After years of living an institutionalised life, a group of intellectually disabled adults discover what it feels like to be free.
Five experts describe how their attitudes and approaches to research were strongly influenced by the insights or attitudes of others. Featured researchers: - Joseph Curtin, Master violinmaker and acoustician - Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute at the University…
Leaving California: The Untold Story follows the unprecedented exodus from California, exploring the rising challenges of crime, housing, cost of living, homelessness, and more. Host Siyamak Khorrami provides a personal lens, speaking with residents and notable figures to uncover the policies and trends…
When Emily's teenage son became withdrawn, she never imagined he had secretly joined Australia's most prominent Neo-Nazi group. Now, she and other families are speaking out for the first time, revealing to ABC the painful reality of radicalisation and the struggle to get help.
Leaving Independence is an episodic feature about discovery, character growth development, and independent thinking. Dave Vixie is an eighth grade teacher out of Northern California. It is not too often that you come across an educator who is so passionate about learning that he will go to great lengths…
A heartbreaking story about the dreams of children living in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa. Siseko sings opera escaping the abuse by his father and dreams of becoming an opera singer; Cynthia who wants to become a doctor plays the saxophone while staying out of the hands of gangsters; Guava…
Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on a farm in Brazil. Exploring their family-roots leads the children to discover their surprising heritage, which undermines the existence of the communal paradise.
«I crawled out of the fold with a crease across my head that never goes...» What happens when a person is born a Hasidic Jew, but knows that they don’t belong? Filmed in Montreal, New York and Israel. LEAVING THE FOLD is a documentary film, which tells the story of five young…
Leaving The Fold follows five young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world who no longer wish to remain on the inside. As children they grew up in a closed society where deviation from the rules of conduct is often punishable by ostracism, intimidation or worse. As young adults…
Ondřej, Denisa, and Petr, three Romani suffering from discrimination, left Czech Republic and Slovakia to enjoy a world of opportunity in Britain. This multi-layered, yet rather intimate documentary, which contains a number of scenes shot by the protagonists themselves on their mobile phones, depicts…
Lea and Mira tells the story of two elderly Polish Jewish women living in Argentina. As children, they were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were imprisoned for two years. Having survived such horror was, in their own words, a miracle. The movie depicts the thoughts of these two…
***FOR A LIMITED TIME ON VIMEO*** Today, Lebanon is on the brink of collapse. Tracing the country’s history reveals how a minor regional conflict escalated into a full-blown geopolitical crisis. Lebanon - Borders of Blood brings to light how a series of catastrophic decisions can forge the destiny…
