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Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the controversial H-2B guestworker visa.

Putin's Olympic Dream is about the rapid transformation of the city of Sochi. In just a couple of years it has to be refashioned from a nostalgic Soviet holiday resort, filled with gorgeous sanatoriums, into a modern Russian city. The Olympic Winter Games are held here in February 2014, and literally everything and everyone has to yield in order to turn this status project of President Putin into a success.

Four young Egyptian women with different social background smartly fight for their ideals and rights. For almost two years we follow their everyday lives and their struggle in post-revolutionary Egypt.

When a black South African minister takes a position with a Canadian congregation, church bullies undertake a mission to oust him.

As the GOP prepares to nominate Donald Trump, one of the most controversial presidential candidates in history, activists, journalists and political operatives spend four days confronting America's divided sociopolitical landscape on the streets and inside the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Demerius 'Bus' Evens was one of the big-time drug dealers in Newark, Ohio. Kevin Scott had taken two trips to state prison for charges relating to his addiction to cocaine. Paul Garret had been doing crack for 20 years. All three had poor prospects in this post-industrial town where gossip spread fast. But when Chris Ramsey purchased the historic Sparta Restaurant a stone's through from the county courthouse, and sought to employ those looking for second or third chances, they each found a rare opportunity. And the Sparta became a lively meeting spot that enlivened the activist community across the county, fostering relationships with progressive churches, organizations, and the local liberal arts university. This film tells the story about the place and the people.