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- DirectorJames LongleyStarsMohammed HejaziFocuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergIn a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.
- DirectorStefano SavonaStarsAmal SamouniFouad SamouniIn the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It's going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their most difficult task: piecing together their own memory. Through these young survivors' recollections, Samouni Road conveys a deep, multifaceted portrait of a family before, during and after the tragic event that changed its life forever.
- DirectorMohanad YaqubiAn undelivered letter written by a Japanese activist that was lost on its way, has been found by a Palestinian filmmaker after 30 years.
- DirectorGarry KeaneAndrew McConnellStarsDana AbedA beautiful portrait of everyday Gazan citizens, leading meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial conflict.
- DirectorHamida IssaChronicles of journey from the sands of Arabia to the icy Antarctic. It is the contrast of two worlds, two completely different places, that brings question the titular places of the soul.
- DirectorSofía Paoli ThorneHealing from the trauma of the Paraguayan dictatorship, Celsa uses herbs to mend deep wounds left from her imprisonment and torture.
- DirectorJennifer RainsfordWith the 2011 Japanese tsunami as a backdrop, Jenifer Rainsford's debut feature is an epic odyssey on how humans and nature rebuild and heal after the catastrophe.
- DirectorLuke LorentzenStarsMargaret 'Mati' EngelAn aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.
- DirectorJude ChehabStarsZiad ChehabHiba KhodrDoria MouneimneJude Chehab investigates her mother Hiba's adherence to a closed-off, all-female religious sect in Syria. Chehab examines how their mother-daughter relationship and the dynamics of the entire family were upended by this devotion.
- DirectorAlain MartinStarsYveline AlexisPatrick Bellegarde-SmithMax Chauvet100 years after the Haitian Revolution, the people of Haiti find themselves once again having to defend their liberty, this time against a powerful neighbor: the United States.
- DirectorNishtha JainStarsMaqsoood AlamBabujaanS.C. ChandraOutside Kolkata a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the dictate of profit and century-old machines. The Golden Thread follows the weft and warp of jute work alongside the creative labour of the film's own making. In this near dystopian industrial town can there be a potential for a collective re-imagination?
- DirectorSuzana DinevskiA social portrait of two families as it looks into the intimate world of conjugal visits at North Macedonia's most notorious prison Idrizovo, and the effects it has on family and their surrounding world.
- DirectorNaomi UmanThis film in three parts depicts life in northern rural Albania, exploring the role of women and the presence of the filmmaker in a land where traditional canonical law rules society.
- DirectorPieter Van EeckeWhen Brazilian president Bolsonaro announces that industries can settle in the Amazon on Yanomami territory, Davi Kopenawa and his son Dario take their fight to an international level to defend their land against the invaders.
- DirectorAnneta PapathanasiouStarsKarim AsirKarim Asir, Afghan Charlie Chaplin uses laughter as a weapon during bombings and disasters. Despite threats from Taliban, he survives and arrives in Greece, exploring laughter's impact in Afghanistan.
- DirectorJaroslaw Wszedybyl
- DirectorTadeusz ChudyInmates have a task to train truculent dogs. Capitan Tomek, who is a leader of this program in the prison, struggle to keep the project running. Prisoners start to bond with their dogs and dogs start to change inmates live.
- DirectorMarkus ToivoStarsMarkus ToivoMarkku AhoKristiina DyerEstranged father and son are building a gate in front of their unfinished house while also trying to bridge the generational gap between them.
- DirectorAnte Zlatko StolicaBabajanja is a short documentary that borrows horror elements and includes them in the investigation of director Ante Zlatko Stolica's childhood fear. Stolica's dreams are being haunted by 'Janja', an allusion to the Slavic fairy tale character of Baba Yaga. Stolica traces his fears by digging through his memory.
- DirectorXimena Málaga SabogalPiotr TurlejStarsSantusa CupitaNely Huayta CutipaLudwing Torres HuaytaIn the Peruvian Andes, a young woman tries to balance her passion for Quechua storytelling at a local radio station with the dedication she feels for her family.
- DirectorEneos CarkaStarsMária KöszegiA father finds refuge in memories created together with his daughter, who has been stricken with an illness. She has decided to keep her distance from him and they have not spoken for years. The film encourages her to reconsider her decision.
- DirectorKamil BembnistaStarsKamil BembnistaKarolina GolimowskaLeila, Amir and Baqir are residents of a refugee-camp - made of containers - located at the former Airport Berlin-Tempelhof. The protagonists are challenging the situation in the waiting room by the desire of stability and hope.
- DirectorFatou CisséStarsFatou CisséSouleymane CisséFollows Fatou Cissé along with her father Souleymane Cissé, as they go through a trip down his film career, one of Africa's most celebrated actors.