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- DirectorB.Z. GoldbergJustine ShapiroCarlos BoladoStarsMoishe Bar AmB.Z. GoldbergShlomo GreenSeveral Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers followed a group of seven local children between 1995 and 1998. They all have a totally different background. These seven children tell their own story about growing up in Jerusalem. Through this portrait of their generation, we see how deep rooted and almost insoluble the problems of the Middle East have become. When the protagonists speak out in an epilogue a couple of years later, it becomes apparent that all have lost their childlike innocence.
- DirectorJean-Xavier de LestradeStarsAnn FinnellPatrick McGuinnessJames WilliamsOscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida.
- DirectorChristian FreiStarsJames NachtweyChristiane AmanpourHans-Hermann KlareDocumentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
- DirectorDeborah DicksonSusan FroemkeAlbert MayslesStarsLaLee WallaceReggie BarnesThis documentary follows a Mississippi Delta school district and a single Delta family as they struggle against the crippling effects of poverty in the wake of more than one hundred years of slavery.
- DirectorEdet BelzbergStarsCristina IonescuMihai Alexandre TudoseVioleta 'Macarena' RosuA profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation's reckless population growth policy during its communist era.
- DirectorHenry Alex RubinDana Adam ShapiroStarsJoe SoaresKeith CavillMark ZupanQuadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
- DirectorMarshall CurryStarsJen BluesteinCory BookerBill BradleyThis documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey in which a City Councilman, Cory Booker, attempted to unseat longtime mayor Sharpe James.
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsJohn BeardTim BeldenBarbara BoxerA documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
- DirectorHubert SauperStarsElizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga NseseRaphael Tukiko WagaraDimond RemtuliaA documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.
- DirectorLuc JacquetStarsMorgan FreemanRomane BohringerCharles BerlingIn the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family.
- DirectorEric SimonsonStarsRobert AltmanNorman CorwinWalter CronkiteA biography of Poet Norman Corwin, and the events surrounding his powerful radio broadcast commemorating VE Day on May 8, 1945.
- DirectorKimberlee AcquaroStacy ShermanStarsRosario DawsonA powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps In Rwanda" is a lucid portrait of the much larger change affected by women in the East African country.
- DirectorDan KraussIn 1994, a South African photojournalist received the Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a starving girl stalked by a vulture. Weeks later, he carried out a terrible, desperate act--an act that embodied the anguish of an entire nation.
- DirectorSteven OkazakiStarsKeiji NakazawaToshiko SaikiA filmmaker's journey to Hiroshima, sixty years after the bomb.
- DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsBrendan GleesonRúaidhrí ConroyDavid WilmotA black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball....
- DirectorRob PearlsteinStarsKevin PollakFrankie J. AllisonVivian BangWhen therapist Dr. Leonard Stern discovers he has six weeks to live, he adopts a fresh method of treatment: brutal honesty.
- DirectorUlrike GroteStarsPeter JordanMaximilian WernerMonica BleibtreuA man is confronted by the six-year old son he didn't know he had.
- DirectorRúnar RúnarssonStarsJón SigurbjörnssonKristjana VagnsdottirKjartan BjargmundssonIn a remote, windswept valley somewhere in the rugged landscapes of Iceland, a solitary elderly couple prepares for the forthcoming winter. However, the urge to work in such feverish haste remains unknown.
- DirectorSean EllisStarsSean BiggerstaffEmilia FoxStuart GoodwinBen is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?
- DirectorRay McKinnonStarsRay McKinnonWalton GogginsEddie KingThe O'Dell farm is on the rocks. A non-traditional accountant comes with a variety of ways to save the farm.
- DirectorKalman AppleStarsJamie HarrisCamilla EndersDenis HolmesThree actors and a director perform Chekhov's The Bear on a New York City bus (actually, a succession of buses, as they keep getting thrown off). The other riders on the final bus get progressively more interested.
- DirectorSlawomir FabickiStarsBartosz IdczakMariusz JakusMarek Bielecki13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannised by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog.
- DirectorJohannes KieferStarsAlexander BeyerChristel PetersRuth NimbachGregor, a young man, lives with and cares for his elderly grandmother. He's also a bit of an inventor. One day, when her wheelchair accidentally rolls down a hill and throws her into a pond, he gets an idea for an invention: A harness system that will let his grandmother walk again by supporting her weight. Meanwhile, her friends from the nursing home are trying to convince her to leave Gregor and live with them.
- DirectorVirgil WidrichStarsJohannes SilberschneiderElisabeth Ebner-HaidUnknowingly, a copy shop employee sets off a bizarre series of events with utterly unforeseen consequences.
- DirectorFreida Lee MockStarsBronwyn ReedHow do squeaky-voiced 8 year olds become amazing singers? "Sing!" tells the story of how a community group, amid severe cutbacks in the arts, is able to develop a children's chorus that is one of the best in the country. Artistic Director Anne Tomilson of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus thinks every child needs to sing and can be taught to sing beautifully. "Sing!" is about the importance of art and music in children's lives.