Program Category: People & Places

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.

This documentary follows three Miao men, living in the northern part of Guangxi province, Southern China, who participate in horse fighting – a custom which started about 600 years ago. We see the repression of the minority Miao people against the majority Han people juxtaposed against one of the men’s inner conflicts that he undergoes when he lets his horse fight. What’s the meaning of living a repressed life as a minority race in a huge continent of China? And the irony of making another repressed – the horse.

A trip around the world to discover the most original and eccentric people on the planet and learn more about their exceptional life.

Marking the 50th anniversary of his death, family and friends shed light on James Dean’s controversial racing career and love of speed. Cutting edge science re-investigates the tragic accident that killed a star but spawned a legend.

In this globalizing world, international conglomerates are seeking more and cheaper labour every day, Bangladesh became the 2nd largest provider of world clothing, which is led by China. In only 4 decades, it has become a 25 Billion US$ export industry, directly engaging 4 million workers, mostly women. Now, these corporations are targeting to hit 50 Billion US$ by 2021. That will mean that they need more laborers at a cheaper price! ‘Testimony of a Thread’ explores the connecting worlds of hope and despair around this industry lately marked for man-made catastrophes like Savar Building Tragedy (2013), considered as the deadliest garment-factory accident in history and deadliest accidental structural failure in modern human history’.