The forgotten land of West Papua is under brutal Indonesian military occupation. Its tribal people are being slaughtered and their unique environment destroyed. But the world is doing nothing to stop it. In 1963, in violation of international law and with U.S. assistance, Indonesia occupied and colonized the West Papuan homeland in the western part of New Guinea. Since that tragic event, the West Papuans asked for a fair referendum and want their independence. At least 100,000 indigenous Papuans hav... more

"Will You Ever Forgive me?" is a feature-length film that documents four poignant stories told from children’s perspectives. Each story focuses on a child’s struggle to make adults come face to face with the truth that violence against children degrades everyone, including the perpetrators. As adults struggle to redeem themselves from the guilt of causing so much pain to the children, the children demonstrate that their spirits and imagination are larger than their short years of experience woul... more

When xenophobic attacks broke out across South Africa in 2008, many were caught off guard, shocked by violence that felt like a violation of the principles of their newly democratic nation. Over two months, 62 people were killed, hundreds injured, and many more left homeless. In the midst of the violence, many young people picked up pangas. Other youth, clad in the bright greens and maroons of their school uniforms, looted neighborhood shops while some of their classmates, refugees themselves, fle... more

Forty people from Israel, the USA, Germany, and Switzerland went on a pilgrimage through Israel and the West Bank. They connected spiritual and political work and tried to heal their "inner war" so that the outer war can heal too.

There are laborers who took the long way round. They spent every day doing hard labor on the assembly line where they could hear even the sound of each other breathing. These laborers went up to the roof of the factory to stop layoffs and had to throw rocks and bolts at each other. They also had to watch as 22 laborers and their families who were pushed over the factory wall to leave on a long, long journey. Then they finally ended up at Daehanmoon (Daehan Gate) in the middle of Seoul. Thei... more

"X-Mission" explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extraterritorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camps as a case in point, the video engages with the different discourses —legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical—that give meaning to this exceptional space. According to International Law, the Palestinian refugee represents indeed the exception within the exception.

"Rhythmic Uprising" is a documentary that shows how vibrant Afro-Brazilian performing arts are used to fight racism, social exclusion, and poverty in Bahia, Brazil. The film outlines the transformative power of a large movement of community cultural projects that make up the latest chapter in a creative struggle for racial equality that began four centuries ago. Concepts of citizenship considered in this hour-long film include capoeira, candomblé, blocos afros, theater, circus, and quilombos.