Films alphabeticallySelections
Short film by celebrated Iranian director Jafar Panahi about two young street musicians in Teheran. »
Adventure film about Africa, joy, generosity and hope. A group of children undertake an incredible journey.... »
Amnesty! When They Are All Free
Documentary about the development of Amnesty International in honour of the organisation’s fiftieth anniversary.... »
Aung San Suu Kyi - Lady of No Fear
Portrait of Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. »
Documentary that exposes the shameless trade in young African footballers. Human trafficking under cover of the worldwide football cult.... »
Cameroon: Coming Out of the Nkuta
Documentary about human rights lawyer Alice Nkom, who struggles tirelessly for homosexuals in her country.... »
Documentary about a team of US army officers training a battle-hardened Afghan general and his army. »
Documentary about a group of former child soldiers in a rehabilitation centre in the North of Uganda.... »
Short documentary by the maker of 'To Shoot an Elephant', winner of a Golden Butterfly 2010. »
Comical drama by Bosnian Oscar winner Danis Tanovic ('No Man’s Land'). »
Portrait of life in a village in Colombia, where guerrilla fighters and paramilitary troops spread death and destruction.... »
Confrontational, enlightening documentary in which Kenyan women speak openly about their circumcision.... »
Impressive, almost magical drama about eight French monks in Algeria confronted by fundamentalism. »
Documentary maker discovers while filming Peruvian farmers protesting against a US mining company that a dirty game is being played.... »
Fiction film about Turkish woman Umay, who flees her unhappy marriage in Istanbul and returns to her conservative parents in Berlin.... »
Iranian women wanting a divorce face great obstacles. Filmmaker Longinotto and author Mir-Hosseini observe three court cases.... »
Award-winning Korean/French fiction film. A look at the everyday life of a Chinese community by the Dooman River.... »
Documentary film showing how president Berlusconi uses the devastating earthquake in L’Aquila to boost his reputation.... »
Film adaptation of the German psychological thriller 'Das Experiment', about peer pressure and how power works.... »
Intriguing fiction film that merges issues of rights for homosexuals in Iran and the migration issue in France.... »
Satirical comedy about four bungling British amateur suicide bombers who want to make a big Jihad statement.... »
Restored version of Charlie Chaplin’s sharp satire of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. »
Animated blogs and tweets from Iran form the basis of this enlightening, sometimes shocking reconstruction of the Green Revolution of 2009.... »
Subtle tragedy that won the Jury Prize in Cannes. An indictment of the corruption and opportunism of African leaders.... »
Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness
Documentary on the making of the internationally renowned feature film 'Ahlaam' in Iraq. »
Documentary about the feminist Yamileth Chavarría, who set up a radio station deep in the Nicaraguan jungle.... »
Gripping portrait of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who paid a high price for investigating corruption in Russia.... »
A journey through the byways of justice and politics in the Congo. »
Gripping short film on nine-year-old Albanian Anna, who with her mother washes car windscreens to earn some money.... »
Min Dît - The Children of Diyarbakir
Moving fiction film about children who pay the price for the political turmoil in Turkish Kurdistan in the 1990s.... »
A mobile cinema team passes through small villages in the Congo to show 'Fighting the Silence', challenging the way rape is seen.... »
Documentary following journalist Palagummi Sainath, who supports poor farmers in India. »
Lively documentary about a Lebanese family in Berlin, threatened with deportation. The children are successful musicians and break-dancers.... »
Moving documentary about the effect of European refugee policy on four refugees from Chechnya. »
Short documentary about the involvement of filmmakers with their subjects. »
Documentary about the eloquent Sampat, head of the Gulabi Gang, and the twenty-year struggle for women’s rights in northern India.... »
Stavros and his three chauvinist friends hang around his failing shop, day in, day out. Greek tragicomedy about xenophobia.... »
Hilarious fiction film in which the inhabitants of Teheran face choices that put their values and standards under extreme pressure.... »
Wry humour and deep tragedy – Chilean fiction film combines personal and political drama. »
Critical portrait of Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.... »
Personal investigation of the war between Russia and Georgia in 2008 by activist filmmakers Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya.... »
Staggering documentary in which a Inuit travels across three continents, starting off from the North Pole, to witness the effects of chemical pollution.... »
Award-winning feelgood documentary about two female lawyers in a small village in Cameroon who prove that human rights must be respected.... »
Short film about the life of Roma in the Romanian town of Miercurea Ciuc. Seen through the eyes of a carefree young boy.... »
Swedish Hilde Back once sponsored a Kenyan child. How a small act can have big consequences. »
Road movie which almost every family in Iraq can relate to. By Iraqi/Dutch director Mohamed Al-Daradji.... »
The third and final part of Leonard Retel Helmrich’s trilogy on the Christian/Islamic family Sjamsuddin in Indonesia.... »
Surprising Europe, the life and times of Ssuuna Golooba
Poignant documentary on a disappointed immigrant who wants to use a film to show his fellow Ugandans the real face of Europe.... »
Renowned director Icár Bollaín compares and contrasts the Bolivian water war of 2000 with Columbus’ colonisation of South America.... »
Fifteen years after the Rwandan civil war, priest Hormisdas is tried for genocide. »
The residents of a low-lying island in the Pacific Ocean stand to lose everything as a result of climate change.... »
This comedy, seen as particularly politically incorrect in Colombia, uses sharp sarcasm to bring a silent indictment of the civil war raging in that country.... »
Heart-warming audience favourite about famous artist Vik Muniz, who enters into a collaboration with the garbage-pickers of Rio de Janeiro.... »
With this dynamically edited documentary, Paris-based photographer JR pays homage to oppressed women.... »
Visually impressive fiction film about the fate of four women set against the background of the coup in Iran in 1953.... »
