Pepe el andaluz

A collection of short documentaries culled from the first person interviews of many Pearl Harbor survivors, both Japanese and American, military and civilian. This series of 8 pieces was produced to bring these historical memories back to life on the eve of the opening of the new Pearl Harbor museum on December 7, 2010. A broad, diverse scope of perspectives shines a new, revealing light on one of the most important, iconic events in World History. With the support and funding of the National Park Service and the Pearl Harbor Monument, these pieces present a rich collection archival photos and film to illustrate these personal memories, transporting the audience back to that fateful day, December 7, 1941.

This documentary tells the story of some extremely strong women in Eastern Congo. The region has been disrupted by a bloody conflict for more than 15 years. In the town of Butembo a positive resistance is steadily growing. The people try to regain control over their lives and destiny. When the violence in and around Butembo is suddenly growing the citizens take action, even when their own lives are at stake.

November 1st 1943, in Conca della Campania, a tiny village in a south Italian province, 19 civilians are slaughtered by a Nazi patrol. Graziella Di Gasparro, daughter of one of the fallen, strenuously fought for years to keep alive the memory of that forgotten massacre. The murder of Graziella's father was the brutal epilogue of the German occupation of that area. The area between Naples and Casino - the first Italian territory to be declared "Operations Zone" by the German army, after the 8th September armistice - was the first Italian territory to experience the devastating shockwave of the brutal Nazi war laws against civilians. The occupation of the political institutions, the raids on consumer goods, the rounding up and deportation of men to forced-labour camps in Germany - more than 21,000 people - and the devastation of industries, infrastructures and civilian's home are the reasons that triggered the first resistance actions organized by civilians in Italy. After the rebellion of Napoli, in Riardo, a small town few kilometres from Capua, local Partisan troops drive away the Germans from the town while institutions and citizens of Tora and Piccilli save a little Jewish community from deportation. The German reaction to the countless actions of insubordination was immediate. An insane violence hit the whole territory. The victims caused by dozens of reprisals were 752. Caserta, in fact, is the hardest hit south Italian province by Nazi murders. The massacre of Conca della Campania, therefore, according to the thesis of the historian Giuseppe Angelone, assumes a key role to better understand the metamorphosis of the German occupation of Italy from a "tolerated" cohabitation to an aggressive and violent hegemony towards the civilian population. Graziella on November 1st 2016, after years of suffering and struggles, finally had a day of relief from her tragic family story. In fact, on the 73rd commemoration of the massacre, the German ambassador in Italy attended the institutional ceremony in order to demonstrate the commitment of German govern to reconcile the two European Countries.

Forced to fight in Liberia's civil war, six former child soldiers now battle for peace in post-conflict Liberia. Trading their weapons for cameras and soccer balls, these ex-combatants train as grassroots peacebuilders and re-enter their villages after years of trauma and isolation. In THE FIGHT TO FORGIVE young Liberians discover that their future and a lasting peace for their developing nation depend on one final personal battle--the fight to forgive both themselves and the adults who forced them to kill.