DEADLY DROPS: EATEN BY AN ESCALATOR looks at the terrifying moments when these everyday machines suddenly cause chaos. Throughout our modern cities, filled with high rise buildings, we depend on escalators to move around.  These seemingly reliable pieces of engineering are so integrated into our environment we barely notice their existence. Footage shows escalators spiraling out of control, of people being trapped, and even swallowed alive.

Prue Leith has been a household name since the 1970s. 45 years ago she made, what was for the time, the radical decision to adopt a Cambodian baby, Li-Da. Prue gave Li-Da an idyllic English upbringing at her Cotswolds home and, by her own admission, rarely questioned whether she could have helped Li-Da connect more with her Cambodian roots. Now in this intimate and revealing film Prue and Li-Da travel to Cambodia to search for her biological family. Social media and DNA testing are allowing thousands of children who, like Li-Da, were evacuated just before Pol Pot’s genocide to reconnect with lost relatives. For Prue, as she approaches 80, there may not be many more chances to make this journey. And for Li-Da this is her chance to help Prue understand why it’s so important to explore her heritage. What neither of them can predict is how they will react should they find what they are looking for.

The number of climate refugees is rising - and yet the status of ‘climate refugee’ has yet to be officially recognized by national or international law. One factor is illustrative of the devastating impact of climate change on countries and communities: water. Recent years have seen an increasing number of floods and droughts. A third of the global population lives near the coast, and an estimated 700 million people are facing rising sea levels. In the Philippines more than 85 percent of the population say they are feeling the impact of climate change in the rising frequency of flooding and violent typhoons. Farmers in the highlands of Guatemala, on the other hand, are suffering extreme drought. Both water scarcity and flooding are sparking mass migration. 

What do tomatoes have to do with mass migration? Tomatoes are a poker chip in global trade policies. Subsidized products from the EU, China and elsewhere are sold at dumping prices, destroying markets and livelihoods in Africa in the process. Desperate farmers find themselves having to seek work elsewhere, including in Europe. In the surrounding region, the market for tomatoes has collapsed and most farmers are no longer growing what could easily be Ghana’s ‘red gold’. An agricultural advisor is trying to help local tomato farmers, but has little by way of hope to offer. Conditions like this are what drive local farmers to cut their losses and head for Europe. Once in Italy, migrants from Ghana and other African countries are forced to live in desperate conditions near the plantations.

委內瑞拉正經歷前所未見的人道危機，規模僅次於敍利亞，是全球第二大的難民危機。飢餓成為委內瑞拉的普遍現象，藥物亦嚴重短缺。聯合國估計，現時已有超過四百萬人逃離這個曾經富甲南美洲的國家。但有別於身陷內戰的敍利亞，委內瑞拉坐擁世界上最多的石油儲備。一個富裕國家為何人民餓得奄奄一息？財富都到了哪裡？貪腐、去工業化、債務、政治衝突、威權主義及貧窮成為委內瑞拉的新秩序，引發國民紛紛逃亡到世界各地。

Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and it is now the world’s second largest refugee crisis after Syria. Hunger is widespread and there is a severe shortage of medicines. The UN estimates that more than four million people have now fled what was once South America’s richest nation.  But unlike Syria, Venezuela is not mired in civil war, and the country is sitting on the world’s largest proven oil reserves. How could such a rich nation be driven into ruin? Where has the country’s wealth gone, and why are its people starving? Corruption, deindustrialization, debt, political conflict, authoritarianism and poverty are the order in Venezuela today, driving displacement worldwide. 

The images of the burning Amazon rainforests horrified people all over the world in the summer of 2019. Suddenly the threat seemed real – the world’s lungs were burning, and politicians, journalists and everyone else agreed that something had to be done, because protecting this globally unique ecosystem is of existential importance. The film reflects on the ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unfolding there and looks for the reasons behind the disastrous handling of this unique ecosystem.

Smoking is completely prohibited in public spaces and in most restaurants at least in the western world. Despite the decrease in the number of smokers in the west, the tobacco industry has not given up! New electronic products like the e-cigarette and the tobacco heater are thrown on the market. Colorful advertising campaigns sell the illusion of the new smoking: It is cool, it doesn't stink and it doesn't make you sick. But are these promises of the industry true? A new study seems to prove that like the tobacco cigarette, the new electronic products contain the nerve poison nicotine - and that makes you addicted and, above all, sick. Also new lung diseases like Evali cloud the picture of healthy smoking.

The products are evolving but the strategies remain the same; how does this industry continue to make profits without any consideration for health?

由一個前獵人的個人故事，到全球的反狩獵運動，節目概述整個狩獵歷史；透過激進的動物維權人士、政治家和組織，闡明狩獵的方法和狩獵者的心理。

What drives people all over the world to hunt animals, often driving them towards extinction? How does hunting affect our relationship with nature and impact fragile ecosystems? And how do hunting lobbies influence law makers and the media?

Through the personal story of one ex-hunter, ’On The Wild Side’ unites the global anti-hunting movement, while also providing an overview of hunting throughout history. Featuring interviews with activists, politicians and organizations all over the world, this documentary sheds light on the psychology of hunting and the methods of the saboteurs.

Is it possible to end hunting forever?

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people are living in lockdown in a bid to keep the spread of coronavirus under control. Governments have had no choice but to put a freeze on entire economies, restrict our freedom of movement and transform everything we had previously taken for granted as normal. Now, what we all want to know, is when will lockdown end? In this film, Dr Xand van Tulleken (who has worked for the WHO and has a masters degree in Public Health from Harvard) explores why the lockdown is continuing. He also seeks answers to the questions many of us have about when it will end – and what the world will be like when it does end.

The “World’s second largest film industry” (UNESCO) is called Nollywood and is located in Lagos, Nigeria. Nollywood is known for fast-paced, low-budget productions with unorthodox aesthetics. But in recent years fresh movement came into the industry. Multiplex cinemas are opening up in Africa’s growing mega-cities and the internet enables worldwide distribution. The opportunities in the blooming industry attract unique characters to Lagos. There is a young investor from Berlin, co-founder of the biggest Nollywood streaming service, and there is a young director striving for an intellectual cinematic movement made in Nigeria.