In 1998 Wojciech Staroń shooted “The Siberian Lesson”, a documentary about a young teacher who decides to live by the Baikal lake to teach Polish to the descendants of Polish exiles. Many years later, already married and with two children, the director and his film character go to Argentina. For their son, the trip is an encounter with a new language. Assisted by his Argentinean...

    Filmed in the war-zone of northern Uganda over a period of three years by Director Bryan Single. “Children of War” is a unique documentary, which follows a group of former child soldiers as they escape the battlefield, enter a rehabilitation center, and undergo a process of trauma therapy and emotional healing. Having been abducted from their homes and schools and forced to become fighters...

    Everything bubbles to the surface in its purest form: lava, spouting geysers and the untouched hilly landscape that stretches out as far as the eye can see. The banking crisis hit Iceland hard, but not everyone here considers it to have been a disaster: of all people, it is a bankrupted entrepreneur who says, "It's the best thing that could happen to the soul of Iceland. We had lost ourselves in...

      It is one of the more serious and complex problems of our time: Hunger. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), our world would have the resources to nourish 12 billion people. Yet worldwide, one billion people are suffering from chronic hunger. How is this possible? In HUNGER IN A WORLD OF PLENTY, David Syz, the former State Secretary for Economic Affairs, seeks answers to...

    The film is a story of Bedouin shepherd and artist Eida Suleymana. He lives in a tiny village, El-Maher. His family has lived here for ages. They live on the verge of poverty, without access to clean water. They have always lived under occupation but they do not feel the need to change anything. Surprisingly, they do not feel to be the site of a conflict because they do not concern themselves as...