Banishanta Island, located in the Bay of Bengal, is home to sixty prostitutes. 100 meters long and 10 meters wide, this tiny piece of land will soon be submerged by floods due to climate change.
Two cultures collide in this unusual account of globalization, which documents the dismantling of a coke factory in Germany to be transferred and reassembled exactly as it was in China.
This is the story of a friendship between a old farmer and his ox, also old. After having labored the land together for 30 years, Choi learns his ox will die soon.
The young Cocada dreams of becoming a truck driver. Since his father was murdered, he found a surrogate father, Mineiro, a truck driver that supports him and takes time to talk to him.
The world's greatest runners come from Bekoji, an isolated mountain town in Ethiopia. At the Beijing Olympic Games, they all won four gold medals for long distance running.
“Can’t you build me a playroom mom?”…asks Rahul as his mother, Rakhi, tries to put him to sleep. “When we finish building the dike, I promise” consoles Rakhi.
In this filmed personal diary, Mahdi Fleifel presents the life of three generations living in Ain al-Hilweh, the Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon where he grew up.
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families have lived in palafitas, slums on stilts. A government project is supposed to relocate them to new homes, but it remains on hold.