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'Jean Luc Godard meets 'The Hills' in New Orleans 5 years after Hurricane Katrina'. A New Orleanian filmmaker (Jonathan Isaac Jackson) explores the city through his friends. Through conversations involving race, politics, hope, despair, careers, and the film industry, the story of post-Katrina, by pre and post-Katrina residents of New Orleans, is explored.

A gripping look into the difficulties facing of the women of India and what is being done to counteract generations of oppression against them.

Niels Deboos is fed up to the back teeth. Eurobonds, bankruptcy, corruption and reinless capitalism. The whole misery goes against the grain for Niels. He decides, to turn his back on the Federal Republic of Germany. Admittedly, without leaving the country. Instead, he succeeds to bring his weird plan to life. Together with Christian Darre and a handful of allies he founds his own state. Right outside of Berlin. The self organized society does not stay undiscovered for very long. But not only from the outside, also from the inside it starts to ferment. The collapse is beyond remedy. And a surprising breakthrough.

Twenty Five people are convicted of murder and fourteen of them are sentenced to hang, one lawyer is assassinated and the other chooses exile in this dramatic story behind a notorious murder trial that marks South Africa's transition from the apartheid era to a new South Africa. Told through the perspectives of defense lawyer, Andrea Durbach, The Independent journalist, John Carlin, and the accused themselves, the story unfolds to reveal a landmark victory in legal history's biggest case on extenuation. A timeless and inspirational story about the fight for justice in a country where injustice was enshrined in law.

RWANDA & JULIET is a feature-length documentary that follows ivy league professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong headed Juliet, tackle their country's past and their own future as hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

FIRST FRIDAY is a documentary that follows a diverse group of residents and community leaders, in the aftermath of a tragedy, as they work to preserve the event that symbolizes Oakland's recent renaissance.