Zeina Daccache
Forty-five Lebanese inmates participate in a production of Reginald Rose’s courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, and use the play as an opportunity to examine their own lives and decisions.
Thet Sambath
Cambodian investigative journalist Thet Sambath embarks on a decade-long journey into his own tragic past and that of his country, as he seeks out and confronts those responsible for his family’s death under the Khmer Rouge regime.
Mikael Wiström
Unable to pay for their eight-year-old son’s education, Naty, a middle aged woman living in Peru with her husband, takes a job as a hotel maid in Spain.
Justin Chadwick
When the government of Kenya announces it will offer free primary education for the first time, an eighty-four-year-old man, Kimani N'gan'ga Maruge (Oliver Litondo), shows up on the doorstep of a rural school, ready for class.
Ali Samadi Ahadi
The prevalence and power of social media has increasingly become a tool for political movements worldwide, not least in the case of Iran’s Green Revolution, whose 2009 “Where’s My Vote” campaign on behalf of reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi directly challenged the fait accompli of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s contested re-election. Utilizing frontline YouTube footage from protest events, blog postings, Twitters, Facebook updates and dramatic re-enactments of events via animated testimonials, this clever documentary collage speaks powerfully, as per its director’s dedication, to “mankind’s yearning for freedom and dignity.”
Oliver Masset-Depasse
Living in constant fear as an illegal immigrant in Belgium, thirty-nine-year-old Byelorussian mother Tania (Anna Coesens) reaches a crisis when she is caught by local authorities and sent to a detention centre housing illegals from all over the globe.
Oliver Schmitz
Chanda, a young girl in a small, AIDS-ravaged South African township struggles to maintain the façade of a normal life amidst utter instability.
Laura Poitras
A complex portrait of the interlinked lives of two men: Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, who was captured and detained at Guantanamo Bay; and his brother-in-law Abu Jandal, a former bin Laden bodyguard and Al Qaida recruiter, who was released by the US government after naming names in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Feo Aladag
Based on a highly publicized honour killing in Berlin in 2005, When We Leave stars Sibel Kekilli as Umay, a young Turkish Muslim woman who courageously decides to leave her abusive husband in Istanbul and join her family in Germany with her young son.
Luc Côté
A provocative and troubling document of war and justice post-9/11 about the story of Omar Khadr, the then-fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2003, and remanded to custody at the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp.