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Having spent years surrounding herself with white middle class culture, filmmaker Isis Thompson asks herself why making a film about her cousin, 60's Black radical Stokely Carmichael, is such a battle? Is it because, as some say, she isn't very good at being Black? If so how can she improve? And what is being Black anyway? A humorous journey which takes us from leafy North London to the wilds of County Cork in a bid to understand the nature of sex and race in 21st century Britain.

When Ruth's son, Jamie, discovers his father has left the family farm to his brother, Sam, he is enraged. Jamie has worked on the farm for twenty years and to him, this is the very worst kind of betrayal. In the middle of the night, a shotgun in hand, Jamie drags his daughter across to his parents' house to confront them. It falls to Ruth to talk herself and her family out of a life-threatening hostage situation in which one false move could cost her everything.

Carlos yearns for order and calm amidst the chaos of his loud family of women. The arrival of Alfonso, an energetic poodle puppy, shatters any dreams he had of peace and quiet. Soon it's even too much for the women. Something has to be done...

Hidden away in the barren wasteland of California's Mojave Desert is the region's last fresh water source, a natural spa. A shrinking retirement community have made their home here. Only those over seventy years of age are granted entry and the only mode of transport is by golf-cart. They call it the Fountain of Youth.

A love story in reverse. The son of a Sikh immigrant challenges his father's relationship to his mother until a heart attack transforms the family dynamics.

At the start of the 20th century many left the Feudal and impoverished Southern Italy looking for a brighter future in the Americas. Carmela and Giacomo set off from their home land never to return. After many years, Carmela's son,now a middle aged man, visits his parents village only to find it derelict and abandoned.

What if in your great-grandfather's letters there is a mystery your family doesn't want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never came back. This film is my journey into the Middle Eastern conflict and into the death of a man who believed in a land shared by Arabs, Jews and Christians.

Graziana, a young Italian woman, like so many of her generation aspires to a glittering career in the media. While trying to pass her law degree, she suddenly finds herself implicated in Prime Minister Berlusconi's infamous sex scandal saga. After such notoriety, what are her options in the Italy of "Il Padrone di Casa"?