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Running on Empty: An Int... Andrei Konchalovsky reflects on the making of Runaway Train.

Expedition Kahawa We follow the hunt for the ultimate coffee blend. From Sweden via Kenya, to the Dubai International Coffee Championship.

Building the Ancient Cit... Rome, 2000 years ago was the world's first ancient megacity. In a world where few towns had more than ten thousand inhabitants, more than a million people lived in Rome. How did they manage without all the technologies of our modern cities? How did they bring in enough food to sustain the population? How did they house them? How did they maintain law and order? How did they make this city work?

Tracking 'The Lion in Wi...

Yarlung This whimsical tale employs fluidly animated charcoal drawings to relate the stories of three Tibetan children who live in the town of Tezu, Arunachal Pradesh. Faced with a death in the family, each child expresses themself differently, via their relationship with the Yarlong Tsangpo river—the upper stream of the Brahmaputra, and the longest waterway in Tibet.

TASVEER This poetically narrated animation reveals how the Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted divisions within Indian society—with one class of people confined to the comfort of their homes whilst others struggle on the streets. Drawing inspiration from images of thousands of migrant workers walking home from locked down cities—and one particular group who, exhausted, were run over by a train as they slept on the tracks—the film is at heart a prayer for kindness in our strange new world.

Love Unplugged After a blackout in the city forces financially-strapped newlyweds Matthew and Rebecca to go without their electronic devices, they realize their marriage may need more than financial mending.

Foreign Filmmakers in Ho... Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their experiences working and living in Hollywood.

On The Edge of Life Fisherman and barber Chopol Parmanik lives in the Sundarbans delta—a region of mangrove forests, mudflats and agricultural land, close to the border of India and Bangladesh. He is also an accomplished player of the four-stringed dotara. This observational documentary shines light on Chopol’s life, home and the tradition of folk music he maintains.

MY OWN WAY Student Nadin Ziad Hussein is the granddaughter of Palestinian Muslims who fled to Lebanon in 1948. Her parents, who were both born in refugee camps, in turn moved to Denmark where they started a family. This meditation on self-discovery follows Nadin as she travels home to the town of Vejle, to be with her family for Ramadan. In the course of her journey, she reflects on her roots, her identity and the sense of alienation engendered by the Danish media’s negative discourse surrounding Muslims.