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- Never Whistle Alone is a collective story told by seven Italian whistleblowers. The film is not a reportage on their cases. It wants instead to reveal a discriminatory practice that is rooted into our working culture: the people who report white-collar crimes, instead of being appreciated, are treated like traitors and, ultimately, they become victims of their own organizations.
- Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, travels around the world in a quest to eliminate the use of genetically modified foods and seeds in her home country of India and other developing countries.
- The Perfect Circle depicts a man and a woman, Ivano and Meris, who spend their final days at a hospice in Northern Italy. The film intertwines two love stories and the possibility to give a new meaning to life.
- How can you keep your humanity in a dictatorship where you're educated to erase in yourself any singularity? In his early years, the Syrian painter and filmmaker Hazem Alhamwi found his own way to live and to feel free, drawing obsessively in his own room. But in 2011, finally, the Revolution started. The Syrian people went out in the streets, facing Al-Assad's army.
- On a cold winter night a loaded factory trawler enters the old harbour of Reykjavík. On board there are 20.000 boxes of frozen fish, each weighing 25 kg. The temperature in the freezing compartment is -35C°. A group of men has only 48 hours to empty the ship before it heads back out to sea.
- It is the picture of how a relationship between two people after several years of marriage, you can spend a great love for stifling prison. Is your child that observes and tells his story.
- Gugara in Evenky language stands for the sound of the bell hanging from a reindeer neck. It's one of the few sounds you could hear in taiga, but recently there's almost nothing but silence. Within the last few weeks, Dimitri and Tatiana, elderly herdsmen, have lost their entire herd. What to do in taiga without it? Especially if you are very last herdsmen in the area. Everybody else already has left life in the forest for the nearby Russian village. This is the story of the decline of a small Siberian community. This observational documentary describes the paradoxical world of former nomads and reindeer herdsman that were forced to abandon their ancient life-ways. Characters of the film are on the different stages of forsaking world which was known us traditional way of life.
- A documentary about the filmmaker's attempts to become pregnant in her late thirties.
- Nardos, an Azmari singer from Addis Ababa, dreams of telling stories about the lives of ordinary people through her music. In her search for the stories behind her songs, she meets Gennet, a poet who lives on the streets with her children. Nardos puts the lives, visions and power of Ethiopian women at the center of her creation as we slowly immerse ourselves in a rapidly changing country.
- We see the world from the perspective of pigs, chickens, cows and dogs. With unique access, the stunning visuals take us on a roller coaster of emotions and make us question our strange behavior towards animals. Why do we look away from millions of farm animals while pampering and humanizing others? With unique access to Dutch factory farms, the stunning visuals take us on a roller coaster of emotions and makes us question our strange behavior towards animals. Why do we look away from millions of farm animals while pampering and humanizing others?
- Emanuel's identity is unknown, and his life has been put on hold for eight years. He claims to be from Liberia, but the Norwegian authorities believes he's from Ghana. He can't be returned to a country he's not registered in.
- Jacqueline Jencquel plans to have an assisted suicide. The 74-year-old mother, grandmother and right-to-die activist confidently defends her decision before the camera of one of her three sons. Until an event upsets her plans.
- A dead-straight, endless road leading to nowhere. And at the end of the road: Nouadhibou, a town in the West African country Mauritania, bordered by the ocean on one side and the Sahara Desert on the other. A bleak and inhospitable departure point for the tens of thousands of people that pour in from neighboring countries, all with only one dream in mind: Europe. Hotel Sahara is a film journey to the last invisible border separating the West-African coast and Europe. The bleak city on the Atlantic Coast is a metaphor, a point of arrival and of departure, a gathering place of broken dreams - a place of waiting for that better life on the far side of the Atlantic. It is above all a no-man's land, a place of endless waiting and endless hoping. The film reveals how difficult it is to differentiate between "true" and "false" refugees. Is one "real" only when threatened life and limb? What if one simply desires to escape a deadening lack of perspective? With an observant and cautious eye, Hotel Sahara documents how closely the dream of a better life is linked to sudden stagnancy, and how much patience is required to wait for years to finally, perhaps, arrive somewhere.
- An alternative creation myth of the small Caucasian Republic of Abkhazia sheds new light on a highly topical question in a world on fire: What is a country?
- The tiny village Zulueta, the Cradle of Football (soccer) in Cuba. Cuba might be a baseball-country but in Zulueta, the people have built their own stadium with the best football-field in the country. Furthermore they have two asphalted streets and a central park with a statue: a football. The small pueblo Zulueta, in the middle of nowhere, is home to the best football team in Cuban history and every Zulueteño breathes and sweats football. Since the Spanish immigrants brought football to the area a century ago, the Zulueteños have kept the tradition very alive and the ballgame has become their way of life. In the summer of 2010 the entire village is under the spell of the biggest feast that football has to offer. An event they await every four years and celebrate like nowhere else in Cuba... or like nowhere at all. Five main characters tell their love-story about football and their village while following the World Cup 2010 on TV. The five characters are: the serious leader of the Argentinian fans, the crazy leader of the German fans, the proud ex-goalie and leader of the Brazilian fans, the sweet old but only Spanish fan and finally, the Football-archivist of the pueblo... Five remarkable people who have dedicated their lives to football in Zulueta. This is the story about extraordinary supporters of their favorite teams on the World Cup but above all dream to maintain and improve their own football. Their way of life! Born and raised in the Cradle of Football in Cuba, with a tradition of producing players for the Cuban national team, they all dream of seeing their boys play with Cuba on a World Cup Football.
- Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo's autopsy room. They are homeless, prostitutes, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy.
- To Make a Comedy Is No Fun: Jirí Menzel.
- Sculptor Filippo Dobrilla considers art as a rebellion. For over 30 years he sculpted a giant marble nude into the most impervious nature, in an inaccessible cave. But nature itself was fatally opposed to his crazy undertaking.
- What we don't see is the face of the most important figure in the film, Stefan S., who is serving a life sentence in a Brandenburg jail.
- Director Maroesja Perizonius examines the effects of growing up in the religious cult of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, now known as Osho.
- Filmmaker Vitaly Mansky embarks on a journey to track down his old school friends with whom, as a child growing up in Lvov, Ukraine, he pledged allegiance to the Soviet motherland and the principles of communism.
- A 10-year-old boy for more than a year as he confronted a decision which potentially would have a huge impact not just for his own future but for that of his island.
- Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches of the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, close to the edge of heaven. He lives amidst the myths of his mountains, between bears and wolves, in the sun, wind, snow and ice - and in constant concern for his animals... Soon, when he hangs his sheepskin coat on the wall for the last time, an irretrievable piece of Old Europe shall die. Or will his son Radu take over the herd?
- An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter.
- The story of the turbulent youth of Roma, a 13-year-old street boy neglected by his family and the state, who becomes a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014.
- A look at generations of a single Peruvian family. It's a family drama about love and poverty in a globalized world.
- A documentary film about love and loss, exploring the invisible bond between a child and a biological parent. Children in foster care are, in truth, on loan only.
- The intimate tale of a family can encapsulate the evolution and state of the society in which it lives. A privileged insight into the family album may enable the audience to relive important chapters in history and sense the mood of the times. The family in this story is that of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff. It is almost as if major characters from her work had developed a life of their own to reveal the invisible pages we could not find in her books.
- War has always been the fate of humanity. But the advent of artificial intelligence and the hyper-digitization of weapons is a game changer. In these new conflicts, the front seems to take the shape of a new demon.
- What is the mental legacy and set of values that the liberal late 1960s and early 1970s gave to the people who were born and grew up during that time, to the people who are now approaching middle-age?
- The anti-psychiatric Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) was founded in Heidelberg in 1970 and attributed individual suffering to society's capitalist structures. It began as a self-organized experiment in group therapy led by doctor Wolfgang Huber with psychiatric patients, featuring Hegel readings and individual agitation, before subsequently radicalizing, which ended in criminal proceedings against its members, some of whom went underground with the Red Army Faction.
- As a twelve-year-old boy, Nicola de Leo already knew she wanted to become a woman. Today, the now forty-year-old transsexual lives in Venice and has changed her name to Nicole. She has undergone a hormone treatment and grown breasts, but she still lives inside the body of a middle-aged man, including a penis, a beard and a substantial Adam's apple. This is why Nicole is applying for a sex change through official channels. 'I never thought it would be so hard. I thought making the decision was enough,' she says. During five tense years, Nicole fights her emotional and physical struggle in the presence of director Alberto Vendemmiati's camera. Working as an actress, a seller of carnival masks and a prostitute, she finances her cosmetic treatments and looks forward to the subsidised sex change operation. Meanwhile, she turns to her elderly mother for support, who has a hard time accepting that her son will soon be a daughter.
- Seaside Special follows the town of Cromer on the north Norfolk coast as it prepares for its annual end of pier variety show, a burlesque mix of song and dance, standup comedy and slapstick performed twice a day for three months, in the summer of 2019, set against the tumultuous backdrop of clashing views within the community over Brexit.
- "What sin did I commit to be born a woman?" Lakshmi wonders aloud. A 21-year-old housemaid in Mumbai, she works ten hours a day, seven days a week. One of her employers is Nishtha Jain, who begins to make a documentary that explores their relationship. Nishtha films Lakshmi at home, and at work in various houses. Lakshmi's is a precarious existence to begin with; illness and romance compound her problems in unexpected ways. As the filmmaker is drawn deeper into Lakshmi's life, she is forced to question many of the things she takes for granted. During a year and a half of dramatic changes, the process of filming has its own impact on unfolding events and on the relationship between the two women.
- Compilation film of Russian home movies in the form of a fictional life story.
- REGULAR OR SUPER is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most influential architects, and a thought-provoking demonstration of the social and artistic contributions that architecture at its best can make to our urban environments.