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The fall of Kabul to the Taliban saw Afghanistan stripped of democracy. On top of this political upheaval, just 11 days after the Taliban took Afghanistan's capital, Islamic State launched the first of several attacks in the country. These attacks have killed hundreds of civilians, and shattered any hope of a lasting peace or stability in Afghanistan. Now, Norwegian Paul Refsdahl reports, the Tal…

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Taking Up Alms

Thailand | 2022

Across Thailand a quiet revolution is underway. Hundreds of women are defying generations of Thai tradition and ordaining as Theravada Buddhist monks. Under the current rules in Thailand, only men are officially able to be ordained as monks. For women, it's forbidden. The governing body for monks, the Supreme Sangha Council, maintains that women can't be ordained because female monks never existe…

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Pacific Capture

Solomon Islands | 2022

The signing of a new security deal between the Solomon Islands and China has raised foreign policy concerns in Australia and the United States. There are also concerns amongst Solomon Islanders the deal will lead to the establishment of a military base. The Prime Minister of the strategically located Pacific nation, Manasseh Sogovare, is using Chinese money to secure his hold over the country, ne…

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Plan B: Abortion in America

United States | 2022

When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, millions of American women lost access to abortion. Fourteen states immediately criminalized abortions, including the republican stronghold of Alabama.

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Good Old Czechs

Czech Republic | 2022

A unique poetic form of archive storytelling, with never before seen footage, telling the Odyssean story of Czechoslovak airmen fighting the Nazis across France, Britain, the Middle East, Russia, Poland and Slovakia. The bittersweet return to their homeland, initially as heroes before persecution at the hands of the communists.

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The Repeal

United States | 2022

In Amish communities in America, resistance to medical innovation is still prevalent. Despite campaigns in recent years to repeal religious exemption to vaccination, many Amish people are still resist change. In 2019, New York state governor Andrew Cuomo ended religious exemption to vaccination after a widespread measles outbreak. ‘The more I read about these vaccinations, the more I know it is n…

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For Two Centimes More...

France | 2022

For Two Centimes More… tells the story of La Coop des Masques, a cooperative factory set up in record time next to the western French city of Guingamp, to combat the deadly shortage of surgical masks at the outset of the pandemic. It's a human tale that questions the possibility of re-localising production, what companies could or should be about, and how we want to live in the 'post-COVID' world.

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Gasflaring Madness

Nigeria | 2022

Our dependence on black gold has fatal consequences. In oil producing countries like Nigeria and Russia, oil companies are systematically burning off the natural gas that is produced as a by-product when drilling for oil. They flare the precious gas to save money. It’s contributing to climate change, at a time when time is of the essence in fighting to save the planet. Can anything be done to sto…

Taliban's War on Terror

Afghanistan | 2022

Taking Up Alms

Thailand | 2022

Pacific Capture

Solomon Islands | 2022

Plan B: Abortion in America

United States | 2022

Good Old Czechs

Czech Republic | 2022

The Repeal

United States | 2022

For Two Centimes More...

France | 2022

Gasflaring Madness

Nigeria | 2022