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- DirectorSean McAllisterStarsNaoki SatoYoshie SatoSean McAllisterNaoki once had it all - the fast car, the executive home. Boss of his own business he lived the good-life when Japan's economy was at it's height. Then the bubble burst - and he met Yoshie.
- DirectorSean McAllisterStarsSamir PeterSean McAllisterHeld up in a heavily fortified Baghdad hotel, Iraq's most famous pianist Samir Peter tries to survive the "peace" of post-war Iraq as he waits for his visa that will grant him a new life in America.
- DirectorDan AlexeStarsIsaac LévyZabulon SimantovThe movie portrays Isaac and Zabulon, the last two Jews in Afghanistan's once 50,000-strong Jewish community, residing in an abandoned Kabul synagogue after others left. It explores their lives as the sole remaining Jewish residents.
- DirectorKazuo HaraStarsKazuo HaraSachiko KobayashiHiroshi YokotaAn intimate documentary about a group of people with cerebral palsy in Japan that confronts our preconceptions and prejudices about who they are, what they feel, and how they view their lives.
- DirectorJeppe RøndeStarsSabeloMr. ZuluYule MasitengA documentary on Johannesburg South African men who call themselves "Swenkas" and compete for cash and prizes in an event that's part fashion show, part choreography, and part moral code.
- DirectorMarc IsaacsThrough revealing interviews, alternately shocking and humorous, this documentary profile of a white working-class community east of London offers a timely snapshot of an increasingly multicultural Britain.
- DirectorArash T. RiahiStarsHamidParvinArash T. RiahiAn Iranian family living in political exile in Europe and America decides to organize a secret meeting with the rest of the family still living in Iran whom they haven't seen for nearly two decades. Despite all the dangers, the long-awaited, tearful reunion takes place after 20 years of separation in Saudi Arabia and proves to be a huge culture clash between the Muslim and western worlds.
- DirectorHarald FriedlStarsKatharina JentschAugust JentschJosef KienesbergerA documentary on four Austrian businesses that are struggling in the face of gentrification.
- DirectorGeorgi Lazarevski
- DirectorMichael NoerStarsMartin Jensen-MaarJulie E. PedersenThe film director Michael Noer handed his young neighbors Martin and Julie a video-camera; - Go out and shoot the dramatic moments in your life guys.
- DirectorMassoud BakhshiStarsAin Al-DaulaMassoud BakhshiWinston ChurchillThis is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become a metropolis from a small village, now a developed city with many social problems.
- DirectorJuraj LehotskyA poetic story about love and happiness between doc and fiction.
- DirectorMladen MaticevicStarsCarl LewisMladen MaticevicAleksandar SreckovicMladen Maticevic is a 40 year old Serbian film director. In the summer of 2005, he decided to try and run the full marathon race on the next Belgrade Marathon, in the spring of 2006. This film depicts his struggle to train, lose weight, learn the tactics and eventually win the race. His family doubts that such feat is possible while friends both encourage him and discourage him to pull it off. Suddenly the whole marathon run becomes a metaphor for everyday struggles in post-Communist Belgrade.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsChishû RyûWerner HerzogYûharu AtsutaMoved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsLouis MalleLowell BarnumArnold BenekeOriginal footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid-eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. With weekly foreclosures on family farms and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.
- DirectorDalit KimorStarsDaljit DhaliwalJay O. SandersBev Sheehan
- DirectorAndrea Spitz
- DirectorAnna BucchettiStarsGiuseppe ImbucciSalvatore MarraAngela NioliIn the narrow streets of Naples a lottery parlour has been run by one family for a few generations. Each and every customer has their favourite numbers and theories as to what brings good luck and how to interpret dreams using numbers.
- DirectorIris Olsson
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloStarsPirkko SaisioA searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
- DirectorEric SteelStarsEric GeleynseChris BrownSusan GinwallaFilmmakers use hidden cameras to capture the various suicide attempts at the Golden Gate Bridge - the world's most popular suicide destination. Interviews with the victims' loved ones describe their lives and mental health.
- DirectorHarriet EderThomas KufusStarsErich von MansteinLate in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.
- DirectorGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsSergio RossiGualtiero JacopettiJomo KenyattaThe cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
- DirectorMark AchbarJennifer AbbottStarsMikela JayRob BeckwermertChristopher GoraDocumentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
- DirectorMicha X. PeledStarsSylvain FrancoisLiu KaimingGuo Xi Lam LamThe sweatshop conditions and the growing importance of China as an exporting country on a global scale are followed through by the life of a young seventeen-year-old worker in a Chinese jeans' factory.