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The Guardian: Docubeat

I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run
A taster of the documentary, which looks back at the Clash frontman's time in Spain in the 80s. Through music and testimony of those who knew him, Strummer's days in Madrid are documented by filmmaker Nick Hall. Hall also searches for clues to the whereabouts of Strummer's Dodge, abandoned in Madrid when the musician rushed home for the birth of his baby daughter.
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Ekumenopolis: the roots of Istanbul's protests
A short version of a prescient 2011 documentary Ekumenopolis, by Turkish film-maker Imre Azem, which details the uncontrolled, money-driven expansion of Istanbul as the city heads towards a population of 15 million people - twice the size of London. It sheds light on current events as prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's police clash violently with protesters outraged by plans to build in a city centre park.
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Another Night on Earth
Extracts from a documentary film Another Night on Earth, directed by David Muñoz and adapted by Docubeat. These conversations, recorded in Cairo taxi cabs, capture the state of mind of ordinary Egyptians as they look back over their revolution and what it has achieved, or failed to achieve in the months since Tahrir Square was first occupied.
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The World Before Her: women learning to kill or wear a bikini in India
Extracts from award-winning film-maker Nisha Pahuja's new feature-length documentary, The World Before Her. Pahuja's film examines the contradictory realities between a Hindu nationalist training camp where girls are trained to kill in self-defence and the bikini-clad women of the Miss India pageant. Tradition and modernity are on collision course. How the Delhi gang-rape highlighted the routine abuse of Indian women.
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Meet Felix, the Mexican people-smuggler
In her documentary Felix: Self-Fictions of a Smuggler, Mexican film-maker Adriana Trujillo tells the story of Felix, a part-time actor who earns his money getting people across the walled and fenced frontier between Mexico and the United States. Felix employs Americans, often down-and-out army veterans, to smuggle Latinos across the frontier in the false bottoms of cars driving through border controls.
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