Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS traces stories over 30 years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment.
This is the story of Val and Clare: a mother and a daughter. After the tragic death of her eldest da...
Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident c...
Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Weste...
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surpri...
Jamila is a prostitute serving a life sentence behind bars. She surrenders herself to the authoritie...
The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy gr...
The death of Roberto, the canary, forces a family to come to terms with their own grief.
A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand a...
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother,...
When a sheltered young woman becomes enamored with a struggling writer, she goes to great lengths to...
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
David Storm learned 10 years ago that he has MS. For this reason and without telling her he leaves h...
In a candid, first-time interview with Rachel Lee, the so-called teenage mastermind behind a string ...
Scar Tissue by Su Friedrich is a filmic version of a white canvas or a silent music piece.The fact t...
Swept by the ocean waves, nine kids find themselves on a remote island where they meet one-eyed pira...
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down...
Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation...