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This film follows nine girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education. the girls face arranged marriages, child slavery and other...
In the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn the...
The final part of Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of life’ series which also includes THE DECAMERON and THE CANTERBURY TALES. A dream-like, sensuous interpretation of the original folk tales. Locations in Yemen,...
Follows a elderly, devout couple as they endure blistering heat, bitter cold and unforgiving terrain on a pilgrimage to the shrine of their saint and idol, the 13th-century Sheikh Husein. They make to...
In the 1960s gynaecologists Reg and Catherine Hamlin left Sydney for a three-year contract in Addis Ababa that turned into a lifetime’s commitment. Shows the hospital they build and meets some of the 14,00...
Amina Ahmed Abdullah is a trained midwife working in the huge Hatashiek refugee camp in the Somali region of Ethiopia, where infibulation (the most extreme form of female genital mutilation) is widely...
The Rastafarians of Jamaica live in slums and regard Ethiopia as their promised land. There are now 7000 of them, but this film concentrates on one family, who live in a cardboard shack in Kingston’s...
Two films from a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. 1: During Eritrea’s 30-year war with Ethiopia, women fought alongside men as equal partners on the front lines. Today, they...
For over a decade the Granada Television DISAPPEARING WORLD team followed the lives of the Mursi, an Ethiopian agro-pastoral people. While the Mursi way of life is tecnologically underdeveloped and may...
This film tells how forensic sciences and archaeology have been used to investigate international human-rights abuses in trouble spots around the world. The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), an...
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