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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
