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Poverty, Inc.

Poverty, Inc. Poverty has become a multi-billion dollar industry: the business of doing good has never been better. Who profits the most?
Clean Hands

Clean Hands What happens when your wildest dreams come true? From living on a garbage dump, a philanthropist builds them a house and farm. Shot over the course of seven years, ‘Clean Hands’ is an award-winning account of family, extreme poverty and the hope and innocence of children.
On the Line

On the Line Every year, over 100,000 Mexicans living in the USA are deported. Many have grown up in America. Some can’t even speak Spanish. In a matter of days they are torn away from their loved ones and escorted across the border. Unable to return home or appeal their deportation.
Shadow Game

Shadow Game Every day teenagers who have fled their war-torn countries try to cross Europe’s borders in search of a better life. They travel through a shadow world of minefields, bears, fast-flowing rivers, smugglers and border guards, desperately trying to win 'the game’.
In a Soldier’s Footsteps

In a Soldier’s Footsteps Even after the worst happened to this child, Steven found the courage to tell his story.
Thanks Boss!

Thanks Boss! Since their factory that had made suits for Kenzo (LVMH) was relocated abroad, the Klurs family is unemployed and in debt. That’s when François Ruffin knocks on their door, to pull one over on Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH and France’s richest man
Coal Money

Coal Money On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and fro, day and night. On the roadside: prostitutes, cops, petty racketeers, garage owners, mechanics
Ambulance

Ambulance When a highly talented young filmmaker tells the story of this country with compassion, beauty, and warmth.
The School in the Cloud

The School in the Cloud What is the future of education in a networked world? Indian professor Sugata Mitra sets up an internet kiosk in a remote Bengali village to pioneer the “School in the Cloud”. The film follows the children as they encounter the internet for the first time
The Rescue List

The Rescue List In a hidden safehouse in Ghana, social workers help two children recover from a childhood enslaved to fishermen. But their story takes an unexpected turn when their rescuer embarks on another rescue mission and asks the children for help
The First Sea

The First Sea A touching story from the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Solo – Out of a Dream

Solo – Out of a Dream A story of poverty, violence, and escape from the slums of Rio de Janeiro
With God’s Grace

With God’s Grace A story of suffering and survival
Bending the Arc

Bending the Arc In the 1980s, three young people barely out of their teens began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.
The World According to Sesame Street

The World According to Sesame Street The World According To Sesame Street explores the drama, challenges, and rewarding outcome as dedicated Sesame producers and local producers bring to life the world’s most watched children’s television program in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa.
Foster

Foster Every Child Needs A Family
Oleg and the War

Oleg and the War Follow 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg, who learns to navigate his childhood through the war.
Pineapple

Pineapple A film exposing and exploring the multinational economy around us
State of Mind

State of Mind People from the war-torn DRC will not be able to be productive until they overcome their trauma.
Congo in 4 Acts

Congo in 4 Acts A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Broken Places

Broken Places “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Poor Europe

Poor Europe Why 119 million people in Europe live under the breadline today. How could this happen? The reality of deprived children, unemployed young adults, and indigent workers spreads all around the Union. What does Europe do for them?
Human Flow

Human Flow When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home. An epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei.
Shipwrecked America

Shipwrecked America A portrait of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, revealing how displacement and destruction were used as an opportunity for neoliberal initiatives, drastically intensifying the city’s economic, social and racial inequalities.
Reporters Against Power

Reporters Against Power Fidan Ekiz visits courageous people from across the world who practice journalism under dictatorship or oppression, traveling to the countries where journalists can make the difference, even whilst their freedom of speech of speech is under threat.
Virunga

Virunga Conservation is war, especially when it comes to protecting the planet’s last remaining mountain gorillas.
A Small Act

A Small Act With clarity and grace, A Small Act bears witness to the ripple effect one singular action can have.
Half the Sky

Half the Sky Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Sold

Sold Based on the global bestseller by Patricia McCormick, SOLD is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel/prison called Happiness House in Kolkata, India.
The Shelter

The Shelter A winter spent in the heart of an emergency shelter for homeless people in Lausanne, and the nightly selection process which decides which of the needy will receive a hot meal and a bed.
Leaving Africa

Leaving Africa A film about the quest for gender equality in Africa, told through the eyes of a Finish Aid worker in Uganga experiencing homophobic blackmail.
10 Billion – What’s On Your Plate? By 2050, the world population will grow to ten billion people. In the middle of the heated debate about food security, comes this broad and analytic look into global food production and distribution
I Am Kuba

I Am Kuba A coming-of-age film, following Kuba, a twelve-year-old boy from Poland who is left to take care of his little brother Mikołaj (8) after their parents are forced to leave them to work abroad.
Trapped

Trapped With U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive, what remains of a woman's right to choose?
Food Chains

Food Chains Food Chains exposes the abuse of farmworkers within the United States and the complicity of the multibillion dollar supermarket and fast food industries.
Poverty, Inc.

