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Khaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.

Saleh and Marwa are a young couple who love Aleppo, but now, like thousands of others, they are forced to leave. Their neighborhood is in a tragic situation due to the siege, food shortage and cruel cold. Through this intimate short film we feel the weight of being stuck on the exodus and waiting in the evacuation route, heart-broken over their homeland. Equal to the suffering and fatigue is their love, keeping them together.

After five months of incessant and senseless shelling, a group of children living in Aleppo start painting the walls of their city. It is an act of protest as well as resistance: a small act that dares to dream of bringing back life in a place that has been humiliated by bombs and bullets, while international powers were watching without doing anything to save lives.

The story of a Syrian young man who left his university and moved to provide psychological support for children before being subjected to security persecution by the extremist organizations and fleeing to Turkey.

The How Do You Sell segment looks at advertisements that tackle equal pay, after Lisa Wilkinson's departure from Today (1982) shone a spotlight on the issue. Two advertising agencies try to make us turn off the news in The Pitch. The Target Market segment looks at how the Hillsong Church has become one of Australia's biggest brands.