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Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.

In the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.

A quirky receptionist in a hotel in Istanbul welcomes guests as they tumble upon their daily struggles, all to end up in a mix of chaos and dread after the arrival of a mysterious man who declares that he is their patron Saint.

In Turkey a man is jailed and thrown into a section for those accused or convicted of serious sex crimes, known as the Groom's Block, where society hides from itself as men judge guilt and lash out justice daily.

A New York City police officer's career is threatened by revelations about his former life as a gang member.

In the Atacama desert northern Chile, a mining community travels through a dystopian industrial landscape into the Andes mountain range. In the hope of finding balance in their shifting culture, they perform a ritual populated by mystical beings and ancient traditions.

Dipa is fierce, funny, forthright, a divorcee "menace" in a rural town in '90s Bangladesh who defies social stigma and the burden of family honour to live on her own terms.

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

'If no one heeds your call, walk alone' A journey of relationships between women, dealing with war, violence and daily prejudice to heal and create the future with unconditional love.

The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970's Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by his country upon his return after the Iranian revolution.

The human race has taken refuge in tunnels below the ground and live a meagre existence. One man dreams of finding better future and will risk everything to do so including his own life.

Wrongfully arrested, Marina is placed in the unfamiliar world of a prison cell. Spending four days on remand, Marina's distress transforms as she is confronted by the bleak reality of the women she meets inside.

Hard-hitting and unforgettable, Mass-e-Bhat explores the unseen impact of capitalism's invisible hand. Framed around the inspiring life of Nasir, a child labourer turned social worker from Bangladesh.

The face of war has changed. No longer do nations declare war on nations, or line up armies on the battlefield. Today's wars are fought inside states, between factions, through the media, from a distance. They are as likely to involve mercenaries and mafias as sovereign troops, and as liable to be caused by climate change as colonialism. To deal with this mutating trend, peacemaking too must change. Diplomacy and political influence have their place, but today's truces are just as likely to be forged at the grassroots, by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. For conflict not only to be resolved but actively prevented, a web of interconnected influences must prevail, ranging from the actions of individuals in communities through to United Nations resolutions. In this film, Jonathan Holmes journeys to regions in crisis throughout the globe and meets the remarkable people who, against the odds, are de-escalating conflict and making peace in their societies. Their stories are measured against the thoughts of prominent intellectuals, and the result is the creation of a cogent, compelling series of proposals for peacemaking: proposals that, crucially, are practicable as well as theoretically valid. These are the stories of everyday people changing lives, of war zones transformed and, most of all, of workable - and working - solutions to apparently hopeless situations. This film is a response to those who have ever wondered what their contribution could be, or if the actions of ordinary individuals could ever make a difference.

Two years before his death the controversial Colombian artist Norman Mejia agreed to what he had been avoiding for more than 40 years of self-imposed exile from the World: an intense and intimate four-day interview. Contradictions, humor, drama, horror and sadness are some of the emotions that we find in Norman Guides Me, a documentary that tells the story of a friendship, of the work of one of Latin America's most exceptional painters from the XX century, and of the complex emotional labyrinth behind the artist's creative process.

Boja is living the last years of her life, working hard on the family farm, among the war-scarred ruins of Mocioci, a ghost village in the mountains above the city of Sarajevo.

Marko and Maja are moving flats in Sarajevo. Maja's depression turns Marko's struggle into poetry, and played on the radio, Marko's poems become the last bridge of communication between them.