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Three people are torn from their families during the Salvadoran civil war and attempt to find reconciliation.
Three people are torn from their families during the Salvadoran civil war and attempt to find reconciliation.
Waiting to Inhale takes the viewer from underground cannabis clubs to the United States Supreme Court; from Israeli science labs to government approved cannabis gardens outside London. It features leading experts and researchers from all over the world on both sides of the controversy over the therapeutic potential of cannabis.
Closely based on the book by award-winning journalist Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine exposes how shock is used to implement economic policy in vulnerable environments. North American Premiere
Despite prophesies that gambling would destroy them, the Seneca Nation of Indians takes its biggest gamble ever, and opens a casino, leading to factional violence and open civil war.
Tapping into the success of Muhammad Yunus after winning the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), Grameen America has opened in Queens, NY replicating the banking model program Yunus first started in Bangladesh.
A drama centered on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg faced after the publication of his poem, Howl.
A young Kenyan’s life is changed dramatically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received. But can he have the same impact on a new generation?
William Brawner was infected with HIV before he turned two and kept it a
secret for over twenty years. Now he seeks redemption from the women of his
promiscuous past and embarks on a new phase of life with his pregnant wife,
who is HIV-negative.
Kerala, India — the world’s first democratically elected communist state – is a major supplier of low-wage workers to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other parts of the Persian Gulf. Seen through the eyes of young Keralites named Stalin and Lenin, My Good Name Is Stalin is a tragicomic portrait of this unique corner of the global south as it grapples with shifting notions about capitalism and communism, migration and migrants, individual needs and their global consequences -– all against the backdrop of seismic shifts in the world economy and the largest cross-border movement of people in human history.