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- In 2009, the first coup d'etat in a generation in Central America overthrows the elected president of Honduras. A nation-wide movement, known simply as The Resistance, rises in opposition. Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley centers on the most daring wing of the movement, the farmers of the Aguan. Not satisfied with just marching and blocking highways, 2000 landless families take possession of the palm oil plantations of Miguel Facusse, the country's largest landowner and a key player in the coup. The camera follows three farmers over four years as they build their new communities on occupied land, in the face of the regime's violent response, while waiting for the elections The Resistance hopes will restore the national democratic project.
- When the Israeli government tries to silence a history, a light was shed on the nation's biggest taboo. This is the story of those who fought to erase Palestine and created an Israeli landscape of denial and those who are fighting to uncover it.
- This short film by Lia Tarachansky was created during COVID lock-down in response to a love poem published in 2021 by Canadian author Aaron Tucker as Catalogue d'oiseaux.
- Since their expulsion from the island of Saint Vincent 215 years ago, the Garifuna have struggled against exclusion, racism, and dispossession of their land and territory. Today, their very first hospital in Honduras serves as a bastion of self-determination. Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital tells the story of how the hospital's alternative health model is transforming communities on Honduras' Northern Coast and standing as an alternative to an increasingly privatized national health system. Could a remote hospital that runs on solar panels, in a community with no paved roads or electricity provide a new global model for health care?
- In 2013 the Israeli Prime Minister vowed to make Israel the developed world's first "refugee-free" country. This is the story of how his plan locked tens of thousands of African asylum seekers in a limbo state between imprisonment and deportation to death, and how they began their fight for freedom.