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CENTER FOR PROGRESS & JUSTICE Runtime 02:06:20 Waiting In the world of children, minor changes cause them great anxiety. School is closed and all the children go home with their parents, but in the meantime, Hamid and Navid wait for their parents every day as usual. Hamid is more worried about this than Navid and blames his family for this. 3m Dokra Keu Bojhey Na India Dokra Keu Bojhey Na (Incomprehensible Dokra) is an animated documentary that explores the perils that the 4000 year old craft of Dokra faces in West Bengal, India. We converse with artisans and its sellers to discuss the lack of patronage that may lead to its extinction and the possible ways to revive the craft as well the poor living conditions of its artists. 7m 44s Ballerina Iran Ballerina is the story of an 8-year-old girl who is about to have a dance performance but due to the Iranian rules, her father and other men are prohibited to watch the ballet… it is vital for Mana, the ballerina, to have her father watch her cause she has lost her mother… the ballet starts and children bloke on the stage but they see no men between spectators… Mana refuses to start the dance and unites with other children to go outside to perform for her father… it is a portrayal of a united civil protest. 11m 22s Beyond the Mountains China Inspired by childhood stories from my grandmother, who taught Mandarin to the Yi people in the 1960s, I went on a trip to Liangshan. Initially shaped by mainstream portrayals of the Yi as backward, my view changed after emerging myself into the Yi community. 10m 42 Forgiveness: A Path to Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda Rwanda In Rwanda, the impact of the Genocide against the Tutsi is felt at the individual, communal, and national levels. The consequences of violence are not unique to Rwanda; but the extent to which forgiveness and reconciliation have occurred over the past 3 decades is remarkable. How is it possible to live side by side with the perpetrators of such heinous crimes as those committed during the genocide, and even learn to forgive them? 12m 0s Penguins In Paris...A Love Story? France A romantic drama about two lovers -- an American woman and a French man -- deciding whether to stay together and have a child or to split, allowing the man to follow his dream, to voyage to Antarctica to study penguins, which are at risk because of global warming. 12m 30s YOU ARE SPECIAL Ukraine A little boy, fascinated by the legend that the white keys on the old Steinway piano, which "lives" in his parents' house, are made of elephant tusks, dreams every night of meeting the gray giants one day and never being separated from them. 17m 38s Avni India Avni, 7 year old girl lives with her mother, Malti and her brother, Navin. Malti, a single mother works in fields, she sends Navin to school, but keeps Avni home for chores. With an undying desire to study, Avni finds an ingenious way to learn. Avni secretly runs to her brother’s school. She quietly stands outside the window and picks up what is being taught in the class. 19m 55s Cleaning's a Cakewalk Navajo Nation (Navajo Language Short) An imaginative and independent young boy, Albert, learns the value of hard work and finds his place in his community after having to clean the Chapter House which he finds out is no cake-walk in the park. 19m 43s