Against the backdrop of a violent, repressive regime, five young Burmese women come together to form Burma’s first girl band. These are The Tiger Girls! “…an uplifting look at Girl Power against all the odds…” Burma has been under military control since 1962. In September 2010, the...
Black Beulahs is a revealing documentary about being black and gay in the township of Soweto. The film is intimately filmed from the perspective of director Fanney Tsimong, looking at the lives of three of his closest friends. Black Beulahs is a revealing documentary about being...
Zeng Jinvan is under house arrest in China, Yoani Sánchez has been detained and beaten in Cuba, and Farnaz Seifi has had to flea her home in Iran – for disagreeing with their governments and blogging their opinions. “My keyboard is now the only thing that...
Rafea, a beautiful, strong-willed 32-year-old Jordanian mother of four, is traveling outside of her village for the first time ever to attend India’s Barefoot College - A rare opportunity that will empower her village and change her life. Welcome to India’s Barefoot College, where rural, poor,...
Karaoke Girl is a rare film – part fiction, part reality, it follows Sa, a young country girl, working at a bar in Bangkok as an escort to support her family back home. “I’ve come far from home, to work as a girl of the night.” Karaoke...
In the 1970s, filmmaker Ike Bertels was intrigued by an image of three young women on a BBC documentary about the Mozambique Liberation Front. After searching for them for more than a decade, Ike traveled to Mozambique to meet them for the first time -...