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A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

A documentary film that examines the use of corporal punishment in the U.S. public school system. With nineteen states still allowing students to be subjected to this form of discipline, Director Jared Abrams takes an in-depth and personal look at this controversial issue.

RED LIGHT BHANGRA is a very human story about the business of child trafficking. Unorthodox and unforgettable, the film paints a bold portrait of victims, perpetrators and rescuers. It reveals a world of contrasts: from remote Himalayan villages to the glare of Mumbai's Red Light, from the sad and desperate reality of child exploitation to a place where the resilience of youth can transform the worst of all possible experiences into a celebration.

We Are Here is about the impact of war on a country, a people, a community and ultimately a family. These are the stories of five Jews, trying to build a life in Poland after the downfall of Communism. Can we progress from a country containing the unmarked graves of three million, to one which now celebrates life? These five people and their families struggle to find their place as Jews in the new Poland . We Are Here details the conflicts of a new Polish-Jewish identity for the filmmaker, its subjects, Poles today and to the 1000 year history of the Jewish presence in Poland, on the very soil which bore witness to the most horrific atrocities of the 20th Century, the Holocaust.

Before Sunrise' tries to tell difficulties which all labourers have in the point of Erdal and Merdan's views.

In the Jaintia Hills of Northeast India, boys and men descend into the abyss of the ‘rat-holes’ to scratch coal out of hard rock, with nothing more than a pickaxe and a head-torch. One of them is Suraj, an 11-year old boy.