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- The story of NFL MVP and Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who went from stocking shelves at a supermarket to becoming an American Football star.
- As a young couple embarks upon their wedding plans, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present to ensure these newlyweds do not live.
- In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction.
- Anna returns from Africa where she had been working as a nurse for an NGO on the front line in an area of conflict. She gets a job as a security guard at an exclusive health center where she meets a troubled young man.
- Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
- The mesmerizing story of a young girl's romance with God. Her faith, trials, and sacrifices reveal a way of life based on love and simplicity. A contemplative film based on the true story of Saint Therese of Lisieux, the most popular saint of modern times.
- Present-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the "war effort", giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son....
- Tahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.
- Despite a paralyzed leg, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his stepfather falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers.
- Semi-documentary film about a man going to his home country of Chad after many years living in exile in France.
- Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
- Across the world, demonic possessions are on the increase. Two specialists are brought in and uncover a dark and terrifying worldwide plot.
- To break the indifference on Darfur humanitarian crisis, an enterprising activist must create an all-refugee national football team and compete in the World Cup.
- World traveler and archaeologist Abigale "Nanna" Macaroon dispenses love and knowledge to her grandchildren and their friends about the world, and the importance of character, in Nanna's Cottage. Every episode is filled with warmth, adventure, fun, music, valuable lessons and a little bit of magic.
- As a photojournalist reporting worldwide on sociopolitical upheaval and conflict, I've never reported on what it feels like to be in Time Square one moment, to being shot at in Afghanistan the next. 'Diary' is a highly personal essay that attempts to express the subjective experience of my work. It's a kaleidoscope of images that dramatically challenges how we view the world by linking our reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see on the nightly news.
- Follows the growing movement across Africa to stop the traditional custom of female circumcision.
- Tracy McGrady travels to Darfur to learn about the ravaging effects of the recent ongoing genocide.
- The Deliverance story follows four families that have been affected by the local ritual of Initiation. We explore the conflicts associated with this practice of brutal beating and sexual assault. The Deliverance is a French feature film shot entirely in the country of TChad, Africa. The film exposes a regional practice if Initiation that involves civil atrocities on the young men and women of the region. We produced this film for a Chadian screenwriter with funds raised mainly in the US. The project featured forty five local non-professional actors. We lived in the area of Mondou, Chad for the weeks we were in production. The first cut of the film was completed in the country and the final cut was produced in the US.
- This is the story of how a nomad in Chad, while advocating for the rights of her community, has become a leader in the fight against climate change and a voice for Indigenous people across the planet.
- Koni and Djimi, two childhood friends, flee their village after a tax collector's visit degenerates into a riot. They join the rebels in the bush, convinced that they can at last bring justice to their put-upon compatriots. In both the armed and ideological struggle, a gulf grows between the two friends. To bridge it, they must admit that the cure is often worse than the disease. Daresalam, the first Chadian feature film, is inspired by the story of Hissene Habre and Goukouni Weddeye, both past presidents of Chad.
- "Le Lac" is a dreamscape where liquid gives way to dust. The oasis of the Sahel, Lake Chad, is not who she used to be. Ninety percent of her water is gone, leaving her feeling depleted, wary, scared and insecure. Climate change has made the millions of people who depend on her vulnerable, and induced the threat of Boko Haram insurgency. In this immersive documentary, step into the lives of Mahamat, a once-wealthy pastoralist, and Nassuri, a refugee-turned-fisherman, as the lake herself hopes for their survival amidst her scattered ponds.
- Senator and future Presidential candidate Barack Obama makes an emotional journey to his father's homeland of Kenya in Africa.
- This documentary follows the rebellion against the Chad government in 1975. Includes an interview of Françoise Claustre, a French woman who was then held hostage by the rebels.
- Chase talks, 3 minute talks. Created by producer and editor Chase Otis.
