Japanese filmmaker and photographer Motohashi Seiichi returns to southeastern Belarus, the scene of his first critically acclaimed documentary, Nadya’s Village. This time the setting is the quiet, idyllic hamlet of Budische.

In 1994, in response to the drastically deteriorating economic situation in Cuba after the fall of the USSR, a mass exodus of Cubans took place. In homemade rafts, they set sail for America and the American Dream.

As part of its reform movement, in 1999 Iran held direct elections for seats on local governing councils, and women were allowed to run. 784 women were elected to councils throughout the country, including Azar Zeinali, who was elected to the town council of the remote mountain village of Dastjerd.

In 1966, Mao Tse-Tung launched the Cultural Revolution in China. Over 16 million teenage students became his loyal vanguard of Revolution, the Red Guards. He sends them to the countryside to be reeducated by farmer peasants for 10 years.

Larry Tanahill, a third-generation farmer in the small west Texas town of Lockney, is an unlikely human rights hero. But when the local school board decides to implement a mandatory drug testing policy for all the town’s students, Larry finds himself alone in his decision to disagree.

The compelling story of a troubled family in New York and their struggle to stay together amidst the legacy of substance abuse, poverty, and neglect. Diane, a single mother with five children and a recovering crack cocaine addict, works to heal the wounds her addiction inflicted on her children, who spent over six years living away from their mother in foster homes.

A moving family saga and personal history of Hungary after WWII. Lucy, the author’s 80-year-old, strong-willed mother, relates the story of her life to her son. Born into a Jewish family, she escaped deportation to a concentration camp by hiding and living under a false identity.

In 1978, Yulie Cohen Gerstel, an El-Al flight attendant, is wounded in a terrorist attack in London in which another young Israeli woman and two of the attackers are killed. The attack strengthens her patriotism, and soon after she fulfils a childhood dream of becoming an officer in the Israeli air force.

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile in a bloody coup. Alejandro Goic turned 16 on that day, Enrique Paris was 12, and Carolina Tohá was eight years old. Enrique and Carolina’s fathers, top advisors to President Salvador Allende, were killed.

The title and parts of the narration of this evocative and shocking film come from Leo Tolstoy’s story of Russian war in Chechnya. 150 years later, not much has changed. Masterfully edited from extensive and at times graphic video footage of several war cameramen, director Yuri Khadschevatski shows the modern-day carnage in Chechnya from both sides of the conflict.

An exploration of Orthodox Judaism in modern Israel and the religious dictates regarding Tehora, the ritual of purity married women are obliged to follow during menstruation. In a series of interviews, the once-taboo subjects of Orthodox married life and sexuality come to light.

An impressionistic and moving portrait of a children’s traditional dance group from Grozny as they set out on a tour of Europe. Growing up in a decade of constant conflict, Chechen children know almost nothing but the horror and depravations of war.

As many as 100 - 140 million women worldwide have been subjected to female circumcision, a practice that dates back to ancient Egypt and which can be found in many traditional cultures today. It is estimated that as many as two million young girls undergo this painful and life threatening ritual every year.

Rwanda 1994: almost one million people are massacred in the space of 100 days. How could such a barbarous atrocity happen at the end of the 20th century? This behind-the-scenes look at the Rwandan catastrophe tells the story of Lt.

Sion is a provincial town in a small Catholic canton in the Swiss Alps. It’s not the first place one would expect a gay-pride parade. But a group of local residents, led by Marianne Bruchez, decide to organize a march in support of the town’s gay minority.

Ethnologist and filmmaker Stéphane Breton goes to live among the tribal people of Papua New Guinea. He is just as interested in how the villagers see him as he is in observations of their way of life.

On her way to Tibet to make a film, director Lin Li stops in Cheng Du, the regional capital of southwest China. She meets a group of young street children there and is quickly introduced to their tragic world: the kids are homeless and hooked on heroin.

A gentle study of life in a small French village and the tradition of the one-teacher school. Filmed in a new vérité style of quiet observation, the film reveals the rhythms and routines of the children’s lives during a school year.