Caught in the Crossfire - Arab Americans in WartimeBy Calvin Skaggs, Brad Lichenstein, and David Van Taylor Caught in the Crossfire follows the lives of three Arab American New Yorkers after the September 11 terrorist attacks. | |
Children of the Sunby Ran Tal and Amir Harel Tracing Israel’s kibbutz movement, Children of the Sun follows members of the Zionist elite from their birth in the 1920s and 1930s to the crisis that weakened the movement Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
City of Bordersby Yun Suh In the heart of Jerusalem, people of all nationalities, religious affiliations, and sexual orientations gather and find peace in an unlikely place: a gay bar. | |
The Collaborator and His Familyby Adi Barash, Ruthie Shatz, and Ross Kauffman In this cinema verité film, a Palestinian family is torn apart by its patriarch's collaboration with Israel. Global Voices | |
Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journeyby Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan Directors Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan sit down with former President Pervez Musharraf, before he resigns from office, to address the army general’s plans to establish democracy in Pakistan. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection, Independent Lens | |
En Route to Baghdadby Simone Duarte En Route to Baghdad is a portrait of the peacekeeping career of former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose death in a 2003 Baghdad bombing attack became a tragic metaphor for the effort to bring stability to Iraq. Global Voices, Independent Lens | |
A Family at Warby Jorgen and Malene Flindt A Family at War follows one American family over the course of a year after their son’s combat death in Iraq, tracing their changing attitudes and views on the military and global politics. Independent Lens | |
Flipping Outby Yoav Shamir and Michael Sharfstein Israel is struggling to deal with about 2,000 former soldiers every year who abuse hallucinogenic drugs until they become psychotic. Global Perspectives Collection | |
Frontiers of Dreams and Fearsby Mai Masri Two girls living in refugee camps in Beirut and Bethlehem share the feelings and hopes of a new generation of young Palestinians. | |
Hell of a Nationby Tamara Gould and Bonnie Cohen This intimate look at two candidates struggling to participate in Afghanistan’s constitutional convention shows how the road to becoming a delegate is almost as difficult as the country’s terrain itself; only a fraction of Afghans are elected to this landmark event. Global Voices, Wide Angle |
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