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- Gok Wan presents coverage of the UK Premiere of 'Sex and the City 2' in London's Leciester Square.
- Drama about a child caught between his warring parents.
- Set during the political upheaval following Ayatollah Khomeini's rise to power in Iran, Les Blair's gripping work tells the story of Shahin Mohamedi, a young Iranian woman studying in London. When the cheques her father sends from home are intercepted by the Khomeini government, she is threatened with repatriation by vicious British immigration officers. To remain in England she must be granted 'Leave To Remain'. Enter Jimmy Johnstone, an English wide-boy strapped for cash and willing to perform the paper marriage that will ensure Shahin's freedom. Jimmy wants to build on the relationship, but Shahin's heart is a thousand miles away with her old fiance.
- Interviews with indigenous gay men and lesbians in Australia discuss the problems of being a minority within a minority.
- A story of modern India told through the chance meeting of a 13 yr old Gypsy girl and a 12 yr old village girl.
- What's the worst crime that can be committed in a pub? Trying to steal another person's boyfriend or girlfriend is bad, but spilling someone else's drink is much, much worse. This terrible mistake could lead to all sorts of, often violent, trouble. Glasgow Kiss is a perfect example of the dangers faced by unknowing drinkers every week in crowded bars up and down the nation. In a pub an elbow is accidentally jogged and, horror of horrors, some beer is spilt. The resulting brawl takes on an unusual, highly painful form for its macho protagonists.
- A portrait of a south London amateur football team.
- Agent 0016, a wind-up clockwork aubergine toy pear is attacked by plastic ninjas and painted black on a beach in the tropics a la Goldfinger (1964). Agent 0017, a Ray Bans wearing 4 inch green toy Godzilla who is sent on a mission to investigate by Um, who is a wind-up clockwork toy pea pod. See also Miss Money Yenny who is an oriental xylophone-playing toy doll. Agent 0017 is a real ladies' man, that is, a real Barbie dolls' man and a monster in bed. He can often be heard to say 'My name is Bonk. James Bonk" in this pastiche and spoof of the James Bond movies.
- Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a scholar researching the meaning of sacrifice in Palestinian society. Around them rages the turmoil of the first Intifada
- After a fight with his boss and wife, a depressed Welsh taxi driver runs off with the company's weekly takings. Only after he's escaped does he discover that he's stolen a very small amount of money. Instead of a trip to Paris, he ends up on a coach trip to Ireland - before running out of cash and begging to be arrested and sent home. Unfortunately, Ireland is another country - and he hasn't committed a crime there.
- By turns comic and scary, the film documents activities in a floating globe filled with doors, keys, and a bickering couple whose actions appear to lead to what Hoban's narrator calls "the end of snivvelyzashuns" (civilisation).
- Four brief films presented together to document the differences in the lives of those living with HIV accross the harsh divide of those that have access to the latest retrovirals and those that do not. Eight South Africans are interviewed of which three have access to the latest drugs.
- As a result of a war in heaven an angel is cast to a grey miserable earth. Once there he is forced to watch as his former glory and majestic form is stripped away to leave just another figure in the cold, huddled together against the rain.
- A probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother, but must negotiate with his officer
- A straight man goes into a gay bar in Scotland and sits uncomfortably at the bar as a drag artist sings on stage. The drag artist joins him at the bar and the two talk - angrily at first but with a little more understanding. However neither man is entirely comfortable with his feelings and both react differently when push comes to shove.
- A series about Jack Osbourne's life in Los Angeles.
- A film about the predominance of American television programing around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.
- Set in 1976 following a young Chinese woman's journey to England to find her estranged parents. Red is a fable about love, freedom and Elvis.
- Gitai visits a valley outside Haifa in 1981 to document Arab and Jewish squatters on the margins of Israeli society, then returns 10 years after to see whether social relations have changed.
- Profile of acclaimed jazz singer Adelaide Hall
- Archaeologists investigate the remains of a 4000-year-old pyramid which contains a sealed burial chamber that has somehow been robbed - without any signs of entry.
- Reality TV show featuring fifteen young British women queueing up to get the man of their dreams who lives the lifestyle of a millionaire. The only problem is that he is not a millionaire!
- Documentary on the gruesome 1993 gay-bashing murder of Nicholas West in conservative Tyler, Texas and the subsequent justice system response up to an including interviews with the killers on death-row.
- The unexpected gift of a fridge puts the freeze on love.
- In Thailand half a million women work as prostitutes while men leave country as low-paid labourers in Gulf Emirates.
- A secret political prison unit in the USA? In 1986, a controversial high security unit was opened in an underground chamber of Kentucky's federal prison. Its three female prisoners received sentences of unprecedented length for nonviolent crimes.
- Middle-class parents have bought a run-down school in the country. Their two children, plus an assortment of friends, are staying there over the summer. One day an old lady is found in the school, claiming she used to work there. The children hold her to ransom, but no-one takes any notice.
- A young woman's obsession with a naked statue of Apollo causes havoc for an unsuspecting builder.
- A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Kurdish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison and broke out of jail to edit "Yol".
- An Australian couple strive to prove that chemical companies have polluted the water supply, giving their daughter leukemia.
- Cri takes as its inspiration the experience of mostly verbal aggression and violence in and caused by an urban environment and its possible influence on the individual.