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• Daughter from Danang/Balikbayan (#118)

  A Vietnamese mother and her American daughter are joyously reunited, but face cultural differences. [86 minutes]

  • Sun, May 19, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sun, May 19, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, May 19, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Mon, May 20, 1:00 AM on IPTV World

• Poor Us: The Animated History of Poverty (#525)

  The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes toward them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. [53 minutes]

  • Tue, May 21, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, May 21, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Mai's America/Someday Flowers Bloom (#125)

  A spunky Vietnamese teenager visits rural Mississippi, giving an outsider's glimpse inside America. [86 minutes]

  • Sun, May 26, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sun, May 26, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, May 26, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Mon, May 27, 1:00 AM on IPTV World

• Where Heaven Meets Hell (#601)

  Four sulfur miners working at an active volcano in Indonesia search for meaning in their daily struggles and triumphs. This intimate portrait chronicles their attempts to escape the social ills that... [56 minutes]

  • Mon, June 3, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 3, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 3, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 4, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 4, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Garbage Dreams (#602)

  The world's largest garbage village is just outside Cairo. The "Zabaleen" (Arabic for "garbage people") recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect, but now multinational corporations threaten... [56 minutes]

  • Sun, June 9, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 10, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 10, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 10, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 11, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 11, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• When Hari Got Married (#603)

  Hari, a 30-year-old taxi driver in the Indian Himalayas, is getting married to a girl he has never met but has fallen in love with over the mobile phone. [56 minutes]

  • Sun, June 16, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 17, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 17, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 17, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 18, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 18, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Lakshmi and Me (#503)

  In this intimate examination of the relationship between Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain and her young maid, Lakshmi, Jain holds up a mirror to her own culture and the pervasive caste system that can... [55 minutes]

  • Mon, June 17, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 17, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 18, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 18, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 18, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sun, June 23, 6:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 25, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Tue, June 25, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Unmistaken Child (#604)

  When one of Tibet's greatest monks passes away, his shy, gifted disciple must complete a monumental task assigned by the Dalai Lama: to find the child who is the reincarnation of his master. [86 minutes]

  • Sun, June 23, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 24, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 24, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Mon, June 24, 2:30 PM on IPTV World

• Ninos De La Memoria (#605)

  Hundreds - possibly thousands - of children disappeared from El Salvador in the midst of that country's civil war in the 1980s. Ninos de la Memoria follows three of those children as they return to... [56 minutes]

  • Sun, June 30, 9:00 PM on IPTV World

Past Episodes

These episodes of Global Voices aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.

• Welcome to the World (#528)
• Education Education (#527)
• Land Rush (#526)
• Poor Us: The Animated History of Poverty (#525)
• Stealing Africa (#524)
• Give Us the Money (#523)
• Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey (#522)
• A Lion's Trail (#120)
• Street Ballad: A Jakarta Story (#521)
• Family Portrait in Black and White (#520)
• The Boy Mir (#519)
• Motherland Afghanistan (#310)
• Chahinaz: What Rights for Women? (#518)
• Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos (#517)
• The English Surgeon (#516)
• Milking The Rhino (#515)
• I Was Worth 50 Sheep (#514)
• 74 Square Meters (#513)
• Waiting for the Revolution (#512)
• A Son's Sacrifice (#422)
• Acrobat (#509)
• The Collaborator and His Family (#511)
• Carmen Meets Borat (#318)
• Arusi Persian Wedding (#510)
• Circus School (#101)

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