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The story of four children who walk three thousand miles to the 2010 FIFA World Cup while encountering real world issues along the way.

Marc, a young snake expert, works at a museum in Geneva. He loves snakes, to the point that he owns many and even takes a bath with his huge pet python. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Malenka, who is the assistant--and mistress--of an older herpetologist professor. Marc discovers that not only is the "professor" a fraud but also a dangerous psychotic who had at one time seduced Marc's mother, and Marc believes that the longer Malenka stays with him, the greater danger she's in.

A musical oddessy through the heart of Africa in search of the roots of Rock & Roll.

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.

The story of Jeremy Gilley's attempts to persuade the global community via the United Nations to sanction officially a day without conflict; a ceasefire day; a global day of Peace.

A giant man-eater swims the banks of Lake Tanganyika. It is the biggest crocodile ever documented. Its gigantic size and thick skin make it invulnerable to gun shot. The only solution is to capture it alive.

In 1991 the filmmaker met several homeless boys in Burundi. They agreed to be filmed as they grew up. In 2018 he recorded their fourth meeting. Some had died. Three reflect their existence in poverty and their hopes for a better life.

Scoring for Peace tells the story of three soccer players from Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda as they compete to try and win Africa's first Great Lakes Peace Cup. As they prepare for the tournament, the young men are forced to rely on their skill and their dreams but most importantly, they must find support in their teammates, many of them former fighters in some of Africa's most harrowing conflicts. Through the healing power of sports, these men find a way to put aside their differences and unite around a common passion for football.

This short documentary portrays tribal warfare & religious persecution in Burundi, East Africa - and how faith, love and forgiveness conquered hatred and violence.

Compilation of newsreel footage of atrocities, murders, natural disasters, aircraft accidents, and other spectacles involving violent death or extremes of human suffering.

What remains, thirty years on, of the memory of a mother left too soon?

Jean-Marc Phaneuf, an unmarried electrical engineer, travels to Burundi as a volunteer for the NGO Radio du Monde. He finds a country ruined by grinding poverty, famine, war, disease and appalling social inequality. At the same time, he meets a joyful, brave people hungry for happiness, knowledge and human dignity. The camera that becomes his personal diary also helps Jean-Marc expose the shaky, ineffective workings of NGOs. His investigations turn up a few praiseworthy examples of international cooperation, but on the whole he finds himself drawn to a terrible, inescapable conclusion: humanitarian aid is a utopian mirage. After falling victim to an attack and losing whatever ideals he still had, Jean-Marc becomes entangled in an impossible relationship. He is ultimately forced to leave Africa in disgrace.

Noble Exchange is an original series that explores what the West can learn from other cultures. Discover how the beauty, innovation and verve of people around the world can inspire and help you make a difference in your community.

There was an extraordinary nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005: 1000 women, working for peace without official recognition or publicity, were jointly proposed. For example Maggy Barankitse who saved in Burundi thousands of children's lives during the massacres of the civil war. Or the Indian Naseeb Mohammad Shaikh who lost her whole family during the communal riots in 2002. Now she goes from village to village to promote peace. Or the American lawyer Ellen Barry, who has been revealing human rights violations in US-American prisons for more than 30 years. - Although the 1000 women finally did not get the Nobel Peace Prize, their involvement has become visible.

Disarm filmmakers Mary Wareham (Next Step Productions) and Brian Liu (Toolbox DC) present a contemporary and provocative view of the forces challenging the achievement of a mine-free world. Disarm spans a dozen countries to look at how, despite a global ban, millions of antipersonnel mines continue to claim victims daily in more than eighty countries. Defined as a conventional weapon, antipersonnel mines inflict mass destruction upon civilian populations for decades after the initial conflict ends. Despite some twenty thousand casualties a year, mines continue to be used and stockpiled by governments and rebel groups. Disarm juxtaposes government and public opinion, that of diplomats, mine victims, deminers, soldiers and aid workers to explore the issues that both hinder and further the case against antipersonnel mines. Visually stunning, Disarm features harrowing footage smuggled out of isolated nation of Burma, scenes from war-ravaged Colombia and Iraq, never-before-seen helmet camera footage shot by Afghan and Bosnian deminers, unprecedented access into warehouses stockpiling millions of Soviet-made mines, and insightful comments by outspoken Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams. Looking beyond landmines, Disarm offers a contemporary, intelligent and critical investigation into how weapons systems, war, and the way it is waged are being redefined in the twenty-first century with devastating consequences.

During several months, we followed Omar Sosa in his tour in East Africa. He played in 4 countries : Sudan, Ethipia, Kenya and Burundi. In each of those countries, he also recorded a song with a local musician for his new album. This 52' is an intimate musical trip in Omar Sosa's vision of life and music, through very deep sharing instants of tradition and modernity. FIlmed with high quality material, this movie is an epic road movie through countries we are not used to film and see and will please everybody in the family.

Dr. Emadi is a skin and hair specialist who, with a tireless spirit, travels to the deprived villages of Iran for a month and to African countries for a month and treats patients for free.

Thema a kid born in poor village in Burundi is forced to face the real world alone after the death of his beloved mother and only parent.

Buta, southern Burundi. A school, scene of a massacre during the war between Hutus and Tutsis, once more welcomes students of both ethnic groups. These students begin the task of remembering, turning a scene of horror into a scene of enlightenment. In this rerun, Magume represents the task of shattered Burundi. The students offer their voices, their questions, their tales and their identity in the hope that this mask will once more take shape, reconciled with itself at last.

In 1972, civil war and ethnic massacres forced hundreds of thousands of Burundians from their homes. Most fled to Tanzania, where they would live as refugees for generations. Thirty six-years later, they are finally finding a place to call home. Home Free follows three Burundian families; one has chosen to become citizens of Tanzania, another has chosen to return to Burundi and a third has resettled to Canada. The film takes you on their journey and explores efforts to bring an end to one of Africa's most prolonged refugee situations.

With its uniquely African identity, flavor, and feel, the series takes viewers behind the headlines into the heart of conflict. Whether it is a village kgotla (council of elders) mediating a land dispute in the former Zaire, or the Truth and Reconiciliation Commision in South Africa, each episode demonstrates that good storytelling does not have to glorify conflict for its own sake-that an agreement can be as dramatic as any soap opera. At the same time, the series challenges the view that Africa is incapable of solving its own problems.