Xmas Without China - Pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge his American neighbors to celebrate Christmas without Chinese products.

Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code Of Honor - One of director Kumashiro's most satisfying and visually unique works, featuring a sordid and doomed love-hate relationship at its heart.

Yellow Wasps - Chronicles the Yellow Wasps, a Serbian paramilitary unit operating in Bosnia in 1992.

Young Freud in Gaza - Ayed is a young psychotherapist in Gaza. The film shows his consultations with a variety of patients, and the challenges he and they face.

Youth - Four young women face issues of independence and empowerment in Algeria, Egypt, and Lebanon.

Yugoslavia: Origins of a War - Provides a detailed background to the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, using only archive and unpublished material.

Zaire, Cycle of the Serpent - Chronicles five weeks of life in Kinshasa, revealing the disparities in the capital city's social fabric.

Zinat, One Special Day - Zinat, the first woman from the Island of Qeshm in the south of Iran to remove the traditional face mask (Boregheh), is running for elected office.

Zone of Silence - Five Cuban intellectuals discuss censorship as a historical, political and social phenomenon.

Zygosis - A radical and humorous electronic homage to John Heartfield, anti-Nazi German satirist who pioneered the photomontage.