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In the Movies that Matter database, you will find an extensive selection of high quality human rights film productions. The selection is continually updated with feature films, documentaries and shorts.
The database offers a synopsis of each film, a definition of the genre, the theme, country and language details and extra materials like pictures and trailers.

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Police, Adjective, winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Un Certain Regard Jury Award at the Filmfestival in Cannes 2009, was screened at the Movies that Matter Festival 2010 and is out in cinemas now. More

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Fifty Dead Men Walking

The film is set from 1987 until 1991, the time in which McGartland acted as an undercover informant within the IRA during The Troubles. In 1991 his cover was blown and he was kidnapped by the IRA, although he later escaped and went into hiding.At the time of the release of the film McGartland was still in hiding. The film takes its name from McGartland's claim within his book to have saved the lives of fifty people during his time as an informant.

10 Conditions of Love, The

Rebiya Kadeer once embodied China’s economic success. Born to penniless parents, she worked her way up and became one of the ten richest people in China. The government honoured her at the International Women’s Conference that took place in Beijing in 1995. But besides being extremely successful, Rebiya is also an Uyghur woman. Uyghurs are people with a Turkish origin who live in the Xinjiang autonomous region. China is mainly interested in the territory of the Islamic Uyghurs because of the large oil and gas reserves. When delivering an address to the National People’s Congress, Rebiya decides to put the cat among the pigeons. She criticizes the influx of Han migrants in...

12

A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school in the war-torn republic of Chechnya. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia. Amidst the battle between Chechens and Russians outside, a stray bird (a...

14 Episodes

14 EPISODES consists of shocking images from the first and second Russian-Chechen wars. In eight minutes, Chechen resistance fighters, a bus carrying women and children destroyed by Russian aircraft, mad people after bombardments, and blood and tears are shown. Torn metal, the bare face of death, and helplessness are reflected in 14 episodes. People fleeing, bombings, the countless wounded and the dead – no atrocity is sidestepped here, enabling the viewer to comprehend the scale and seriousness of this extraordinarily savage war. The filmmaker places himself on the side of those who attempt to bear testimony lest we forget, and at the end of the film it is noted that the camera used...

14 kilómetros

De Nigeriaanse Buba is een groot voetbaltalent en wil in Europa bij een profclub spelen. Samen met zijn broer Mukela verlaat hij vrienden, familie en thuisland om een lange, gevaarlijke tocht naar Spanje te maken, waarbij ze te maken krijgen met corrupte ambtenaren en mensenhandelaren. Tijdens de reis ontmoeten ze Violetta, een Malinese tiener die wil ontsnappen aan een gearrangeerd huwelijk met een veel oudere man. De film is een gemakkelijk te volgen, vrij taalloos, verhaal over immigratie....

1984

De film naar het beroemde futuristische boek van George Orwell over Winston Smith, die in Oceanië leeft onder het toeziend oog van Big Brother. Als een van de bureaucraten is hij belast met het herschrijven van de geschiedenis. Op een dag wordt hij verliefd op Julia, een misdaad in de allesoverheersende staat. Zij kent manieren om aan het oog van Big Brother te ontvluchten.

20 Fingers

A film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of the issues of men and women within the confines of traditional family life in Iran. Each episode is devoted to various life situations and displays a different form of male/female interaction. The placing of the actors in a moving vehicle or against a moving back drop signifies the movement of life despite all the obstacles in its way. The film deals with the roots of dependencies, limitations, power struggles and conflict that are the familiar stuff of life of couples in the Middle East. (www.imdb.com)

2009 trailer Movies that Matter Festival

3 Women

3 WOMEN Three women from three different generations. Grandmother, mother and daughter. Three women lost in the past, the present and the future. Minou is a weaver and an expert rug-maker. She lives with her mother and daughter and is busy trying to repair a valuable old kelim rug. Caught up in her own world of dreams and obsessions, she hardly takes any notice of the other two women living with her. But then her daughter disappears, and Minou sets off in search of her. Minou?s mother is forgetful. Her grip on the present is slipping away from her so much that she gets lost and can?t find her way home. For Minou, who is in danger of losing everything she has, the search for her daughter...

33 Days

In the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, around 1350
people lost their lives. Approximately 1200 were Lebanese,
and mostly civilians. For her film 33 Days, acclaimed
Palestinian documentary maker Mai Masri followed four
people as they try to survive the fighting in Lebanon. 33 Days
gives the war victims a face.
The first person 33 Days follows is the director of a theatre
in Beirut who offers shelter to children who have arrived in
Beirut from the south of Lebanon after fleeing the bombings.
The second one is an aid worker who is coordinating the
emergency relief, the third one a journalist who works for
an underground TV...

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