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- DirectorClaire WaldingStarsMarieluise BeckNadja BerlinghoffJill BidenThe conflict in the Donbas, a secessionist region of Ukraine, began in 2014, after the fall of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych and the election of Petro Poroshenko. Playing on the divisions in the country, Moscow annexed Crimea and encouraged the Donbas region to declare its secession. Since then, the war has claimed more than 14,000 victims and no political solution has yet been found in this complex issue.
- DirectorMarta PulkRodrigo BaptistaAgustin BarrutiaStarsPääsu-Liis KensJoonas TagelAt a time when people are feeling so much but have few outlets to express it, 19 filmmakers from 12 countries have set up a series of voicemail boxes around the world. People are encouraged to call and leave messages with anonymous thoughts or feelings - be it stories or songs, laments or proclamations, these calls are brought together as a unique portrait of humanity in isolation.
- DirectorPawel LozinskiComposed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsHans FrankDina PronichevaAnastasya OsmachkoNazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
- DirectorKallie FellJennifer LahlStarsBrynneNatasha ChartElizabethDocumentary film featuring interviews with experts, activists, parents, and educators discussing the medical and surgical gender transition of children.
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsA.C. ThompsonSusan BroLucas WaldronIn the aftermath of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, FRONTLINE examines how far-right groups were emboldened and encouraged by former President Trump and how individuals were radicalized and brought into the political landscape.
- 2009– 1h 10m7.4 (13)TV EpisodeDirectorAnne PoiretStarsRa'id Al-MaslahJihan AliArya OsmanThere are about a hundred thousand children, left to their own devices after the fighting against Daech. They are orphans wandering the streets of Mosul, but also "children of Daech", those whose families have pledged allegiance to the caliphate, and who no longer have a legal existence. Without papers, they have no access to school, medical care or food aid. There are also tens of thousands of children locked up in camps after the fall of Daech, along with the most radicalized women, in catastrophic humanitarian conditions, further weakened by the Covid-19 crisis. An unpublished investigation on a generation of children victims of the war against the Islamic State. How can we help them regain faith in the future and a place in society, and prevent them from becoming a threat to the international community?
- DirectorHuaqing JinA work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, Dark Red Forest is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan Plateau. With extraordinary intimacy, the camera nestles in with the women of the Yarchen Monastery, who, during the 100 coldest days of the year, learn about-and in some cases experience-profound matters of life and death, suffering and healing, karma and consequence. A document of the experiences of a group of increasingly politically embattled people, Jin Huaqing's film is also a clarifying work of faith and philosophical inquiry, set against a forbidding landscape.
- DirectorElizabeth D. CostaStarsSuma AkhtarAyesha AkterRifa AkterBangla Surf Girls is an immersive documentary that takes us into the heart of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where young girls join a local surf club and dare to dream of freedom and escape from a life of drudgery and abuse.
- DirectorVera KrichevskayaStarsNatalia SindeevaAleksandr VinokurovVera KrichevskayaIn 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth.
- StarsNorman SwanMatt CooperKirsty ShortA gripping science series that tracks global epidemics and explores the way that science has helped us fight back against the world's most deadly infectious diseases.
- DirectorAlain LewkowiczStarsXi JinpingJoseph WuIng-wen TsaiThey are hackers, programmers, developers, ministers. Their project: to make Taiwan the world laboratory of direct democracy.
- DirectorÀngel LeiroAiry MaragallStarsGervasio SánchezEnric MartíEdo Osvicic25 years after the siege of Sarajevo, the Spanish war reporter Gervasio Sánchez returns to the scene. There he meets the adults he photographed as a child, having chosen to capture life rather than death and destruction on film. What memories do these survivors have of this period as children? How did this incomprehensible and absurd war change their lives? What scars did it leave on them forever?
- DirectorTheo AnthonyStarsTheo AnthonyKeaver BrenaiRobert CunniffA far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.
- DirectorAli El ArabiStarsMahmoud DagherIbrahim ElhefnawyFawzi QatleeshTwo best friends trapped in the Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan have an undying dream of becoming professional football players. When a world renowned sports academy visits the camp, they now have a chance to make this dream come true.
- DirectorAnna AntsaloStarsRob ArnoldShigeo HayashiLonneke BeukenholdtBeachcombers are people who search for treasures on shorelines. Ocean currents carry all sorts of stuff to the beaches.
- DirectorKristina LindströmKristian PetriStarsKristina LindströmLuchino ViscontiMario TursiIn 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.
- DirectorMohamed El AboudiStarsMohamed AbderrahmaniMohamed BelhajHassan ChemlalIn the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end. Hardly a blade of grass can be seen, and families travel miles on foot to get water from a muddy hole in the ground. Yet the children willingly ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles across rocks to a "school of hope" built of clay. Following both the students and the teachers in the Oulad Boukais Tribe's community school for over three years, SCHOOL OF HOPE shows students Mohamed, Miloud, Fatima, and their classmates, responding with childish glee to the school's altruistic young teacher, Mohamed. Each child faces individual obstacles - supporting their aging parents; avoiding restrictions from relatives based on traditional gender roles - while their young teacher makes do in a house with no electricity or water.
- StarsDan SnowOnyeka NubiaMax HastingsBeginning in Spring 1943, this documentary follows squadron leader Guy Gibson as he assembles and trains a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany using a revolutionary new bouncing bomb.
- DirectorThomas BlomMisha WesselStarsMisha WesselMuammar GaddafiErik GoaiedInside the relentless hunt for the late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's money. On the trail of bounty hunters, corrupt politicians and spies. A story of greed, corruption and deceit, up to the highest circles.
- StarsAnna FrielUma ThurmanJohn D. LiuHumanity's relationship with nature and wildlife and how scientists and conservationists study ways to restore the planet.
- DirectorElvis Sabin NgaibinoStarsLeón DepeAndré IkpeouPauline MokayaThis documentary shows an outsider community struggling against the odds for education.
- StarsSimon SchamaPiotr AnderszewskiHarriet WalterHistorian Simon Schama explores the enduring and powerful legacy that the Romantics have left on the modern world.
- DirectorVirpi SuutariStarsAlvar AaltoAino AaltoElissa AaltoThis captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
- DirectorAlmut FaassStarsJérôme ArnaudisInka BartschPeter BieringerAlgae - they pollute our beaches and contaminate our waters. But what if they were also the super substance of the future? What if they could replace oil and create a world without plastic and feed the world? This documentary shows what scientists are already making a reality of this today.