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- DirectorHenry ChancellorStarsLorna BennettRachel FerjaniGabriel ByrneDiscovery examines the history of "Golden age of Piracy." The program takes a detailed look at the harsh lives of pirates, their tactics, motivations and why they would choose such a life. The geopolitical forces that lead to the proliferation of pirates and their final demise are explained.
- StarsKeith DavidPeter EganJohn ShrapnelEGYPT'S GOLDEN EMPIRE comes to life through letters and records evoking the passion and riches of a time when Egypt was the center of the known world, its Pharaohs called gods, and great cities, temples and tombs built.
- DirectorElisa AmorusoStarsMarioara DadiloveanuGiuseppe Della PellePino is a mechanic and a rally rides champion, who decides to become a woman, and names himself Beatrice. As a transgender, he meets Marianna, a nurse from Romenia who's taking care of Pino's old mother. Beatrice and Marianna fall in love and manage to get married in Rome, fighting established society and prejudice, both dressed as brides. An Italian love story, an unsurfarced road to become an unconventional family, in a too conventional country.
- DirectorAlberto VendemmiatiAs a twelve-year-old boy, Nicola de Leo already knew she wanted to become a woman. Today, the now forty-year-old transsexual lives in Venice and has changed her name to Nicole. She has undergone a hormone treatment and grown breasts, but she still lives inside the body of a middle-aged man, including a penis, a beard and a substantial Adam's apple. This is why Nicole is applying for a sex change through official channels. 'I never thought it would be so hard. I thought making the decision was enough,' she says. During five tense years, Nicole fights her emotional and physical struggle in the presence of director Alberto Vendemmiati's camera. Working as an actress, a seller of carnival masks and a prostitute, she finances her cosmetic treatments and looks forward to the subsidised sex change operation. Meanwhile, she turns to her elderly mother for support, who has a hard time accepting that her son will soon be a daughter.
- DirectorPaolo MartinoStarsRahell Ali MohammadAfter a dangerous journey from Iraq, 27 years old Rahell arrives in Italy. From there he planned to reach Sweden, the country where his family obtained political asylum years before and lives happily. But Rahell finds out very soon that, according to the European asylum regulations, his destiny will always be bound to the country where his finger prints were first taken. Like thousands of asylum seekers in Southern Europe, Rahell finds himself stuck in a "land of transit" without means to start a decent life. Through intimate interviews, this documentary follows Rahell's attempts to reach Sweden and shows how European asylum and immigration policies urgently need to be reformed.