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Life is Beautiful
Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabalay is on a month long work trip to Norway when the Egypt/Gaza border closes and he is unable to return home. He details his seven year fight to get back to his family, during which time he made his award-winning film Ambulance
Magic Mountain
Abastumani is a tuberculosis hospital high up in the Georgian mountains where the old Soviet doctors used to be well respected professionals, but as times changed they got stuck in the past and became mere minders for ex-convicts, alcoholics and drug addicts dying of TB. There is many other staff in the hospital, but there is no security. The patients who are predominantly male, greatly outnumber the staff and so the rules of the hospital are dictated by them.
Belongings
A Penobscot Nation author grew up in a haunted house. After his mother's death, he returns home to confront the odd occurrences that took place there—from ghost stench and spirit turds to knocking inside walls and a botched exorcism—and wonders why we fear spirits and the afterlife, especially once a loved one passes and all we want is to hear from them again, no matter the form.
La mia danza
Filippo returns to the Ticino dance school where the desire to dance was awakened in him as a child. He traces his relationship with dance, from childhood to adulthood.
Le lac des Quatre-Cantons : La perle bleue de la Suisse
The First Hour
Germany 1945 – the Third Reich has just collapsed and the first Allied troops are moving in. What happened in the first hour after the end of the Second World War? Re-enacted scenes alternate with the accounts of eyewitnesses, not many of whom are likely to be alive by now.
Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn
Take a celebrated musical genius, some sibling rivalry, an unknown manuscript, a dash of sass and one sensational revelation and what have you got? As moving as it is joyous, this is the story of a very modern woman – who just happened to live 200 years ago.
Spirit of the Mountains
The charismatic Snow Leopard is the least understood of all the big cats and one of the most challenging to film. Over a period of five years, veteran Indian wildlife filmmakers, Naresh and Rajesh Bedi endured extreme cold and the thin air of the Himalayas in their daunting quest to reveal the secret lives of these elusive predators, ultimately with great success.
Apocryphal County
Yoknapatawpha is the name of American writer William Faulkner’s apocryphal county. “Apocryphal”, meaning “of doubtful authenticity”. Authentic or not, this is where Faulkner set all of his stories. He even drew its map. That is what guides Geoffrey Lachassagne in this brilliant and dizzying cinematographic adaptation.
Casablanca
Fouad, a Moroccan clandestine living in Italy for years awaiting medical treatment, and Daniela, a former drug-addict from Apulia’s upper middle-class, find each other by chance in Umbria. The meeting is the beginning of a special bond that helps them heal, both claiming without any hesitation, they saved each other’s life. But Fouad’s feeling of not belonging and the interminable waiting for a visa are pushing him to the brink: will he stay in Umbria or go back to Casablanca, even if it means never to return?
Amaro: O Colégio da Memória
About to turn 100 years old, Santo Amaro School closed its doors in 2020, amid the pandemic, leaving former students in deep sorrow. The story of the school is now told by different generations of students, teachers, nuns and employees, who return to the school building to remember their time over there: an unreachable past, which, through memories, becomes present once again.
Square the Circle
How does it feel to be a procrastinating perfectionist who is afraid of the dark, while living in a place where darkness consumes half the year? What is space anxiety and its relation to fear of infinity? All this and more is revealed in Hanna Hovitie's visually innovative comedy, framed as a circle as opposed to the usual filmic square. A love letter to all the people who, like the author, feel they don't belong.
Line Rider
Simon Intihar’s film will delight geeks, bring memories back and encourage young people to google even quicker. One thing is certain. Having seen this film many viewers will try their own skills on the digital arena. The director takes us on a nostalgic journey to the times when a talented and somewhat extravagant student could develop an international gaming phenomenon in his own room. Fifteen years later the eponymous game still has its fans. Is the creator among them, too?
Back In My Day
This Documentary explores the childhood and growing up of Ken and Nola Mackay. they tell their stories about what life was like in their childhood compared to what life is like now.
Minutes
At once simple, profound and light-hearted, Minutes is a play on words; a deliberative game and puzzle.
Tätt inpå huden
Three women, pioneers in their professions, have some strategic garments sewn up at the Nordic company's exclusive French women's tailoring, the absolute stronghold of fashion in the 20th century.
Odradek
The artifacts of professor Macaya are the perfect time machine to transport the audience into a magical world.
London Bridge: Facing Terror
In 2019, on London Bridge, three men tackled Usman Khan to the ground after he'd brutally killed two people. Was it a simple tale of heroes and villains or is the truth more complex?
Somm: Cup of Salvation
The fourth Somm film. The Cup of Salvation dives into what wine truly means to human history and the land we inhabit.
Melomaniac
For almost three decades, a passion and obsession drove "Chicago's Taping Guy" to record audio from thousands of live rock concerts. Melomaniac introduces Aadam Jacobs and his archive of recordings while exploring his impact as a Chicago music scene staple in the 80s and 90s. Interviews with the owners of longstanding Chicago venues including The Metro and the former Lounge Ax lend perspective to Aadam's character and the music scene. Conversations with Chicago artists give the 80s/90s scene a voice through interviews that include local music icon Jon Langford and comedian Fred Armisen. The film looks forward to the vital need to preserve the historically important music legacy Aadam will someday leave behind while highlighting its importance now.
