Crime - Are We Tough Enough?

Armstrong a refugee flees from war torn North Srilanka and embarks on a perilous journey through India, Nepal, Thailand towards an uncertain destination, leaving his childhood sweetheart on the shores that foam blood.

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, former police inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost virtually everything. He searches for one of the few things remaining in his life, his missing estranged elder daughter.

Detroit. Fall 2008. Barack Obama makes a pre-election visit to Detroit which serves as a backdrop for a series of interviews about life and the future of the United States of America. The people are cautiously optimistic about the future in the hope that Barack Obama will bring much needed change. Opinions are diverse, but one thing is certain in their reflections and that is the situation for the country is precarious and there are no easy choices with Global Warming, Economic Collapse, War, Foreclosures, Crime, Homelessness and Unemployment, their daily companions, among others. As one person said, 'I don't agree with the international and national policies of the US government. I'm the other American.'

A documentary film interweaving witness reports and ethnographic footage, challenging the international reaction to the human rights condition in Burma.

JT is a retired detective who meets with his ex-partner to discuss the interesting cases of the day. But his daughter and her boyfriend just back from Afghanistan, and a series of high-profile murders, turn JT's life completely inside out.