The effects of the Syrian conflict are being felt by the inhabitants across the ceasefire line in the Israeli Occupied …
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
A filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
In this episode of the UN In Action series, we follow the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in its task of demini…
In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
In the early nineties, during the war in Croatia, two friends had to separate as children. This short film documents th…
This documentary shows us the life in a refugee camp on Arbat, in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The film focuses on a boy of th…
Like silent observers, in this short film we are witnesses of how children of all ages play with toy weapons of all kin…
ISIS has carried out violent offensives against the Kurdish Yazidis, kidnapping women, selling them and raping them. Na…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
Devastated during the Spanish civil war in the 30s, today the old town of Belchite only exists in its ruins and in the …
This is the tale of what happened to the Americanized Children of Holocaust survivors. The film includes the testimonie…
After finding her mother’s war diary written during II WW, a daughter discovers who she really was. A journey into the …
One courageous woman’s journey from undercover agent to First Lady and the untold story of the birth of a new nation.
Those who lived first hand the struggle for the independence of Mozambique against the Portuguese colonists during the …
Through the director's comments on observational images filmed in Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Tunisia, this documentary te…
Told in first person, the director of this documentary narrates the story of his friendship with Asier Aranguren, a mem…
This courageous documentary directed by female filmmaker Alka Sadat is a close follow-up to a group of Afghan Commodes …
The film enters a worn out building inhabited by hundreds of refugees from the conflict between Abkhazia and Georgia, w…
Two Arab truck drivers face different obstacles to reach their destinations in an area affected by the war in Syria and…
In the middle of a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Turkey, three pregnant Kurdish teenagers survive alone …
After 30 years of being out of his country, Iraqi filmmaker Kasim Abid returns to Baghdad on the eve of the American to…
The Successor follows a former manufacturer of landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a journey where he will have the …
Polish survivors of a massacre by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943 return to the lands from which they fled. Stories of h…
POSTER GIRL is the story of Robynn Murray, an all-American Apple pie high-school cheerleader turned tough-as-nails mach…
Iraq Paper Scissors follows a unique transformation from uniform to pulp, from battlefield to workshop, and from warrio…
An American stealth-bomber pilot shot down over Serbia meets his enemy a dozen years later, in peace, and in friendship.
When Switzerland became involved in Ruanda in the 1960s, it entailed a dangerous game with the power elite from the sta…
TOUMAST – GUITARS AND KALASHNIKOVS retraces a part of recent history of the Tuaregs. Theirs is a fragmented history mad…
This is the real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life: Zahed Haftlang was an Iranian …
"While Ceausescu was alive, we knew who was good (the West and the United States) and who was evil. Since then, things …
A mother's emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in the Israeli-occupied t…
Surviving Skokie, an intensely personal documentary, explores the effects of a late 1970s threatened neo-Nazi march in …
In the late 70s, the Khmer Rouge regime killed around two million people in Cambodia suspected of being “internal enemi…
Premiered at IDFA, this documentary follows the struggle of Palestinian teenage boys trying to get back to life outside…
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