- "Parler de Rose" (Talking about Rose), narrated by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and directed by Isabel Coixet examines the life and death of Rose Lokissim a prisoner of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad. Survivors of Habré's jails remember Rose as a brave inmate who took care of the sick and kept up the prisoners' morale. She also delivered clandestine messages to the outside world to inform relatives of their loved ones inside. Ultimately, Habré's political police, the DDS, learned of the messages and murdered her. Among the DDS files uncovered in 2001 by Human Rights Watch was the police report of Rose's last interrogation. Rose's questioners wrote that Rose said that even if they killed her, "Chad will thank her and history will talk about her." Now, 29 years later, Rose's courage is finally being remembered as Hissène Habré stands trial beginning 20 July 2015 before a special court in Senegal, where he has lived since he was overthrown in 1990.
- This documentary follows the rebellion against the Chad government in 1975 and 1976, after Tchad 2: L'ultimatum (1975). Includes an interview of Françoise Claustre, a French woman who was then held hostage by the rebels.
- Mark Brecke's They Turned Our Desert Into Fire tells the story of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan through the perspectives of Amtrak passengers during a three-day, cross-country train trip. In dramatic contrast to the benign American landscape outside the train, Mark's photographic images of desolation, death, and human suffering in the burned out villages of Darfur and refugee camps of Chad confront one after another of twelve train passengers. Complementing the photographs are moving accounts of Mark's experiences and a comprehensive expert analysis, which illuminates the full dimensions of the crisis and raises serious questions about the world's apparently willful indifference to it. For the twelve passengers, and thus the film's audience, a cross-country train trip becomes an enlightening and emotional journey through an indifferent American media landscape into the heart of the Darfur tragedy.
- In 2013, the third inter communal civil war broke out in the Central African Republic (CAR). The conflict was marked by numerous abuses against civilians. Among them, the Fulani. More than 40,000 of them fled to Chad, including 280 in the village of Niergui. Mahamat, Yobandé, Ousmane, Halime - are telling their stories through the lens of their camera.
- Follows a delegation from the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children as they travel to Eastern Chad. This short chronicles their work including interviews with Sudanese refugees in 12 camps inside Chad.
- This documentary shows a battle between a small rebel group and government troops in 1970 Chad, in which the film crew was involved.
- In response to the crisis in Darfur, mtvU sent three college students, one producer and two body guards to refugee camps in Chad to hear the victims' stories. For the students, this experience attached faces to the 180,000 deaths and the 2 million displaces persons. For the refugees, the team offered an outlet through which they could speak to the world. Mothers told of their dying sons and children drew pictures of the Janjaweed militias; both facets of the atrocities that statistics and news clips cannot convey appropriately.
- In this 360 documentary experience, our 3 characters take you on a sensory journey into their worlds - where not only sight and sound but taste, smell and touch immerse you in their past experiences, the challenges they face and their dreams.
- Dar Fur - War for Water is about a mission, that Tomo Kriznar, a human rights activist and (former) Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek's special emissary in Darfur, made.
- According to the UN, one language dies every two weeks. Young linguist Florian Lionnet is documenting Láàl, an indigenous language isolate of southern Chad in danger of disappearing.
- Since 2003 Militias Known As The Janjaweed, Under Orders From The Government Of Sudan, Have Killed Over 200,000 Civilians And Another 2.5 Million Have Been Forced Into Refugee Camps. In A Bid To Secure Their Oil Interests Inside Of Sudan And Chad, Many Of The Worlds Major Governments Pour Weapons & Money Into the Region And Remain Passive To The Growing Carnage, Allowing The Violence To Spread Further Into Neighboring Chad. Frustrated By The Situation, In February 2007, Two North Americans Traveled To Eastern Chad, & This Is The Story They Captured.
- COUNTING THE WORLD is a look at the United Nations Population Fund and how difficult it is to conduct censuses in the developing world. The film was shot in Bolivia, Chad, Palestine, Belarus and Indonesia and highlights the benefits and pitfalls of counting populations. As the UN notes, "The census is among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation undertakes." COUNTING THE WORLD explains how it all works.