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AT AVERROES & ROSA PARKS
AVERROES & ROSA PARKS
FranceFrom individual interviews to "caretaker-patient" meetings, the filmmaker focuses on showing a form of psychiatry that continually strives to make room for and rehabilitate the patients' words. Little by little, each one eases open the door to their world. Within an ...
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BYE BYE TIBERIAS
BYE BYE TIBERIADE
France, Belgium, Palestine, QatarNominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024
In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village of Deir Hanna in Galilee to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandm...
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DAHOMEY
France, Senegal
Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024
November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundere...
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DIRECT ACTION
Germany, France
Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy of the same name, “an action that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means”, DIRECT ACTION documents the everyday lives of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France and asks whe...
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IN LIMBO
W ZAWIESZENIU
PolandNominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024
Russia's invasion of Ukraine hits Alina in Irpin, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a plaster after recent surgery. She manages to escape together with her cat from a bombed and cut off city with one of the ...
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MARCHING IN THE DARK
Belgium, Netherlands, India
Sanjivani, a young widow in rural India, grapples with devastating loss after her husband, a farmer who succumbed to the pressures of rising costs, unyielding crop failures, and volatile market prices, commits suicide – as one of thousands each year in India’s agricul...
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MY STOLEN PLANET
SAYYAREYE DOZDIDE SHODEYE MAN
GermanyMY STOLEN PLANET is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppressi...
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NO OTHER LAND
NO OTHER LAND
Palestine, NorwayWinner European Documentary 2024
Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents t...
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PELIKAN BLUE
KÉK PELIKAN
HungaryIn the 1990s in Hungary, travelling is finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.
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SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
France, Belgium, Netherlands
Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024
Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against th...
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THE LANDSCAPE AND THE FURY
Switzerland
This is a cinematographic essay centring around the region of the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladuša, and explores questions of displacement, violence and also everyday life and coincidence. It is about scars that break open, war memories that are awakened, profound encounte...
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THE WORDS WOMEN SPOKE ONE DAY
LES MOTS QU'ELLES EURENT UN JOUR
FranceIn 1962, Yann Le Masson filmed Algerian women activists on their release from prison in France. More than 50 years later, with the soundtrack of the footage having been lost, I set out to find these women.
This film investigation tells their silent story a...