Motorkite Dreaming

The ultimate Aussie adventure story

This is the tale of Aidan, Daryl, their fiancées and their shared dream to fly microlights from Adelaide to Beagle Bay. The intrepid couples navigate tough flying conditions, crocodile-infested swamps and their own conflicting personalities. Led by two Aboriginal guides, the flying circus heads deep into the spiritual heartland of Australia. Soaring through twenty indigenous language nations they connect with a culture thousands of years old.

What Tomorrow Brings

Following the hazardous journey of one of Afghanistan’s pioneering girls’ schools

The Zabuli Education Center is the first school for girls in Deh’Subz, rural Afghanistan. Founder Razia Jan must juggle threats from the Taliban, interference from disapproving family members and teenage angst to keep the school running. Zabuli’s challenges reveal the difficulties facing modern Afghanistan, as it balances the uneasy tension between a deeply conservative culture and a burning desire for development.

Alison

A jaw-dropping story of survival against all the odds

In 1994, Alison Botha was abducted at knife-point by two men outside her home in South Africa. Driven into a nature reserve off the main road, she was raped, disembowelled, almost decapitated and left for dead. Against extraordinary odds, mystifying the doctors who had treated her, Alison survived this horrific attack. But this was only the beginning of her struggle. This is the remarkable story of her fight for justice and recovery.

Death of a Child

Living with the guilt of your own child's death

Having a child die is the worst thing imaginable – but what if you are responsible? Just one moment of distraction, one lapse of concentration, can put a child’s life at risk. With a sympathetic and unobtrusive approach, this poignant doc explores the stories of parents who have undergone this trauma. Grappling with their own guilt, lengthy legal battles and the wrath of the public eye, these parents open up about their unthinkable tragedy.

What Happened In Vegas

A law unto themselves: meet the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department

When TV editor Ramsey Denison was jailed for simply reporting police brutality on the Las Vegas strip, he was inspired to investigate the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. In this damning exposé, he reveals the police’s cavalier methods and the dire consequences. Civilian fatalities, unconstitutional arrests and embellished crime reports paint an incriminating picture of a police department where the officers are above the law.

Spookers

Inside the charmingly frightening world of Spookers, New Zealand's top scare park

As night falls at Spookers, dozens of seemingly ordinary people become freaks, zombies and chainsaw-wielding clowns. Every weekend come rain, hail or shine, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern hemisphere’s largest scream park, based in a former psychiatric hospital. This surprising doc reveals the transformative and paradoxically lifesaving power of belonging to a community that celebrates fear.

Still Tomorrow

How one disabled farmer became China's star poet

A farmer from rural China with cerebral palsy is not a likely candidate for fame. But when Yu Xiuhua’s poetry went viral online, she was suddenly touted for great success. Brutally visceral, her poetry is born from grappling with disability, a loveless marriage, and her relationship with China’s eroding pastoral interior. This sympathetic doc lays bare the disjunction at the heart of Yu’s life between physical circumstance and inner expression.

Hotel Coolgardie

Two female backpackers get more than they bargained for working in a remote Australian town

In remotest red-dust Australia is the sleepy mining town of Coolgardie. When two Finnish girls take jobs in the town’s only pub, they find themselves in a trial of endurance. Full of raucous drinkers and ogling patrons, the girls soon realise that pouring pints is the least of their work. Amusing, disturbing, and thoroughly bizarre, this candid doc reveals the struggles of adapting to life in an insular and politically-incorrect community.

When the Bull Cried

Deep underground, 10,000 feet above sea level

Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community, providing jobs and livelihoods – but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people turn to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune, supplicating him with alcoholic libations. But when the mountain’s flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken.