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- DirectorVuslat KaranBurcu MelekogluStarsOnur Rüzgar ErkoçlarA transgender man's arduous journey of gender affirmation in a traditional Turkish society is chronicled through intimate home videos, capturing the frustrations, humiliations, and endless waiting he endured under intense media scrutiny.
- DirectorMaksym NakonechnyiStarsRita BurkovskaValivots LiubomyrMyroslava Vytrykhovska-MakarReturning home from the front line after being held captive for two months, soldier Lilia (29 y.o.) discovers that she is pregnant after being raped by her warden. Will she manage to survive this trauma and save the child in a society that is not ready to accept either of them?
- DirectorPhyllis EllisStarsMatt SchichterWhen international sport governing bodies rule that "identified" female athletes must medically alter their bodies, four champion runners fight back against racism, policing of women's bodies, and the violation of their human rights.
- DirectorEmmanuelle NicotStarsZelda SamsonAlexis ManentiFanta GuirassyDalva is 12, but she dresses and lives like a woman. One day, she's taken away from her house. Dumbfounded at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva.
- DirectorLaura Baumeister de MontisStarsVirginia Raquel Sevilla GarciaCarlos GutierrezNoé HernándezAn 11-year-old and her mother are separated as the try to eke out a life on Nicaragua's largest landfill.
- DirectorJenifer MalmqvistSofia, Hedvig and Maja grew up together on the countryside in Southern Sweden with their mom Carolina - a radiant personality and a devoted mother. In 2010 Carolina took her own life.
- DirectorReber DoskyA group of Yezidi women and girls, who were used as sex slaves by Islamic State, now have to rebuild their lives. With each other's love and support, and inspired by wise theatre-maker Hussein, they find the strength to look forward again.
- DirectorMatthieu RytzStarsJason MomoaThe fate of the planet's last untouched wilderness, the deep ocean, is under threat as a secretive organization is about to allow massive extraction of seabed metals to address the world's energy crisis.
- DirectorInna SahakyanStarsAurora MardiganianAnzhelika HakobyanArpi PetrossianA genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.
- DirectorPuk Damsgaard AndersenSøren KlovborgStarsPuk Damsgaard AndersenSøren KlovborgSean LanganA film about the IS members known as The Beatles who were the brutal prison guards of many western hostages including American war correspondent James Foley.
- DirectorMaksim ArbugaevEvgenia ArbugaevaStarsMaxim ChakilevFollows a man waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.
- 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?
- DirectorBoubacar SangareCenters on 16-year-old Rasmané, who barely seems like a teenager any more. In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold - and a better future, follow their journey in a 100-metre abyss of small-scale mining.
- DirectorDavid DoutelVasco SáStarsAntónio DurãesDavid DoutelPaulo CalatréA Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under the sun's blazing heat. The young boy, Joel, discovers a man who is about to set the forest on fire.
- DirectorJoseph ParisStarsLogan de CarvalhoYasser LouatiFollowing the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France declared the state of emergency. This set in motion an exit from the rule of law, with Muslims as the first, but not the only victims.
- DirectorBernardo RuizAn unlikely meeting between a legendary American forensic scientist and a group of Argentine students ultimately changes the course of forensic science and international human rights.
- DirectorNegin AhmadiDream's Gate is an observational documentary where Iranian female director Negin Ahmadi starts a personal journey into the combat zone of North Syria to question what it means to be a woman. Alone with her camera, she decides to look for an answer for her questions by encountering the women who embody the strongest contemporary myth of female strength and freedom: Kurdish female fighters. The personal search and internal struggles turn into an intimate women diary written in the first person. Following, sharing, witnessing the life of this other Kurdish women put into question the image that the director has of herself and of the cost of equality and freedom in this difficult region.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian AcevedoFollows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsKarlis Arnolds AvotsKristiana BerzaBaiba BrokaAn aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.
- DirectorRoman LiubyiStarsAnastasiia AnykevychBridget FiskeSofiya GakhAn investigation into the circumstances surrounding the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
- DirectorGuy DavidiMaking a war is a storyteller's job. A good story is crucial to legitimize the use of military force. That's why militaries need strong promotion and Israel is a model country in promoting its military ventures. We've successfully colonized, occupied and overgrown, and only got stronger and more accepted amongst the nations. Our history as persecuted Jews, our enlightened democracy are both in use in our solid PR kit. But before pitching our story to the world, we need to pitch it to our children. As moral corruption linked with apartheid thrives, avoiding service becomes a threat. For some children we'll offer benefits, for most we'll sell fictitious promises. Every child is screened to serve with bearable pressure and an adjusted amount of exposure to violence. 'Innocence' tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
- DirectorJoão GonzalezEvery day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
- DirectorTal KantorStarsMoriyah MeersonAlexander PelegAyelet MargalitA traumatic memory from a Holocaust survivor transports a young schoolgirl on an inner journey.
- DirectorSteve BuscemiStarsTessa ThompsonLogan Marshall-GreenDerek CecilFollows a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, etc.
- DirectorLisa CortesStarsLittle RichardRalph HarperNewt CollierThe life and career of Little Richard, the one-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll icon who shaped the world of music.