Season 2001

Award-winning film-maker Viktor Kossakovsky examines the nature of human love in three stories which together look at his mentors, a shot-gun wedding outside Moscow, and the relationship of two St Petersburg kindergarten children.

Documentary focusing on Vera Bila , the most successful Romany singer in Europe. Born in Slovakia, she travels around Europe in search of places to perform, all the while awaiting her son's release from prison.

Film-maker Alan Berliner is tired of being mistaken for one of the many people who share his name. He attempts to come to terms with his alter egos when he holds a dinner party where invites are confined to people called Alan Berliner.

Nick Fraser travels to Brussels in an effort to understand the European Union

The story of the cook's son who became a feared, tyrannical leader in Zaire.

What made a nice girl from a well-to-do middle class family descend into the sleazy world of drugs, pimps, sex for money, and ultimately jail and ruin?

Prince Mohato becomes King of Lesotho and must face the many burdens of office and the commitment of marriage.

In this powerful and moving film an 87-year-old traditional Inuit hunter looks back on his life in north-west Greenland.

Co-written and directed by his daughter Aiyana, a Storyville profile of the American folk hero Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

This Icelandic documentary film tells the story of Britain and Iceland's struggle over the once plentiful cod-fishing grounds in the North Atlantic during the 1950s and the 1960s.

First of a two-part film on the bitter history of conflict between Israelis and Arabs.

Concluding the two-part film about the enmity between Israeli and Arab.

Documentary-maker Alan Berliner's award-winning film about his enigmatic grandfather.

The life of the Jewish jazz musician Eddie Rosner, who fled Nazi Germany and settled in Russia, only to be arrested and imprisoned there after the war.

Documentary film examining the murder of the celebrated fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami in 1997.

The nature of politics is observed as Sydney's Leichhardt Council prepares to vote for its mayor.

A documentary charting the turbulent life of Catalan artist Pablo Picasso

Agnes Varda travels through France, meeting people who live by picking up other people's rubbish.

Photojournalist Nick Danziger 's return to Kosovo as he tries to trace the ethnic Albanian people he pictured in refugee camps during the war in the Balkans.

Film documenting the harsh reality of life in Soweto, South Africa.

Film about the painful legacy left by child abuse.

How the influence of Christian missionaries in Papua New Guinea is steadily eroding the traditional customs and beliefs of the tribes-people there.

Maximilian Schell's documentary about the life of Marlene Dietrich, for which he garnered information from the film star during a 17-hour conversation.