Screening of 3 short documentary films made by pupils from Jordanhill and Springburn Academies, organised by the Strathclyde University Applied Educational Research Centre as part of the Inspiring Enquiring Minds citizenship education programme.

Pupils are encouraged to engage with their local communities through the process of developing, shooting and editing short documentaries about community projects around Glasgow.

The screening will be followed by a workshop exploring the pupils’ experience of working with local projects in making documentaries and its relevance in an international context. This will be attended by pupils from both schools and other schools involved in the IEM programme.

For the past 30 years, millions of Afghans have fled war, misgovernment and poverty at home. Many have settled illegally in Iran and there married Iranian women, often despite broad cultural differences in a society that disapproves of such matches.

Director Mahvash Sheikholeslami interviews several Afghan-Irani couples who speak with candour about love and acceptance, personal and cultural identity, within the frame of a visually charged, compelling journey through contrasting landscapes.

On his return from Africa, Dr Stanislaw Szczepaniak founded The Centre for Alternative Medicine in Kuleszowka near Warsaw, where he sees dozens of patients every day.

It’s a great place for everyone to socialise and for the doctor to follow his dream, "to pull Polish people out of the 16th Century", using his own highly individual methods...

Marcin Grabowicz will introduce his work and lead a short Q & A afterwards.

With the recent attack in Lahore on the Sri Lankan cricket team, last year’s massive suicide bombing in Islamabad and assault on Mumbai, Pakistan’s radical Islamists are bringing violence to the major cities of Pakistan and beyond.

Award-winning Pakistani journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates how the Taliban are recruiting younger and younger fighters for this campaign. She meets a 14-year-old boy in her home city of Karachi who is desperate to become a suicide bomber, determined to travel anywhere there are lots of infidels and blow himself up. She joins the elite unit of the anti-terror police squad who warn that the Taliban are hiding out in the city’s sprawling slums and recruiting children from small madrassas in deprived neighbourhoods. And she interviews the Taliban commander responsible for child recruitment, Qari Abdullah. A child recruit himself, he reveals that children as young as five are now being used by the Taliban

Sharmeen is shocked by what this all means for her country: "This new generation, brutalised and radicalised by poverty, indoctrination and war, are Pakistan’s future."

Pituba: an elite neighbourhood in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil. On the seafront of the city, just before the famous Itapuá beach, stands the sport complex of the Clube Português with its swimming pools, tennis courts, and football pitch

But the condition of the premises is pitiful: dirty water fills the pools. Grass grows between the tiles. Everything is covered in boards and canvas. Nonetheless, this rundown space has been adapted to meet the needs of its current residents: 85 families that belong to the Salvador homeless movement (MSTS).

In what was once a luxury club for white people, we are made aware of the origins of the homeless movement, and of the rules they have developed to make living together possible. In the former social halls, Dadinha and Shirley, inseparable neighbours, have their own cosy place. Rosa, however, prefers the intimacy of the terrace for her and her children, although it can be wet in the rainy season... Even the toilets became a home for Sandra and Lifael, and for the solitary Edjauma Dias.

A fairy tale about a hero of our time who would die for what he believes in, but doesn’t believe in anything anymore... A new documentary style featuring a ‘satirical-vérité narration’ and over 400 unique ‘satirical documentary shots’ filmed on a three-year, 50.000 km trip along Balkan side roads.

Close to the Pakistani border in the northwest of India lies the sprawling city of Vadodara. Each week in the poor district of Kalyan Nagar, a group of women gather under a tree to hold their own court.

They put beating husbands and mean mother-in-laws in their place. They go in as a "heavy squad" to help a poor widow, thrown out of the house with her little daughter after the death of her husband, to regain her belongings.

For women for whose plight the conventional legal system, the police and the courts seem indifferent, they provide the protection of their own law. They are the "Women for Justice".

More than 60 % of the vegetables grown in the Kathmandu valley are supplied by the Nagadeshi people, who spend their lives working the soil. Only a very few of them employ contemporary technology and practices.

This is the story of one such Nepali farmer from the indigenous Newar community as he struggles to retain his traditional lifestyle amidst the challenges of modernity.

Living just 10 km from the Nepali capital Kathmandu, he is threatened by the growing encroachment of housing companies into fertile watershed land.

Mrs Molky, a 73 year old Iranian woman, has been a widow for 14 years now. She lives alone in a humble house in the small town of Baragun. One day, Mrs Molky decides to travel to Isfahan to visit relatives she has not seen in over 20 years...

As part of Amnesty’s new Demand Dignity campaign, launched this year, they commissioned the film Poverty of Justice. The screening will be introduced by Graeme McGregor (Amnesty International) and will be followed by a panel discussion.

Film: Poverty of Justice

Around the world, people living in poverty are increasingly fighting for recognition of their rights, challenging abuses of power and demanding a voice in the decisions that affect their lives. In the film Poverty of Justice, people from three different communities in Peru, Canada and Kenya, tell their own stories of this struggle for dignity and rights. Amnesty International has made a long-term commitment to working with these communities and this film has been produced as the first step in campaigning with them and as an educational resource for our members and activists.

Panel will include: Graeme McGregor (Scotland Campaigner Amnesty International), Elaine Webster (Centre for Human Rights Law, University of Strathclyde) and Jemma Neville (Scottish Human Rights Commission).

Though the majority of crimes brought before the judiciary in Bogotá are the kind of misdemeanors that follow from abject poverty, government officials have cracked down hard.

To sell pirated CDs, to steal a cellphone, or to simply sleep on the streets may garner a particular individual a multi-year prison sentence.

BAGATELA provides a portrait of Justice against the backdrop of petty crimes that occur on a daily basis in Bogotá... a city accustomed to both violence and inequality.

Garry Kasparov became famous as a world chess champion noted for an inventive style marked by sophisticated combinations. As an opposition democratic politician in the group Other Russia he takes the same approach. For that reason he is a thorn in the side of the governing powers headed by Vladimir Putin. This documentary by Masha Novikova captures campaigning and demonstrations before elections to the Duma in 2007. Kasparov and his team made up of young democrats and experienced dissidents visit 30 regions in order to hold discussions with local people and put across their demand for change in the country’s government.

The film reveals how the Kremlin systematically sabotages the activities of Kasparov and his party, The Other Russia. The daily routine is tough: they have little access to the media, they are beaten up during demonstrations, they are put in prison. The Putin Youth follow them everywhere and do no let an opportunity go by to accuse them of treason to the homeland. Or occasionally the Kremlin tries to bribe them.

How does the life of an opposition member feel in Russia? The people do not trust you, the regime persecutes you, your fellow politicians betray you. Nobody needs your so called revolution. Why would you burn in her holy fire?

Recently there have been massive, unprecedented rises across world markets in the value of Jade. It is now 40 times more valuable than gold.

This part observational, part impressionistic study of a day in the life of a Muslim Uighur community, illustrates their hopeful efforts to discover Jade in the harsh conditions of a dried-up river bed near a remote town on the old Silk Road in Western China.

President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is feared in the West, but loved by many in Iran. On his frequent visits to the countryside he is greeted like a rock star, and literally millions of people write to him: he has received 9 million such letters in his years in office.

The letters are typically requests for loans, jobs or money, and they are often desperate. The diversity of opnions expressed reveal a clear rural-urban divide- not just in differing views of the president himself, but also on the issues that matter most to these two groups of people.

Filmmaker Peter Lom followed President Ahmedinejad on three of his trips to the provinces.

It is our home that greatly shapes our identities and is the backdrop of our most intimate memories.

Lower Left is a portrait of an old woman who lives in a little apartment on a housing estate in the Ruhr area of Germany. The estate was built in the 1960’s to provide workers in the coal and steel industry with adequate housing. Forty years later she is one of the oldest inhabitants left, everyone else having either died or moved away. Together with her two sons, she tells a story that dives deep into the socio-cultural history of post-war Germany.

A film about the relationship between urban architecture, memory and the experience of intimate places- what French philosopher Gaston Bachelard described as "the poetics of space". A colourful journey through a forgotten landscape...

East Germany- the Deutsche Demokratische Republik- was a country of more than 16 million people. Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall came down, and a year later the DDR disappeared forever. Yet it lives on in "Ostalgie" (East-algia), tourist souvenirs and the memories of those who lived there or visited.

My DDR T-Shirt takes a look at life in East Germany and asks people from East and West: What was the DDR really like? What do the old communist symbls mean now, and how does it feel to see them sold as souvenirs? Was the fall of the Berlin Wall as good as it looked on TV, and was anything lost when the DDR was consigned to the history books?

