Director Jeanne Hallacy went in search of the reality behind the smile of Buddha, and instead discovered the tragedy which has engulfed the Burmese people.

With a vision that is alternately  dreamlike and nightmarish, filmmaker Ellen Bruno examines the issue of child slavery and prostitution, focussing on young Burmese girls sold by their families to brothels in Thailand.

Compassion in Exile is an intimate portrait of Tenzyn Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

The Gate of Heavenly Peace follows the history of the 1989 Chinese Protest Movement, weaving together the pre-history of that event with commentary on the political habits and structures that have come to form public life in China over the past century.

The two main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of  Tibetan Buddhism's main sects.

The American film maker Jon Alpert captures the work of  "manbrokers" (Snakeheads) in China with a hidden camera.

A visceral, energizing look at contemporary Cuba, Bitter Sugar is an impassioned love story set against the political and economic tensions of Havana.

The first documentary film on the lives of dissident Cuban women in exile, including Fidel Castro`s daughter Alina.

Christian Frei merges painful generational dynamics with the inevitable decay of revolution, to mark the intersection of Castro's faded dream and a daughter's parting from hero-father and homeland.

A documentary film about childern who work as porters in the central market of Ulaanbaatar.

The story of two Bosnian women who were raped in a Serbian camp in North West Bosnia. They demand that the perpetrators not go unpunished, and that rape be acknowledged as a war crime.

Mostar in the summer of 1994. The European Union sent German politician Hans Koschnick to Mostar as city administrator. His task is to bring back life to the city and calm tensions.

Yellow Wasps explores what Serbian, U.S., and United Nations officials knew about ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, what they did about it, and what they failed to do.

In this daring political satire from Belarus, black humor pokes fun at the totalitarian presidency of Alexander Lukaschenko, a self-professed admirer of Hitler.

Through the stories of four individuals, Fear examines the technology of intimidation in contemporary Belarus and those who have overcome their own fear of it.

A portrait of Bishop Ximenes Belo of East Timor, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Peace.

A film about the psychological feeling of war, but sans battlefields, blood or martyrs.

A documentary about the desperate situation of Kazakh children and young people infected with the HIV virus.