As pollution from upstream factories and mills flows down to the sea, the once rich waters around São Braz, a traditional maritime community in Bahia, Brazil, cannot sustain the marine life that provided employment and sustenance for the villagers. As their catch diminishes, fishermen intensify their efforts, further depleting stocks. And, as protein sources become scarce, malnutrition among the young arises. [The film] portrays the plight of people who are suffering the environmental impact and the human costs of poorly planned industrial planning, over which they have no control"--Container.

The story of Ivory Coast artist, Frederic Bruly Bouabré, who created 400 hundred pictograms, based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété, to help people in the Bété community learn to read more quickly.

This film recounts Haiti's birth, through animated paintings by thirteen prominent Haitian artists, including Rignaud Benoit, Philom Obin and Philippe Auguste. Told through the eyes of two Africans who escape slavery and join the independence movement led by Toussaint L'Ouverture and Dessaline, Black Dawn celebrates the strength and artistry of the Haitian people.

Codigo color, memorias (Color code, memories), explores the complex issue of racism through the memories of the picturesque city of Santiago de Cuba.

• Ladies in waiting / directed by Dieudo Hamadi & Davita Wa Lusala (24 min.)
• Symphony Kinshasa / directed by Kiripi Katembo Siku (15 min.)
• Zero tolerance / directed by Dieudo Hamadi (17 min.)
• After the mine / directed by Kiripi Katembo Siku (14 min.).

"A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo."--Container.
Ladies in waiting: "In a run-down maternity hospital, a ward of women who recently had babies wait to be allowed to leave. The problem? They cannot pay their hospital fees. A long-suffering manager must negotiate collateral with them so that they will return and pay in full."--Container.
Symphony Kinshasa: "A hard-hitting tour through Congo's capit[a]l city which uncovers the consequences of graft, neglect and poverty in Kinshasa's imploding infrastructure."--Container.
Zero tolerance: "Rape as a weapon of war has had much press, most notably in the recent Congo wars. Less discussed is the legacy it has left behind; a desensitized acceptance of the abuse of women at the hands of criminals, opportunists and most worryingly, ordinary men. This film follows the arrest of a group of youths who attack a woman."--Container.
After the mine: "Kipushi is a mining town, one of thousands keeping Congo's elite in extreme wealth. But for those who live in the shadow of its toxic fallout, it is a very different life, one where tainted water and contaminated soil are realities. This film tells the very personal stories of those trapped in such a deadly environment."--Container.

Follows a nomadic Mongolian family and their ponies, cattle and goats across the austere but spectacular grasslands of Northern China. Sensitive to every nuance of the region's harsh natural forces, this film looks eloquently at a way of life in harmony with its environment.

"Theodor Adorno was an influential member of the Frankfurt School of social theory--a German-born intellectual who fled Nazi German for American, and whose work anticipated and informed much of post-modern theory. In this revolutionary 'participatory documentary, ' digital filmmmaker Georg Boch, one of more than 200 people who belong to a Facebook group called, "Adorno Change My Life, " sets out to learn how Adorno's work has touched the members' lives. For the film, Boch solicits videos and Skype converstions. Unlike the traditional documentary, this approach allows each of the participants to frame how they want to be perceived and to direct their own conversations."

A critical examination of the reasons for the guerrilla struggle of the Armed Forces of National Liberation in Venezuela, beginning with the 1958 overthrow of dictator Perez Jimenez, and the flawed attempts at social reform by Romula Betancourt's government, to the 1962 emergence of the national liberation movement, the FALN which, failing to gain the support of the nation's poor, largely dissipated by the end of the decade. Incorporating archival footage and original scenes, the film also draws parallels with American foreign policy in other countries, particularly Vietnam.

This is a work of fiction but everything in it is based on real events. It is about the journey of an African sculpture, beginning in Cameroon in 1904. The film then traces what happens to the sculpture in Paris in 1907 and 1917, Berlin in 1933, and New York in 1948. The sculpture finally ends up in a museum in 1970.

"This is a work of fiction but everything in it is based on real events." About the journey of an African sculpture, beginning in Cameroon in 1904. The film then traces what happens to the sculpture in Paris in 1907 and 1917, Berlin in 1933, and New York in 1948. The sculpture finally ends up in a museum in 1970.