The window displays of the Tehran clothing shops catch the interest of passersby who stop and linger. Gradually, the onlookers meet the stares of the grotesquely mutilated mannequins- disturbing caricatures of the female figure.

The mannequins, redefined by the regime, have become a metaphor for Iranian Women’s veiled and covered bodies. In the 1980’s they disappeared from shop windows altogether, reappearing only after the war between Iran and Iraq. First the male mannequins reappeared, then the female- but "modified" by the manufacturers in order to minimize their feminine characteristics: like a warning call sent to Iranian women and to society, an absurd totem intended to perpetuate the established order.

The journey of a young Indian woman’s hair, donated to the Temple to be then converted into exquisite hair extensions in Italy. This same hair will then return to India to satisfy the whim of a successful career woman in Bombay.

A story of the cult of beauty in the era of globalisation. An original view of today’s India with its contradictions- a kaleidoscope of modernity, economic expansion and ancient traditions.

Korea is a divided nation. The psychic scar shared by families divided during the Korean War in the 1950s is symbolized by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing communist North from capitalist South. Along this infamous border, filmmaker Min Sook Lee begins a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.

Lee joins one man’s quest to prove the tiger, a symbol of resilience in Korean mythology, still lives in the DMZ. But Lee delves deeper than symbols, asking the crucial question—how will the two Koreas be put back together? In the South, we meet elderly Koreans waiting for news of relatives and young defectors haunted by memories of escape. In the North, we visit an inter-Korean economic project and gain unprecedented access to a state-sanctioned family reunion.

An eloquent tale of longing and hope, Tiger Spirit is an unforgettable portrait of Korea at a crossroads.

Lisa, an experienced doctor with a normal professional career, is drawn to the idea of providing hospice care for terminally ill patients. One day by chance she gets an urgent call to treat a case of terminal cancer among the homeless of Moscow’s Paveletskaya train station. When she arrives she doesn’t find an individual patient- but a whole parallel world of sick and needy homeless people who live there...

Wednesdays At The Station captures 7 months of Lisa’s encounters, setbacks and achievements as she tries to help people who live well beyond the margins of normal society.

A verite snap-shot of life in South Africa capturing the rising tensions in the months preceding the outbreak of xenophobic violence in May 2008.

In a community put under severe pressure by poverty, lack of resources and frustration at corrupt officials, Danny Turken examines the complex motivations of a people who have nowhere else to turn in the face of a national government that seems to have forgotten they exist.

South Africa, 2008: Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave, a Mozambican national, is burnt to death by a xenophobic mob. The media dubs him "The Burning Man".

Nigerian filmmaker Adze Ugah tries to understand who Ernesto really was, what the events were that led to this atrocity, and how it could have happened in the post-Apartheid South Africa of the Rainbow Nation... A South Africa where countless people- like the perpetrators as much as the victim of this crime- still live in poverty.

This film seeks to give "The Burning Man" back the dignity of his own name.

A journey through a region which is always in the glare of the world’s media, yet one which few of us really know. What is the music that forms the backing track to this mythical place? Who are its most iconic musicians and how do they live? What do they think of the unique conditions in which they live and how is that reflected in their lyrics and their melodies?

From the neon and the billboards of Tel Aviv, to the poverty and desperation of the occupied territories of the West Bank and the vast concentration camp the Gaza strip has become, we will share Checkpoint Rock with very different musicians, going from town to town- and from checkpoint to checkpoint- in a journey that will change the way we see these people in conflict.

Cocais is a poetic documentary film made with patients and employees of an asylum town in the interior of São Paulo province. This is the story of a town that reinvented itself through a movie, or the story of a movie invented by a town.

Mikhail Morozov is a Russian patriot, a good Christian and a successful businessman. He owns Durakovo - the "Village of Fools" - 100 km southwest of Moscow. People come here from all over Russia to learn how to live and become ‘true’ Russians.

When they join the Village of Fools, the new residents abandon all their former rights and agree to obey Mikhail Morozov’s strict rules. "What we have here is a society that respects vertical power, this is what our country needs most of all, " says Morozov, quoting his idol President Putin.

