The documentary follows Yuri Vella, a Forest Nenets writer and social activist who lives in West Siberia. He left his village ten years ago to lead the life of a reindeer herder in the taiga. The unique little world he created there was meant to protect him from the alcoholism and unemployment that sadly poses a serious threat to the indigenous peoples of Siberia. To give his grandchildren a proper education in their natural environment and teach them reindeer herding skills, he established an elementary school in his winter camp. Unfortunately, Yuri Vella's world is but an oasis of traditional lifestyle in one of the largest oil-producing regions of Russia.

An extraordinary film about social networks and privacy on the Internet. Directed by Ondi Timoner, the documentary explores Josh Harris and his company Pseudo's experiences in the New York of the end of the millennium and the dot.com companies.

In 1994, independent filmmaker David Blair created the first 3D online interactive film experiment: Waxweb.The hypermedia version of his digital film Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees. In Waxweb, images, sounds and text combine to form a non-linear story in which users can change the script by adding their own contributions that affect the course of the action.

Voices of Orchid Island focuses on the Yami community on Orchid Island, a small island located 45 miles off the southeast coast of Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean. The film explores the complex and often troubled relationship between the Yami and the outside world by looking at three different cases of “invasion.”

In Standard Operating Procedure, filmmaker Errol Morris examines the context of the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs—how these photos exposed alleged U.S. violations of the Geneva Conventions in the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq.

One of the funeral rites commonly practiced in Tibet is the Sky Burial, an ancient tradition that reveals a profound respect for nature and understanding of life. The Sky Burial ritual is known "jha-tor", which means the giving of alms to birds. The bodies of the dead are offered to vultures in a gesture of kindness towards living beings... a final act of generosity. We witness this funeral ritual from the Drigung Monastery in northern Tibet. To the Tibetans, merging with the sky after death is a holy event that replaces the sufferings of this world with peace.

Short Cut to Nirvana is a film about the Kumbh Mela, the biggest gathering of people in the history of humanity – although few in the West have ever heard of it. More than 70 million pilgrims attend this spiritual festival which has been held every twelve years near Allahabad, India, for over two millennia.