The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
When the premises of the peace treaty in Colombia are threatened by a new government, two coca and marijuana growers fi…
After the signing of the peace treaty between the guerrillas and the Colombian State, the sixth front of the FARC-EP be…
A group of HR activists is kidnapped when they try to denounce the Chinese regime during the visit to Serbia of one of …
Gopi Shankar, an intersex individual, is publicly vying for a seat in the legislative assembly of a conservative region…
When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
How is the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution celebrated without the presence of its lea…
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
In this short film, the voices of workers in the Argentine textile industry cooperatives tell their stories of belongin…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
An international dispute is seen through the life of an Uruguayan woman. In this tragicomedy, Mirta is torn between two…
"Holodomor" is a term that refers to the Great Famine that occurred in Ukraine in the early 1930s. American Writer Kath…
Ghiyath Matar was a Syrian peace activist who was killed by government forces in 2011. This documentary makes his legac…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Following the Chinese government's one-child policy, workers at a birth control center in a remote rural village are ta…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
In a disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia, a man planted the flag of the fictional country called "Liberland".…
When Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua in 2006, a group of Americans see the lands they bought in the past th…
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
Palm D'Or winner Ken Loach directed this provocative and sensitive document on the poetic and artistic side of the Mine…
In October 2017, Juan Martín Guevara traveled to Bolivia to be present at the events commemorating the murder of his br…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
During the dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile, a women's movement took to the streets to protest against the regime for …
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
A congress bill promises to return the lands to those affected by violence in Colombia. The filmmaker visits this ghost…
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