Film-makers focus on poverty, despite United Nations row

Wim Wenders and Jane Campion are two of the acclaimed directors behind a collection of short films on the United Nations' fight against poverty, but the U.N.agency meant to sponsor the project has pulled out of it.

‘8', which premiered at the Rome film festival on October 23, brings together eight film-makers to illustrate the eight U.N.

Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000 and aimed at halving the number of extremely poor and hungry people by 2015.

Each director takes a different angle to show how poverty, climate change, lack of access to education and basic health facilities are affecting the world's needy but also those living in the rich West.

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