A Dollar a Day: Bombay JungleCategory:
DocumentariesIn Bombay Jungle, Kurshida Banu and her niece Saira are working to establish their identity so that they can be included in a relocation initiative to move out of the slums into new housing. The problem? One has papers, but the other cannot prove that she officially exists.
A Dollar a Day: The New SilverCategory:
DocumentariesThe New Silver, filmed in Bolivia, illustrates how access to capital can change the lives of poor individuals and nations. Maria Cabana, whose husband is ill from working in the silver mines, seeks to secure a future for her children by starting a business with micro-credit loans.
NoBody's PerfectCategory:
DocumentariesFollow Niko von Glasow on his search for eleven people who, like him, were born disabled due to the disastrous side-effects of Thalidomide, and who are prepared to pose nude for a photo book.
Arianna Huffington - Third World AmericaCategory:
DocumentariesEditor in Chief of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington dissects America's changing status due to the disappearance of the middle class. Will government over-spending, the wars in the Middle East, and wall street bailouts kill the American dream?
Special: American RadicalCategory:
DocumentariesCalled a lunatic and a self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational, street-fighting revolutionary by others, Norman Finkelstein is a deeply polarizing figure whose struggles arise from core questions about freedom, identity and nationhood.