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- Bruce Parry experiences first hand the day-to-day lives of tribal cultures around the world.
- A traveling program from the Netherlands.
- Shishmaref is a community of about 600 people, located on an island just off the west coast of Alaska. The effects of global warming threaten the very existence of these people- so much that the entire population needs to be relocated off the island within 10 years. They have become the first tangible victims of the worldwide climate changes. The project exists of several components; exhibition, book, film, website, and educational program. In the documentary Jan Louter depicts the impending end of the traditional lifestyle on the island of Shishmaref trough the lives of three Inupiat families. Despite the alarming situation, the film has not become a political manifesto. The Last Days of Shishmaref is a moving film about identity, transience, mortality, and the clash between different eras and cultures.
- Het is zo fijn om Surinamer te zijn is a documentary in which Surinamese youngsters try to help developing their country with spreading their message of positivity and inspiration: stay in school, be a positive citizen. Their group is called the Dim Sum Academy and together with filmmaker In-Soo Radstake they make a documentary about their journey. Initially it's not sure what they exactly do, until the moment a preview screening is held in Paramaribo. After that they start touring with the film, an journey in which even the president comes in to the story.
- Bruce joins a village of the Suri, a particularly warlike tribe (belonging to the Surma people) of pastoral nomads in the Omo valley, in the Sudan-Ethiopia border region, which has long-running feuds with neighboring tribes in all directions, leaving them boxed-in in a rather poor territory of pastures. Since fire-arms spilled over from the Sudanese civil war, the area is dreaded even by the Ethiopian military. The favorite sport is donga: stick-fighting, which isn't ritualistic but often causes serious wounds, occasionally even a fatality, and yet is engaged without any protective armor, in fact even the fighters continue to be dressed extremely scanty, naked buttocks and/or genitals are often shown, adding to the sport's attraction as a way for bachelors to flaunt their virility. Bruce insists and ultimately gets permission to train for this highly unsafe test of manhood.