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Golden Land
When Finnish-Somalian Mustafe discovers his ancestors’ land in the horn of Africa is full of copper and gold, he decides to swap his family’s safe but boring life in the Nordics for Somaliland, a self-declared state in East Africa. As Mustafe struggles to lift the treasures from underground, his children embark on a bumpy journey to uncover where they really belong.
A Devil with Harpoon
The story of Lars "Faen" Andersen, the man who killed the most number of whales in history
Things I Could Never Tell My Mother
Humaira Bilkis has a problem: after a pilgrimage to Mecca, her mother, who was previously an emancipated poet, has now become devout. The filmmaker has to fight to get her to accept the camera, since her religion forbids images, while hiding her relationship with a Hindu man from Calcutta. Her film plays out like a closed-door documentary, spot-on and moving.
Goodbye, Captain
The story of ‘Captain’ Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, from Pará state in northern Brazil, who died in 2016.
Magda
A young German girl Magda Homann was destined to fall victim to two World Wars at once, Kaiser's Germany and Tsarist Russia, the Hitlerite and Stalinist regimes. Having started a new German-Ukrainian history, she falls into the hands of the NKVD and her trail is mysteriously lost. But the search for Magda Homann by her German and Ukrainian grandson continues 70 years later.
Ironland
After living in the United States for decades, Brazilian geographer Camila decides to return to her native state of Minas Gerais when a mining-related environmental disaster strikes the area. A dam burst, destroying several villages with heavily polluted wastewater from an iron ore mine. In this documentary road movie, Camila shows how mining has shaped the state’s history.
Small Bird and Mr. Pig
The film's director KIM Saebom, the daughter of Small Bird and Mr. Pig, decides to open an exhibition for the two of them and goes to Busan, where they live. As she records their daily life and artistic activities, she learns about their lost dreams, hopes and their love.
The Voice of the People
“We will reclaim our country and our people,” a leading figure in the right-wing populist party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) tells his party colleagues on Bundestag election night in 2017. They are celebrating as the AfD, founded four years earlier, surges into the German parliament with 94 seats, instantly making it the third largest party. The Voice of the People follows four MPs—all men—for three years as they seek to extend their power.
Trans Kashmir
Once entertainers and employees of the royal courts, they were believed to have mystical powers. Today they fight for dignity in life and death. TRANS KASHMIR is a film about the extreme hardships, resilience and beauty of Kashmir’s Hijra (transgender) community and their growing movement for basic human rights.
First Movement Form
The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories.
A Steady Job
Every month, hundreds of unemployed nurses travel from the south to the north of Italy in search of work. Two of them organise the trips by overnight buses; a long journey of hope that often leads to nothing at all. Shot as a road movie, the two filmmakers paint a pitiless portrait of modern Italy before, during and after the health crisis.
Vicente Ruiz: A tiempo real
It traces the work of Vicente Ruiz and his creative process, the emotional impulses behind his work and the constant search for change. With archival footage and testimonies, the documentary explores the social role of art through one of the leading figures of Chilean counterculture in the 1980s.
Light upon Light
A philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as a religious concept in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Una claustrocinefilia
March 2020, the lockdown is triggered. A cinephile, Alessandro Aniballi, takes refuge in cinema, trying to understand how this obsession came about in him. Films become the tool to reconstruct his memory of himself and the outside world.
Sami’s Odysseys
In Ethiopia’s labyrinthine capital, a recluse sits translating Greek and Roman myths on an ancient laptop as cosmic chaos presses in on him. A true bibliophile’s gem of a film.
Sisters in Longing
They are bonded by their pain, longing, and their current residence – a semi-open prison for women. While staging Anton Chekhov’s play, Three Sisters, together with professional actors, imprisoned women reveal their harrowing life-stories, dreams and the longing for a decent life outside the prison walls.
Our Lucky Hours
45,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals between 1939 and 1945. A single site escaped this carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban, an isolated village in Lozère. What happened there for it to be an exception? Retracing several decades in the history of this important site of psychiatry, using precious archival films and the accounts of those who worked there, Martine Deyres answers this question and, in doing so, shows how the political courage and poetic audacity that were practised there contributed to changing medicine and society’s perception on madness. Intersecting in the crucible of this movement called “institutional psychotherapy” were members of the Resistance, artists, doctors and philosophers—including Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara and Georges Canguilhem.
Aluvión
Argentina 2017. Six intertwined stories. The pension reform advances in the National Congress. TV broadcasts the conflict. Lucrecia discusses with her boss what to report. Meanwhile, in a community kitchen, Rebeca calls for a march to defend her rights.
Long Period of Persecution
It was 25th August of 2017 when mass Exodus has happen at Cox’s Bazar District of Bangladesh and now Kutupalong of Cox’s Bazar has largest refugee camp site in the world with Rohingya population from Myanmar those who are known as most persecuted minorities. This Feature Documentary Film focusing on their oppressed life and covering the present status of Rohingya Community while they have completed 2 years in the camp with all their disastrous past, restricted present and uncertain future.
