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We travel with Farida back to her father's home. The last time she saw him was when he sold her into prostitution. She was nine years old. She was smuggled accross to india and made to work in a Calcutta brothel. Every year thousands of young girls from Bangladesh are sold to work as sex slaves in India. Fear of AIDS drives the trade - as Muslims, Bangladeshi girls are seen as cleaner than Indi...

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The Grip of the Dragon

Pakistan | 1998

The production of opium in pakistan has plummeted thanks to a 15 year eradication programme. The shattering irony is that in the same 15 years Pakistan has gone from a nation of almost no drug users to the one with the most heroin addicts in the worls. Martin Adler follows the addicts to the slims and sewers of Pakistan's cities and analyses the social traumas induced by drug addiction. Still m...

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Living Dangerously

Indonesia | 1998

Thanks to the economic slump across Asia, Alex who used to work as a mechanic with a French multi-national now scavenges for a living on Jakarta's rubbish dump. Martin Adler takes us into the reality of Indonesia's social and economic breakdown. The film catches the early signs of a groundswell of criticism and action against President Suharto - but there is more than just the prospect of popu...