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Today, 11 years after the massive earthquake in Haiti that left over a million people homeless and killed hundreds of thousands, the country has still not recovered from the disaster. Despite billions of dollars in aid money, Haiti struggles with some of the highest levels of poverty and unemployment in the Western hemisphere. In Port-au-Prince, various citizens are shuttled through a city in crisis. Maneuvering around barricades, garbage dumps and the packed streets of the capital, they speak candidly about the current state of their country. Through the car window a frustrated population passes and occasionally interacts with the passengers in the vehicle. Beautifully shot, with a lively score, Zo Reken presents a complicated portrait that testifies to the magnitude of the tragedy and highlights the disorganized state of international aid.
zo reken (2021 )
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The film takes on a walk alongside parasites, symbionts and decomposers offering ideas of both interconnectedness and collaboration. Driven by a vision of resistance, the encounters seek possibilities of renewal and question what connects us when the world seems to be falling apart. With mushrooms and their allies the film invites to imagine a myco-cultural (r)evolution. What if the fungus could help us address and radically change our relationship to this world?
The Mushroom Speaks (2021 )
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28 octobre 2015, entre 13h30 et 17h30, surchargée, une embarcation de migrants syriens, partie de la côte turque, vient de basculer au large de Lesbos. Nouée au poignet d'Amel Alzakout, une caméra embarquée enregistre toute l'horreur que nargue, par interstices, la surface lisse de la Méditerranée, miroir de l'indifférence du ciel qu'un hélicoptère finira par percer.
Purple Sea (2021 )
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I Am The Tigress is an observational style documentary that follows the journey of protagonist Tischa “The Tigress” Thomas during the last year of her career as an African American female bodybuilder. Philipp Fussenegger and Dino Osmanović worked for over 2.5 years on creating this unique piece. They traveled with her from Harlem to Bucharest as she strived towards her goal to place number one in the world in female bodybuilding.
I Am the Tigress (2021 )
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Shadow Game is an experimentally filmed account of the far-reaching consequences of European asylum policy. Now fences have gone up all over Europe, seeking asylum has become almost impossible. The teenagers cross snowy landscapes and meet aggressive border police on their way. Reaching their final destination has become more difficult than ever. Their journey takes them through the whole of Europe: from Greece to North Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, from Italy to France and The Netherlands. The film was shot over a period of three years, partly by the main characters themselves on their phones.
Shadow Game (2021 )
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Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker’s father, who for years said nothing of his childhood in Algeria. And then, the need to break the silence, with a script that he gives to his children, to start telling his story. Several years later, the father and daughter finally make the journey to Mansourah, his native village: seeing his house, meeting other men who experienced the same heartbreak. Little by little, the film reveals what Malek, like many others, has long kept quiet about.
In Mansourah You Separated Us (2019 )
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Il y a seize ans, une poignée de paysannes des montagnes du sud de la Turquie avaient formé une troupe de théâtre, qui est devenue plus tard l’objet du documentaire La Pièce de Pelin Esmer. Ces femmes avaient mis en scène leurs propres histoires et cette expérience avait changé leur vie. Maintenant, elles prennent de nouveau la route avec une adaptation du Roi Lear de Shakespeare, voyageant sur les routes poussiéreuses et risquées vers des villages reculés et oubliés dans les montagnes de Turquie, qui n’ont parfois même pas d'eau potable. La pièce devient petit à petit La Reine Lear.
La Reine Lear (2019 )
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In 2007, the human rights organisation B’tselem launched a project consisting of providing video cameras and training to Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their lives under Israeli occupation. Made up of many short films, Of Land and Bread is a film of painful eloquence.
Of Land and Bread (2019 )
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When a VHS-tape proves the existence of a rumored doorway to paradise, a young man abandons his decaying hometown in pursuit of the door to salvation, evading vengeful pursuers along the way.
Exodus (2021 )
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A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
Dark Days (2000 )
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SOLIDARITY is about the secretive methods used against UK activists and trade unionists. Blacklisted construction workers and activists spied on by the police share their ongoing struggles.
Solidarity (2019 )
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Quand le diplomate autrichien Kurt Waldheim, ancien secrétaire général des Nations Unies, a annoncé en 1986 sa candidature à la présidence de son pays, la nouvelle a été accueillie avec joie, comme une évidence, par ses compatriotes. Du moins fut-ce le cas jusqu’à la découverte de son passé nazi, un détail gênant qu'il avait fort opportunément oublié de mentionner pendant toutes ces années à occuper une fonction publique. Bien qu’il ait affirmé par la suite son ignorance totale des atrocités commises pendant la guerre, cette révélation a aussitôt divisé le pays, pendant que le reste du monde assistait en spectateur à ce spectacle inhabituel. Pendant les mois qui ont précédé l’élection, Waldheim, pressé par le Congrès juif mondial de se retirer de la course, est passé du statut de dignitaire respecté à celui de « menteur » et de « nazi ». Et pourtant… il a tout de même réussi à remporter la présidence.
L'Affaire Waldheim (2018 )
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On the slopes of the Navarrese Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. A strip of bare land, 592 metres above sea level, today marks a dividing line within the landscape of the valley. Below that level, the water; above it, life goes on.
Above 592 Metres (2018 )
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Sur les berges du Tage au Portugal, un homme vit entre la tranquillité du fleuve et les relations qui le rattachent à la terre. Filmé aux quatre saisons, Terra Franca fait le portrait de la vie du pêcheur portugais Albertino, entouré de sa femme Dalia et de ses filles, dont l’aînée s’apprête à se marier.
