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Funakoshi follows community leader and fisherman Koichi Nakasato, working towards keeping his washed-away hometown alive alongside a group of devoted residents despite the personal challenges of dealing with the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami that killed over 18,000 people and displaced over 350,000.

Troy Wohosky was on his way to being one of the best boxers in the world. His gang affiliation changed his life, took his boxing career from him, and nearly saw him in prison. After turning his life around, starting a non-profit boxing gym for at-risk youth, Troy has taken kids off the streets and is turning them into champions, and giving them hope for a future.

This vérité documentary follows Nora Sandigo, legal guardian to over 2000 US-citizen children of undocumented immigrants, as she sacrifices everything to keep American-born children with their undocumented parents.

In 2010 the mining company Tayahua, property of Carlos Slim, began relocating 150 families from the community of Salaverna in the state of Zacatecas. The company plans to extract silver and minerals by open-pit mining. More than 100 families were relocated but 35 decided to stay put. Three years later, the 35 families continue to live in their homes despite pressure from the mining enterprise and the government. Although they receive no outside help, the remaining families are determined to defend their homes and animals.

Children of Dictators An Eye for an Eye Would Make the Whole World Blind Hundreds of thousands of people were murdered during the regime of the most feared African dictator in Uganda. One of them was his close friend and minister. This brutal murder and its absurd cover-up eventually led to the downfall of the African dictator. The children of both dictator and the murdered minister had to grow up abroad for different reasons. They are from different tribes, they believe in different Gods and they remember history differently. More than 30 years after the tragic events the two sons meet in Uganda and the most unpredictable journey of their lives begins.

Documentary shows the lives of a group of people living in a charity, who are disabled and almost all abandoned by their families since childhood. They have never given up and are always in the process of building their lives.