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In Addis Abeba, the Ethiopian capital, over 270.000 street kids live without their parents and are almost forgotten by law and society.

Ventura Durall
70Min

Released from a psychiatric hospital after a severe depression following the death of his pet fox, truck driver Mahmood Kiyani Falavarjani returns to his family and favorite hobby: filmmaking.

Arash Lahooti
79Min

Widowed at 28, Tibetan farmer Zanta defies her tyrannical father-in-law. When Zanta’s in-laws won’t let her seven-year-old son go to school, she flees to Beijing to become a street merchant.

Jocelyn Ford
77Min

An Ethiopian family that was found to be HIV-positive gives its two children to adoption to a Danish family. During four years, the director followed the consequences by entering into the most intimate experience

Katrine Riis Kjaer
94Min

William Kwamkwamba builds a windmill from old junk, based on a picture he found in a book. The windmill generates power for his family and the village.

Ben Nabors
93Min

Three Yemeni teenage girls take part in an entrepreneurship competition.

Shawn Thompson
60Min

An Arab man marries a Jewish woman. They live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community with their son and daughter.

Nurit Kedar, Yaron Shani
96Min

Tango was born in Buenos Aires and no one dances tango as passionately as the Argentineans.

Viviane Blumenschein
90Min
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Twice a year in Cambodia, the Tonle Sap River changes its course, while the life of the Cambodian people continues to flow in a perpetual cycle of death and rebirth, and of creation and destructio

Kalyanee Mam
83Min

Four outlines meander in Cuba in search of destiny. Victims of a dying ideology, people struggle for their lives, even if it means  to nearly fall into  illegality.

Charlie Petersmann
75Min