A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Enquanto a Indonésia se prepara para invadir a pequena nação de Timor Leste, cinco jornalistas australianos desaparecem. Quatro semanas depois, o veterano correspondente estrangeiro Roger East é atraído a Timor-Leste pelo jovem e carismático José Ramos-Horta para contar a história de seu país e investigar o destino dos desaparecidos. À medida que a determinação de East para descobrir a verdade cresce, a ameaça de invasão se intensifica.
Aisyah just graduated. She lives in Ciwidey, West Java, a religious village near a tea plantation, with her mother and younger brother. Her father had died a few years ago. She wants to be a teacher. One day, she gets a call from the foundation where she enrolled: she gets her wish fulfilled at the location that she never knows: Derok, North Middle Timor District. From the beginning she feels like a "foreigner". The local people mistake her as Sister Maria, just because she wears a veil like a sister. The people is expecting the arrival of Sister Maria as a teacher in the village. This isolated village is without electricity and cellular signals. The new environment, the different tradition and religion make Aisyah giddy. Fortunately there is Pedro (Arie Kriting) who makes the problems easy. She must face the hatred of one of his student, Lordis Defam. Through the chief, she understand that she is a Muslim who is considered an enemy by Lordis Defam who is a catholic
The political journey of Canadian photographer Elaine Brière from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations in an effort to find out Ottawa's rational for abandoning the tiny nation of East Timor to corporate interests in Indonesia.
A festive day in the Timorense community stranded in the Jamor Valley. A partisan who came from Timor and his story. A look at an abandoned people.