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The major winner at IDFA 2011. Personal testimony from a Palestinian father who spent five years filming ... »
A personal portrait of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, who gained international acclaim for his ambitious ... »
A year after the euphoria on Tahrir Square, the Egyptian demonstrators’ goals have not even come close ... »
‘Documentary thriller' by Fredrik Gertten, relating how fruit producer Dole Food tries to get his ... »
Every thirty minutes anIndian cotton farmer commits suicide. Manjusha’s father also took his own ... »
Fiction film by Dutch director Paula van der Oest, starring Carice van Houten as rebel South African ... »
The failure of the American Dream ispre-eminently palpable on the cheerless plains surrounding the Salton ... »
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
In Kyrgyzstan, it is not unusual for a girl to go toschool carefree in the morning, and to end up a bride ... »
Investigators from the International Criminal Court are in the Central African Republic, one of the most ... »
Observational documentaryabout the daily goings-on at Malpensa international airport in Milan. Theairport ... »
A German filmmaker tries to breathe new life into an old ramshackle cinema in Jenin with the help of ... »
Iranian coming of age film about soul mates Atafeh and Shireen who discover their awakening love for ... »
Californian woman DeborahPeagler was sentenced to life in prison for her involvement in the murder ofher ... »
Mazwi, Zama and Mnikelo live in the South African informal settlements around Kennedy Road, one of the ... »
Sergey Yenin is a young,liberated homosexual activist from Belarus. He is no stranger to violence; hissexual ... »
Ni Yulan was once a successful and high-spirited lawyer. Now she is homeless and confined to a wheelchair. ... »
Alia (28) and Hamza (32) form a happily married couple from Morocco. Faced with a controversial law that ... »
Bittersweet film about a group of Lebanese women who are fed up with the religious conflict in their ... »
Award-winning documentary about what is considered the process of the century in the Philippines. Give ... »
No one escapes Guantanamo unscathed; this becomes clear through the stories of four people whose biographies ... »
Portrait of engaging scientist Dr. Gene Sharp from Boston. When his handbook From Dictatorship to Democracy ... »
After the death of hismother, Christian moves from England to Denmark with his father and ends up ina ... »
In a dangerous suburb of Baghdad, an idealistic social worker named Husham is looking for orphaned street ... »
World première of an Israeli-Dutch co-production about gays on the run. They are not free to be ... »
In this subtle and surprisingdocumentary, a thorough-going Congolese lawyer investigates a rape case ... »
Petr Lom was allowed to follow Iranian PresidentAhmadinejad on his trips around rural Iran where he preaches ... »
In Tunesia, justa few kilometres from the Libyan border, lies the Chouca refugee camp. Refugeesfrom surrounding ... »
In Syria, imams believe that women should be at home and that it is their fate to give birth and take ... »
When a teacher asks thechildren in her class what they want to be when they grow up, seven-year-oldAlex ... »
When they turn 13, thechildren in the Little Heaven orphanage in Ethiopia are told they areHIV-positive. ... »
The women in Kabul’s Badum Bagh jail serve a prison sentence for ‘moral offences’, ... »
Egyptian feature film about creative young people in Alexandria’s underground scene. After spending ... »
Luis Alberto Alarcón was once a member of the security forces under former Chilean president Allende. 34 ... »
After having served his sentence, sex offender Karl D. comes up against his neighbours. Daily demonstrations ... »
Two young illegal immigrants from Nigeria try their luck in Turkey. They hope to find fame and fortune ... »
In an orphanage in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, children study tightrope walking. Their feats are ... »
For four years, director andhuman rights defender Mona Nicoara followed a group of Roma children in theirattempt ... »
Critical documentary about the role of the International Criminal Court in the trial against rebel leader ... »
Coming of age documentary about the dilemma facing Russian student Marsha. She belongs to Nashi, the ... »
The soil in Paraguay offers perfect growing conditions for soya beans. Thousands of acres of forest have ... »
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Absurd portrait of thenotorious ‘naked general’ Joshua Blahyi who evangelised after the bloody ... »
As the debate on immigration rages across the Netherlands and Europe, the Dutch government invites some ... »
Britishnational Fergus makes a living as a security officer in post-war Iraq. When hisfriend Frankie ... »
Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid -the majority women. Many more ... »
Silenced Voices - Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile
Journalists in Sri Lanka risk life and limb to practice their profession. Lasantha Wickrematunge was ... »
Romania, 1986. Gregor and Vali decide to escape from the grimconditions under Ceauşescu’s dictatorial ... »
His name and his songs are world-famous. Most people know Harry Belafonte as a singer and actor. His ... »
Filmmaker Jan Jaap Kuiperfollows militant mother-to-be Sasha Volgina. This 31-year-old activist is oneof ... »
Modern, feminist fairytale about Muslim women that go on a ‘love strike’ in order to persuade their ... »
Opening film from the country that has the strictest immigration laws in Europe. The air in the Frambois ... »
Threeironic video clips in which Western consumers express their thanks to thepeople of the Third World.... »
Two decades after the civil war in El Salvadorcame to an end, survivors return to their devastated mountain ... »
Brazilian action thriller that shows how captain Nascimento and his special police squad take up arms ... »
Political thriller starringRachel Weisz and Vanessa Redgrave. In 1999, a female police officer is sent ... »
A poetic protest: that’s what famous Senegalese director Moussa Sene Absa calls his first documentary. ... »
Between November 2009 and June 2011, three filmmakers followed several young Arabs in their struggle ... »