5 Broken Cameras
A Palestinian journalist chronicles his village’s resistance to a separation barrier being erected on their land and in the process captures his young son’s lens on the world.
Acacias
A truck driver agrees to transport a woman and her baby, not anticipating the change it may bring to his quiet life.
The Ambassador
What happens when a very white European man buys his way into being a diplomat in one of Central Africa's most failed nations?
Breathing
A troubled young man on day release from prison takes a job in a morgue and is inspired to go looking for the mother who abandoned him as a baby.

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Gimme The Loot
A pair of graffiti artists attempt to pull off a daring tagging mission
How To Survive A Plague
The story of Act Up and the ordinary people who transformed the tratment of AIDS.

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It Looks Pretty From A Distance
When a scrap merchant vanishes from a small Polish town, it sets in motion an unexpected chain of events.

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Oslo, August 31st
A day in the life of a young man at the end of a drug rehab programme.

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The Raid
An elite SWAT team try to clear out an apartment complex controlled by a drug dealer, but nothing goes to plan.

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Where Do We Go Now?
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
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