of war, death, and love.

			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.

			Long Nights Journey into Day A film by Deborah Hoffmann & Frances Reid | USA | 2000 | 94' | 80' | 54' Produced by Iris Films
			For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. As it emerges from its tragedy, this deeply moving OSCAR NOMINATED film shows a South Africa to the rest of the world that proves that even the most bitter of conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication.

			LOVE INTERRUPTED A film by Alison Armstrong and Giselle Portenier | Canada | 2009 | 50'
			Amazing and deeply moving stories of first loves who were separated in youth, lost all contact with each other and eventually managed to reunite decades later. Two couples who were torn apart by class, religion, parents and geography, tell us their stories of how they met, why they broke up and most importantly, what drew them back together.

			MINE: KATRINA'S ORPHANED ANIMALS A film by Geralyn Pezanoski | USA | 2009 | 80' | 55'
			A powerful story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop and aftermath of the Katrina disaster, when thousands of pets, forcefully left behind, were transported around the country and adopted even when their displaced owners still desperately were looking for them. When two families love the same pet, conflicts inevitably arise over who is the rightful "owner" and what is right for the animal.

			Music from the inside out A film by Daniel Anker | USA | 2006 | 90'
			MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT is a cinematic exploration of music through the stories and artistry of the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The film follows these musicians as they explore what music means in their lives, both inside and outside the concert hall. The resulting stories-of passion, struggle, perseverance and transcendence-serve to illuminate the role of music in all of our lives.

			My Country, My Country A film by Laura Poitras | USA | 2006 | 90' Produced by Praxis Films
			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.

			No Past to Speak Of A film by Jeremy Gans | Canada | 2006 | 56' Produced by Minute:Thirty Productions
			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.

			On a Tightrope A film by Petr Lom | Norway, Canada | 2006 | 70' | 58' Produced by Piraya Film & Lom Films Produced with Channel 4 UK, CBC Canada, HOS Netherlands, NRK Norway, SBS Australia
			This film is about four children living in an orphanage in Xinjiang province, China. The children are Uighurs, China's largest Muslim minority, numbering eight million in Xinjiang. They are learning the ancient Uighur art of tightrope walking. The film follows their dreams, failures, and successes over a year and a half. And it documents - for the first time ever - the official Chinese policy of religious repression in Xinjiang.

			Operation Filmmaker A film by Nina Davenport | USA | 2007 | 92' Produced by Nina Davenport
			When the dreams of a young and charismatic Iraqi film student Muthana are crushed following the bombing of Baghdad's film school, a brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes his life forever. Seeing the clip, actor Liev Schreiber, feeling guilty about a war he opposes decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to intern on his new feature film. But in a comedic turn of events, Schreiber's good intentions quickly backfire as the eager student proves to have intentions of his own.

			Our Brand is Crisis A film by Rachel Boynton | USA | 2003 | 86' | 57' Produced by Boynton Films
			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.

			PETS ON PROZAC A film by Patrick Reed | Canada | 2009 | 58'
			People now commonly see their pets as part of the family. Pet spas offer "paw-dicures"; celebrity chefs dish up treats at pet delis; and everything from braces to stem cell transplants to heart surgery is now available for your pet....assuming you can afford it. The newest trend is the most controversial and revealing: psycho-active drugs for dogs and cats.

			PRESUMED GUILTY A film by Roberto Hernandez & Geoffrey Smith | Mexico | 2009 | 85'
			Wrestling with an unhappy love affair, José Antonio Zuñiga pleaded: "God, please kill me or put me in jail" . A week later, a boy points him out from a police car, Tonio gets arrested then charged with murder. A judge who never heard him speak sentenced him to twenty years on the testimony of a single, shaky, eyewitness. Two unlikely filmmakers, Mexican lawyers, recruited by Tonio's friends, start to follow him with a camera in what seemed a hopeless 3 year quest to get the case re-tried.

