Peter Findlays Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits is an exhaustive examination of the opium poppy, from its history of pharmaceutical and recreational use, to its substantial force as a commodity providing economic support for countries around the world. From Vancouvers Downtown Eastside to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, charged with the impossible task of preventing drug traffic over Afghanistans borders — the opium trade is literally life and death.

Simcha Jacobovici's documentary film, ''Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews of Ethiopia,'' is a quietly anguished examination of a 2,000-year-old culture facing extinction. The title, which means ''Stranger'' in Amharic, is the word with which some Ethiopians label their Jewish compatriots. It is considered derogatory by the Jews, who refer to themselves as Beta Israel, or House of Israel. Ethiopia's Jewish community, which according to legend descends from Solomon and Sheba, has remained intact during centuries of anti-Semitism, despite its isolation. Today it numbers about 25,000.

An examination of the causes of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, studying how decades of social changes have influenced financial systems and practices.

An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

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Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.