Films and documentaries from outside New Zealand looking at international issues.
Over a period of two months in 2019, VICE News followed two Saudi sisters who escaped from their family and are struggling to break free from their old lives, once dictated by Saudi Arabia’s oppressive guardianship laws.
Many Saudi women are wealthy, well-educated and told they have everything, but when they disobey their male guardians, life can be more like a Handmaid’s Tale dystopia.
China’s presence is visible all over Africa. But nowhere as much as in Zambia, the African nation where it invested the most money last year. The ties between Beijing and Lusaka are strong and have existed for decades. Today, China possesses one third of Zambia’s […]
Residents of Nairobi’s slums who can’t pay their rent get evicted and end up on the street. Over 90 percent of these tenants live in rented corrugated-metal shacks owned by slumlords with terrible reputations. The slumlords of Nairobi mercilessly exploit the poorest of poor. One […]
There are thousands of types of bananas but Americans have eyes for only one kind — the very marketable yellow Cavendish, which accounts for 95% of global banana exports. But this multi-billion dollar industry is under threat. A fungus called Panama Disease is rapidly infecting […]
Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.
Climate change and rising sea levels mean the island nation of Kiribati in the South Pacific is at risk of disappearing into the sea. But the island’s inhabitants aren’t giving up. They are doing what they can to save their island from inundation. Can COP23 […]
The booming global tire market is worth billions – but this comes at a high price, both to humans and the environment. Over 50 million car tires are sold each year in Germany alone. But where does the natural rubber for them come from? The […]
The terror attack in the New Zealand city of Christchurch appalled the world. The indiscriminate murder of 50 Muslim worshippers during Friday prayers was calculated to spread fear and a message of right-wing terror. Four Corners investigates how the Australian born killer was able to […]
Uncover hard truths in the underbelly of Asia. Every year, nearly 100,000 Japanese vanish without a trace. They are known as johatsu, or evaporated people. What drives them to engineer their own disappearance?