Filmmaker Nino Kirtadze attains unfettered access as political and religious leaders gather at the castle to meet with Morozov and dream of a glorious future where Russia is devoid of foreigners. Purposefully restrained, yet cunningly subversive, Durakovo: Village Of Fools provides a chilling glimpse of fascist ideology on the rise.

Our Vivid Stories is an inspiring and moving collection of 9 short films made by young LGBT people during 3 months of intensive digital storytelling workshops.

Devised by filmmaker Dianne Barry with Julie Ballands, the project was a unique collaboration between OurStory Scotland and LGBT Youth Scotland for GoMA’s 2009 exhibition shOUT: LGBT human rights and contemporary art.

The storytellers’ films describe their experiences of coming out, homophobia, and the importance of friends, family and support networks.

For many years, Olaf, Mona and Maria have each been suffering from severe depression. The illness has left them without any interest in life. Suffering from suicidal thoughts, they admit themselves to the psychiatric clinic of the Charité Berlin. They do not shy away from trying controversial treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy. Shadows follows their struggles over two years. A film about hope, the abysses of life, and the brutal cruelty of an illness.

A sanatorium in Tehran occupied by mentally disabled war veterans: one of them, "Mahmood", is under the impression that he has built a doomsday machine which can destroy the world by pressing a button...

Juan Meléndez - 6446 presents the story of a Puerto Rican migrant raised in New York City and accused of murder in the state of Florida. While claiming his innocence, Juan Meléndez was sentenced in five days and put on death row for 17 years, 8 months and 1 day. During his last appeal, an investigator working for Juan’s lawyer found in a box the original transcript of the confession of the real killer- a piece of evidence that the jury never examined. He was exonerated on January 3rd, 2002. Juan Meléndez was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. His personal drama serves as counterpoint to the legal, political and public policy issues around the application of the death penalty in the USA and Puerto Rico. Juan Meléndez - 6446 is a story about the power of will over a miscarriage of the justice system.

John La Rose (1927-2006) was a poet, essayist, publisher, filmmaker and Director of the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books. A cultural and political activist since the 1940s, he was also a co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement in 1966 and New Beacon Books. This DVD includes documentation from a tribute evening for him held at Street Level Photoworks in November 2006, and features contributions from Linton Kwesi Johnson, Horace Ove, Jim Kelman, Tom Leonard, Raman Mundair, Alasdair Gray and Roxy Harris.

Session (Sugar Version) considers the mental health of an 18th century slave called Pero who lived and worked in Bristol for his master John Pinney. Pinney's house is now a museum but Pero's room is closed to the public and used to store furniture. In the film, we see the room being cleared to create a space for art therapy sessions between African Caribbean men and Marian Liebmann, a therapist with specialist skills in conflict resolution.

The men who appear in the film all participate in an advocacy and support service called Two Way Street in Bristol for Black and Minority Ethnic people with mental health issues. We watch them working with sugar to make sculptural forms which are then displayed in the house, animating the commodity that fuelled the slave trade in the Caribbean.

Living Queer African is an ongoing multimedia (audio/picture) documentary project which focuses on young, gay Africans living in the diaspora. Homosexuality still isn’t widely accepted in African culture. The project is intended to highlight the ordinary life of young, gay Africans rather than their sexuality, to help viewers gain a better understanding of some of the struggles they face and to help create a debate on gay rights in Africa as a whole.

Le(s)banese is a one-of-a-kind documentary exploring the lives of lesbians in Lebanon. Who are they, where do they hang out, what do they wear, and most importantly, how do they negotiate their desires within a troubled nation like Lebanon? Opening a window to a hidden world, Le(s)banese introduces you to women who are savvy, sexy and confident about themselves.

My father documented himself abusing me throughout the first 16 years of my life. After his death I uncovered his collection; boxes of audiotape, super 8, and over 10,000 photographs.

I am the daughter as well as the filmmaker, presenting this evidence in what I am told is a subtle intellectual investigation that is grotesquely truthful and forthrightly condemning.

In Freedom Park, a squatter settlement in South Africa, a group of HIV-infected former sex-workers create a support network called Tapologo. They learn to be Home Based Carers for their community, transforming degradation into solidarity and squalor into hope

Kevin Dowling, a Catholic bishop involved with Tapologo, questions the official doctrine of the church regarding AIDS and sexuality in the African context.