This groundbreaking documentary is about Tristan Dowse, an Indonesian child, illegally adopted and then abandoned two years later by his adoptive parents in an Indonesian orphanage.
Investigative journalist Ann McElhinney travels to Indonesia to try and find his natural mother, who is unaware of the international storm growing around Tristan. McElhinney’s investigation exposes the baby selling network and also raises disturbing questions about international adoption.
This emotional documentary of high and low points gives an insight into how some international adoptions are organised and how the role of money and corruption plays a big part in this process.
The Scholarship follows five boys and their families as they chase the dream of securing a place in one of Ireland’s most prestigious schools through their Social Diversity Programme.
Applicants are selected purely on a basis of economic and educational disadvantage for a place at one of Ireland’s highly respected educational establishments and not for their academic, sporting or musical abilities.
The school sees its commitment to the bursaries as a living embodiment of the school’s Jesuit ethos and the importance it places on social justice. The personal stories of The Scholarship – captured on screen over two years – tells a poignant story about education and gives an insight into how one school endeavors to make a difference.
A 23-year-old girl opens an online shop selling “the rest of her life.” In her own words posted on the website: “It’s your right to arrange my life, and it’s my duty to serve you. I’ll fulfil your wishes. I’ll take pictures of the process and put them on my website so all people will know how I live with your arrangements.” The price for her life? USD1 for 8 minutes, USD3 for an hour, and USD15 for a day. Watch as she undertakes a myriad of requests – from bringing cat food to an old lady who takes care of 200 vagrant cats, to collecting 100 pictures of 100 smiling men for a girl’s birthday. From the day she opened shop, this girl has been living 2 separate lives – one is her reality, the other, her virtual world.
This brand new series will be presented by Danny Dyer, star of the feature film, The Football Factory and will portray both the historic and contemporary face of football hooliganism around the world.
This is the story of a man who invented a low cost sanitary napkin machine in India which brought about the change of menstrual hygiene for thousands of women. Most important, giving them their dignity.
How does the Netherlands work? If you look at the Netherlands from a normal point of view, many things simply escape your eye. This series shows The Netherlands from a spectacular perspective.
Through data visualizations, impressive aerial images and portraits of people on the ground, we show who we are and how time changes and has changed the country.
In Toraja, Indonesia, Rambu Solo, is an expensive funeral rite, held for ancestors regardless of the expense, has become an absurdity, leading to the desecration of ancestral burial ground. They will save and work for years to prepare a suitable funeral rite.
This unique culture has maintained the tourism industry. The excess of tourism business led to commercialization. With no better economic development, the burial objects trading becomes an easy way to get extra cash. Poverty forces them to become the mummy thief.
This documentary features a villager who turns into a mummy thief, when he is trapped in the vicious cycle of debts after his family throws an expensive funeral for an ancestor.
In an era of modernization in India, arranged marriages have become a multi-billion dollar business. Elaborate match-making meetings complete with websites and screening systems have emerged, making the choice of the ideal marriage partner a business and not an affair of the heart. The complexities of Indian society have never been more explicitly shown in this very personal yet strangely macro view in The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar.
Having a multicultural upbringing, Indian filmmaker Ruchika puts herself in the process of an arranged marriage to take a look at the realities of the system.
This moving documentary focuses on a bubbly seven year old girl called Luciana who suffers from Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva or FOP. This rare degenerative disease triggers her muscles and tendons to turn into bone, immobilizing her body. The film follows Luciana and her mother as they confront the reality of the condition worsening and we see her dream come true as she is taken to Florida to swim with dolphins.