1 Giant Leap Category: World Music Excerpts from a 12-chapter musical documentary that captures a unique fusion of sound, image and the spoken word from some of the world's most influential artists and musicians.
Like A God When He Plays Category: World Music A musical journey through the magical island of Madagascar as an acolyte searches for his musical master who died in 1973. But in Madagascar no one truly dies, and a funeral can be a reunion.
Special: Powaqqatsi - Life in Transformation Category: Documentaries With a mesmerizing score by Philip Glass, Godfrey Reggio's profound film juxtaposes images of enduring cultures and modern life to express visually the human cost of progress.
Spotlight: Ready, Steady, Trade Category: Documentaries Chef Antony Worall Thompson creates a world-class meal from food bought from the world's poorest farms. The film examines how we harm the poor through unfair trade policies.
Spotlight: Rising Waters Category: Documentaries This film puts a human face on the international climate change debate through the personal stories of Pacific Islanders. For them, the effects of global warming have already begun.
River People Category: Documentaries The struggle of some Native American tribes to maintain the historic and religious traditions that allow them to live near and freely fish the waters of the Columbia River.
Where the Spirit Lives Category: World Cinema A 1989 drama about two aboriginal children kidnapped by Canadian Government officials and placed in a boarding school, an environment where they are emotionally and sometimes sexually abused.
Still, The Children Are Here Category: Documentaries An exquisitely photographed portrait of an indigenous society that has maintained its culture in isolation from a rapidly urbanizing and westernizing India.
The Devil's Accordion Category: World Music A profile of 93-year-old Pancho Rada, Columbia's most famous accordion player. The film features his reminiscences and lots of great music.
Mabo: Life of an Island Man Category: Documentaries The story of aboriginal Australian Eddie Koiki Mabo and his struggle for land ownership rights, and how that claim grew into a case that changed indigenous rights in Australia.
The Bridge of Bosnian Blues Category: World Music The story of Mostar Sevdah, a multi-ethnic band which formed out of the ashes of Mostar, the Bosnian city devastated by the war in the '90s.
