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- DirectorMathew CharlesJuan Luis PassarelliIsrael is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street.
- DirectorJenny MurrayStarsDora Maria TellezDaisy ZamoraLAS SANDINISTAS. uncovers a watershed moment in history when a group of Nicaraguan women shattered barriers to lead rebel troops in battle and reshape their country with landmark social reforms during 1979's Sandinista Revolution and the ensuing US-backed Contra War - only to face renewed marginalization by their male peers once the wars ended. Now, 35 years later, amid the worst levels of violence against women in Nicaraguan history, these same women take to the streets to lead the popular movements for equality and democracy once again.
- DirectorSrdjan SarenacStarsZoran JankovicRodoljub JankovicDragan JankovicAtop a mountain in Southwest Serbia the Jankovic brothers live in the womanless village of Zabrdje. This hilarious documentary tracks their quest to bring women back, even if that means turning to Albania and the women of their old enemy.
- DirectorJonathan PerelStarsJonathan PerelExplores the role of big corporations in helping pogroms by the Argentine junta against dissidents.
- DirectorRolf OlsenStarsIngeborg SteinbachA documentary about Asia's shocking cultures.
- DirectorMohammad BakriDocumentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- DirectorFederico LodoliCarlo Gabriele TribbioliAn evocation of the God of war introduces the film. A framework ties together and abstracts seven portraits of Liberian warriors from their context. Their voices present war as an ineluctable human expression of destructive forces that are, at the same time, universal and individual, real and archetypical.
- DirectorMostafa DerkaouiStarsNour AbdellatifSalah Eddine BenmoussaMohamed DerhamIn search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.
- DirectorCamila José DonosoStarsRoshell TerranovaLiliana AlbaLia GarcíaCasa Roshell is a haven for men who want to be women but cannot do so in their daily lives.
- DirectorJoanna Reposi GaribaldiStarsPedro LemebelWriter, Visual Artist and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1980s. Body, blood and fire were protagonists in his work that he attempted to perpetuate in the last eight years of his life in a film he was never able to see finished. In an intimate and poetic journey through his risky performances dealing with homosexuality and human rights, "Lemebel" portrays a culmination of yearning immortality.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsSerban LazaroviciBogdan ZamfirIoana IacobThe story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaThe city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.
- 20111h 6mNot Rated6.6 (133)DirectorEric BaudelaireStarsMasao AdachiMei ShigenobuMay, the daughter of a Japanese terrorist, and Adachi, an activist film-maker, tell the story of their lengthy exile in Lebanon. A reflection on the relationship between life, politics and cinema.
- DirectorWalter FasanoStarsMonica GuerritoreAlma JodorowskyMichele RiondinoRoma, summer 1968. A very young Pino Pascali, at the peak of his dazzling artistic career, dies in a motorcycle accident. In 2018 the Pino Pascali Museum buys and exhibits Pascali's work "Cinque bachi da setola e un bozzolo".
- DirectorYolande ZaubermanStarsMenachem LangTalleen Abu HannaAfter 15 years of self-imposed exile, Menahem gets back to his ultra-orthodox home town of Bnei Brak, where he wants to face the traumatic childhood experiences of long-lasting sexual abuse within the Khasidic community.
- DirectorRobert GardnerA look at daily life in the city of Benares, India, one of the most religious places in the country.
- DirectorCao GuimarãesStarsGael BeniezRodrigo Sousa e SousaHow do we kill time? What happens in those 'in-between' moments in which nothing seems to be happening? Against the backdrop of a society marked by speed and constant movement, Espera invites us to slow down and immerse ourselves in a sharp exploration of the nature of time in our current world.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsStanislaw LatalloMonika Dzienisiewicz-OlbrychskaMalgorzata PritulakTabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.
- DirectorFrank BeauvaisJanuary 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. France, still in shock from the November terror attacks, is in a state of emergency. I feel helpless, I suffocate with contained rage. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaA Russian town where people are waiting at a bus stop. We get to know some of them from fragments of their conversations.
- DirectorToshi FujiwaraStarsArsinée KhanjianA man wanders through the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the stricken nuclear reactors at Fukushima, meeting the people that decided to remain there.
- DirectorGerardo BarrosoLisa TillingerA portrait of different characters working and living in one of the busiest, noisiest streets of Mexico City's Downtown.
- DirectorRoberto MinerviniStarsMark KelleyLisa AllenJames Lee MillerIn an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden pocket of humanity, renowned documentarian Roberto Minervini opens a window to the abyss of today's America.
- DirectorAlejandro Fernández MoujánIt runs in 1896. In the dense Paraguayan jungle a three-year-old girl survives a massacre perpetrated by white settlers on an Aché family. The girl is baptized with the name of Damiana by its captors. Anthropologists of the Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata in Argentina make it an object of scientific interest within the framework of their racial studies.