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Sixteen Decisions (2000)

Sixteen Decisions is filmed in an experimental style, skipping between past, present, and future to follow the life of a teenager named Selina. A sixteen-year-old mother of two, Selina lives a life typical for poor women in Bangladesh. She was a child laborer at the age of seven, married at the age of twelve, and had her first child at the age of thirteen.

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Sands of Silence (2016)

documentary film

After dedicating more than 15 years to expose the underworld of sexual exploitation and trafficking in Asia and the Americas, the international journalist Chelo Alvarez-Stehle finds herself in the need to return to the beach in the Basque Country that tarnished her childhood, in order to reveal family secrets. In 1998, while working with survivors of sex trafficking in Asia, Chelo met the Nepalese woman Charimaya ("Anu") Tamang, who had been kidnapped at the foot of the Himalayas and taken as a sex-slave to a Mumbai brothel. Ten years later, she meets Virginia Isaías, a Mexican resident in California that was kidnapped and forced into…

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Make Me a Tory (2007)

documentary film, documentary television film

The film opens with Daniel Cormack returning to the area of South London in which he grew up and reflecting on how the influence of that predominantly left-wing environment formed his political views. In spite of being born in 1979 as one of "Thatcher's children", the "thought of nailing his colours to the Tory mast" seems "nothing short of horrific". Nonetheless, since casting his first vote at the age of 18 in the Labour landslide of 1997 he has become increasingly disillusioned with the Labour government and wonders if he can "do the unthinkable and turn Tory".

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Fighting Norway (1943)

documentary film, propaganda film

The role of the free forces of occupied Norway during the Second World War is documented, especially the role of the Norwegian underground. Canada offered haven to Norwegian troops at a "Little Norway" Norwegian Army Air Service/Royal Norwegian Air Force training camp in Ontario. The training of Norwegian air crew in Canada, and the relationships formed between servicemen of the two nations is emphasized.

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