DOC-DEBUT Category: Documentaries A weekly series on Link TV, DOC-DEBUT highlights unique and groundbreaking international documentary films. Each week features the U.S. television premiere of a new foreign doc.
GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan) Category: World Cinema In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.
Bridge to Iran: Dream of Silk Category: Documentaries Young girls at an Iranian all-girls high school talk about their dreams for the future in this Bridge to Iran doc. This is a candid exploration of the young girls' aspirations and hopes, at a powerful and fleeting point in their lives.
Bridge to Iran: Zinat - One Special Day Category: Documentaries Zinat lives an ordinary Iranian woman's life, cooking and tending to her home. But this doesn't stop her from running against a man in the local municipality elections, with the support of family and friends.
GLOBAL LENS: Nada + Category: World Cinema Cuban postal clerk, Carla, takes up the absurd lengths of red tape in her bureaucracy and ties them up in a bow as she fabricates a rich - and covert - fantasy life out of her comrades' letters.
GLOBAL LENS: Rachida Category: World Cinema Rachida, a young teacher, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom, forcing her to seek refuge in the countryside. Can she escape?
GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant) Category: World Cinema Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to fulfill an arranged marriage. But she has a secret: she's in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the checkpoint.
GLOBAL LENS: Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri) Category: World Cinema A father travels from his village to the city, determined to find his son. But instead, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to face his family's estrangement head-on.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Gladiator Women Category: Documentaries Marta El Alto confronts Jennifer Two Face in a wrestling ring in La Paz, Bolivia. But there's more at stake than the prize money. Marta represents the underclass - little wonder then that she gets the biggest cheers.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Romance Chinese-Style Category: Documentaries This episode of Al Jazeera English - Witness takes a whimsical look at how speed dating, online romance and love schools have replaced party loyalty in China. But in today's China, is there any time for love?
In Focus: Charm and Cunning - Women at the Top Category: News & Current Affairs Even now only eleven percent of Germany's top managers are female. Those who do make it to the top also profit from general misogynistic conditions. In Focus profiles some of Germany's "superwomen".
Viewer - and power swimmer - Jim Miller talks about how his hunger for knowledge draws him to Link TV's programming so that, as he puts it, he does not become "an old, stale piece of cheese!"
