Resistencia
Resistencia tells the story of the farmers of Honduras' Aguán Valley. After decades of working in miserable conditions on palm oil plantations, they finally got a President that stood up for them. On June 28th, 2009, he was overthrown in a military coup. Seeing no chance to improve their situation demcratically, they took over the plantations. For more than two years, they have maintained occupied over 5,000 hectares of fertile African Palm fields, and have faced constant repression from police,...
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Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Incinerators burning garbage in India. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil. What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And what about the people and the communities where these projects have been set up?...
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War for Soil
'War for Soil' explores the call for an end to global land grabs, and for supporting sustainable peasant and community agriculture. It gives voice to the directly affected by combining personal stories of farmers who have lost their land with vérité footage of organizers and community leaders fighting against land grabs, all infused with global context by way of an interview with our expert. War for Soil is a deep examination into both the challenges farmers face and the joy they experience in their...
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Canada the global good guy? Lets examine that claim. Essential intro to geopolitics and profits, from NATO to Afghanistan via Kosovo. 'Myths for Profit: Canada's Role In Industries of War and Peace' takes a different approach to peacekeeping, the military and development, raising all sorts of questions along the way. An entertaining, well argued documentary.
MYTH 1) 'Canada is a peacekeeping nation' examines the changes within the Canadian military...
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'Outside of EUrope' is a critical, short documentary examining the exclusionary nature of EU immigration and border policies and the responsibilities that are placed on periphery countries to handle the flow of migrants and refugees. Ukraine is used as the case study. Far from the eyes of the public, and never seen before on film, the documentary takes the viewer inside the Mukachevo Detention Centre for Women and Children Refugees, as well as the Pavshino Detention Centre for... more ››
Nex Venatus
A late riser finds himself caught in a deathly encounter between imagination and reality, taking him beyond the boundaries of the everyday human experience.
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