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- A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- Traces the birth and failure of new media company govWorks.com.
- "Recently, my young son came up to me. He had seen my old uniform hanging in the closet. He asked me, 'Daddy, are you a warrior?' and I didn't know how to respond to him". It was this moment that Vardan Hovhannisyan describes as the turning point when he knew he needed to return to the archive footage he shot during the Karabagh war. In "A Story of People in War and Peace" Vardan tries to find the people he shared a trench with twelve years ago to speak with them again today. Vardan's intimate conversations with the people he finds raise the ultimate questions about the human costs of war and how it changes ones life forever. More importantly it seeks to find out how they are surviving in peace. "The film combines strong and unique archival war footage from the trenches of a 20 meter battlefield with the human and touching stories of the survivors who are now living on in peace time. Twelve years later I had the opportunity to follow them over a year-long shooting period and was able to create a very close and intimate portrait of their lives and their universal stories", Vardan Hovhannisyan.
- Follow filmmaker Curtis Levy as he embarks on a hilarious personal journey to prove Waltzing Matilda should become the national anthem when Australia becomes a republic. The Matilda Candidate is an insightful exploration of the intersection between the great shearers' strike and the beginnings of the white Australia policy. The millions of Australians who sing Waltzing Matilda with such patriotic enthusiasm have no idea that the events that inspired the song are among the most volatile in Australia's history. The filmmaker who brought you Hephzibah and The President versus David Hicks turns the camera on himself as he stands for election to the Australian Senate and explores Australia's suitability to become a republic. The surprising history of the song reveals several obstacles to its acceptance as the national anthem. Waltzing Matilda was written in 1895, a time when there was both an exaggerated fear of outsiders, and a schizophrenic split about whether the population should be British or Australian. The writing of Waltzing Matilda encompasses a deeply emotional and formative time for Australia, and the song continues to express the psyche of the nation. The Matilda Candidate looks at whether Australians' continued passion for the song means they are developing a mindset capable of embracing the true values of a republic.