Afghan Star

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, they banned everything that did to express personality. Nothing is except-able in the Islamic religion, including music and dancing. Taliban was swept from power in 2001, Islamic militants still regard music as sinful and have targeted Afghan musicians in assassination plots. As soon as Afghan Star premiered it was a hit. Afghan Star was modeled after the American television show American Idol. This show was very risky, the director Havanah Marking was very courageous in making this movie he faced lots of obstacles including fear of the Tailban. In the end Rafi Naabzada won the competition and was made the Afghan Star.

Please Vote For Me

A third grade class at Evergreen Primary School has their first encounter with democracy by holding an election to select a Class Monitor. Three eight years olds run against each other for the position of Class Monitor. Since China is a Communist country the whole concept of voting and democracy is foreign to them. The purpose of Weijun Chen's experiment is to determine how democracy would be received if it came to China. The three children completeting are Xu Xaiofei, Cheng Cheng, and Luo Lei.

Weeping Camel

A family of shepherds in the Gobi Desert- which is south of Mongolia- help a herd of camels give birth. One of the Camels had a really hard time giving birth and wouldn't have been able to give birth without the help of this family. When the camel gave birth to the calf she rejected it right away because it came out as a rare white calf. The sheepherders tried desperately to have the mother accept its newborn but it wouldn't in result the new calf had no milk to survive. The family of sheepherders is the calfs only chance at survival.

I now understand why this film is called the Weeping Camel. The mother camel didnt accept its calf at first but once the musician came and brought them together she started crying. This shows that animals- or at least camels- have emotions aswell. She felt bad for rejecting her baby for being different.