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Letter of Forgiveness
In the household of a wealthy Romanian noblewoman in 1855, Maria, a Roma-Gipsy slave, fights to obtain freedom for her son Dinca. Part of a future full-length project, the short film presents a day in the household in which Maria and her son, Dinca, serve as slaves. As important guests arrive for dinner and all the slaves are making preparations, Maria and her son see this day as a chance to take a step to change their fate. During slavery time, up until 1856, the Romanian equivalent of the word "forgiveness" was used when referring to freeing someone from slavery (the Roma slave was "forgiven" from slavery).
Hitler's Henchmen
The regime of the Nazi Party inflicted terror, destruction, and brutal horrors throughout the Third Reich. Ideas of making Germany great again indoctrinated the German people to support them indefinitely, hiding the mass slaughter of human life behind their convincing propaganda campaigns. Hitler and his disturbed Henchmen made this genocide possible, each man as deranged as the next. Their dedication to the Fuhrer was absolute, and to gain his validation they were willing to do anything.
Guerra de los Mundos En Vivo
A modern retelling of the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast that changed history. Televised from a closed set in the midst of a global pandemic. Brought to life by a cast of 13 actors, performing more than 27 different characters and countless practical sound effects. An original adaptation by Migue Siman.
A lesson in parenting
Bibi and Begbo are a very strange couple. Bibi always walks around covered in band-aids and Begbo wears clothes that are definitely not his size, and also he throws up whenever he gets upset. Despite this, they seem to get by pretty well with their every day life. But what is most startling is their son Albin - who looks like he is a lot older than four years old. In this absurd drama-comedy we follow the family's life coping with being different from everybody else and as well trying to raise their son.
À La Carte
In French colonial Vietnam, a nervous young woman has to satisfy the brutal General’s taste for a traditional dish to save her family from capital punishment.
Corte
At the core of a royal court unbalanced by the long absence of its King, where women seem to have disappeared along with reason, the Crown Prince is murdered. Wrapped in the plot of the promoters of a decaying libertine spirit, the heir’s brothers, a pair of twins united by the music they play together and their Valet, witness a hunt for the prepetator launched by the palace doctor's deduction. In the background of all the chatter rises the individual desire of the twins for the dynasty.
Border Limits
December 1942, four children are en route, escaping from the nazis who have occupied Norway. The goal is to get to Sweden. Sarah and Daniel are jews, hiding in the basement of Otto and Gerda's parents. When their parents are arrested, Otto and Gerda decide to help their new friends and it becomes a matter of life or death. But who can they really trust?
Honorable Men: The Rise and Fall of Ehud Olmert
How former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unexpectedly rose to power and how he dramatically fell from grace: from the most powerful position in the country to prison.
Nocturne
When the taps of a remote town stop running, its inhabitants seek salvation in the repetition of an informal sacrifice.
Lucinda Urrusti: Painter
This is a portrait of painter Lucinda Urrusti (Melilla, Spanish Morocco, 1926), who came to Mexico in 1939 with her parents and brother as refugees of the Spanish Civil War. For Lucinda, what matters most in life is art and her family.
Lessons in Red
When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.
A Very Animated War
From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle.
On one side of the Iron Curtain and on the other, throughout the Cold War, the USSR and the United States sought to shape children’s imaginations through their magazines and films. Never in the history of mankind have so many comic books been published and so many cartoons produced for young people.
In November 1989, communism collapsed with the Berlin Wall; capitalism was left to decide the future of the world. What if this victory had been prepared for a long time, and our thinking conditioned, from our early childhood, to ensure this absolute triumph?
Sulle mie spalle
The confessions of a man ready to end his life when faced with economic hardship, whose soul is saved by Father Leopoldo Mandic, a little Capuchin brother able to touch the lives of an entire city.
History of BOYCP
A short documentary which that talks about the neighborhood high school in the Back of the Yards Neighborhood in Chicago, it's origins, and how it came to be the empire that it is today. Join us as we interview the principal, as she explains how this school came to be, and students from different grade levels as they describe their experience with academics, social life and extracurricular activities in this school.
Letters of Hope
Set in 1976 Apartheid-era South Africa and based on a true story, this powerful film tells the story of a young man caught between his father's wishes and his own dreams. After his father is brutally killed, 16-year-old Jeremiah discovers that he had been delivering secret letters from freedom fighters in exile and prison on his rounds as a postman. When he learns that his father's last wish was for him to take over this work and continue delivering the letters, Jeremiah — who dreams of joining the police force — faces an impossible choice.
Hideout
Ukraine, 1946. Orest, commander of an insurgent squad, is in a hideout together with his pregnant wife Eva and several fighters. The NKVD surrounds the insurgents. The captain of the commissariat squad gives Orest a choice: he either gives Eva out or accepts an unequal fight.
Her Socialist Smile
The memory of a particular moment in early 20th century history when, in 1913, Helen Keller (1880-1968), a deaf-blind writer, lecturer and political activist, spoke, for the first time and in public, about socialism and progressive causes.
Since: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 innocent people and began the new age of terrorism. Bound together in tragedy, the victim's relatives fought for justice, only to watch it unravel for Libyan oil.
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5 Submarines Against the Nazis
Throughout World War II, the submarine "Rubis" and the submersibles of the "Free French Naval Forces" scoured the Atlantic to neutralize the German Navy. Discover these forgotten ships that made possible the liberation of France.
Secrets of History, 5 French submarines in World War II and resistance to Hitler
Libelu: Down With The Dictatorship
In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years later, what’s left of Libelu? What does adult life have in store for you after the revolutionary youth?
Sententia
Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.
The Old Man and Two Mountains
«The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains» is a well-known fable from Chinese mythology about the virtues of perseverance and willpower. It was also used by Mao Zedong in a famous speech in 1945. Now Marc Handler, former creative director of Disney China, becomes chief scriptwriter to develop an original plot based on the old fable. New animation film about Foolish Old Man adopts a more "painterly" 2D hand-painted style, and makes extensive use of traditional opera elements in its soundtrack.
Of the Observatory I Saw
Nigim is an ufologist from the city of Passa Tempo in MG who recorded numerous appearances of et’s from the Planet of Jov. But now, it seems like who is being watched is him.
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Into the Cosmos: The Space Race, Mars and Beyond
A look at the development of space travel and the potential for humans to one day walk on the surface of Mars. From the desperation of War machines to the curiosity of space exploration. Detailed accounts of previous missions for the exploration of Mars, including the landing of the rovers on the surface of the planet. After the Soviets gained possession of the V2 manufacturing facilities, production of these rockets began in the Soviet Union, and on the 4th of October 1957, SPUTNIK 1 became the first artificial satellite to be launched into space. This was the next step in the evolution of mankind. It was the beginning of the Space Race.
Autopsy of a triple murder: Sakine, Fidan, Leyla, Kurdish Militants
Documentary about the murder of three Kurdish women activists in Paris in 2013 and the investigations against an agent of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
Wallflowers, Blooming...
A married man talks to his married neighbour in a cafe in 1970s Singapore. Adapted from the Wong Kar-Wai film "In the Mood for Love".
Barkomo
Set in the 17th century in a small cave-dwelling village in northeastern Mali, the film follows Yamio — a woman who, unable to conceive after 10 years of marriage and shamed by the fertility of her husband's second wife — throws herself off a cliff. When she miraculously lands without suffering any harm, she wanders in exile, finally taking refuge in Barkomo, a kingdom that has fallen on hard times. When she discovers that she is pregnant with a miracle child, she has the chance to change the fortunes of everyone around her.