30 Oct 2005
Breaking Point: Canada/Quebec - The 1995 Referendum
BREAKING POINT brings viewers back to those tense, critical moments when Canada's future as a country was at stake.
Waiting for the UN
Waiting for the UN is a poetic documentary about life in the desert, literally and figuratively. We follow the everyday life of a Saharawi family from occupied Western Sahara, who have lived ”temporary” in a refugee camp in Algeria for over 40 years. Waiting for God and the UN, as the father puts it.
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