The idea of choosing your baby’s hair and eye colour, IQ, height, weight and talents fills most of us with a sense of horror, evoking memories of Nazi breeding programmes from the 1930s. Yet some are willing to overcome the taboo in a bid to create ‘the perfect child’.
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Every year in America, 43 billion kgs of food is thrown away. This multi award-winning film follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster-dive in the back alleys of Los Angeles’ supermarkets.
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In just a decade, China has become a dominant force in many African countries. Police face a wave of illegal immigrants and an influx of Chinese prostitutes whilst locals object to the working culture of their Chinese bosses.
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We join the paps as they stalk the stars from Cannes to St Tropez, using a host of creative methods and techniques to get a good shot.
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Welcome aboard the ‘Oasis of the Seas’, the biggest cruise ship ever built. After two years of careful planning and monumenatal engineering works, she is ready to make her maiden voyage.
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Animated blogs and tweets from Iran form the backbone of this enlightening and sometimes shocking reconstruction of the 2009 Green Revolution.
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We examine the yarshagumba phenomenon, following the mushrooms’ journey from the peaks of the Himalayas to the markets of Asia.
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Every year, thousands of men travel abroad to have sex with children. Cambodia is a top destination for these ’tourists’. Thierry Darnaudet created an NGO composed of 50 Cambodian detectives to hunt down these paedophiles and arrest them in the act.
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Premières Lignes has finally managed to dissolve the shroud around the seemingly respectable western corporations operating in Burma, and how there are helping the dictatorship in place further entrench itself.
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