Khaled, a Syrian worker earns his living in old town Beirut. He was born transvestite. Ever since he suffered of his sexual identity. Yet, he has determined to change his sex by a surgery which allows him to become a woman. This film enters into Khaled's intimate world, daily struggle and damages that inflict him in an intolerant society.
UntitledA report that illustrates the insatiable thirst for power of media conglomerates. In this case, mainstream media groups use politicians to invent new laws in order to gain control of digital bandwidth for local broadcasts (in the Autonomous Community of Madrid), disregarding and attacking the neighbourhood channels that have been offering a public service for years.
In Bellvitge, a working class district of Barcelona, there is a five stars hotel in construction. As usual, day by day, retired people approach there to watch the construction progress and criticize the engineers... But in this case, their current conversations have another subject: the contrast of the luxury hotel in a city slum.
Of how a small middle-class housing estate in Creil turned into a ghetto in the space of forty years, time enough for two generations to lose their sense of self in a context of everyday violence... The third part in a series coproduced by public television channel France 2 on the problems in the suburbs, Les Mauvais Garçons is a critique of immigration and urban planning policies of recent decades. The filmmakers spent two years getting to know the residents as part of their research. The result is an intimate portrait of a housing estate, portrayed in all its complexity, focusing on the stories of Ariadna, Eric, I-B, Zac and their mates.
Prodein, a Melilla-based children's rights association, documents the difficult situation of sub Saharans who try to cross the border between Africa and Europe in search of a better life. “Murder” is the best way to describe the deaths that took place - and continue to take place - on the border at Melilla and Ceuta. The summary shooting of all migrants who attempt to climb the fence... “with their backs turned and defenceless, without previous arrest, without administrative or legal proceedings” can only be called “murder”.
Testimonies of Arab immigrants in France, the disenchantment of the "European dream".