Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experienceby Richard Robbins Operation Homecoming presents firsthand accounts of American soldiers through their own words. | |
Our Summer in Tehranby Justine Shapiro Jewish filmmaker Justine Shapiro and her six-year-old son experience the daily life of three middle class families from very different backgrounds in Tehran, Iran. | |
Outlawed in Pakistanby Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann Outlawed in Pakistan tells the story of Kainat Soomro as she takes a rape case through Pakistan’s deeply flawed criminal justice system. Frontline | |
People and the Landby Tom Hayes The Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza cuts the fabric of this small part of the world like a knife, dividing everyone and everything. | |
Pickles, Inc.by Nitza Gonen and Dalit Kimor In the Israeli Arab village of Tamra, eight widows challenge social conventions and establish the Azka Pickle Cooperative, seeking financial independence for themselves and their children. Women and Girls Lead, Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices, Wide Angle | |
Project Kashmirby Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel Project Kashmir tests the limits of friendship and costs of war in one of the most dangerous and beautiful places on earth. Independent Lens | |
Promisesby Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg A compelling and humorous take on the Middle East conflict from the perspectives of seven Palestinian and Israeli children living only minutes apart in Jerusalem but locked in separate worlds. POV, Global Voices | |
Recycleby Mahmoud al Massad Abu Ammar, one of thousands of ex-Mujahideen in Jordan, now struggles to support his family on his meager earnings from recycling discarded cardboard. After years of fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan, Ammar struggles with his faith and the social realities of life in the hometown of the infamous al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection, Independent Lens | |
Relocated Mountainsby Matthew Metcalfe and Julia Parnell A Kurdish refugee risks his life by traveling back to his homeland to visit his grandmother before she dies. Global Perspectives Collection | |
Reserved to Fightby Chantelle Squires, Manju Varghese, Coby Cox, and Sterling Van Wagenen In the first three years since returning home from active duty, four U.S. Marines fight the internal battle of reintegration. |
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