Category: All films
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Inner Peace – Surfing on Waikiki Beach
Tony Moniz started surfing at the age of five and was a professional surfer for thirty years. Today he is running Faith Surf School at Waikiki Beach. For Tony, surfing is much more than a sport. As a native Hawaiian, surfing is part of his culture and a way to find inner peace. In this…
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Three Young South Africans: Part 1
Dean, Sinayo and JP (Jean Paul) are three young South Africans living in townships in Cape Town. They are all students at Ubuntu Academy, which is an education space for arts, entrepreneurship and leadership. Dean is a dancer; Sinayo is a singer whereas JP is into rap and music production. In this first film they…
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New Yorkers Against Gun Violence:Part 2
We have smart phones, but did you know it is possible to make smart guns? We don’t need more guns, but we need smarter guns. We have the technology, so what stops us from using that technology and thus save thousands of lives? Leah explains it to us. Length: 06:35.
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Lakota Culture: Part 2 – Wounded Knee
In December 1890, soldiers massacred more than 150 and possibly up to 300 Indians, most of them women, children and elderly men, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at a place called Wounded Knee. The soldiers were trigger-happy because the Indians had defeated the 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn a few years earlier (in 1876). Moreover, the soldiers…
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We Don´t Live in Teepees: Part 1
Danica and Joyce are two young girls who live in Québec, the French-speaking part of Canada. They are both First Nation, and in Part 1, they talk about their background and why they want to learn their native language and more about their own culture. Length: 10:28.
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A Single Mum´s Story
Ayu is a young South-African woman who was born and raised in a small town. She came to Cape Town on the pretence of a good job, but the job turned out to be very different from what her employer had promised. There was little Ayu could do because she needed the money as she…
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The Fight for Scottish Independence
Gayle hopes that Scotland will soon leave the union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to become a sovereign nation again. We met her in Edinburgh where she is currently part of a group of activists fighting for Scottish independence. They live and fight together from a camp just outside the Scottish capital. Watch the…