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A journey into the heart of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo to discover the “Churches of Healing”. By promising to heal incurable diseases, materialize visas for the European “El Dorado” or provide instant prosperity, these churches attract the majority of Congolese. In this unliveable world, the violence of the prayer services reflects the misery and the tragicomic language of tele-evangelists, with a cynicism, megalomania and surrealism that responds to the hopeless naivety of the faithful.

Statement by Subcomandante Marcos in the Lacandona jungle, the role of neo-liberalism and the mass media. Such statements constitute a landmark document in that they were important to confirm the ability of coordination between media and independent platforms of resistance.

A historical perspective of Mexican indigenous peoples, this work is divided into four periods that take us through Popol Vuh, the Conquest, the colonial period, the tarahumaras, the náhuas from Guerrero and the socioeconomic and health situation in the south of Mexico.

Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival – where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity – to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China – where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly affect the people who both make and consume them.

A Mapuche family has been forced off the land they were occupying in the province of Chabut, Patagonia, through a court injunction initiated by the Benetton Group. As a result of this experience the Mapuche people will reveal that they are still very much alive and willing to fight for their culture and traditional rights. This video is also an information tool to activate an international campaign against the Italian multinational, which owns 900,000 hectares of land in Argentina, making it the major landowner in what was once known as "the breadbasket of the world". The first part of a more extensive work in progress.

An Arab-American girl tries to come to terms with her sexuality while balancing the mores of two different cultures. As she faces a series of trials on confrontations, will she shed her passivity, or will her spirit be broken?