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Samarcanda’s library is host to a broad range of products (TV series, formats, documentaries, Features, etc.). The company has launched an intensive scouting activity in the audio-visual markets in order to identify products and formats aimed at cross targets (family, teen, youth, adults, fast consumers, productive, dynamic, etc.) and is pursuing a broad client base.

Sea Angels - Angeli del Mare

The 10x25' Factual Series is focused on the daily tasks of all the men and women who are working in the frontline, rescuing thousands of migrants who are fleeing from war, slavery, rape, torture, hunger. Boatloads of people pushed out to sea on a desperate journey that often turns into the deadliest route. With the crucial support of the Italian Coast Guard, together with the Italian Red Cross and other NGO, we'll report on their efforts to provide search and rescue activities, first aid, emergency shelters and all the humanitarian and psychological support that the migrants need. The largest refugee crisis of our time is taking place right here and right now, the number of displaced people is larger than after War World II.

Kapp to Cape

“Kapp to Cape” is the compelling human story of an attempt to set a World Record for cycling the entire length of the planet in an ambitious 100 days. Realizing that his comfortable existence had stifled the dreams of his younger self, Reza Pakra- van 39, rejected his secure job as a finan- cial analyst in the City of London to em- brace a new life of adventure and insecu- rity. He was joined by Steven Pawley, 36, a London-based South African born ac- countant. After two grueling years of meticulous planning and tough training, in August 2013 they set out from Nordkapp in the Arctic Circle to cycle the 11,000 miles to Cape Town in South Africa, completely unsupported.

Free Speech Free Fear

Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is free speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble. Free Speech Fear Free get's to the core of what free speech really is, and the impact it has on our day to day lives. It compares the UK with Belarus and shows what life is really like without Free Speech. It tells chilling stories of a dictatorship that destroys people's standard of living.

Cicliste per Caso

Two women travelling by bike across the United States, from Canada to Mexico along the Great Divide. A unique adventure through the most remote areas of the Rocky Mountains, between pristine nature and wild animals. An epic journey that led them to travel 4,000 km and climb 60,000 meters and that, day after day, forced them to face their own limits, their strength and fragilities, and tested their relationship. Because every journey is always a love story.

30 Vies

The titular "30 lives" of this daily serial drama are those of a high school class, seen through the eyes of the lead character: their teacher. Viewers share in every challenge faced, every life lesson learned. Journeying into the private lives of students and tackling such topical themes as street violence, bullying and rising dropout rates, 30 vies is a compelling, inspiring social drama.

The Arrows of Truth

Alain and Dafroza Gauthier have spent over a decade fighting the French legal system to bring to justice the masterminds of the Rwandan Genocide, who are living comfortable lives in France. But for almost twenty years they have been met with state and judicial obstruction as parts of the French authorities a ttempt to derail a process that would ultimately shed further light on French complicity in the genocide, which claimed the lives of over 800,0000 Tutsis. In 2013, for the first time in French legal history, and thanks to the Gauthiers, the trial of the Head of Intelligence at the time of the Genocide is about to begin in a court in Paris. The Gauthiers are fighting to bring others to trial, some of who are still receiving tacit and direct support from the French authorities. Will these individuals be convicted? Will the truth of the extent of French complicity be exposed?

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