S17.E6 ∙ Cunetio, Wiltshire

We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal, in the Bela Vista neighborhood. She appeared to us as a porcelain doll, small, fragile, pale, with a little hair bow. Little by little, she crumbled apart, revealing a charming complexity. We were conquered by the duality of strength and fragility, freedom and incarceration, joy and sorrow. The intimacy and complicity we were able to establish with her made this film possible. In Cat's Cradle, we share her with everyone else.

They were 13, 17, 19 and 50. They yearned for love, freedom and fulfillment. In the morning of June 30, 2009, their bodies were discovered in a submerged car at the bottom of the lock at Kingston Mills, at the mouth of the Rideau Canal, Ontario. This documentary tells the story of the Shafia family and the premeditated murder of four of its members, of those women who wanted to grow in their new host society. Of their quest for emancipation who killed them...

A documentary film about a group of homeless kids, who have survived their drug addicted childhood, grew up and start to live an adult life.

Self-harm is spiralling in Britain. It is estimated that two teenagers in every classroom have been driven by depression or anxiety to hurt themselves. In this moving and sometimes disturbing film, actress and writer Meera Syal meets young people who self-harm to find out why they do it, and how parents like herself can avoid it happening to their own children.

Evaporating Borders is a visual essay on displacement and the search for identity. Told through a series of vignettes portraying the lives political migrants on the island of Cyprus, the film explores global restrictive practices on migrating populations.

Biff Wilson worked for the fictional company "Universal Foods" in this Oscar-nominated documentary. He is in his 40s and has been fired. He is shattered, he is losing confidence. Will he find work in a similar position?