After 16 years as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, former Canadian ballet star Karen Kain has decided to step down. But as a final flourish, she has decided to direct and stage a more modern version of the physically demanding ballet classic

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