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Awara Soup (Le Bouillon d'Awara)Directed by: Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes A very fresh approach to the questions of identity, immigration, and integration... The mixing of cultures in French Guiana through the cooking of... a magic dish.
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Angano...Angano, Tales from MadagascarDirected by: Marie-Clemence & Cesar Paes Angano...Angnao is a journey through tales and legends to discover Madagascar, a voyage between reality and imaginary, a subjective and impressionistic vision, tinged with humor and tenderness.
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Between Earth & SkyDirected by: Kalyanee Mam & David Mendez Torn from home and country and set adrift in a foreign world, three young Iraqi refugees struggle to find hope as they yearn for a lost past and face a desperate and uncertain future. Unique in its storytelling, Between Earth & Sky takes you into a world within – a world of lost dreams, quiet beauty and gentle strength.
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BombhuntersDirected by: Skye Fitzgerald Bombhunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia of untrained civilians harvesting unexploded bombs as scrap metal. Part of a global economy, these individuals clear UXO from their land to protect their families from harm and to earn money to survive. Bombhunters is an eye-opening investigation of the residual effects of war experienced by post-conflict nations around the globe, and the complex realities of achieving “peace.”
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 Children of IBDAA: To Create Something Out of Nothing Directed by: S. Smith Patrick CHILDREN OF IBDAA: To Create Something Out of Nothing is about the lives of several adolescents in a Palestinian children's dance troupefrom Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. They use their performance to express the history, struggle, and aspirations of the Palestinian people, specifically the fight to return to their homeland. Through interviews and documentation of the children, the film offers insight into their families' displacement from their villages in historical Palestine, the physically and emotionally stressful aspects of life in a refugee camp, and the unique experience of participating in the politically motivated dance troupe. The story culminates in a visit by the children for the first time to demolished villages from which their grandparents were expelled in 1948.
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Dreams in Another LanguageDirected by: Lucia Rikaki Dreams in Another Language is the story of the Faneromeni school in Cyprus where students from a mosaic of different nationalities are taught about acceptance, coexisting and the wealth of sharing cultures. The particular geographical and political set up of the school, situated only 500 meters from the Green line separating the country, provides interesting ground for reflection on recent Cyprus history and the recent history of the new migrating nations..
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Life and DebtDirected by: Stephanie Black Jamaica, a land of sea, sand and sun... and a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted form her non-fiction book "A Small Place," LIFE AND DEBT is an unapolgetic look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials, who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.
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Mai’s AmericaDirected by: Marlo Lopas Mai's America is an intimate portrait of Mai, a spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh’s revolution who leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi on a high school exchange program. Anticipating Hollywood, Mai crash lands in rural Mississippi…where her relationships with white Pentecostal and black Baptist host families, self-proclaimed rednecks, transvestites, and South Vietnamese immigrants challenge her long-held ideas about herself, about freedom, about America, and even about Vietnam.
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Saudade Do FuturoDirected by: Marie-Clemence & Cesar Paes Saudade Do Futuro features the city of Sãu Paulo and its street poets. To the rhythm and rhymes of musical improvised poetry, journalist or simple maid, art-gallery director or cab driver, the immigrants from the Northeast tell us the beat of the megalopolis.
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 The Heart Broken in HalfDirected by: Taggart Siegel & Dwight Conquergood Produced by: Taggart Siegel & Dwight Conquergood The "HEART BROKEN IN HALF" reminded me of Spike Lee's best work; as a documentary it taught me about street life in today's Chicago—and by analogy about many of America's inner-cities." Gangs are society's ultimate devil figure. They symbolize transgression and embody the deepest fears of middle class citizens. Few filmmakers have dared or been able to get behind the headlines to confront the human reality and complexity of street gangs in urban America. Challenging stereotypes, this documentary gives voice to the street youths and reveals their underground culture. Here is an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and all to often, death.
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The Power of the PowerlessDirected by: Cory Taylor Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution" is one of the most stirring episodes of people-power in recent history. Inspired by the courageous struggle of a handful of dissidents, and sparked by idealistic students demonstrating in the streets of Prague, Czechs and Slovaks brought an end to forty years of communist tyranny through bloodless revolution in 1989. The documentary features rare and never-before-seen interviews with key figures of the Velvet Revolution including Václav Havel. The Power of the Powerless documents this monumental achievement and asks why Czech youth are not being taught about their own history.
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Songs and Tears of Nature (Aux Guerriers du silence)Directed by: Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes Shot in Lapland and Brazil, the film is about Man's relationship with Nature. We listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and Fulni-ôs from Brazil, then beyond ice fields, beyond trees, climates, skins, we discover the same idea: to preserve environment, we first need to preserve the diversity of culture, of language. An astonishing message of peace, dialogue and understanding.
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