S1.E4 ∙ Behzad

The documentary Scars of Shame tells the story of Angela Hartlin, a 24 year old student from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, who suffers from Dermatillomania: the skin-picking disorder. Angela invites us into her world for an intimate portrait of her daily struggles as she deals with this condition.

Fallen City follows the survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to embark on a journey in search of hope, meaning and identity. Zeroing in on three broken families, the film explores the hearts and minds of ordinary rural Chinese forced to rebuild their lives in an empty world. A devoted father, a divorced older woman, and a runaway teenage boy, each on their own journey, become a collective image of the Chinese people, struggling to their place in a new China torn between tradition and modernity.

Agus plays in a band, Korrontzi, for the global diffusion of Basque heritage in the form of music and dance. The home where he was born, 5 centuries old, is going to be demolished to allow for a new road to be built.

Leonor and Elizangela do not appear crazy at first sight in the way that society often imagines. They are victims of violent and uncontrollable seizure, which sometimes result even during filming in forcible confinement. The rest of the time they are endowed with sensitivity and clarity about their condition, which offers anyone who will listen to them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with what madness is, through their words, and also through their tragic and touching destinies.

Over 8 years, a small fisherman puts himself, as 'David against Goliath', in the heart of the new reform of the Common Fisheries in Brussels, to try to understand and change the system that took everything from him.