REDLIGHT

Dir: Guy Jacobson / Adi Ezroni

2009, 72 min / United States / English, Khmer

Personal stories of two young Cambodian victims of child traffic and two brave women who fight this form

of child abuse

SONG FOR AMINE

Dir: Alberto Bougleux

2009, 53 min. / Spain, France, Italy / Arabic, French

A mother’s fight to find out about her son who has disappeared alongwith countless others since the early nineties, when Algeria waged war on radical Islam.

SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER

Dir: Gustav Hofer / Luca Ragazzi

2008, 78 min / Italy / Italian

Life of a gay couple in Rome is turned upside down when the Italian government introduces a bill to reinforce legal status of gays, provoking a country-wide debate and a wave of homophobia in Italy.

THE SARI SOLDIERS

Dir: Julie Bridgham

2008, 92 min / Nepal, United States / English, Nepali

When Devi witnesses her niece being killed by the Royal Army of Nepal, she decided to speak out. In retaliation the army kidnapped her daughter. 'The Sari Soldiers' follows Devi on her quest to find her daughter

THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE

Dir: Jeff Daniels

2009, 53 min / United States, Australia / English

A stirring film about the richest woman in China who was put on arrest for six years when she raised her voice against China annexing the territory of the Islamic Uyghurs because of large oil and gas reserves

TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT

Dir: Alberto Arce / Mohammed Rujailah

2009, 112 min. / Spain /  Arabic, English

What is it like to live in the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel, an area of about 140 square miles that is home to one and a half million Palestinians? Where bullets and mines kill innocent children

WOMEN IN SHROUD

Dir: Farid Haerinejad / Mohd Reza Kazemi

2009, 73 min. / Iran, Canada / Farsi

Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women in Iran, accused of adultery are stoned to death – even without proof of guilt. 'Women in Shroud' follows a group of Iranian lawyers and human rights defenders that campaign against these unfair convictions.

WOMEN IN WHITE

Dir: Gry Winther

2009, 52 min. / Cuba, USA, Spain / Spanish, English

In March 2003, 75 journalists, writers and human rights activists were arrested in Cuba. They received prison sentences of 20- 30 years. Since then their wives, sisters and mothers, the women in white, walk silently through the streets demanding their release.