DOC NYC 2014

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Every Last Child (Country: UAE, Pakistan; Year: 2014; Director: Tom Roberts; Writer: Tom Roberts)
Parents in Pakistan desperately try to protect their children from the scourge of polio.
The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness (Yume to kyôki no ohkoku) (Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Mami Sunada; Stars: Hideaki Anno, John Lasseter, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata)
Documentary about famed animation Studio Ghibli.
Marmato (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Mark Grieco)
Colombia is the centre of a new global gold rush, and Marmato, a historic mining town, is the new frontier. Filmed over the course of nearly six years, Marmato chronicles how townspeople confront a Canadian mining company that wants the $20 billion in gold beneath their homes.
Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile (Country: India, US; Year: 2014; Director: Norah Shapiro; Stars: Tenzin Khecheo, Lobsang Wangyal)
A young woman ravels a long way to enter a Himalayan beauty pageant, an act which is reshaping her cultural identity.
The Return (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Adam Zucker; Stars: Tusia Dabrowska)
For young women who were raised Catholic in Poland learn of their Jewish heritage.
A Small Section Of The World (Country: Costa Rica, Italy, US; Year: 2014; Director: Lesley Chilcott; Writer: Nick Davidge)
A group of women take a sustainable approach to coffee growing that dramatically improves the prospects of their rural community.
Vessel (Country: US, Tanzania, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Pakistan, Netherlands, Ireland, Indonesia, Ecuador; Year: 2014; Director: Diana Whitten; Stars: Rebecca Gomperts)
A radical seafaring attempt to provide abortions.
When People Die They Sing Songs (Country: US, Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Olga Lvoff; Writer: Olga Lvoff, Vasily Lvov)
A 93 year old stroke victim and Holocaust survivor works with her daughter and music therapist to try and recover memories of what happened in the past.
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