Italy in 1950. The 18-year old Italian girl Anna is haunted by her past. Six years ago she lost her whole family in a massacre by the German Wehrmacht. Now she is living a hard and lonely life in her small village. Again and again she is drawing her horrific memories. The Italian Civilians had to dig their own graves before they were shot by the Germans... Suddenly one of the soldiers, who can not get along with his crime returns. The moment of revenge has come. With an old pistol of her grandfather Anna forces the stranger to dig his grave. But is she really able to bring it to the deadly end?

In Bihar, India’s poorest state, Sister Mary Lobo organizes women’s groups who learn to save small sums and invest as a group. A new ideology is spreading that far transcends rural women’s traditional roles. In Afghanistan, AWAKENING reveals the lives of Afghan women few Westerners have seen. They talk openly about life under the Taliban and their current initiatives for women’s economic development and rights. Is this the beginning of a new economic system, in which the poor band together to become more self-sufficient? Sister Mary says, “A new class, a new world is being born, with some alternative values like sharing, mutuality, collaboration and closeness to Nature. These are the values precisely with which globalization and the corporate world need to be challenged.”

Binta is a 7 year old girl who lives in a small charming village on the Casamance river in southern Senegal. She goes to school. Her cousin Soda does not have the same good fortune. She is not allowed to learn about the things of the world. Binta admires her father, a humble fisherman who, concerned about the developement of mankind, is determined to carry out an idea that has ocurred to him.

'Caught in Paint' is a 6 minute video capturing painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on four by eight foot transparent surfaces while choreographer David Parsons and members of the Parsons Dance Company are seen in mid-air, through the painting, imitating the dancing lines of Blitt's paint strokes. Lois Greenfield, who collaborated in this union of paint, dance and photography, made dynamic photographs as she, too, was being filmed. The creative sparks and positive energy of all the artists challenged the group to stretch their limits and perform magic.

Inspiration comes and goes. For cross eyed writer Ernie Awning, it never comes. At home. At work. Or anywhere in between. But today, Ernie is inspired. Robot roommates, bald hairdressers, malicious meter maids, yo-girls, and drug-crazed exterminators are mere inconveniences to him now. But can he overcome an excitable neighborhood watch, the local backdoor black market, and a petite Chinese delivery girl? Or worst of all… writer’s block?

Written and directed by Andrew Kenneth Gay, "LOVE IS DEAF" is an impossible love story about two broken hearts separated by language but brought together by their otherness.

The quiet life of Mr. Malakai turns far too loud when an unexpected aeroplane won’t leave him alone.