DOC-DEBUT: To See If I Am Smiling Category: Documentaries Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-pld girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In this award-winning documentary, hear the the frank and emotional testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers.
Future Express: Albania - We are the Future Category: Documentaries Travel with the Future Express across Albania and hear stories from the times of Dictator Hoxha - friend of Joseph Stalin - when the country was completely isolated from the world. Now, half the population is younger than 20.
Spotlight: Blood Antiques Category: Documentaries This investigative documentary uncovers one of the most outrageous illegal trades since blood diamonds. Could illegal art trade be financing the Taliban in Afghanistan?
Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Singing Policemen of Bihar Category: Documentaries The policemen of Bihar, India have found a novel way to fight back against the high crime rate of their city. They have created a police choir that sings songs designed to raise awareness of and combat crime. Watch what happens.
Future Express: Indonesia - Silent Anger Category: Documentaries In this episode of the Future Express, travel across Indonesia - the biggest Muslim country in the world - and listen to the stories of how Christians and Muslims live together, amongst widespread violence by radical Islamic groups.
The Seeker (L'identificateur) Category: Documentaries This documentary looks at the fascinating life of Bill Haglund, who has become a powerful voice for the silent victims of genocide, breaking ground in a new field called "human rights anthropology".
Exam Category: World Cinema This Romanian film tells the tale of a wrongful conviction in a brutal murder case. The police - eager to close the case - knowingly arrest the wrong man, leaving a trail of guilt, pyschological torture and revenge in their wake.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Chechen Syndrome Category: Documentaries Filmmaker Nick Sturdee has spent many years living in Russia and covering the Chechen conflict. He followed some ordinary soldiers returning home with invisible yet debilitating wounds from their time fighting in Chechnya.
12:08 East of Bucharest Category: World Cinema 12:08 East of Bucharest describes the fall of communism through the eyes of a provincial television station. The film was the first made by Corneliu Porumboiu, and won the Camera D’Or (Best First Film) at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Stuff and Dough Category: World Cinema In this film, critically acclaimed director Crisi Puiu takes us in a rattle-trap van with a naïve young man, his pal and the pal's girlfriend en route to Bucharest to deliver a mysterious parcel for a local gangster.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: 88 Keys in Cuba Category: Documentaries Elizabeth Jones' film 88 Keys in Cuba examines how Irishman Ciaran Ryan was inspired to come to the rescue of the Cuba’s much loved pianos, which are dying out due to the US trade embargo coupled with a hot and humid climate.
The Paper Will Be Blue Category: World Cinema In this Romanian film, director Radu Muntean plunges us into the confusion of the long night-day-night of Dec. 22, 1989
Cold Waves Category: World Cinema This post-modern narrative film tells the history of Radio Free Europe during the 80s in Communist Romania, which served as a secret confidant to its Romanian listeners despite the dictator Ceauşescu's attempts to close it down.
