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- A fisherman on Lake Malawi has his cultural values threatened by modernization and the expanding tourist industry, while his beautiful third wife is torn between loyalty to her husband and sexual overtures from a white tourist.
- A young girl who lives with her grandmother is forced to sell bananas in the streets for survival after her school is closed due to sanitation issues and corruption. We see her struggling, as she suffers various forms of abuse from the ones who are supposed to protect her.
- Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.
- In a rural village in the heart of Africa a teenage boy has a dream: to get his younger sister and himself out of poverty. But when a twist of fate shatters his hopes, everything seems lost and he is faced with the ultimate choice.
- Exploited by men and ridiculed by the world, two sex workers find hope in each other as they search for the road to redemption.
- A teen-aged nanny is impregnated by her employer, who pays for her education to keep her quiet.
- Violin follows the life of Kakra Ngena whose young mother abandoned her and her father. Her father raises her alone single handedly, a single parent living in the slums with limited time to look after her considering he has to take several jobs as he is determined to let her leave the slums, have the best of everything in life, but instead he falls short. The struggles of being a mother and a father is compounded by the problem of him not wanting her to be what her mother turned out to be.
- A young budget director in the Malawi government faces an ethical predicament due to his position. Based on a real-life 2013 scandal.
- After marrying young due to a teenage pregnancy, a couple find their relationship increasingly tough as they reach their mid-twenties.
- A Malawian family struck with poverty seeks to have children but their situation does not permit. The woman later follows a path that changed their lives forever.
- Coming in the wake of failing international "nation-building" efforts, Malawi's miraculous transition from dictatorship to democracy stands out. This extraordinary revolution, with little outside support, is a testament to the power everyday people have to bring about change.
- A Malawian couple suffering from infidelity go to extreme lengths to conceive a child.
- God's mission to end sexual exploitation, and one man's discovery that it begins in his own his own Heart.
- When dance becomes the only way to express yourself and forget your troubles as a refugee, true passion emerges.
- A couple's inability to have children causes tension in their marriage and leads to frustration and infidelity.
- A documentary short filmed in Malawi, A Butterfly Space spotlights two British women who relocated to the country and set up numerous community outreach programs in the area of Nkhata Bay, including a nursery and primary school for local children, nutritional assistance programs for people infected with HIV, and a center for people with disabilities, among many others.
- People with albinism in Malawi are being hunted for their body parts. These are their stories.
- In the midst of the health care crisis sweeping sub-Saharan Africa, a small hospital in rural Malawi struggles to serve over 120,000 people, all nearly free of charge, with just one doctor.
- Recycling Sexual Abuse! A frustrated primary school teacher 'propositions' a daughter of an economically vulnerable rural woman and impregnates her. The education system, already baffled by inadequacy of teachers, has to find a way of disciplining the teacher.
- A coming of age story about Bella, a 17-year old Malawian girl. Bella wrestles with intersections of traditional life and the new role of girls in modern day Malawi, artfully juggling her various roles of daughter, sister, student, advocate and a girl who just wants to grow up. The film displays a plethora of dramatics and emotional charges expected of adolescents. The film is about true friendships, unrequited romances, school bullying, the desire to be modern, teacher-student relationships and how these impact both the students and the teachers, peer pressure, the impact of stigma and discrimination that comes with HIV/AIDS, the plight of child headed families, and how strong-mindedness and the desire to do right will always prevail.
- In an attempt to make ends meet, Nelia's father finds himself in debt, which forces him to marry off his daughter at an early age.