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5x5: Voices of Change from the Forests of Indonesia + Hope: Indigenous Climate Change Solutions
Five short films from Indigenous communities across Indonesia show their response to threats to their forests posed by miners, loggers, palm oil plantations and global warming. In the sixth film a Dayak Iban community inspires hope as it offers a simple solution to the global climate crisis.
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Face to Face Media | 2008 | 37 minutes
Above and Below
Artist Tsherin Sherpa's remarkable 19-year journey from Tibetan Buddhist Thangka painter to global art superstar
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes
After the Rape
After Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan, she speaks out, fights for justice in the Pakistani courts, starts two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women.
Women Make Movies | 2008 | 58 minutes
Against My Will
The stories of three women who took refuge at the Dastak women's shelter in Pakistan, founded to help women fleeing abusive and murderous families.
Icarus Films | 2002 | 50 minutes
Angry Monk
Gendun Choephel, a legendary figure in Tibet, turned from the monastic life he was born to (as the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama), to become a fierce critic of his country's religious conservatism and isolationism.
Icarus Films | 2005 | 97 minutes
Around India with a Movie Camera
Sandhya Suri skillfully weaves together archival footage—including hand colored sequences and a new score—to create a story about life across India from 1899 to 1947.
Icarus Films | 2018 | 72 minutes
Arrows Against the Wind
West Papua, the "Amazon of Asia" is a vast tropical rainforest that has been occupied for 25,000 years. The Dani and the Asmat people have lived in spiritual harmony with the land for millennia. Now they are threatened by Indonesia's policy of assimilation and the destruction of their lands. This title has one or more clips.
Face to Face Media | 1993 | 52 minutes
Ask the Sexpert
A longtime sex advice columnist gains popularity against the backdrop of a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools in India.
GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 59 minutes
Ask the Sexpert
A longtime sex advice columnist gains popularity against the backdrop of a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools in India.
GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 83 minutes
At the End of a Gun
The devastating effect that the civil war in Sri Lanka is having on women.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 25 minutes