			Procedure 769 A film by Jaap van Hoewijk & Rikkert Boonstra | Netherlands | 1995 | 80' Produced by Lava Film
			Robert Alton Harris finally walked to his execution in San Quentin on April 21st 1992 for murders he committed back in 1978. PROCEDURE 769 (which is the administrative name for the death penalty) makes a major contribution to the topical issue of the death penalty by telling the story through the voices of the variety of the people who were the witnesses to his execution.

			Pulling John A film by Vassiliki Khonsari | USA | 2008 | 58' | 70'
			PULLING JOHN, a cinema-verite documentary filmed for four years in Japan, Canada, Russia, Poland, The Ukraine, and USA witnesses the spectacular and mythical world of Arm-wrestling; where 2 titans battle in pursuit of a living god.

			Salesman A film by Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin | USA | 1968 | 91' Produced by Maysles Films
			Classic Maysles documentary SALESMAN follows door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair. From Boston, where the company is based, then onto Chicago at a sales conference, and finally in the promising new "territory" of Miami, their mission is simple: to convince people to buy what one of them calls "still the best seller in the world." But although their customers are mostly middle- and worker-class Catholics even recommended by the local church, the Bible turns out to be a hard sell.

			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.

			Scottsboro A film by Daniel Anker & Barak Goodman | USA | 2000 | 84' Produced by Social Media Productions
			Powerful Oscar nominated documentary about when fate places people in the wrong place at the wrong time and when fear and suspicion fuel injustice. The once-famous case of the nine Scottsboro Boys is the tale of such a dramatic miscarriage of justice that started in the early 1930s: nine poor young black men, charges of white rape, a fancy New York Jewish defense lawyer, an all-white Alabama jury, sentences of death culminating in a dogged international (Communist inspired) campaign to free the "Scottsboro Boys".

			Seoul Train A film by Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth and Aaron Lubarsky | USA | 2005 | 54' Produced by Incite Productions
			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.

			Shadow of The Holy Book A film by Arto Halonen and Kevin Frazier | Finland | 2007 | 52' | 90' Produced by Art Films production AFP Ltd Produced with ITVS International /YLE TV2 Documentaries /TV 2 Danmark /Schweizer Fernsehen
			SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK investigates the morality of international companies and the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan. The companies support the dictatorships absurd propaganda book Ruhnama and help hide human rights and free speech abuses - all in the name of corporate greed.

			Shake Hands With The Devil A film by Peter Raymont | Canada | 2004 | 91' | 56' Produced by White Pine Pictures
			The memories of the extreme violence and his sense of guilt haunt him to this day. This is the emotional journey back to Rwanda of Canadian Lt-General Roméo Dallaire, who commanded the U.N. peacekeeping mission in 1994 during the infamous genocide during which moreas than 800.000 Rwandans were slaughtered, which he was powerless to stop.

			Shape of the Moon A film by Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands | 2004 | 92' | 58' Produced by Scarabee Films
			A cinematic journey into the every-day life of the Sjamsuddin family. We follow widow Rumidja, a Christian woman who prays regularly with her grand-daughter, her son Bakti who refuses to participate in Muslim traditions until he decides to marry a Muslim woman and must convert. They live in the outskirts of Jakarta,Indonesia, the largest Islamic community on the globe, in the middle of the growing social chaos and escalating Muslim fundamentalism.

			Smiling in a Warzone A film by Simone Aaberg Kaerns & Magnus Bejmar | Denmark | 2005 | 77' | 58' Produced by Cosmo Doc ApS
			One day, Danish artist and pilot Simone buys a little canvas plane. After 50 hours in the air, 33 landings, flying illegally into Afghanistan, Simone finally reaches Kabul after 6000 km, finds 16 year old Afghan girl Fayral to make her dreams of flying come true and lands into the harsh reality of being a woman in a 1000-year old Afghan family clan-society.

