Born Sweet
Cambodia, 2010, 29 min.
Gorgeously photographed in Cambodia, Born Sweet tells the courageous and inspirational story of Vinh, a 15-year-old boy stricken with arsenic poisoning.... more

A Moth in Spring
Canada, 2010, 26 min.
Filmmaker Yu Gu returns to her hometown of Chongqing in China where she grew up to shoot a student film. What she encounters is a chilling deja vu experience of the political forces that caused her artist father to be exiled during the '89 student movement.... more

Tobacco Girl
Germany, 2009, 29 min.
Mom and Dad want their 14-year-old daughter to marry a rich man who will pay them 3,000 Euros. Will Mümine choose differently knowing that this means excommunication from her family?... more

Unearthing the Pen
Uganda, 2009, 13 min.
A young goat herder in northern Uganda yearns to be able to read and write. But a when tribal elders placed a curse on the written word 40 years earlier by burying a pen, they placed the boy's dreams in limbo.... more

SAME PLANET, DIFFERENT WORLDS
127 min.
From creepy crawly things in Cambodia to broken down boats in Britain, this wide-ranging collection of documentaries shows us things we may never have known about or will see in a whole new light.... more