Al Jazeera English - Witness: Jungle Music
Category: Documentaries
Classical music, originally introduced by Jesuit priests, is regaining popularity in today's Bolivia. Witness goes to meet those making a very different kind of "Jungle Music", a way out of the poverty and alienation felt by many young Bolivians.

Global Spirit: Music, Sound and the Sacred
In this episode, host Phil Cousineau explores the transcendent qualities of spiritual and sacred music with guests Rev. Alan Jones and Grammy Award-winning singer Joanne Shenandoah.

GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan)
Category: World Cinema
In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.

Abel Raises Cain - Watch Now Online!
Category: Documentaries
This doc offers a glimpse into the bizarre and hilarious career of the infamous underground media prankster, Alan Abel. The complete film will be available to watch online from November 16th through November 30th!

Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
Category: Documentaries
This DOC-DEBUT film follows Los Angeles-based band Dengue Fever on a journey to Cambodia to perform classic 60s and 70s Cambodian rock n' roll in the country where it was created, made popular, and very nearly destroyed.

Bridge to Iran: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Category: Documentaries
Using incredible archival footage, an original visual approach and terrific soundtrack, "Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!" covers 150 years of Tehran’s history, entertaining us with its poignant contradictions.

GLOBAL LENS: Nada +
Category: World Cinema
Cuban postal clerk, Carla, takes up the absurd lengths of red tape in her bureaucracy and ties them up in a bow as she fabricates a rich - and covert - fantasy life out of her comrades' letters.

GLOBAL LENS: Max and Mona
Category: World Cinema
Max Bua has his sights set on becoming a doctor. However, unable to pay his university fees, he must crash at his hard-drinking uncle's place...with goat in tow.

GLOBAL LENS: Whisky
Category: World Cinema
Jacobo is the dull and and dour owner of a sock factory. He rarely shares words with the manager, Marta. Until he asks her to be his wife - that is, in pretense - to deceive his brother.

GLOBAL LENS: Bunny Chow
Category: World Cinema
Three up-and-coming comedians find humor amidst hardship in the "new" Johannesburg, celebrating life on a raucous roadtrip to South Africa’s largest music festival.

GLOBAL LENS: Kept & Dreamless (Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños)
Category: World Cinema
Nine year-old Eugenia and her mother, Florencia, live a seemingly colorful life. But her mother’s dysfunctional and drug-addled lifestyle, threatens their happiness together.

GLOBAL LENS: Rachida
Category: World Cinema
Rachida, a young teacher, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom, forcing her to seek refuge in the countryside. Can she escape?

GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant)
Category: World Cinema
Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to fulfill an arranged marriage. But she has a secret: she's in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the checkpoint.

GLOBAL LENS: The Fish Fall in Love (Mahiha Ashegh Mishavand)
Category: World Cinema
Atieh’s small but popular restaurant on the sleepy Caspian coast is her pride and joy. But when a former lover, shows up to close the restaurant, Atieh fixes him the meal of a lifetime.

GLOBAL LENS: Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Category: World Cinema
A father travels from his village to the city, determined to find his son. But instead, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to face his family's estrangement head-on.

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