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Multiplayer online games have given rise to a virtual economy in which all kinds of virtual assets, from in-game currency to magic shields and whole characters, are traded against real world currency. In China, tens of thousands of gaming sweatshops hire people to play games like World of Warcraft and Lineage. The gaming workers kill monsters and loot treasures for 10-12 hours a day to produce virtual assets that are exported all over the world. Western gamers call them "Chinese gold farmers" and many myths about them circulate in the game universe.

Today we take a close look at companies known as "vulture funds." Vulture fund companies buy up the debt of poor countries at cheap prices, and then demand payments much higher than the original amount of the debt, often taking poor countries to court when they cannot afford to repay. For an in-depth look at this issue, we turn to a BBC Newsnight documentary by investigative reporter Greg Palast. Greg Palast's BBC report on vulture funds. Today a high court judge in London ruled on the case that a vulture fund can extract more than $20 million from Zambia for a debt which it bought for just $4 million.

Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances, directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. It features interviews with many people who explain their views on copyright, including copyright lawyers, producers and artists.

“The following is a true fact about American feminism: Courtney Love’s mother was Katherine Power’s therapist. GOOD SISTER/BAD SISTER is about fugitivism. Therapy. Rock and roll. FBI harassment of lesbians. The legacy and memory of radical feminism. Lipstick. Violence. Surrender. Bank-robbing. Generational politics. History. Through documentary technique, such as talking-head interviews and dramatic re-creations, Johnson connects notorious baby-doll grunge rocker Courtney Love with Katherine Power, a sixties activist and fugitive of the FBI for 23 years. Through the link of Linda Carroll, who is coincidentally both Love’s estranged mother and Power’s therapist, Johnson creates a multi-layered dialogue between the women that exemplifies and comments on female transgression within the public arena. When feminism is still the dirty F word of the Nineties, how do women fight American disorder without just being bad girls in a male-defined world' [...] Just because the sixties was a mind fuck, does it mean that we can never ask Utopian questions again?” – Berlin Film Festival 1997

The narrator's last remaining motivation is to chose how he will die. He thus challenges various archetype antagonists of today's society to a series of absurd duels, but realizes ad hoc that all his potential opponents (the humanitarian businessman, the honest politician, the redempted war criminal, the hypocritical moralist, the passionate nihilist, the corrupted doctor, the ruthless believer, the romantic lover, etc.) have already been ridiculed by the satirical proverbs of his friend. His self-destructive urge keeps growing, until the final confrontation with the only worthy opponent - the enemy within... Introducing Serbian satirical aphorisms, the smart kind of humour which enraged Tito and the communists, ridiculed Miloševic and the nationalists and soothed our way through transition and the Eurocrats. Like it or not, you are also in there.

A documentary about the city of Beijing which is undergoing enormous changes during the preparations for the summer Olympics 2008. A brand new Beijing, with a vision for the future, is replacing the old imperial capital. In a series of close-ups, we meet the people of Beijing who will lose their homes and face an uncertain future. They have raised their voices against the destruction of their homes and the loss of their city's history for ever.

In the United States the ownership of fire arms is a question of personal choice. In this city, it is the law. In Goreville, Illinois, it is compulsory for each head of household to have a gun and ammunition. This documentary examines opinions about the right to self-defence against impending danger, phantoms of liberty and national values hidden beneath the weight of fear, and people's militias, through the eyes of Goreville. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show