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- Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
- Actress Emma Hutton is determined to help find her friend Hope a perfect match but in doing so, she accidentally tramples on several hearts. When Emma realizes she herself has always loved her good friend Gray, Emma learns love works best when she doesn't meddle with it. A charming romance inspired by Jane Austen's "Emma."
- 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.
- Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decided to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrived in Kenya determined to discover the African continent. Until he reached the top of Mount Mulanje, Malawi, his last destination.
- With only a library book as his guide, 14-year-old William Kamkwamba sets about building a wind turbine in his Malawian village.
- TV SeriesA longitudinal documentary following five young women from around the world as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional soccer players.
- This is the story of a man's bravery to cover the world at war, and what it takes to get images published for the world to see. This is Jason P. Howe's story of survival and change.
- A nature documentary reality series that focuses on African wildlife and its natural habitat featuring a safari tour guide named Ushaka who takes viewers on an adventure throughout the "dark continent".
- In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.
- A retired Los Angeles policeman (Wayne Crawford) travels to Africa to work as a bodyguard for a rare black rhino.
- WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? is a controversial documentary about why after 50 years of Western involvement, billions of dollars in foreign assistance and countless promises, Africa is still so poor. The film tells the story of 3 brothers and a cousin who travel across Africa in an attempt to understand one of the great problems of our time, the failure to end poverty in Africa. Shot on location in 12 countries, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? transports you into the shocking and heart wrenching world of African poverty and the multi billion dollar aid and development industry dedicated to fighting it.
- CNN's International award-winning weekly show, will present from countries across the continent to take viewers on a journey through Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. A continent as seen through the prism of the mediums of art, music, travel and literature.
- Cape Town. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone. Cautious at his vulnerability to his surroundings at first, he gains confidence and learns to adapt to the various cultures and their way of life. Step by step his incredible path unfolds and leads him through 15 countries of the African continent and to extraordinary encounters. His bicycle becomes his gateway to local life: it invites communication and enables him to found and support projects that promote rural youth. His conviction to travel by his own strength, camp in unimaginable places and rely on intuition, leads him to exceptional adventures, but also to acutely experience fundamental issues. Besides night-time encounters with lions or hippos and repeated malaria and typhus infections, he struggles with water provision, discrimination and corrupted officials. He still faces the ultimate challenge - riding 3.000 kilometers through the Sahara against the relentless North Wind. After a year, 15.000 kilometers and 15 travelled countries, having fallen in love with this multi-facetted world, his journey faces an unpleasant end - ironically by people that would protect him against the "dangerous" continent.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle take a trip to Africa to oversee the charity he started 15 years ago. He has a chance to walk in Diana's footsteps, meet Desmond Tutu, and see how he has improved lives in the villages.
- Award-winning documentary about humanity's WISEST response to climate change, species extinction, the depletion of critical natural resources and income inequality. This independent documentary examines how our economic and financial system connects all these issues, and offers SOLUTIONS, which could be implemented immediately.
- One member of a group of disillusioned British expatriates living on the banks of an African river decides to go down the river on his own.
- A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
- New Award-winning environmental Feature Documentary offers Hope and Solutions for our Planet.
- Following Lazarus Chigwandali, a street musician with Albinism from Malawi as he teams up with a London-based music producer to record his debut album.
- In Kenyan offices and Malian farms, in Moroccan tea houses and Nigerian huts normal people of various backgrounds go about their day. For them, life in the developing world isn't about desperate squalor or improbable triumph; it's a complex, imperfect existence at odds with the stunning pictures beamed out from African safaris or the sad stories written to spur donations to Western aid groups. On a single day at the messy juncture of tradition and modernity, six people from different geographic and cultural backgrounds describe six versions of the African story.
- Traveling with a medical aid organization and joined by his mother and two friends, director Brian Ekdale discovers that the African country of Malawi, although deeply plagued by poverty and HIV/AIDS, is not a place abandoned by hope.
