Family Portrait in Black and Whiteby Julia Ivanova One foster mother is raising 16 black orphans in Ukraine, a country where 99.9 percent of the population is white, and where race does matter. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Garbage Dreamsby Mai Iskander The world’s largest garbage village is just outside Cairo. The Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”) recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect, but now multinational corporations threaten their livelihood. Independent Lens, Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Journals of a Wily Schoolby Sudeshna Bose Follow a young pickpocket through the streets of Kolkata, where he plies his trade and plays a real-life game of cops and robbers... Independent Lens, Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Lost Boys of Sudanby Jon Shenk and Megan Mylan Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two young refugees of Sudan’s civil war through their first year in America. POV, Global Voices | |
Mai's Americaby Marlo Poras When a spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh’s revolution leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi for a high school exchange program in rural Mississippi, her ideas about freedom, America, Vietnam, and herself are thrown into question. POV, Global Voices | |
Please Vote for Meby Weijun Chen Please Vote for Me follows 8-year-old students in an elementary school in China as they campaign for class monitor. Independent Lens, Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
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. Global Voices, POV | |
Putin's Kissby Lise Birk Pedersen Nashi is an increasingly popular political youth organization with direct ties to the Kremlin. Officially, its goal is to support the current political system by creating a future elite among the brightest and most loyal Russian teenagers. But their agenda is also to keep the political opposition from spreading their views among the Russians. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Refugeeby Spencer Nakasako Three young Cambodian American men return to the land of their roots wielding video cameras to document their experience of meeting fathers, sisters, and brothers for the first time. Global Voices, Independent Lens | |
Sentenced Homeby Nicole Newnham and David Grabias Raised as Americans in inner-city projects near Seattle, three young Cambodian men are deported back to Cambodia, caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future by a system that doesn't offer any second chances. Independent Lens, Global Voices |
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