Migration

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Sandgrains is a documentary about the local effects of global fisheries on the small Cape Verdean village of Ribeira da Barca. We explore this through José Fortes, a former footballer returning to his birth place to understand why the beach by the village has disappeared.

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HOME COUNTRY  is a meditation on personal geography across the shifting meanings of home and identity in the 21st century.  

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In 2009, JIMENA launched its Oral History Program and Website Program in order to develop a dynamic and sustainable educational and cultural resource to raise awareness of Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, and to preserve an important aspect of Jewish and Middle Eastern history.

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Rise of the Phoenix is a feature length documentary that examines how the unprecedented transformation of China's economy is changing the roles, rights and status of modern day Chinese women as witnessed by four or five women from very different social and economic backgrounds. These intimate and sometimes heart-breaking stories reflect a remarkable sexual revolution redefining one-fifth of the world's population despite a gender-biased tradition.

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"The Need to Move" focuses on a highly topical issue: The current situation of nomadic minorities in Europe. Giving a very personal and unique inside view into Irish Traveller life, this documentary reveals crucial points and discovers the real causes for existing social problems in and between two different societies.

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Hot Topics will bring to light the human impacts of climate change around the world. The project’s products will include a book (both paper and an interactive e-book) and related multimedia materials, such as dispatches for National Geographic News Watch and radio features for Public Radio International's program The World. 

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Song of the Bird King is a 90 min documentary about two musicians who follow the almost extinct Bird King in the sky and find and meet seven disappearing tribes across the Philippine Islands. While it might be too late to reverse the environmental devastation threatening the tribes' existence, the two set up to record their oral traditions, music and dance before their existence becomes definite and irreversible.

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Explosive ethnic violence in Rwanda spread into the Democratic Republic of Congo, separating Rose Mapendo from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Over a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the US where they must face the past and build a new future.

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Through intimate portraits of three individuals living in the poorest areas of Kenya, GOOD FORTUNE explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.