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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.
- 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.
- Exploited by men and ridiculed by the world, two sex workers find hope in each other as they search for the road to redemption.
- In a rural village in the heart of Africa a teenage boy has a dream: to get his younger sister and himself out of poverty. But when a twist of fate shatters his hopes, everything seems lost and he is faced with the ultimate choice.
- A teen-aged nanny is impregnated by her employer, who pays for her education to keep her quiet.
- A young budget director in the Malawi government faces an ethical predicament due to his position. Based on a real-life 2013 scandal.
- A couple's inability to have children causes tension in their marriage and leads to frustration and infidelity.
- A Malawian family struck with poverty seeks to have children but their situation does not permit. The woman later follows a path that changed their lives forever.
- 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 love story from Malawi.
- Violin follows the life of Kakra Ngena whose young mother abandoned her and her father. Her father raises her alone single handedly, a single parent living in the slums with limited time to look after her considering he has to take several jobs as he is determined to let her leave the slums, have the best of everything in life, but instead he falls short. The struggles of being a mother and a father is compounded by the problem of him not wanting her to be what her mother turned out to be.
- Coming in the wake of failing international "nation-building" efforts, Malawi's miraculous transition from dictatorship to democracy stands out. This extraordinary revolution, with little outside support, is a testament to the power everyday people have to bring about change.
- A single mother makes many sacrifices to raise her son, but will he ever learn to appreciate what she has done?
- After struggling most of his life as a refugee, Innocent Magambi and his wife, Florissa, now work to give hope to the 28,000 refugees living inside the Dzaleka Refugee Camp.
- When a young albino woman is abducted and murdered, a team is formed to track down her killers.
- Nyapala is a 30-minute documentary that follows Byson Kaula, a Malawian man who was convicted of murdering his farm worker and sentenced to 23 years in a maximum-security prison before being released in 2015. It starts with a captivating account of how he was appointed the prison's senior 'Nyapala', a position of trust that made him the 'bridge between prisoners and the prison authorities.' The film then places us alongside Byson as he goes about his post release work with the Prison Fellowship Malawi, an organisation that works to improve the lives of prisoners suffering in the country's overcrowded prisons. Through Byson we understand many of the issues facing the criminal justice system in Malawi and the death penalty generally. We are taken into Byson's world as he recounts the horrors he endured on death row in the country's maximum-security prison, including the death of his wife, his attempt at suicide, and coming moments away from being executed by a machine that 'kills like a chicken' on two occasions. And we celebrate the relief his release brought his mother who tried all she could to get him out of prison.
- Recycling Sexual Abuse! A frustrated primary school teacher 'propositions' a daughter of an economically vulnerable rural woman and impregnates her. The education system, already baffled by inadequacy of teachers, has to find a way of disciplining the teacher.
- The story of how and why people disappear on Mount Mulanje in Malawi and the reactions and beliefs of those who are seeing it happen.
- When dance becomes the only way to express yourself and forget your troubles as a refugee, true passion emerges.