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  • Operation Celeste

    Director:

    Mads Brügger

    If this really is true, if The Secretary of The United Nations really was assassinated by a sinister nexus of big powers working in collusion, it could be the most importa... [read more]

  • How to Survive a Plague

    2012 Director:

    David France

    In the dark days of 1987, the country was six years into the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that was still largely being ignored both by government officials and health organizat... [read more]

  • Dirty Wars

    2012 Director:

    Richard Rowley

    Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of America’s covert war... [read more]

  • Amazing Azerbaijan

    Director:

    Liz Mermin

    A sugary duet with the unintentionally ironic title “Running Scared” secured the contest for this oil and gas-rich, secular Shia, former Soviet Republic on the... [read more]

  • Our School

    Director:

    Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coca-Cozma

    Three Roma (“Gypsy”) children from a small Transylvanian town participate in a project to desegregate the local school, struggling against indifference, tradit... [read more]

  • The Law in These Parts

    2012 Director:

    Ra’anan Alexandrowicz 

      The Law In These Parts explores this unprecedented and little-known story through testimonies of the military legal professionals who were ... [read more]

  • Town of Runners

    2012 Director:

    Jerry Rothwell

    Town Of Runners (www.townofrunners.com) is a feature documentary about young people from the Ethiopian rural town of Bekoji, whose runners have won 8 Olympic Gold m... [read more]

  • Who is Dayani Cristal?

    2012 Director:

    Marc Silver

    An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for ide... [read more]

  • State Builders

    2012 Director:

     

    Anne Poiret and Florence Martin-Kessler

    A year ago, in July 2011, the Republic of South Sudan became the world’s newest State and the United Nations’ 193rd member. After a 50-year civil war, which ki... [read more]

  • No Fire Zone

    Director:

    Callum Macrae

    Our film reveals the true extent of crimes against humanity in the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war - told through eye witness testimony and shocking video evidence... [read more]

  • The Square

    2012 Director:

    Jehane Noujaim

    The Square is an intimate observational documentary that tells an immersive story of the ongoing struggle of the Egyptian Revolution. Beginning in the tents of Ta... [read more]

  • Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

    2012 Director:

    Fredrik Gertten

    In April 2009, Swedish filmmakers Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård learned that the world premiere of BANANAS!* - their documentary about a lawsuit aga... [read more]

  • Making the Case, Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law

    2012 Director:

    Lorie Conway Co-producers: Lorie Conway, Hopewell Chin'Ono & Andrew Meldrum

    Our film seeks to highlight the importance of the rule of law by focusing on attorney Beatrice Mtetwa’s efforts in Zimbabwe. In spite of beatings by police, she has ... [read more]

  • One Mile Away

    2012 Director:

    Penny Woolcock

    Inner cities are little war zones in which small wars are fought. Gangs of young men stab and shoot each other for straying into the wrong postcode. But now, two gang lead... [read more]

  • The Interrupters

    2012 Director:

    Steve James

    The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three “violence interrupters” - two men and a woman - who with bravado, humility and even ... [read more]

  • The Invisible War

    2012 Director:

    Kirby Dick

    The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of our country's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within ou... [read more]

  • Give Up Tomorrow

    2012 Director:

    Michael Collins

    As a tropical storm beats down on the Philippine island of Cebu, two sisters leave work and never make it home... Give Up Tomorrow exposes a Kafkaesque extravagan... [read more]

  • Gasland

    2012 Director:

    Josh Fox

     

    Gasland 2, a sequel to the Oscar Award-nominated and Emmy-winning film by Josh Fox, Gasland, continues the filmmaker’s ongoing investigation into t... [read more]

  • Crime After Crime

    2012 Director:

    Yoav Potash

    Crime After Crime is the exclusive documentary film on the dramatic legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her ... [read more]

  • Call Me Kuchu

    2012 Director:

    Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall

     

    In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock... [read more]

  • Brooklyn Castle

    2012 Director:

    Katie Dellamaggiore

    Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at a year in the lives of several young teens at Brooklyn, New York’s Intermediate School 318 – where 65% of st... [read more]

  • Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer

    Director:

    Mike Lerner & Maxim Pozdorovkin

    Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation ... [read more]