Poverty, Inc. Poverty has become a multi-billion dollar industry: the business of doing good has never been better. Who profits the most?
La Source

La Source A Haitian Princeton janitor returns to his country after the devastating 2010 earthquake to revive his lifelong dream to bring what is most fundamental to his village's survival; clean water.
Inequality For All

Inequality For All A powerful exposé of how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy
We’re Not Broke

We’re Not Broke When will corporations be made to pay their fair share?
A Place At The Table

A Place At The Table One nation. Underfed. Examining the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity.
American Promise

American Promise Success is our only option. Spanning 12 years in the lives of two middle class black families sending their sons to a prestigious Manhattan private school.
Crime After Crime

Crime After Crime Horribly abused, wrongfully imprisoned... one signature away from freedom.
Land Grabbing

Land Grabbing Mark Twain once said, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore." With the world’s farmland is at risk, this aphorism has become a matter of urgency
Karla’s Arrival

Karla’s Arrival Teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Mother and baby struggle to reach the little one’s first birthday.
Coach Zoran and His African Tigers

Coach Zoran and His African Tigers South Sudan became an independent state in July 2011, following almost 50 years of civil war. This film follows veteran coach Zoran Djordjevic as he seeks to forge the first national football team in the new country.
My Barefoot Friend

My Barefoot Friend Shallim is a rickshaw puller, an ordinary man with an old and tired rickshaw. He runs endless miles with it each day to allow him to support his family.
Iron Crows

Iron Crows Chittagong is a small port city of southern Bangladesh. Everyday some 20,000 people there risk their lives for an average wage of $2 a day.
Powerless

Powerless Shariq, a 22-year-old electrician living in Kanpur, is renowned for his prowess in stealing electricity. In the face of day-long power-cuts, he runs illegal connections so that homes, factories and businesses are not left in the dark.
Char… the No Man’s Island

Char… the No Man’s Island Rubel is a fourteen year old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh, crossing the river Ganga which acts as an international border between the two countries.
A Mi Lado (By My Side)

A Mi Lado (By My Side) Some mothers put their children first. Some don’t. To survive in the trash of the Chureca, three young women will have to determine whether their mothers are their best allies or unexpected foes.
Dancing with the Devil

Dancing with the Devil OSCAR and Emmy awarded director Jon Blair offers us an intimate look at one of the bloodiest urban conflicts on earth; a gripping film with unprecedented access to some of Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted men...
Modern Slavery

Modern Slavery Although slavery is currently illegal across the world, there are more slaves in the world today than at any given point in human history. Why does slavery still exist and what will it take to finally get abolish it?
White Black Boy

White Black Boy In Tanzania, albinos are threatened by witch doctors who use their body parts to create magic potions. For their own protection, albino children are sent to boarding schools, far away from their families.
DHARAVI Slum for sale

DHARAVI Slum for sale Dharavi, India's biggest slum is to be demolish and its profitable real estate turned into billions of Dollars. The film follows the struggle of the underprivileged to defend their homes and livelihoods against mounting globalization.
Nero’s Guests

Nero’s Guests One journalist investigates how the recent spate of suicides amongst Indian farmers reflects the way in which globalization is dramatically changing the country’s agricultural infrastructure.
Unwanted Witness

Unwanted Witness A candid portrait of Hollman Morris, a journalist in Columbia who speaks out about the violence in his country on his weekly television show. For this he has received both international acclaim and death threats.
Ford Transit

Ford Transit Rajai, a Palestinian “service” taxi driver ferries his passengers between East Jerusalem and Ramallah. En route, he either gives you insight into the challenges faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation or drives you crazy. Or both.
Luxuries

Luxuries A critical look at the Israeli control of the flow of goods into Gaza , revealing the absurdity and cruelty of a policy that attempts to distinguish between necessity and luxury.

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