This film, by NI contributor and veteran filmmaker Stephanie Boyd and her team, is a study of an Amazonian Indigenous group in Peru.Their lives are besieged by the reckless operation of oil and gas companies. Instead of the usual exposure of machinations and brave resistance, the film focuses on the richness of Karuara society and the powerful mythology that underpins their commitment to sustain their precious river and its vital ecosystem.

This poetic film charts the resistance of a generation of young Lebanese against the corrupt power-brokers who continue to control their country. It’s a startling snapshot of the difficulties involved in social change from below. Director Myriam El-Hajj follows three protagonists of what she still calls ‘the revolution’. We meet the poet Joumana Haddad, robbed of a seat in the Lebanese parliament, who becomes a hard core street activist. There is the young Perla Joe Maalouli, outraged at how her self-expression is stifled in the country’s conformist culture. And there is George, a veteran of the ‘glories’ of the Civil War, who represents the Lebanon that used to be.