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- Blocked in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the North of Morocco, five emigration candidates (from Cameroon, Somalia, Chad and India)are waiting. They are only fourteen kilometers from the Iberian Peninsula but they wonder whether they be allowed to make it to Europe or if they will be deported back to the country they come from? Anxiety - not to say anguish - is their common lot, all the more as they have thrown everything away to pursue their "European Dream"...
- The Tenderloin has long been known as the "heart" of San Francisco. It is the last refuge for elderly, disabled and low-income working people striving to stay in the city. This area is perhaps the last frontier in SF's ever-expanding gentrification trend. It has a high density population and has prominent issues with drugs. San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood can be a difficult place in which to live. Almost a quarter of the neighborhood's residents live below the poverty level. It can be painful to look at how hard life is for some people. We think of that existing in some far-off country or continent, but it's in our own backyard, right in downtown San Francisco. At the same time, we're talking to people about how much love there is among the residents of this neighborhood and the people who work there in order to improve the life of the Tenderloin residents. Love Me Tenderloin shows the everyday life of four inhabitants living in the Tenderloin: Bridchette, Arnold, Woody and Indian Joe.
- Nowadays, and more than ever, the Christian community in Iraq is at risk of disappearing. Formerly protected by Saddam Hussein, since the end of the dictatorial regime, they have been suffering persecutions lead by small groups of fundamentalist Muslims. This ethnic religious group, however present in Iraq since the beginnings of Christianity seems to be paying the price of the American presence in Iraq. Nearly a million in 1980, there are only 500,000 Christians in the country nowadays, while one million live in Diaspora. This massive Exodus through the country towards Kurdistan, from the bordering countries towards Turkey and Jordan or even towards the United States, endangers their existence in Iraq. This tragic situation, which was ignored from the international media for long, is nowadays a known fact, since the terrorist attack on the Bagdad Cathedral on 31 October 2010. But the media depend on the news. The aim of this documentary is to deeply study the situation of Christians in Iraq, their long history and their endangered future. In fifty years, the Iraqi Jewish community has totally disappeared. Will the same phenomenon happen to the Christian minority?
- What's happening in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire? Guinea has experienced these same events in 200, but its story has been hidden, isolated between an army which has always been close to the regime and the indifference of both the Media and the International Community. From the biggest revolt of the Guinean population against the military regime in 2007, through the military Coup d'Etat in 2008, to the first "democratic" elections in the Country in 2010. During 4 years Chiara Cavallazzi has followed the Country's history from the inside, showing us reality as lived by the Guineans and comparing it to the news gave by the Media and the International Community's interventions.
- The "magyal" is, in Yemen, a daily gathering where friends chew the "kât" together, talking and listening to music or poetry. A musician is showing us his instrument, the ancient lute, which can only be found now in Yemen and in the Comoros; the "qanbus" or "Sana Oeûd", at the harmony table which has been covered with goat skin. The singer can enhance his lyric poetry by hitting out a crystal-like sound from a copper tray. In the Yemeni society music can't be separated from poetry. The words of the song must be fully understood to feel the emotion conveyed by the singer. The Bedouin clarinet player is playing a last tune on views of the towered-houses of the old town of Sana. Silence takes over when dawn gradually switches from darkness to daylight. Then profane music is replaced by the muezzins' sacred music, their voices echoing each other from one minaret to another.