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A fisherman on Lake Malawi has his cultural values threatened by modernization and the expanding tourist industry, while his beautiful third wife is torn between loyalty to her husband and sexual overtures from a white tourist.

A young girl who lives with her grandmother is forced to sell bananas in the streets for survival after her school is closed due to sanitation issues and corruption. We see her struggling, as she suffers various forms of abuse from the ones who are supposed to protect her.

A teen-aged nanny is impregnated by her employer, who pays for her education to keep her quiet.

Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.

When a young albino woman is abducted and murdered, a team is formed to track down her killers.

Exploited by men and ridiculed by the world, two sex workers find hope in each other as they search for the road to redemption.

A couple's inability to have children causes tension in their marriage and leads to frustration and infidelity.

After marrying young due to a teenage pregnancy, a couple find their relationship increasingly tough as they reach their mid-twenties.

A coming of age story about Bella, a 17-year old Malawian girl. Bella wrestles with intersections of traditional life and the new role of girls in modern day Malawi, artfully juggling her various roles of daughter, sister, student, advocate and a girl who just wants to grow up. The film displays a plethora of dramatics and emotional charges expected of adolescents. The film is about true friendships, unrequited romances, school bullying, the desire to be modern, teacher-student relationships and how these impact both the students and the teachers, peer pressure, the impact of stigma and discrimination that comes with HIV/AIDS, the plight of child headed families, and how strong-mindedness and the desire to do right will always prevail.

A young superstar's prerecorded comeback interview spirals into an emotional battlefield as buried family secrets and past traumas unravel, leaving the conflicted interviewer to decide whether to reveal the explosive truth to the world.

People with albinism in Malawi are being hunted for their body parts. These are their stories.

A young budget director in the Malawi government faces an ethical predicament due to his position. Based on a real-life 2013 scandal.