			SOUNDS LIKE A REVOLUTION A film by Summer Preney and Jane Michener | Canada | 2010 | 58'
			Sounds Like a Revolution is pro-active and energizing documentary about a new generation of activist musicians who are living proof that music is an important and powerful tool in the ongoing struggle for social change. From the Dixie Chicks to Paris, Michael Franti and Anti-Flag, artists across the musical spectrum discuss their motivations and struggles in a post-9/11 environment when dissent was silenced and media outlets either ignored them or forced them into self-censorship before their material was released. Now with the decade gone, the Internet and Obama bring new hope.....

			SPACE TOURISTS A film by Christian Frei | Switzerland | 2009 | 95'
			Very topical and first time ever, humorous and laconic view of the way billionaires depart our planet earth to travel into outer space for fun. With extra-ordinary access and never before seen images the film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and questions the meaning and boundaries of the human spirit and our hunger for adventure and discovery.

			Spam: The Documentary A film by David Manning | Canada | 2007 | 47' Produced by Scott Dobson Produced with CBC Newsworld, Court TV USA., Knowledge Network, Canal D, YLE, SBS Australia.
			SPAM: THE DOCUMENTARY is a humorous and insightful look into the global culture of spam - one of the 20th century's most annoying and harmful inventions, a "pest" that touches us all.

			STEAM OF LIFE A film by Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen | Finland | 2010 | 84'
			Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart about love, death, birth and friendship; about life. In the warmth of rusty stoves they cleanse themselves both physically and mentally in an exceptionally intimate and poetic film with a deeply emotional and unforgettable finale.

			The aga khan A film by Jane Chablani | Canada | 2008 | 50' Produced by Andrea Nemtin
			Filmed in his Golden Jubilee year, the documentary tells the story of the Aga Khan and the sect he leads, the Shi'a Muslim Ismailis. The film includes a rare and excusive interview with the Aga Khan.

			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.

			The caviar connection A film by Dragan Nocilic | Serbia | 2008 | 58'
			Pa Drnda was the only Danube King of Caviar. When Drnda had to retire due to illness, his sons, the Rats brothers moved to live by the river, trying to reach their father's golden moments. While the Rats are dreaming of a big catch and easy earnings time is passing and rules are changing. It will take them to their new life.

			The Champagne Spy A film by Nadav Schirman | Israel/Germany | 2007 | 91' Produced with Israeli Channel 10, NRW, ZDF/ARTE
			Striking documentary exploring the double life of a undercover Mossad agent in Egypt who poses as an ex-Nazi German millionaire and horse breeder.

			The Education of Shelby Knox A film by Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt | USA | 2004 | 83' | 52' Produced by InCite Pictures/Cine Qua Non
			Meet teenager Shelby Knox who sees it as the duty to join a youth group on a campaign for better sex education in Lubbock high schools, where the county's teen pregnancy and STD rates top the chart. Swept into the fight, she starts to question her deeply conservative Southern Baptist upbringing.

			The Fine Art of Whistling A film by Kate Davis & David Heilbroner | USA | 2005 | 58' | 78' Produced by Q-Ball Productions
			This joyful film follows a wildly diverse crew of passionate whistlers including a turkey hauler, an investment banker and a Dutch social worker, competing in the Louisburg, NC 31st International Whistling Competition in the hopes of becoming the worlds best whistler.

			The Giant Buddhas A film by Christian Frei | Switzerland | 2005 | 95' Produced by Christian Frei Filmproductions
			In 2001, the Taliban in Afghanistan issued an edict that all non-Islamic statues be destroyed: The 53 meters high, world famous Bamiyan Buddha's, were blown to bits. International outrage ensued and the hypocrisy of it is one of the subjects of Christian Frei's (Oscar Nomination for WAR PHOTOGRAPHER) beautiful inquiry, a mesmerizing essay about terrorism and tolerance, ignorance and identity, fanaticism and faith.

			The Last Victory A film by John Appel | Netherlands | 2003 | 85' | 57' Produced by Cobos Films Bv
			A film about the passionate struggle of a small Italian community in Siena to win the town's annual event: Il Palio. The honour and respect of the neighbourhood are at stake, as they have not won for years. THE LAST VICTORY tells the moving story of their hopes, their personal convictions and their craving for good fortune.

			THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA A film by Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith | USA | 2009 | 90'
			1971: America is embroiled in a dirty war based on lies and deceit. A president is abusing the power of his office, ignoring the will of the people, congress and the courts. One man, Daniel Ellsberg, at the center of power leaks the truth about the Vietnam war to the New York Times. Henry Kissinger called him, "the most dangerous man in America" And 3 decades later, he's still at it. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009

			The Pool A film by Mirjam Boelsums & Lony Scharenborg | Netherlands | 2000 | 43' Produced by Lava Film
			An exceptional and poetic documentary about an ordinary day in an extraordinary swimming pool. Every hour, the category of swimmers changes. The day starts with young, pregnant women, quietly floating and contemplating the miracle inside their bellies. Then young parents and with their children. Later, it is the hour for gays and lesbians. At the end of the day, it is the elderly people's turn, thus reflecting the full cycle of life.

			THE RAINBOW WARRIORS OF WAIHEKE ISLAND A film by Susanne Raes | Netherlands | 2010 | 90' | 58'
			A group of Greenpeace pioneers looks back on their activists' life. Once the crew of the famous ship Rainbow Warrior bombed by French agents in 1985, now they are living together on Waiheke Island in New Zealand. Age causes them to make up the balance: have their ideals proven to be tenable, and what has their activist past achieved for the world and for themselves?

			The Real Dirt on Farmer John A film by Taggart Siegel | USA | 2005 | 82' | 59' Produced by The Collective Eye
			The epic tale of John Peterson, farmer, artist, and revolutionary innovative thinker from rural Illinois. An outcast in his community, he bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumours, and violence. Through 20 years of personal interviews and 50 years of beautifully textured footage, we share Farmer John's odyssey, turning his traditional family farm into a revolutionary organic agriculture farming community where people and art can thrive alongside organic agriculture.

			The real shaolin A film by Alexander Sebastien Lee | USA/CHINA | 2008 | 89'
			THE REAL SHAOLIN is a moving, poetic and action-packed documentary feature about two Chinese and two Westerners who journey to the Shaolin Temple in China, inspired by Jet Lis Kung Fu movie The Shaolin Temple.

			The reckoning A film by Pamela Yates | USA | 2009 | 95' | 58' Produced by Paco de Onis & Peter Kinoy
			Festivals: Sundance US Documentary Competition 2009 A David & Goliath battle of titanic proportions unfolds as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo faces down warlords, genocidal dictators and world superpowers in his struggle to tame the Wild West of global conflict zones and bring perpetrators of crimes against humanity to justice.

			The tiger next door A film by Camilla Calamandrei | USA | 2009 | 58' | 80' Produced by Rolling River Films Produced with Animal Planet (USA)
			As populations of tigers in the wilds of Asia and India dwindle dangerously close to extinction, thousands of highly inbred American tigers are being kept and bred by private individuals in the United States. This one-hour, character driven documentary follows the story of one man who has been keeping, breeding, and selling Bengal tigers from his backyard for over fifteen years.

			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.

			THE WAY WE GET BY A film by Aron Gaudet | USA | 2009 | 85'
			Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about "troop greeters" - a group of senior citizens who gather day and night at Bangor airport, Maine to thank American soldiers departing for war and greet them when they come back from Afghanistan and Iraq ( and hand them cell phones to call their loves ones!) the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. A deeply moving film about life and how to live it.

			Thin Ice A film by Hakan Berthas | Sweden | 2006 | 57' Produced by WG Film
			Dolkar, a young Buddhist woman from Ladakh in the Himalayas wants to play ice hockey. With her Buddhist friends she joins the Kargil Muslim Team and get equipment and coaching. Together they fight with the men in charge of the regional Ice Hockey competition who do not want them to skate. Dolkar becomes the girls' leader. After chaos, injustice, boycott and wild protests, the girls can finally skate the last hard match for the bronze medal and they win!

			WEAPON OF WAR A film by Femke and Ilse van Velzen | Netherlands | 2009 | 59'
			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.