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Films Featured
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Alison Klayman
2012
In this unprecedented look at Ai Weiwei and those close to him, filmmaker Alison Klayman captures the artist's forthright and unequivocal stance against China's oppression, painting a picture of the artist as an individual and as a powerful voice for human rights. |
Beth and George Gage
2012
Bidder 70 tells the story of Tim DeChristopher and his stunning act of civil disobedience in a time of global climate chaos. |
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Micha X. Peled
2012
Manjusha Amberwar, a young journalist, examines the causes of an epidemic of farmer suicides in India—one every 30 minutes—that includes her own father. She hopes that by drawing attention to their plight, she can bring an end to this tragedy. But it won't be easy. |
Annie Goldson
2011
Through New Zealander Rob Hamill's story of his brother's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Brother Number One explores how the regime and its followers killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. |
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Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall
2012
Veteran Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato insists: "if we keep on hiding, they will say we are not here." With unprecedented access, Call Me Kuchu examines the astounding courage and determination required to battle an oppressive government, a vicious media and a powerful church in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. |
Maggie Peren
2011
In Color of the Ocean, filmmaker Maggie Peren presents a story in which the journey of two refugees collides with the paths of an altruistic tourist and a Canary Island cop. The experience they share will change the course of all their lives. |
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Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke
2012
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can the United States save its badly broken healthcare system? |
Susan Youssef
2011
“We have a right to love… We have a right to be happy even if people around us go hungry and are dying. To lose these things would be to completely give in to the occupation. — Layla, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories |
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Directed by Kirby Dick, Produced by Amy Ziering
2011
The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the shameful and underreported epidemic of rape within the US military. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, The Invisible War exposes the rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences. |
Lieven Corthouts
2011
Lydia is at a turning point in her life. We experience life through Lydia's expressive face and reflective diary entries, her daily routines at the Little Heaven orphanage for children living with HIV, her conversations with other children there, her doctors' appointments, and her exercise, study, and prayer. |
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Bernardo Ruiz
2011
Reportero follows veteran reporter Sergio Haro and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana, Mexico-based weekly, as they dauntingly ply their trade in what has become one of the most deadly places in the world to be a journalist. |
David Fine
2011
With plenty of pop music and 'girl power', Salaam Dunk delivers a tale of hope and inspiration courtesy of one winning group of Iraqi women basketball players. |
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Beate Arnestad
2012
Director Beate Arnestad tells the story of the civil war in Sri Lanka based on the stories of journalists living in exile. She seeks out various reporters who risk their lives over and over to highlight the human rights violations taking place in their homeland. |
Fernand Melgar
2011
Fernand Melgar’s intimate and emotionally charged portrait of the rejected asylum seekers and illegal migrants in Switzerland’s Frambois detention centre reveals a world that few know from the inside. With amazing access to his subjects, Melgar introduces us to a community of men who share friendships, fears, and a similar fate. |
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Mai Iskander
2012
Defying cultural norms and family expectations, 22-year-old Heba Afify takes to the streets to report on an Egypt in turmoil, using tweets, texts and Facebook posts. |















