Nava Rezvani
Iran
2012 | 0:26:15

A 80 years old man works in charcoal veils. Despite the old age, he involves in such a difficult labor to pay his son’s living who is mentally disabled in the war.

Jewel Maranan
Philippines
2012 | 1:17:00

A mother of three sons living in Tondo is now pregnant with her fourth. Their living space, ringing with the various sounds of the nearby Manila port, jars the senses as it is transformed into cinematic time. An exploration of neocolonialism in the oldest port area slums of Manila. It reveals a historic oppression encumbered on people's entire life cycles — birth, youth, adulthood and death. Where the cycle must lead both a people and a nation is the question of resistance pending at large.