J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will be taken care by Jacky’s family whenever his mother has to return to Mainland to renew her visa; such kind of story is not an isolated case. These families have been uprooted for a “better future” in Hong Kong, but is this “future” that the children really long to have? A Chinese saying: “How does one understand the joy of fish, if one is not a fish?” Will the adults really understand what the children want?

Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

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Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...

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"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dism...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

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The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...

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