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Women on the Hunt
Women are meant to create life, not to destroy it. But in Grischun, Switzerland, the number of women hunters has increased over the past few years. "Hunting in the mountains requires physical strength. It should be left to men", explains Peider Ratti. Only 1% of the 7,000 licensed hunters in Grischun are women. Liselu Frey, aka 'Hunter Grandmother', is the oldest huntress. "I am proud when I bring an animal home. To me, it's an intense feeling", explains one huntress. Four very different women give an impressive account of what hunting brings to their lives.
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Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle
This is the Kafkaesque tale of how one man's loss of identity papers resulted in him being stranded at Charles de Gaulle airport for fifteen years. Without the necessary travel documents and with no proof of his refugee status, Mehran Mehran Karimi Naseri found himself caught in a bureaucratic nightmare, unable to escape his unique predicament. Now his ordeal is about to be made into a Steven Speilberg film, starring Tom Hanks. This beautifully-crafted and technically outstanding film is a beguiling look at one of Franc's more unusual celebrities.
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OzDox: Who Can Represent Whom?
Frances Peters-Little with Romaine Moreton, Adrian Wills, Erica Glynn comprise our panel of film-makers and academics addressing the question of what rights we have, or should have, when making documentaries representing other cultures - either Aboriginal cultures, ethnic or other subcultures or societies overseas. Convened by Gillian Leahy.
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"Boraik" a native community
This documentary film about a native community named “BORAIK” who are very poor and miles away from real life development. These people survive in circumstances below the standard level of the poor and they have no way but to work and live. They do not like violence, are very peaceful and they do not expose their problems to anyone. These native people came to a remote place of Cholonbil from the Rachi state of India. Although these people are struggling so much, yet they have the ambition to develop their own culture and become civilized in the future.
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Tsunami – The Day The Wave Came
This is a comprehensive re-telling of how events unfolded around the Indian Ocean in December 2004. Ross Coulthart travelled soon after that fateful day to see the devastation for himself and to talk to those that witnessed it. Why did it happen, why was there no warning? Weaving original footage with eyewitness accounts, he has created a definitive documentary of the event.
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Connah
A 10 minute documentary about 8 year old Connah Broom and his grandparents Jim & Deborah, who have turned to an alternative therapy called Photo Dynamic Therapy to treat Connah's stage 4 Neuroblastoma.
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Travelling with Immigrants
The illegal immigration route from Africa to Europe is one of the most dangerous journeys in the world. In this exclusive report, we accompany a group risking all in pursuit of the European dream.
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The Emperor's Tram Girls
In 1945 Hiroshima was a thriving part of Japan's war industry. Trams ferried thousands of troops to and fro. Operating the trams was a team of bubbly young girls who loved their work, all promising futures in front of them. Then the bomb dropped and time stopped for the tram girls. This is their story. Powerful and unique archives takes us back to that terrible day.
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OzDox: Black Harvest, Filmmaking in the Papua New...
With Bob Connolly. This is 'Black Harvest, Filmmaking in the Papua New Guinea Highlands'.
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New Hominid Zeray Alemseged
Ethiopia’s Rift Valley seems a barren landscape, but it hides untold archaeological riches. Dig in with Wild Chronicles and National Geographic researcher Zeray Alemseged and unearth a three-million-year-old baby. This historic discovery of tiny bones may shed new light on man’s ancestry
 

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