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- A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
- A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a private reality that no-one else can enter.
- Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother unhappily married to Geoff and struggling with her feelings for another woman - her 10-year-old son's vivacious teacher, Kathy Thompson.
- A documentary that captures the same 24-hour period throughout every country in the world.
- When the man who left a package in his care is murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, he sets out to unravel the mysterious plot.
- Slash and burn farming generates more carbon annually than all air travel put together. It sits at the crossroads of two of the greatest threats to global stability: accelerating climate change and diminishing food security. Up In Smoke follows British scientist Mike Hands, who has laboured for 25 years to find a solution to replacing slash & burn agriculture in equatorial rainforests. And he's found it. Filmed over 4 years in Honduras and the UK, the this fascinating film presents a historic opportunity to address one of the most urgent issues of the present day. It parallels the farmer's struggles with Mike Hands attempts to get heavyweight political backing, as he tries to get the Inga Tree and alley-cropping technique onto the agenda at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit. But is the world ready to listen?
- Drawing on eye-witness testimonies and unique access to West Yorkshire Police's investigation to tell the story of the brutal attack by a right-wing extremist that ended the life of the British parliamentarian.
- How the use of artificial insemination methods for cattle affects the lives of a small Indian boy and his father living on the northern area of the Ganges plain, Uttar Pradesh.
- A hard-drinking, burnt-out theatre actor watches his penultimate performance over and over on video, never knowing who to blame for his demise. That is until he encounters a hole in the fabric of space and time, where he finds that, in a chicken-and-egg scenario, he is perhaps at fault for his own fall from grace.
- Bananas Unpeeled investigates the social and enviromental issues facing banana plantation workers and farmers. In Latin America, banana production takes place on large plantations, where harsh working conditions and enviromental damage are the norm. Five companies control over 80% of world trade. However in the Caribbean banana farmers are been squeezed out of the market by a war in the World Trade Organisation led by the multinational companies. Meanwhile positive alternatives are emerging with Fairtrade.