Tolerance du Voyage / 2019
#France

In France, Gypsies are known as the ‘gens du voyage’, or 'the people who travel'. The term was coined in an effort to fight anti-Gypsy prejudice. ‘I think our community is the most hated in the world,’ says Henoc Cortes Lopez, a French Gypsy rapper. French Gypsies also fear their traditional nomadic lifestyle is being threatened. In 2018, France passed a law that prohibits spontaneous encampments.

An influx of Romas from Eastern Europe has proved to be another headache for French ‘gens du voyage’. They say newcomers seeking refugee status and welfare rights are only feeding into the anti-Gypsy stereotype. Are their worries justified?

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Afghanistan’s Loud, Mute Voices / 2022
#Afghanistan

‘I want to visit a family that's selling a little girl and produce a report about it,’ says Mohammad Amin. This young man is deaf, but he’s found his own way to talk to the world — with the help of a camera. His goal is to use photography to show that Afghanistan is more than poppy fields, war and explosions. It has a rich history that has to be seen. But it also has problems, and for Mohammad Amin, it is essential to speak out about them to the world community. And his work speaks louder than words.

He has learnt that his neighbour, a former state employee called Abdurrahim, intends to sell his daughter, which is becoming more and more common in Afghanistan today. Mohammad wants to tell the story with his camera. Learn more about Mohammad Amin and meet other outstanding young people from Afghanistan who can’t speak or hear but find ways to be heard — through their art and social initiatives.

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Waziristan. Hard Homecoming / 2018
#Pakistan

Waziristan is a remote, mountainous region of Pakistan populated by independent tribes. The Taliban and al-Qaeda operated in this area for years. In 2014, the Pakistani army launched an offensive to drive out the Islamic militants.
However, the operation displaced nearly 1 million people. The documentary shows what awaits those returning to Waziristan.

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O-High-O: The Road to Addiction, and Back / 2020
#USA

Drug abuse is rampant in the small city of Akron, Ohio. ‘We have small towns here in Ohio that have been prescribed millions of pills, enough to sedate a small country,’ says Raynard Packard, director of an Akron rehab centre. Drug abuse is ravaging his city, as more and more people lose their lives to opioids, meth and prenoscription drugs. Meet recovering addicts and people who help them.

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Black in the USSR / 2020
#USSR

In the 1930s, some black Americans traded Jim Crow for Soviet internationalism. Scores of African Americans moved to the Soviet Union in search of antiracism and career opportunities that contrasted with the oppression and economic hardship in the US. Some of their descendants still live in Russia and share stories of their families in the documentary.

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The Happiest People on Earth / 2017
#NorthKorea

On this day in 1948, Kim Il-sung declared the formation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). Throughout its history, it’s remained the world’s most isolated country and has been ruled by three generations of the Kim family. Get a glimpse inside Pyongyang, as it celebrates the birthdays of late Kim Jong-un and Kim Il-sung. The documentary delves into the personality cult and shows the every-day life of North Koreans - only those who were authorised to speak to foreign media.

North Korea has declared itself a nuclear weapons state. It passed a law that allows it to carry out a preventive nuclear strike ‘immediately to destroy the hostile forces’.

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Children of Donbass / 2022
#Ukraine #Donbass

‘Children find shells. You can’t stop a child from doing it. And this leads to many fatalities. So, just the week before last, four children died in the Volnovakha area. Children are dying — this is horrible,’ says Dmitry Kalashnikov, head of the Bureau of Forensics at the DPR Health Ministry.

The Ukrainian military don’t just leave tripwires behind, but also booby-trapped toys. For children, specifically. Aleksandr Torba, an eminent surgeon in the Lugansk People’s Republic, has operated several times on children who picked up deadly toys.

‘Naturally, their first impulse was to pick up a teddy bear or a toy puppy. And the moment they picked it up, a booby-trap detonated, most often damaging wrists, face and neck,’ says Aleksandr.

This is just one of the atrocities performed by the Ukrainian military on the Donbass territory. They have been targeting peaceful civilians and specifically children for eight years. Find more details in the new documentary.

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Self-Harm - the Pandemic of Youth / 2020
#Russia

Around 17% of people will self-harm during their lifetime, according to one analysis across more than 40 countries. Many start hurting themselves at the age of 12. Teenagers can deliberately cut or burn themselves without aiming to commit suicide. Although self-harm is not a specific mental health disorder, it is a common symptom of various conditions, and some of them can lead to suicidal behaviours. Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, hear stories of self-injuring children and their families who live with mental anguish.

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Sleepy Hollow, Kazakhstan / 2014
#Kazakhstan

In a small Kazakh village, people suddenly fall asleep and don’t wake up for days. Since 2013, residents have been complaining of sleepiness, hallucinations and memory loss. The inexplicable sleeping sickness epidemic has gripped the village, forcing locals to flee and scientists to scratch their heads.

If you try to wake up an affected person, it seems they can’t open their eyes. Researchers are trying to work out what’s causing the sleeping sickness. From mass psychosis to food poisoning, they’ve put forward various theories. More recently, they were looking into groundwater contamination by the uranium mines.

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Free to Be Yourself / 2018
#Indonesia

Arseny had been involved in extreme sports for years. Snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding - he’d done it all. ‘I was dreaming of conquering every mountain, every wave,’ Arseny says. His life changed dramatically one day on the way to work when he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. Determined to keep living life to the fullest, he heads to Bali to catch a wave. Surfing instructor Nikita is willing to help him.

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Danceducation / 2019
#Ghana

Students adore their teacher, Percy Jackson. Instead of giving boring lessons, he makes children dance. ‘When we go to church, we are dancing, when we go to a funeral, we are dancing, even in bed we are dancing, because it’s part of us. So what is wrong when we use it as a tool in class?’

Percy encourages his students to study and overcome fears of teachers and their failures. His unconventional teaching method has already made him a local celebrity. Check out his story and learn what dance means in the Ghanaian culture in the documentary.

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Girl Power: Hindi Style / 2021
#India

Sampat Pal is dressed in a bright pink sari and armed with a bamboo stick. She’s the leader of the Pink Gang, an all-women vigilante group that fights domestic violence. Sampat teaches members of the Pink Gang self-defence and helps them fight for their rights. Over one million women from all over India have joined the Gang in search of support and safety.

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Saviour St. / 2017
#ElSalvador

El Salvador is one of the five most dangerous countries in the world, according to the UN. Gang violence is endemic in the country, with MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs notorious far beyond El Salvador. Many see no choice in life but to join the criminal world. Few take up a different path - ex-gang members and youth find refuge with volunteer ambulance corps.

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Spyfall / 2021
#Syria

Eli Cohen was an Egyptian-born Jewish Mossad agent. He was deployed as a spy to Damascus where he successfully lived in the guise of a Syrian businessman. He was thought responsible for missions that could shape the fate of the whole region. Using his connections, Cohen visited military bases and outposts and gathered intelligence ‘that saved Israel many brigades’ during the 1967 war, according to former prime minister Levi Eshkol. A mysterious film discovered in a Moscow flat 60 years later provides a glimpse of the spy war in the region in the 1960s.

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Breaking Bread / 2022
#world

Up to 49 million people in 46 countries are knocking at famine’s door, according to UN food agencies. Grains and oil seeds can’t get to countries most dependant on others for food, especially in Africa. World leaders are blaming Moscow for the hunger crisis, claiming it deliberately creates shortages. However, Western sanctions imposed on Black Sea ports and Russian ships are stopping Russia from exporting food and fertiliser. The documentary explores the real reasons behind a looming food crisis.

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