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In October 2011, Olympus Corporation, a multibillion dollar Japanese optical company, dismissed its president and CEO, British-born Michael Woodford, over cultural differences in management style. Japanese media dutifully reported the dismissal with minimum coverage, another foreign CEO failing to adapt to the Japanese way. But international media reported a brewing scandal where Japanese board members of the company unanimously voted to dismiss Woodford for blowing the whistle on a 1.7 billion dollar fraud that the 93-year-old Japanese company had kept secret for more than two decades. Film-maker Hoe Yamamoto unravels the events that led to one of the most mystifying corporate scandals in the world.

After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the new Iranian regime consolidated its power through the mass removal of opponents: in the 1980s, thousands of political prisoners were secretly tortured and killed. The perpetrators were never prosecuted, and today hold high-ranking government positions. In October 2012, the Iran Tribunal met in The Hague to investigate the executions. This international people's court has no executive power, but aims principally to identify and investigate what went on. For three days, survivors and members of victims' families - including the filmmaker Nima Sarvestani - gave their testimony. The Iran Tribunal was broadcast live. From Sweden, an activist named Iraj follows the tribunal - he is one of the survivors, scarred for life. And along with Mehdi, who works behind the scenes at the tribunal, Iraj dreams of confronting the perpetrators with their crimes. Both men have dedicated their lives entirely to the struggle for justice.

Emmy nominee and winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, POINT AND SHOOT tells the story of Matthew VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore USA, and set off on a self-described "crash course in manhood." He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a multi-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in - and filmed - the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man's search for political revolution and personal transformation.

For three decades the world has witnessed China's fast economic development. In 2008 the Chinese government issued a $586 billion plan to try to minimize the impact of the global financial crisis on the world's second largest economy. The aim was to invest in infrastructure and social welfare throughout China. Chinese director Zhang Zambo managed to get unique access to the implementation of the financial plan. For three years the director filmed the making of a section of a highway through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Chairman Mao was born. The result is a rare insight to the impact the plan has had on a local community.

Every summer, a few brave Roma girls will enter a beauty pageant in the bid to be called Miss Roma. But what if their dream is not a marriage proposal, but to go to high school and get a diploma? With an extraordinary access and seldom seen intimacy, we follow three girls on their journey of high stakes and self-discovery.

An entertaining and provocative documentary in which director David Graham Scott puts himself in the firing line as he befriends big game hunter Guy Wallace. An unrepentant relic of the colonial era, Wallace has been a soldier, mercenary and tracker. He now lives in splendid isolation on the Caithness moors in Scotland, but has one remaining ambition - to return to Africa and kill a Cape Buffalo. Scott is a vegan but accompanies Wallace in a film that explores the ethical issues around hunting and the unlikely bond that develops between two men.

Carne Ross was a career diplomat who believed western democracy could save us all. But after the Iraq war he became disillusioned and resigned. This film traces Carne's worldwide quest to find a better way of doing things as he makes the epic journey from government insider to anarchist.

Warriors from the North - a film about young Somali-European men, who leave their everyday lives to become fighters, and perhaps even suicide bombers, in Somalia - one of the most dangerous and impoverished places in the world. These young men, most of them born and raised in Scandinavia, are recruited in their home towns and subsequently leave for Somalia, where they are trained by al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group whose aim is to obtain Islamic rule in Somalia. This is the story of a young man known only as "The Shadow" who describes how he fell victim to recruiters from al-Shabab. He outlines the conditions that make boys like him susceptible to the lure of the "holy war," explaining that, "Nothing in my life made any sense." A number of other young fighters, their identities concealed, explain why they left hearth and home and are prepared to die.