The 21st century is "A Children's Century of War", as filmmaker Shelley Saywell discovers, journeying to Chechnya, the West Bank and Hebron, and Sierra Leone. The Chechen war's impact on the young is explored too in a film produced by Vanessa Redgrave. While the actress/activist has never been to the region, she explains her involvement has "something to do with being a wartime child." Children caught on both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict speak in "Promises". "Children, Kosovo 2000" blends a Hungarian crew's footage with ethnic Albanian kids' shots. Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "Afghan Alphabet" features children at the border of Iran and Afghanistan. Armed with a digital video camera, the director considers Afghanistan's high illiteracy rates. Destitution and illness among the young is documented in films like "Children of Shadows" (about young Haitian domestic servants), "Imiti Ikula" (on Zambia's orphaned and HIV-positive street kids), "Nisha" (about an 11-year-old Indian girl with Aids) and "Lives Without Importance" (about Brazil's imperiled homeless youth). Family violence is tackled by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini's "Runaway" (about a hostel for young Iranian women) and Alexandra Dickson's "Close to Home" (on five cases of family sex abuse).