A metaphoric meditation on poverty and life. The narrator has forgotten the sound of his heart. He goes to the end of the earth in search of it. There he finds people living among the discarded waste and decay of society: scavengers in the Philippines who live in the squalor of a massive trash dump.

Two people from totally different worlds agree to spend a week together at each others’ homes. Mathilde is 30 and has been an extreme right militant for 10 years. She fights a personal crusade against immigration and the politicians who would support it.

An Iranian widow searches in vain for the graves of her loved ones, chanting her sorrow: Where are you my beloved? Where are you my son? Where are you my mother? To whom can I speak about my sorrow? Her husband and sons died as martyrs during the Iran-Iraq war.

The Kurds are a nation without a homeland: 25 million Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and northern Syria. This compelling film focuses on the plight of the Iraqi Kurds before, during, and just after the first Gulf War.

Energetic, rapid-fire montage sequences of archival footage reveals the power of propaganda behind man’s seeming predisposition toward violence and war. Set to a pulsing high-energy soundtrack, this experimental work explodes in a stream of images – soldiers training, soldiers marching, tanks in formation, machines at work, sumu wrestlers, politicians, and the weapons of war.

An evocative and poetic illustration of the history of working class men in Europe in the 20th century, their struggles, and their disillusionment. The film is constructed as a litany of portraits inter-cut with historical footage and dream imagery.

An ambitious global collaborative project that celebrates the unity of diversity. The filmmakers travel the world visiting an eclectic group of artists, musicians, and thinkers to compile a collage-almanac of sights and sounds.

Mining is a tradition and way of life in the far north of Russia. But at the beginning of the 21st century, the life of the miners has become increasingly more desperate. The work is grueling and dangerous.

The East German Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, was among the most feared and repressive state security services in the world. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Stasi officials began a frantic attempt to destroy their immense security files.

An Iraqi prisoner of war in an Iranian camp writes a letter to the child he has never seen. He’s been a prisoner for 18 years, and doesn’t even know if the child born after he was captured is a boy or a girl.

A hard-hitting and satirical look at environmental destruction and the callousness of big business. French artist Paul Mar creates conceptual art from oil spills, labeling the extreme damage to the shoreline as “works of art.

A meditative and experimental retelling of one woman’s journey aboard a cargo ship from Venice to the Middle East. The sailors are from the Philippines and Romania: they live a shadow life, unable to leave the ship whenever it makes a port of call.

Nisha is 11 years old and lives with her mother and two brothers in an Indian slum. She doesn’t understand why she is sick. Her mother struggles with the burden of whether or not to tell her that they both are infected with HIV.

In December 1984, an accident at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India released a giant poisonous gas cloud that killed 16,000 people and permanently injured more than half a million in the worst industrial accident in history.

Pyonggyang, the capital of North Korea, is a sprawling city of socialist architecture. But as the country is impoverished, its wide avenues are not exactly overcrowded with cars. There are no traffic lights.

The mentally disabled do not need to lead disabled lives. In a series of four portraits of people suffering from mental debilitation, the film reveals how, if given the chance, they can lead fulfilling and productive lives.

A tight-knit family in a small village in rural Turkey sends their son, Coskun, to university in Ankara with the dream of a better life. The father sees education as the greatest gift he can give his children.