In the summer of 2006, dozens of Mexican politicians famously ripped into one another during a parliamentary session.

Jesús Romero was only 11 years old when he was sexually abused by a priest. In this powerful documentary, Jesús, now a young adult, speaks about his horrific experiences and how he found himself torn between pain and affection for the aggressor he thought of as a father figure.

In Paris everyone knows him as "Mujeron" (Big Woman) but his real name is Angel. A former boxer from Ecuador, Angel is now a transsexual prostitute in France. His mission in life is to support his family back home. Now, after five years away, Angel travels to Ecuador and discovers the true nature of his relationship with his family. This rare documentary from Ecuador provides insight into the struggle of a remarkable man for justice and acceptance.

Boxing Gym Constitución shows how young people in a subterranean boxing gym rebel against the social darwinism of the argentinian social crisis. The movie follows two adolescent boxers from the disenfranchised suburbs of Buenos Aires on their path to their debut fights. This first bout will decide whether they can hold their hopes up to escape the lack of perspective in their neighborhoods in order to „be someone“ one day. When some of their colleagues form a boxers union, their youthful enthusiasm is confronted with the harsh social reality of their sport.

Jailed for murder, kidnapping, revolution, and con-artistry, four female inmates are brought together by a beauty pageant held inside a prison in Medellín, Colombia. The week-long pageant transforms the prison into colorful and controlled mayhem through which the filmmaker explores the contestants’ brutal and tragic pasts. In this fascinating documentary, themes of innocence and femininity are turned on their heads and the criminal, for a day, becomes queen.

The Tiniest Place quietly explores the town of Cinquera, El Salvador, and shares the incredible stories of those who lived through the Salvadorian civil war.

For more than thirty years, tens of thousands of Sahrawi (Arab people from the Sahara) have lived in makeshift camps as refugees in the Algerian desert.

This captivating film follows teenager Sujeylin Aguilar as she struggles to survive on the streets of Managua, Nicaragua, where she has spent the last eight years of her life.

Camera in hand, Burman joins a group of Orthodox Jews on their annual pilgrimage to the tombs of Tzaddikim (righteous men) in Russia, Ukraine and Poland, culminating at the tomb of the 17th-century spiritual leader, the Baal Shem Tov. Intrigued by the Jewish mystical belief in 36 hidden Tzaddikim who are always on this earth yet must remain anonymous, Burman takes us on an intimate journey across 2,500 miles and into his own identity as a Jew.