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- A modest man whose wife cut his hair, Theo van Boven becomes Director of Human Rights for the UN in 1977. No bureaucrat, he battles the most repressive regimes of the late 20th century, beginning with Chile and Argentina and opens his UN door for the first time to "subversive" survivors from across the world.
- This is the true life story of Felix Kaputu is the story of a professor from the Congo who has the chance to stay in Europe, but prefers at first to go back home and teach where he believes he belongs, in Lumumbashi. Here he quotes the classics, believing that freedom in the mind is the most important thing. But once home, a local colonel accuses him of of leading a rebel army, then tortures, while his wife is told he is a homosexual and witch. The film takes place partly in his mind; past and present mingle as he prepares to teach his first class in a new land as a refugee forced to flee for his life. As he prepares over the course of one night to nervously to start life over again and teach his first class on African literature - just as he had done back home, he's forced to confront the nightmare he's lived through, literally as if it were indeed a dream - discovering himself being tortured even in the classroom full of students.
- In Bangladesh, poverty and corruption have long been endemic. An Islamic state, minorities are under threat, with crimes against them rarely punished. How has Bangladesh become an extremist haven?
- As Europe descends into fiscal crisis, the hard line against immigrants and refugees tightens. Nowhere more than the Netherlands, now in the grip of anti-immigration and anti-refugee rhetoric that has made the country a pariah on the European continent.Into this world come invited - or resettled refugees: Fathi an activist escaping death threats from Gaddafi, Fasil - a journalist from Ethiopia sentenced to life for condemning fraudulent elections, Li Zhu - a Falun Gong Buddhist sentenced to prison and beatings for demonstrating. As they campaign for justice for their countries, they battle a hostile climate in their new home.
- Daniel, a refugee from Syria now just wants to fit in. But everything he's dreamed of comes apart when his relatives in Syria disappear in the midst of the war.