- Harsh seasons determine life or death, testing creatures against crocs, droughts, and more. Survival demands cunning as predators lurk in waters and along banks. In this predator's world, witness the struggle for life unfold.
- A young man risks everything to become the first Malawian Paraglider Pilot.
- In a thrilling follow-up to Beyond Siberia (2 x 60'), this documentary follows 16 motorbike riders across 20,000 grueling kilometers through Africa. For 80 days, they battle blazing heat, treacherous roads, suffocating bureaucracy and bone-crunching crashes, attempting to join a very elite group of people to have conquered this journey. Riding the vast Savannah's and witnessing the world's greatest wildlife spectacle on the African plains, the riding gets tough as they battle through gravel, sand, dirt and spectacular lightning storms across Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It's an incredible journey of vast sandy deserts, high mountain passes and never-ending Savannah's on roads and tracks which are among st the most dangerous in the world.
- Raised in Malawi, Napoleon Dzombe grew up to teach his people how to live lives more fully.
- Malawi is suffering from years of severe drought, causing widespread hunger, violence and social dislocation. A non-profit is building wells in villages across Malawi, hoping to tap into aquifers before conditions get worse.
- Narrated by Academy Award® winning actress Meryl Streep, SHOUT GLADI GLADI celebrates the extraordinary people who rescue African women and girls from obstetric fistula, a medical condition that can turn them into reviled outcasts. Directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, and filmed in Malawi and Sierra Leone, the film spotlights the quest of Ann Gloag, the indefatigable philanthropist and former nurse who drives the movement to save these vulnerable women, and presents the patients as they tell stirring tales of their struggles and triumphs. Everything culminates with the exuberant Gladi Gladi ceremony, a singing and dancing blowout that marks the day the women and girls return home cured.
- Out of a population of 15.9 million, over one million people are living with HIV or AIDS in Malawi. The epidemic affects all sectors of society. Due to consistent taboos against talking about HIV/AIDS, few people get tested or make their status known. In the SALIMA PROJECT, a group of Malawian actors learn and use participatory theatre techniques to open community dialogue about the stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS.
- 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.
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Joyce Banda, Malawi's first female president, as she visits supporters in the south of the country, flies to Brussels to meet key donors, and enjoys a cup of tea for Mother's Day. Undaunted by the prospect of leading her country, claiming 'all African women carry heavy loads', Banda says she is keen to encourage people to speak freely and wants, by the end of her term, the Malawian people to be living better lives.
- A promising youth from impoverished African village contracts AIDS.
- In a country devastated by AIDS, a small group of young filmmakers embark on a journey that will shock and captivate them. At a time in which the disease has reached its peak, could it be that an influential Chief in one of the country's worst affected areas... believes that AIDS does not exist?
- Mini-series for children about Bhatso and his sister Emily who lives in Malawi in Africa.
- DZALEKA in Dowa, Malawi is the largest refugee camp in Africa, accommodating over 35,000 people from across the continent. But through the power of dance, a chance at a better life for the young people presents a glimmer of hope.
- In November 2010, in the village of Ulongue, almost close to the Liwonde natural park, the accidents are now repeated with a strange regularity, diseases make the dead count: a dark and frightening force seems to have raged against the village. When one night, on the bank of the great river, a crocodile kills a fisherman, everyone feels that there is only one way to follow: to ward off the spirit of evil to restore the balance of life, to restore the order of things, erasing the chaos .
- Namuli is a community-backed film about the spirit of exploration and what happens when a team of rock climbers, biologists, and conservationists set off on an unconventional expedition into one of the world's least-explored and most-threatened habitats-- Mount Namuli, Mozambique.
- The film follows the incredible journey of twenty-five women engineers with the goal of building a new Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) facility at a school in Malawi, Africa, in 10 days.
- Bridging Waters is a docudrama series that explores the lives of those who reside along Southern Africa's majestic rivers.
- A day in the life of Dr. Moses Chirambo and Dr. R. Douglas Calcott as they survey rural eye centers in Malawi, Africa. Adults and children receive treatment and cataract surgery is shown at mobile clinics.