Terra Franca (2018 )
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Ultimate refuge for the leftovers of the american dream, the motels in the United States houses a population of drifting humans who, from crisis to crisis – economic and personal – have been dispossessed of everything. Some of them lost it all. Some of them left it all. Some still have dreams. Some of them don’t remember well, sucked by daily survival. Everyone struggles with fragments of life that remain in this precarious nest. Portrait of a disenchanted America. Diving in its abyss.
Vacancy (2018 )
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Ce documentaire impressionniste dresse un portrait saisissant de la vie à Chiatura, une ville minière en partie abandonnée de l'ouest de la Géorgie.
City Of The Sun (2017 )
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The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens above the Andes and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, where she alights on the desert- and mountain-dwelling astronomers, fishermen, miners, and cowboys who live their lives with reverence and awe for the skies.
Cielo (2017 )
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Heloisa receives a gift: a collection of super-8 films with images of enormous cataracts that once comprised the Seven Falls (Sete Quedas), a natural paradise destroyed by the construction of the world's largest hydroelectric plant, in the early 1980s. The construction of the plant, at the height of the Brazilian military regime, awakens memories of a past immersed in a political authoritarianism. The film starts from the relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, Alvaro, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. They question the political trajectory of Brazil.Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Alvaro and Heloisa as they position themselves on opposite sides.
Building Bridges (2017 )
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When we die, there are still some practicalities that need to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. In Meanwhile on Earth we enter the world around our end station, an industry of death. It is a place where the existential meets the mundane, the sacred meets the profane.
Meanwhile on Earth (2020 )
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In Siculiana, a small Sicilian town full of flaking facades, religiosity is lived out as a matter of course. And of course the figure of Jesus Christ worshipped here is black, and always has been. However, some people cannot get used to their dark-skinned neighbours in the refugee camp. The camera accompanies locals and stranded people along their paths, which often lead to the church, but not necessarily together, and draws a kind of map of the city in black-on-black contrasts.
A Black Jesus (2020 )
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A travers des interviews de professionnelles, d'extraits de films et d'entraînements intensifs, ce documentaire propose de découvrir le métier de cascadeuses. Ces femmes qui risquent parfois leur vie devant la caméra mènent un combat constant pour affirmer leur place dans un univers encore trop masculin.
Profession cascadeuse : les héroïnes cachées d'Hollywood (2020 )
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Nicu, a homeless street kid, is adopted by the notorious 'Bruce Lee' and brought up in the subterranean tunnels of Bucharest. As he grows up, he begins to realise that this 'King of the Underworld' may not be the father that he needs. Filmed over five years by photographer Joost Vandebrug, the film is a real life Oliver Twist story about growing up, and finding a family.
Bruce Lee and the Outlaw (2018 )
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Fabiano se sent coupable de la mort d’un travailleur macédonien sans-papiers qui l’aidait dans sa fromagerie. Ses parents, hippies, étaient également producteurs de fromage, mais les temps ont changé, et tout semble plus compliqué. Aujourd’hui, Fabiano est sur le point d’accueillir son premier enfant. Aldo Gugolz réalise un film juste qui nous invite à aborder des sujets complexes.
Vaches sur le toit (2020 )
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A psychiatric centre in Tehran is implementing a revolutionary project: allowing marriage between patients. These women and men in search of love will have to face the prejudices of a traditionalist society. A sensitive and delicate film on personal relationships and the complex notion of madness.
The Marriage Project (2020 )
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Camille became a peasant, as they say of someone that lives off the land. She chose the Creuse region, a rough and supple land, laborious yet luminous, but experiences a growing rejection of the agricultural standards that govern her production. Raising her three children, caring for her animals and plants, will always be more important to her than yield. In parallel, her children learn to make choices in the face of the standards imposed on them by the school system.
Middle Earth (2020 )
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In 2019 Mississippi spring flooding hits record highs. Residents of Pierre-Part, Louisiana, prepare for the worst, as authorities are expected to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway to save the cities of New Orleans and Bâton Rouge from flooding. Faith and resilience are their only defense.
Belle River (2022 )
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With fine watercolour strokes, Daniela de Felice paints the portrait of a young woman in love and with a true passion for politics. The film takes us back to the Italy of the 1990s, between Berlusconi’s rise to power and the final reverberations of the 20th century. Ardenza is unexpected and moving, with riveting sensitivity and sensuality.
Ardenza (2022 )
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Director Jeanie Finlay charts a transgender man's path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth (2020 )
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Donal Foreman a rarement vu son père, le documentariste américain d’origine irlandaise Arthur MacCaig, mort en 2008. Plongeant dans ses archives, il apprend à connaître ce Parisien d’adoption à travers ces images parfois inédites sur le sujet qui l’a occupé toute sa vie : le conflit nord-irlandais.
The Image You Missed (2018 )
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Endphase tells the story of one the last WWII massacres which was not spoken about for 75 years. In the night of 2 May 1945, 228 Jewish women, children and old men were murdered in Hofamt Priel, a small village in Austria. The perpetrators were never found. The film is a journey into the past of the neighbouring communities Persenbeug and Hofamt Priel, where the brothers Hans and Tobias Hochstöger grew up. In search of an explanation they speak with the last local eyewitnesses and find Yakov Schwarz, the last survivor, and his family in Israel.
Endphase (2021 )
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Liberland tells the unusual history of a territory located in the Balkans, a micronation proclaimed by the Czech Vít Jedlička. Does this fanciful gesture conceal the willingness to construct a communitarian ideal, or the desire to build an empire of pernicious interests with impenetrable contours? This film skilfully combines geopolitical questioning and spirited satire.
Liberland (2021 )
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A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
El Father Plays Himself (2020 )