Mother Lode
Jorge leaves his home and family in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the goldmines of the Andes, chasing the promises of the mother lode. We follow Jorge through a journey full of omens, where reality and magical thinking blend together, as he discovers that the myth of wealth is built on sacrifices that become ever more tangible – while the boundaries between victims and oppressors get progressively vague and blurred. Mother Lode is a fable about the banality of the descent to hell in times of neoliberalism; it is a paradigm of a relentless world in which everything can be sacrificed in the name of profit.
Paul Keres: The King
When this film reached the editing table, the British newspaper The Guardian, which reaches thirty million readers, featured an article by renowned chess writer Leonard Barden, “Pride of Estonia: Paul Keres, one of the best to never hold chess world crown”. “Keres became a national hero for Estonians,” writes Leonard Barden, who believed that the Soviet authorities forced him to play badly at the 1948 World Championship tournament. Most of the professionals who appear in the film also agree with the theory that Paul Keres was influenced by the Soviet authorities. But some disagree.
Min Fjendes Fjende - Bedraget i Helmand
A former Danish soldier turned film-maker returns to the capital of Helmand, to investigate allegations that the Afghan police abused young boys and men when the Danish and British were in control.
The Dmitriev Affair
Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory from the eternal doom of oblivion. Dmitriev’s riveting story is a tale of one man’s fight against the erasure of history by the state
Bay of Blood
March 25th 1971, a horrific 'Genocide' was unleashed on the unarmed civilians of East Pakistan. This was done by their own Pakistani Army. An estimated 3 million people were killed, 10 million people were displaced to India as refugees and 400,000 women and girls were raped by the Pakistani soldiers. But Pakistan was not alone in perpetrating this violence. The then-American president and the National Security Advisor were supporting the Pakistani dictator. The cold war triggered this geopolitical escalation. Finally, India pressurized by the 10 million refugees within its borders, went to war with Pakistan. and joining forces with the local rebels, the Mukti Bahini, helped liberate Bangladesh. Cradled in the blood of innocents, a new nation was born in the closing days of 1971. "Bay of Blood", brings this 50-odd-year-old story to life.
Forced Out
Documentary telling the important story of service people discharged from the UK Armed Forces simply for being LGBTQ+.
The Noble Guardian
Mahbouba Seraj had what every other Afghan wanted. A US passport and protected passage through the frenzied masses that had descended on Kabul International Airport in late August 2021, desperate to flee Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban regime that had just seized power, following the US withdrawal. But this 73 year old Afghan women’s rights activist refused to leave. Who would protect her girls in the country’s last remaining shelter for abused women? Who would fight for the rights of women who had been promised a future for 20 years only to be abandoned by the West? This is the story of Mahbouba Seraj. A Pashtun with royal lineage named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2021 and shortlisted for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. She believes her responsibility is to help the women of Afghanistan now forced to live with systemic oppression in what is widely considered the most serious women’s rights crisis in the world today.
Parker
Three generations of a Kansas City family are finally unified when they do something that countless other Black Americans could not — choose their own last name.
A Lonely Voice Against Moscow
The documentary follows in the footsteps of the controversial personality of František Kriegel, M.D., who was born into a Jewish family in Halych, saved lives as a frontline doctor in Spain, China, Burma and India, and after World War II joined the service of the Communist Party and the People's Militia. In 1968, he became one of the main representatives of our state and was the only member of the kidnapped delegation to save face and not officially condemn "fraternal aid," which had significant professional and social consequences for him.
Eilish McColgan: Running in the Family
Eilish McColgan is running in the footsteps of her mother, Liz. This documentary shares their extraordinary journeys as Eilish tries to break her mum's final record - the marathon.
The Sound of the Wind
On 24 February 2022, chef Yulia loses her former life and becomes a refugee, along with her two adopted daughters, fleeing the war in Ukraine. She now works as a butcher in Scotland and her husband is in one of the most dangerous spots on the front lines. The fear and connection to war doesn't leave her even when she is thousands of miles away. She is fighting for her children's future, and she fears losing her husband.
Rule of Two Walls
An intimate look at the war in Ukraine, as seen through the eyes of Ukrainian artists who remain in their country to make art as a defiant act in the face of aggression.
La linea del terminatore
La linea del terminatore is a documentary film that follows Fernanda Gonzalez as she escapes from Buenos Aires to Italy. Mixing official archive footage of space exploration with her personal archive, the film centres on Fernanda’s emotional journey as she is forced to confront the guilt of leaving her loved ones behind.
01 on the train
When taking the train home, I always feel that some parts of myself cannot keep up with the moving carriage, and I feel that the order of my mind is also disrupted. The trivial matters that happened during this period began to appear in my mind, and the boundary between reality and memory began to blur…