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- Phong grew up in a small town in the center of Vietnam - the youngest of six children. From the time he was a young boy, Phong felt like he was a girl with a mismatched boy's body. Not until he moved to Hanoi to attend university at age 20 did Phong discover that he was not the only one in the world with this predicament. His dream to 'find himself' by physically changing sex becomes a reality several years later. The movie follows Phong's struggle during these years, with excerpts from his intimate video journal, along with his encounters with family, friends and doctors - all of whom must come to terms with the boy's determination to become a complete girl.
- Where does theatre begin and real life end? Endearing Madame Phung and her transvestite singers travel around Vietnam, sparking fascination and hostility from the local people.
- May El-Hossamy brings her family members and others in front of the camera to discuss love, marriage and relationships between Muslims and Christians in Egyptian society.
- Coverage of the activities of the group Théatre de la Jeune Lune, during the summer of 1980 in Paris. Integrated by American and French performers, the group reflects on the art of acting as it represents "Cirque de Molière", a show consisting of fragments of Moliere's plays, performed both on the street (at the Centre Georges Pompidou) and on an improvised stage in the Carreau du Temple, a Parisian market place.
- Random encounters in Ivry's cemetery make our memories resonate.
- Secret figure of french cinema, Koleva has filmed all of Paris, has written about Marx and has rubbed shoulders with figures like Serge Daney. This portrait trying to unveil its militant, poetic and cinematographic universe.
- This documentary shows an outsider community struggling against the odds for education.
- Jorge and Karen's Café not only serves food. It also promotes sophisticated alternative erotic practices.
- The lesbo-trans-activist batucada Raízes Arrechas is preparing for one of the most important moments of their year: the feminist and radical night march.
- In car headlights or the glow of a petrol pump, Kabul's night-time road-sweepers shift heavy dust down an avenue - a Sisyphean job that says much about the state of the country.
- Urban life, Everyday lifeCafé
- An African storyteller and a young girl dive into music, heroic epics, dreams and imagination.
- In Ary Left For the City, a country girl leaves her village for a life as a "taxi-girl" in the city. She goes out with foreigners, dances with men in nightclubs, and makes good money.
- A diary of my body. By writer, director Isidora Bulatovic.
- Ibrahim, Bathily, Martin... They don't live in Paris but La Place de la République is their meeting point. Across the city, always keeping an eye on their smartphone, these new kinds of workers ride through Paris following the orders of the applications.
- We can only be spectators as long as we're not asleep and when we do, we are not even spectators anymore.
- After attending the Ateliers Varan organized in Cairo in 2012, Noha Al Madaawy was able to make a film that is impossible to summarize. We encounter a bride dressed in white, a manicured father, a choreographed dance of mopeds set to the Rite of Spring, some sequences of old-school Egyptian cinema and the Muslim Brotherhood. The graceful editing creates an intimate and captivating evocation of the status of women.
- Jelena was raised in a family that considered the partisan victory over the Fascists of 1945 the day of their own defeat. For her, the communist liberators had always been known as "Them". But in 1981 Jelena was the character of a poster which celebrated the birthday of a then just deceased Josip Broz Tito, the high commander and founding president of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. 25 years later Jelena visits Tito's grave on his birthday, when all his followers gather, in order to finally see the other side. There she meets Cujka, a sweet old ex-communist partisan woman and colonel in Tito's army. For the first time Jelena sees "Them" as human beings.
- A normal love story is a near impossibility when you are dating a girl and a suitcase.
- After a sixteen year absence, Masa returns to Belgrade, the city of her childhood. Although she was only nine years old when she left Belgrade, the comeback evokes repressed feelings and memories of some key events that have changed her and her mother's life. It is a story of continuos emigration from one country to another in the hope of finding justice. It is a film about memories, emigration and the search for a llife of dignity. Three stories intertwine, that of the author, Masa, her mother's colleague, and Masa's nanny, and through them emerges the story of a city which forced a small two-member family into exile.
- This is a story about the apartment block in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam where the director was born and his family has lived for 30 years. The apartment block was built before 1975 by the old Saigon government. After Vietnam Reunification 1975, the North Vietnam government took over the building and issued apartments to its officers and those who devoted to the Revolution. In 2008, investors offered to buy the whole land, which includes all apartments with very high prices. The film catches memories about the building from familiar neighbors and their reactions to the possibility of selling in order to show the image of modern Vietnam society, which faces a new turning-point.