S1.E8 ∙ Simulations and Games

Documentary shows the lives of a group of people living in a charity, who are disabled and almost all abandoned by their families since childhood. They have never given up and are always in the process of building their lives.

In 2010 the mining company Tayahua, property of Carlos Slim, began relocating 150 families from the community of Salaverna in the state of Zacatecas. The company plans to extract silver and minerals by open-pit mining. More than 100 families were relocated but 35 decided to stay put. Three years later, the 35 families continue to live in their homes despite pressure from the mining enterprise and the government. Although they receive no outside help, the remaining families are determined to defend their homes and animals.

This vérité documentary follows Nora Sandigo, legal guardian to over 2000 US-citizen children of undocumented immigrants, as she sacrifices everything to keep American-born children with their undocumented parents.

Depicts the last year of the great famine in Sweden, the year of emergency 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who were hurt, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Sweden out of the crisis. Sweden was hit by the country's last famine disaster. After an unusually cold spring and summer in 1867, the snow remained at midsummer in many places in Norrland. The next year there was a drought in southern Sweden. The result was stunted growth and famine, which culminated in the spring of 1869.

O Espectador Espantado is a documentary-essay about spectatorship, mixing interviews with staged actions in cinema theaters and other sites where we presently can watch moving images.

Troy Wohosky was on his way to being one of the best boxers in the world. His gang affiliation changed his life, took his boxing career from him, and nearly saw him in prison. After turning his life around, starting a non-profit boxing gym for at-risk youth, Troy has taken kids off the streets and is turning them into champions, and giving them hope for a future.