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- A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
- Whatever happened to this promising young actress from Hollywood? A search for "the woman in the car" through the never-ending suburbia of Los Angeles, where the myth of cinema reigns. A sort of thriller without a corpse.
- Keeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives
- We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals. Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe that they are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will be freed from their existence. This film is a story of wandering and fleeing, on the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Inhabited by the ghosts of genocide and by the war that has raged there for over twenty years, the characters who pass through this film carry within themselves the melancholy of the eternals.
- After his classes, the teacher is questioned by his wife. The wife is skeptical about the new Academic project his husband is devising. The teacher is trying to build up a new "Academy of the Muses"that, inspired by the Classics will help to build up a brand new World through a real commitment to Poetry. The controversial project triggers a round of scenes on words and desire.
- Speaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport?" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport?" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand why she wants to become Hungarian. The idea took place on her mind: she is going to ask for the Hungarian nationality. She didn't say a word to anyone but she wouldn't give it up. The administrative process - the request for a passport - is the guiding line of the film. And the filmmaker faces essential questions: what is nationality? What's the use of a passport? What is our heritage? How do we construct our own history and identity?
- Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
- The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man, who gave it to him a long time ago.
- Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant confronts the past.
- Follows the rehearsals of 'Faits d'artifice', a choreography by Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, created with Régine Chopinot and the company Le Ballet Atlantique, as the director is aiming to catch the process of creation from the inside.
- The staircases of John Clancy's terraced house are filled with hundreds of unsold volumes like a Noah's Ark of Knowledge telling the stories of a city that has known stormier times. Accompanied by a dyslexic, opera-loving punk the Bookseller of Belfast treads a new path through the pages yellowed by time and cigarette smoke.
- Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind us that which nature has not obtained from our reason, obtaining from our madness.
- As the last survivor of the Sonderkommandos, Silvano Lippi has forgotten nothing, from his arrest in the port of Piraeus up to the evening at a friend's house when he finally talked about his deportation. Then, he returns to the WWII camp.
- Struggling to come to terms with his grim past and the consequences of growing up in a post-civil war era, Rami remembers little from his childhood, and so seeks the help of his mother, Nawal, who talks about dreams, fears, chaos and love.
- Experiencing a war is an ordeal which, at the time, changes the perception of reality and, later, the way one looks at life. The film is the result of a period of the director's life in Lebanon, especially during the conflict of July 2006.
- Malek puts his camera at the service of El Watan, a prestigious publication in an unstable democracy. This is a telling of the encounters that take place at the paper, and a reflection on freedom of the press.
- Drawing on the most recent archaeological research, the film seeks to understand a brilliant civilization of the Mediteranean Bronze Age, that of the Nuraghi, whose warlike aspect was only one of the facets of its prodigious development.
- The long-lasting strike of illegal employees occupying their firm.
- Tells the story of a herd of heifers born in France and sold to an old Kolkhoz in Western Siberia, the Zarya Farm. This tale, in which cows travel and talk, brings the forgotten Russian farmers' world out in the open.
- What's the role of an artist in a time of economic crisis? The director, C. Profili, wanted to tell a story: the tale of Alice in Pleasureland. Step by step, she's meeting people, creating situations to discover the magical world of love.
- This film is a first: never before a director has filmed inside the French General Intelligence structure. The camera follows men and women step by step, all agents of the R.G., in their daily intelligence hunting mission and sundry works.
- In Mauritania, black political prisoners from the old colonial fortress of Oualata are known as "Le Cercle des Noyés". The film unveils frangible memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions in misfortune.
- A poetic film in 18 waves, as so many scenes describe Paris and its urban landscapes crossed by a young minor "foreigner isolated", the terrorist attacks, white roses, state of emergency, blue white red, the Atlantic Ocean and its crossings, volcanoes, the beat cubicle, the revolt, the anger, the police violence, a revolutionary song, the silence and the joy, only the joy.
