Simone and Eitan are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified

Eight-year-old Melina lives with her loving grandparents in the Iranian city of Isfahan. Her parents have divorced and neither her mum nor her dad are able to take care of their daughter. Melina wants to live with her mum in Tehran, but neither her unpredictable

There is only one childhood image of filmmaker Asmae El Moudir. At least that is what her mum says. But why does the girl in the photo look nothing like her? There are more open questions than solid answers in Asmae’s life, and now she

An unusual friendship between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist is at the centre of ‘No Other Land’, which brings together the threads of the long-standing territorial conflict between Palestinians and settlers in the West Bank. Basel is Palestinian and has spent his young

Mina Hadjian was once Norway’s most popular radio host. But after being fired, she started Bandit Radio, where prisoners are hosts and journalists. Bandit Radio gives them a voice, a second chance and a weekly feeling that they can be something other than criminals. And

Sitting cross-legged on a rug in his living room with a packet of cigarettes within reach, an Iraqi farmer tells the incredible but true story of how he kept the country’s former dictator Saddam Hussein hidden in a homemade cave in his garden for eight

In the wake of the digital revolution, a new labour market has emerged, but mostly for people who rarely have other choices. A labour market that is very much a market, but work is still the product for sale – and it’s often hard and

With in-depth interviews and archival footage seen here for the first time, Brian Jones’ glamorous and self-destructive life as a founding member of the arguably greatest rock band in music history, The Rolling Stones, is mapped out. The man with the distinctive blonde helmet of

With tight catsuits, hysterical falsetto and a delightful combination of self-deprecating humour and irresistible hits, British glam rock band The Darkness burst onto the rock scene in 2003. With hits like ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’ and ‘Get Your Hands Off of My