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Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of the power of independence, the crucial importance of aboriginal owned businesses and stay for the beauty of the northern landscape.

Join a grassroots collective of volunteers as they search Winnipeg’s Red River and its banks for clues to find out what happened to their missing family and friends. The documentary demonstrates the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who didn't come home with profundity and humanity.

The forgotten history of "dissidents", the men and women of Martinique and Guadeloupe who left their islands between 1940 and 1943. The film features interviews with those in the resistance who tell their stories with passion, humility and humor.

The film follows three humans whose work and lives are deeply connected with their stoic equine partners. Filmed in beautiful black-and-white, this lyrical documentary reflects on and honours our ancient dependence on horse power.

This documentary portrays the trajectory of Brazilian singer and songwriter Marina Lima, an exponent of popular music with a career spanning over 40 years.

A video record of a mental and physical journey through 5,000 years of Egypt at the End of History; an attempt to reconnect with the Source, with Jean Houston acting as Virgil; as Sebastian watches and absorbs it all from the corner of his eye, focusing on the tip of the Great Pyramid. All very personal, and it goes on and on, perhaps of very little meaning to others, but of crucial importance to myself, a record not for Entertainment or Public Exhibition, but something to share with friends, one long evening. Maybe there is a letter to my friends about a very crucial journey back to Ithaca – and a present for Sebastian, something that he’ll rediscover when he’ll be approaching the age when I, Odysseus, began my own travels – this may serve him as a beginner’s map – the Fates will give him better ones.

The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary process in Portugal, from April 25, 1974 until mid-1976.

This documentary follows an Ethical and Environmental expert from Nokia as she travels to China to inspect the facilities under contract to her company.

This documentary tells the story of the Slánský trial, an infamous political show trial that took place in communist Czechoslovakia in 1952.

Mike Carroll was one of the first photographers to travel to Romania after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. When he arrived, he walked into one of the most horrific scenes of the 20th century. His incredible photographs and heart wrenching stories of the pediatric AIDS epidemic in Romania ran in The Boston Globe and The New York Times and opened the eyes of the western world to the plight of the Romanian children. What followed was a twenty-year odyssey for Mike and his colleagues as they fought to bring help to a population of children in need, in a country that they hardly knew. "Hand Held" is a documentary film produced and directed by two-time Academy Award nominee filmmaker Don Hahn. Hahn shot in Boston, Bucharest, and Transylvania for nearly two years on this extraordinary motion picture about one guy with a camera, a band of New Englanders, 160,000 orphans, and the unforgettable story of how they changed each other's lives forever.

Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS cartoonist Art Spiegelman uses his harrowing experiences as a New Yorker on September 11, 2001 as the catalyst for this haunting meditation on the most horrific terrorist attack ever carried out on American soil. Narrated by John Turturro and featuring a unique fusion score by Sintax Error, this powerful multi-media experience brings the critically-acclaimed graphic novel to life like never before.

Join acclaimed psychic and medium, Patrick McNamara, as he journeys into the world of the paranormal. In the Second World War and in subsequent Cold War years, numerous secret bunkers were created for the protection of the rich and powerful elite. Many have remained unknown and untouched ever since. In this remarkable film we go deep into the heart of Scotland's most secret bunker and discover terrible tales of hauntings from those dark days.

Black people in Germany still have to struggle with racism and prejudice. In "Black and German," women and men from four generations tell their moving, stirring and proud stories.

A film about parks in Riga and their historical past and present.

Born a hundred years ago, Edith Piaf remains the embodiment of popular song and passionate love, the painful poetry of the Parisian pavement.

My father taught me to play chess, shortly before leaving home forever. I was a child. Forty years have passed, he has just died, and I have decided to complete the ritual that began on the day that I managed to beat him.

La Batalla del Jarama

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.

"The Silent Riot" relives the dark days of Sabah from the eyes of key witnesses and pinpoints the mastermind behind the 1986 Sabah Riots. In 1985, a historic state election overthrew the reigning party, Parti Berjaya, in Sabah after a secret pact was formed between the opposition coalition. The fateful night of the election day took a surprising turn for the worst; a power struggle emerged from within the opposition coalition. The coup would eventually trigger a grand-scale violent demonstration, claiming several civilian lives. An event rarely spoken about - making this - a silent riot.

This short documentary portrays the complex effects of incarceration on individuals. Prisons, the film shows, lock men within themselves, depriving their minds of normal life experiences, confiscating their humanity.