- In the Argentine pampas, the lands around Colonia Hansen are among the most fertiles in the world. For a long time, millions of cows were pasting there in the open air. It was said that the best beef was Argentine.
- Let us follow French singer Nino Ferrer who had several lives: popular hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life - of its own volition - leaving show biz; a brilliant, complex, flayed character.
- Naples. A Virgin with bruise on her cheek who performs miracles. Three female characters, each connected to the Virgin in their own way but who never meet. Giusy, a girl in a wheelchair who had no right to a miracle; an atheist, free-spirited, and an anthropologist specializing in the worship of the Virgin Mary. Fabiana, a transsexual at the head of a troupe faithful supporters of the Virgin in a popular district of the city center. And Sue, a Korean pianist in search of a new direction for her life, teaching music to children in difficulty in a city far removed from her original culture. Each with their intimate wounds and each searching for a "miracle".
- Each month of the year has a passion, an odor, a color. We will enter the lives of impassioned men and women who left everything behind them, a job, a safe home, to follow their passion, and month after month, we will witness real talent.
- Maths, drama, bodybuilding lessons: with extraordinarily skillful framing and off-screen sound, the film's central theme looks at high-school students who have been marginalized by the education system.
- Chronicles of rural life, misadventures from the past century, fights one must win to muster misery and resistance against servitude and wage labor in the South of Portugal.
- Through the political activism of some people of Khayelitsha, the film seeks to reveal the attachment of its residents to a city born of Apartheid. Why, despite all this suffering, disease, poverty, illegality, do they still believe in it?
- In a Southern France small town, we are introduced to a group of inhabitants who start by investing in a local exchange system and then get involved in the political and social life of the town, reevaluating democracy through this process.
- "Go and see what we left behind." With these words in mind, a filmmaker journeys into the discovery of an almost abandoned and little known country: Albania. Her film offers an overview of the tormented past sixty years in the country.
- Every month, a truck crosses the Italian peninsula from the far south to the foot of the Alps: a three-thousand-kilometer round trip to bring home-made and traditional products from the South to the family in the North. A trove on wheels.
- Following the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China.
- Once upon a time, there was a building in the heart of the city, an architectural gem at the center of the concerns of elected officials and citizens, now demolished, replaced by a luxury apartment building, currently under construction, the new fruit of the architectural work of men. This is the story of the Palais des Congrès in Rouen, once standing on the square by the Cathedral: built in 1976 under Jean Lecanuet, closed since 1996, vanished in 2010. How was this even possible?
- For Caterina, Laurence, Frédérie and Louis, being bipolar means going from paradise to the hell of depression several times during their lives
- Enticed by the mysterious portrait of a Muslim preacher, two European directors lose themselves in the mystical world of a Muslim brotherhood in Senegal. Set to the soundtrack of French musician Kouldam, they travel across the country encountering marabouts savants and religious pilgrims chanting in ecstasy, before discovering that their film is nothing but the fulfillment of the prophecy of the holy preacher himself.
- Twenty minutes from the Champs Élysées, chambermaids of a hotel go on strike for the first time with the help of an experienced trade unionist.
- From darkness to light, we follow a writer who has lost all contact with reality to pursue the love of his wife, who died too soon, and whom he wanted to join in death, while she made him first promise to continue living in order to write.
- Baptiste Bessette went to Hiroshima to question the city about the shadows of its past and the cogs of its future. A vital lead: the ginkgo biloba, a prehistoric tree which is eventually the only one to have survived the nuclear disaster.
- With Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus as a reference, the film follows what is happening around us: the fate of migrants, Sisyphus of our time, who are still trying and trying to enter Europe, the popular revolt in Tunisia, or radical actions.
- A subjective journey into the 1956 Hungarian revolution observed through archive footage and records, a dive into the heart of the 1950s of communist Europe: productivism, lies, treason, amnesia, an era which should be remembered by now.