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- This is the story of a tall 10-year-old girl. She is working on a school project that aims to explain how the world works to her class. She is faced with difficult social and political questions that even adults struggle to answer.
- Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) is the story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write-and skateboard-in Kabul.
- At Good Grief groups, children meet to understand the passing of a parent or a sibling through play, giving in to rage in 'the volcano room' and saying goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in 'the hospital room'. Over the course of a year, we follow the weekly meetings and get close to Kimmy, Nicky, Peter, Nora, Nolan and Mikayla and their close companion: grief. It is sometimes heartbreaking, but also humorous, to experience the questions about life and death through their open and curious minds. Grief is high and heavy as a mountain, but it helps you understand what has happened, and that death is irreversible.
- In a lonely desert town a suicidal priest makes a decision that kicks into motion a series of strange and comedic events leading him to an unexpected discovery.
- The film tells the story of the last known group of women who survived being held in the Soviet-era forced labor camps called Gulag. The Gulag was a brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Joseph Stalin and was first described by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago".
- In Nima's vivid stories, the gloomy scrapyard becomes a formula 1 race track. His younger sister Tara listens to him, captivated. Tara is blind. While their parents quarrel, gesticulating silently, Nima creates a colorful, happy world in which Tara can grow up without worry. Even when their mother suddenly abandons the family, Nima playfully maintains his version of reality, confronting tragedy with hope.
- Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police descend on the Dakota Access Pipeline, in a standoff between Big Oil and a new generation of native warriors. Embedded in the movement, native activist and filmmaker Cody Lucich chronicles the sweeping struggle in stunning clarity, as the forces battle through summer to bitter winter, capturing the spirit and havoc of an uprising.
- Salvage is a feature-length documentary about the city dump in Yellowknife, Canada. In Yellowknife, the remote capitol of the Northwest Territories, the town dump is the city's most popular and notorious manmade attraction, mined by a colorful community of thrifty locals. But the new city administration is determined to see it tamed, and the battle for Yellowknife's identity is on.
- Four university students travel 2,300 miles from London to the front lines of Iraq to see what the international community is doing in the fight against ISIS.
- Orly Fernandez manages and lives at a 24-hr funeral parlor in Manila. His relationships with clients and the journalists he meets color the empathy and contempt he holds for Philippine drug war victims who, like him, struggle to survive.
- A film about a place in Afghanistan where people come to escape everyday life and dream away from the war that surrounds them.
- Leah and Meital are mother and daughter. Leah works as a maid in the hotel during the day. Meital sings at the hotel's lobby at night. They are surrounded by the Dead Sea. At the only night Leah decides to go and hear her daughter's singing-they both realize that their separation is inevitable.
- Antonietta is an elderly mother who lives with Vincenzo, a braindead son from birth and forced into a wheelchair in a semi-vegetative state and with Ciruzziello, a small colored fish living in a large ampoule. The woman spends all her energy taking care of her son, trying to give him all the love possible. Through her stories, the woman passed on to her son a love for the sea, where they often go for long walks. Her fervent religious faith, already put to the test in the last period, shoulder strap because of a tumor that slowly devours her and when after a medical examination, she discovers that she has little to live, an existential crisis begins. The thought that his son Vincenzo remains only after his death begins to torment her, abandoned by institutions will have to take on a single choice .
- Drawing from her observations, experiences and thoughts, the prophetess, in a surge of hope and altruism, shares her conception of a world which should have been, could or will be: a manifesto, for a fictitious or latent generation.
- Thousands of refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to flee war in search of a better life. Crossing the Ocean addresses the sheer reality refugees face on a daily basis in the gates of Europe.
- What if fighting for your country meant going against some of its most traditional values? Motherland is a documentary about the women who shake tradition to rid their country of landmines leftover from a devastating ethnic war. Individually outcast; together, a collective - the deminers support each other as they take on the dangerous role of breaking stereotypes and securing the future of their war-torn republic.