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The Shanghai Hotel is the story of a young woman named Yin Yin (Eugenia Yuan), who illegally buys her way to the USA from communist China hoping to make a better life for herself and her family. After a long, treacherous journey stowed away in a dark hull of an overcrowded cargo ship, Yin Yin arrives in New York City for what she thinks will be the beginning of a better life. Falsely promised a job in the technology industry, her dreams are shattered when she is told by the Snakeheads, an Asian gang, that her debt is much higher than expected. To pay off that additional debt she will have to work it off by being a prostitute. Yin Yin is devastated by the news that she is being sold into the sex slave trade. The rundown, decrepit building that Yin Yin and the other prostitutes live and work in is known as the Shanghai Hotel. Women from Thailand, Korea and China all reside in the Shanghai Hotel. Some of the women know what they are there for but most are just like Yin Yin, unwilling participants forced to sell their bodies. Upon arriving at the Shanghai Hotel, Yin Yin is isolated and locked in a room all by herself. The room has many windows, but the glass is spray painted black so that no one can see in or out. One window though is missing and is covered with just black tape. Yin Yin lifts the tape and has her only view of freedom and the outside world, the streets of New York City. While staring out the window, Yin Yin notices a bike messenger who is giving some food and blankets to the homeless people across the street from the Shanghai Hotel. She can tell that he is a kind-hearted person and decides to try and communicate with him. She gets his attention and passes him a note. The note tells of her horrible situation, but pleads with him not to tell anyone for fear of what repercussions the Snakeheads might take on her family in China. She ends the note by saying all she really needs is a friend. The bike messenger, named Carlos (Hill Harper), accepts her invitation of friendship but over time a love between the two of them develops through the passing of notes. The film explores the elements of human trafficking and the hardships that Yin Yin faces during her time at the Shanghai Hotel.

Story about life of 3 EM3's student in Singapore, who struggling with their education and personal life.

"Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future" takes place in the Louisiana backwoods, and follows the momentous discovery of the largest natural gas field in the United States (and maybe the world). The film examines the historic find (a formation called the "Haynesville Shale") from the personal level as well as from the larger perspective of the current energy picture and pending energy future. As the Haynesville Shale boom erupts, the film focuses on three lives caught in the middle of the find: A single mom takes up the defense of her community's environmental protections, an African American preacher attempts to use the riches to build a school for his congregants and a salt-of-the-earth, self-described "country boy" finds himself conflicted as he weighs losing his pristine land to an oil company's offer to make him a millionaire. From a broader perspective, "Haynesville" explores the current energy situation and what something the scale of the Haynesville (170 trillion cubic feet or the equivalent of 28 billion barrels of oil) could mean for the energy picture in the United States. The new, updated version of the film looks deeper into the lives of Mike, Kassi and Reegis. The "Haynesville" update also sheds new light on the natural gas discussion and its place in the clean energy future.

What started as a lark became an obsession after meeting the notorious DJ Sandra Collins. Kandeyce Jorden's exploration of a blossoming subculture of the electronic music scene slams her face to face with a connection that can only be found by getting completely lost.

The story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.

When a high school girl claims she is being sexually harassed by another student, an in-school court is convened to settle the dispute.

A couple experiment with having an open relationship.

When a young Cambodian village girl is sold off into prostitution, a brash American documentary filmmaker ventures deep into the underbelly of Phnom Penh to pursue her story and rescue the girl, crossing paths with various other lives affected by the unspeakable terrain of the country's virginity trade.

In the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future.

An old man who lives with his grandson, Ernie, is approached by a social worker who tells him that Ernie can't continue living with him because he is old and an invalid. He needs to find someone to take Ernie in and he picks a man named Jake Rizzo who is a cop. He sends Ernie to him and Rizzo finds the whole thing strange. Ernie continues to follow him and when he gets in trouble Ernie who's trained by his grandfather in martial arts helps him. Jake starts to warm up to him. And he also finds himself attracted to the social worker.

Although this movie is about the Playboy magazine, there are no erotic scenes. Instead it tells the story of three women, who seem to have nothing in common: Abigail is college student at Yale and daughter of one of the professors; Meredith is a married mother and owner of a bowling alley; Janet is a successful broker -- yet all of them decide to pose for the Playboy adult magazine, shocking their peers, friends and co-workers. They have to suffer the consequences, but manage to turn it into a precious experience of life.

In any relationship there are things we hate about the other person. It's not wise to tell them and it's not wise to keep it bottled up. But then if they are sleeping when we tell them...

Estranged from her family due to a childhood indiscretion with her white brother, a young Korean adoptee seeks to regain a sense of home by exploring ties with the East Asian Americans she meets in her new apartment building, until her brother shows up at the door, stirring long lost feelings that she has tried to bury.

"Anonymously Yours" is the outcome of a daring filmmaking operation on sex-trafficking in a military state where nothing is as it seems. Four Burmese women's strikingly different life experiences come together to reveal an institution that enslaves them and as many as forty#million women worldwide in the fastest growing industry on earth: human sales. Clandestinely shot deep in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex trafficking, the film chronicles the merchandising of women commonplace in a land afflicted with staggering poverty and widespread corruption.

Three women and a girl from a remote Kayan village in Myanmar go to a distant city to sell their crafts. In the city, the girl is kidnapped by human traffickers. Out of their element, the Kayan women are determined to find the girl.

The K11 Journey is three intense years caught on tape of the stories and difficulties of a group of international filmmakers trying to expose the explosive subject matter of child trafficking and child prostitution in one of the most dangerous and corrupt countries in the world. The K11 Journey follows the project's two teams as they struggle to capture the terrifying reality of the sex trade in South East Asia. At the same time, the crew's own artistic and technical skills are challenged in this extraordinary endeavor.

LOVE explores the relationship between friends, family, and lovers. This story begins with the origins of a blossoming friendship between two 10-year-old girls. Unfortunately, the childhood friends are suddenly separated due to the death of one of their brothers, then later reunited as young adults. Nhi is now a university student and the lead singer of a girl band. She has a handsome but uptight boyfriend, Hoang. On the other hand, Tu comes from a family whose father is struggling with depression and whose mother is working very long hours just to make ends meet. Tu is secretly loved by Mien, a colleague of Nhi. As the story progresses, the girls soon discover feelings that they did not know they had. They must decide if their feelings for one another are just as friends, or perhaps something more.

What is the attraction of living in a remote fishing community in northern Europe? Still, this is where 575 Thai women have settled, all married to local men. Fifteen years ago, there were almost none. But Sommai, a former sex worker from Pattaya, was there. Now, she and a group of other industrious and strong Thai women are trying to find a husband for Sommai's young niece Kaeh, who is in Denmark on a three-month tourist visa. Love on Delivery is a touching, tragic and at times humorous tale of strong, decisive women who see themselves as entrepreneurs in a globalized world rather than victims of poverty and prostitution. They make great sacrifices and take high risks when they leave their children behind and travel half way around the world to marry complete strangers.

In Victorian Flanders, a newly orphaned boy named Nello rescues an abandoned dog who becomes his best friend.

The story of the pivotal Midwest link to the global rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990's and the unassuming Madison, Wisconsin recording studio at its center.

A documentary about the controversial Star Wars prequel trilogy.

The journey of an applicant through the immigration system of an unspecified country.

Documentary detailing funny, outrageous, positive stories about Andy Dick. Interviews range from club bouncers to celebrities. This Is Your Life meets Comedy Central Roast.