Pedra i oli
The story of the olive trees of the Serra de Tramuntana in Mallorca, Spain; a unique landscape that has always captivated artists from all over the world.
Solastalgia
Edda has been overcome by solastalgia: anguish over the destruction of our planet. Seeking refuge on the North Frisian island of Pellworm, she meets Sophie, a young farmer who is suing the German government for her right to a future, in this artistic, veracious immersion in the lives of the Fridays for Future generation.
When the Camera Stopped Rolling
Eight years in the making, Jane Castle's poignant documentary about her filmmaker mother Lilias Fraser is an intimate mother-daughter story and eye-opening chronicle of women's roles in the film industry.
Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics Opening Ceremony
The Opening Ceremony of the XIII Paralympic Winter Games, held in Beijing, China at 4 March 2022.
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby
Seamus Murphy’s documentary examines Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby’s unique world. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral relationship with his beloved Dublin, fellow Dubliners and anything that catches his interest. Personal challenges, a sensitive humanity and a lifetime as a maverick have taught him to harness reality and reach well beyond it to avenge the banal with absurd magic. It heals him as it does us.
Verhängnisvolle Versprechen: Das nigerianische Netzwerk
Criminal networks from Nigeria make money from drug and human trafficking. In their home country, they lure young women with the prospect of a secure future in Europe - a fateful promise. Because it leads to forced prostitution. The women pay thousands of euros for the often illegal journey. Once there, the human traffickers demand the money back and force the young women into prostitution. They are put under psychological pressure by an archaic "Yuyu" ritual intended to prevent them from escaping and escaping their tormentors. "Without demand, the business would not exist," says social worker Princess Inyang Okokon. She herself had fallen into the hands of human traffickers, but managed to get out and is now helping other women to break out of forced prostitution. The documentary accompanies the committed Italian prosecutor Lina Trovato and the German investigator Colin Nierenz in their work and tells of the fate of young Nigerian women who managed to escape from forced prostitution
Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design
The story of one of Denmark’s most important designers: perfectionist, pioneer, lover, mother and woman Grethe Meyer. Told through her groundbreaking creations and in cinematic reconstructions.
Visions of Empire
A film about the Portuguese colonial empire as it is seen and shown through photography, from the end of the 19th century until the 1974 revolution that put an end to the political regime that ruled Portugal.
The Final Twist
After three unsuccessful attempts at the Olympics, the 30-year-old Aljona Savchenko finally wants to win a gold medal with a new partner in four years. A rather bold plan, especially since the young Frenchman Bruno Massot, chosen by the German-Ukrainian ice princess, has no international successes in pairs figure skating. He moves to Germany and has no idea of the manic perfectionist he's getting involved with. Aljona's training is tough. Constant disputes about the right course threaten to bring the project to failure. Two completely different characters collide. However, the team of trainers manages to calm things down. February 2018: The competition at the Winter Olympics in South Korea begins with the short program. Inexplicably, Bruno blunders and the pair sit fourth by a wide gap. Gold is hardly possible anymore. It only remains for them to show the world their unique free skating. Their intoxicating, perfect run will go down in history. It will be the free skating of their life!
Breaking the Brick
Two Chileans, on opposing sides of the political spectrum, experience a year of turmoil as protests give way to transformation.
Közüngü
Közüngü is the name given to the mirrors on the ritual costumes of the Kam, a group of sages, visionaries, inventors, artists and craftsmen from the hunter-gatherer Turkic communities. This documentary explores the impact of Central Asian Turkic customs on the culture of Anatolia.
Beast Mode On
The extraordinary journey of Adebayo 'The Beast' Akinfenwa, twenty-years defying the odds; adored by fans, respected throughout the sport and commanding more attention than most.
Cabin Music
When a spiritual crisis spurs him to leave the constraints of the conservatory, pianist and filmmaker James Carson embarks on a journey of evolution, discovering new connections between music and the natural world. His travels culminate in a cabin he builds in the Canadian wild where his experiences meld into a new form. A lyrical, genre-defying feast for the senses, Cabin Music is a testament to the twin transcendent powers of music and nature.
Factorial Juggling
The story of the lowest point on Earth, a wild beach in Israel. It is there, on the border with Palestine, in a country where there is a constant conflict of war, that an oasis of peace has been created. A place where people come to lay their heavy bodies on the thick suspension of the Dead Sea. One day a new resident disturbs the harmony of the place.
Ghana Airways
It happens whenever Hakeem Adam is at an airport, or just about to leave or arrive in Ghana. In this place of transition, between going there and being there, he can get just enough distance from his homeland to ask what it means to be Ghanaian in the 21st century.
