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- DirectorÉléonore WeberStarsNathalie RichardTo shoot: a gun or a movie camera. The military analogy is born with the beginning of cinema. Eléonore Weber's (Les Hommes Sans Gravité, IndieLisboa 2008) documentary is exclusively based upon footage recorded by French and American soldiers in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. From the top of their helicopters, a viewfinder scans the night and watches for suspicious activity from moving heat dots. They have the power to take or keep lives.
- DirectorMatthieu LietaertErika Gonzalez RamirezThree Latin American women's stories of tireless environmental advocacy as they risk their lives to resist and sue harmful transnational corporations. Maxima Acuña (Peru), Berta Cáceres (Honduras), and Carolina (Brazil).
- DirectorFranny ArmstrongStarsPete PostlethwaiteJehangir WadiaAlvin DuVernayA future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
- DirectorJRAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaJRJeannine CarpentierDirector Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsNardjes AsliAlgeria, February 2019. A wave of protests takes over the streets of Algiers against the 5th candidacy of then president Bouteflika. Nardjes, a young activist, finds in the movement a space to demand a better future for her country.
- DirectorMichael DominicStarsEdgar Ezequiel Quintero HernandezEmmanuel Salvador Quintero HernandezFrancisco Jose Quintero HernandezShot over the course of seven years Clean Hands documents the human drama, personal struggle, innocence, and salvation of one family in Nicaragua surviving against the backdrop of Central America's largest garbage dump, La Chureca.
- DirectorPawel LozinskiComposed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.
- DirectorJared P. ScottStarsMichael BreenSharon BurkeStephen CheneyThis Emmy® nominated investigation unpacks how climate change interacts with migration, unrest and conflict through the lens of US national security.
- DirectorLars EdmanWilliam JohanssonIn the mid-80's the Swedish mining giant Boliden dumped 20000 tonnes of hazardous waste in Arica in Northern Chile. Thousands of 'Ariqueños' were affected with cancers and other serious illness. Now a group of survivors are seeking justice.
- DirectorLinaStarsMalath AlzoubiRima DaliBassel ShehadehAn aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter.
- DirectorTracey Arcabasso SmithA filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home-movies, and long-avoided conversations surface, a family once bound by tradition forges a new path forward.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsPierre Chanel AffognonAlaa Al-SiddiqCarmen AristeguiA visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware to target journalists and human rights defenders worldwide.
- What if the best way to make more money - is to create it yourself? In this new documentary series from filmmaker Nathan Truesdell and Field of Vision, we follow folks who decided to take wealth creation into their own hands, and upended the meaning of "value" in the process. Meet a libertarian Florida coin-maker who dreams of bringing down the Federal Reserve; a Danish painter who supports a family of four by exchanging paintings for goods; and a master counterfeiter, who reveals how he minted hundreds of millions of dollars-and got off scot-free. As this series shows, there's more than one kind of currency exchange.
- DirectorNora MandrayFrance, 2017: presidential elections bring the far-right closer to power than ever. Through a mix of archives and vérité, Dancing With Le Pen traces the irresistible rise of one of Europe's most dangerous party: the 'National Front'.
- DirectorFrancois VersterSimon WoodGripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.
- DirectorAlex WinterStarsBastian ObermayerKatrin LanghansFrederik ObermaierA documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.
- DirectorRoss DomoneyAnna Giralt GrisIn 2017, the citizens of Catalonia voted to become an independent state.
- DirectorEmily PedersonA community reels as the Mexican government obstructs an investigation into one of the most notorious state crimes in recent memory.
- DirectorSomchay PhakonkhamStarsMatthew TrubianiVen. Ronnapop JotilabhoVen. Narongchai ThanachayoA cinematic journey of a Westerner who temporarily ordains as a Monk at the world's largest Buddhist temple in Thailand.
- DirectorGreta StocklassováStarsHans BlixIn an interview with director Greta Stocklassa, retired diplomat Hans Blix reflects on his career as the as the head weapons inspector for the UN during the war on terror, and the legacy he will leave for future generations.
- DirectorVinay ShuklaStarsRavish KumarSushil BahugunaDeepak ChaubeyHow independent news reporting in India and beyond is increasingly under threat by budgetary cuts and especially, extremists leveraging alternative platforms to spread misinformation.
- StarsHannah Congdon Catherine HaighTwo women. One epic journey. Countless stories that deserve to be heard. Cat and Hannah undertake a road trip across Central Asia on a mission to uncover women's stories in a region miles from their own. But along the journey, they're forced to challenge the assumptions they set out with.
- DirectorMatt SarneckiStarsRobert FicoRobert KalinakAndrej KiskaIn Slovakia, a young investigative journalist is brutally murdered. When the police files of the murder investigation are leaked to the reporter's colleagues, they uncover vast corruption reaching the highest levels of Slovak society.
- DirectorFriedrich MoserStarsChristoph BichlerPeter BouckaertJulia HerzA deep dive into the international beer industry and the second most consumed beverage on the planet.
- DirectorLéa Clermont-DionGuylaine MaroistStarsLaura BoldriniGlen CanningKiah MorrisA look at the effects of online misogyny and hatred directed at women.
- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsAïssa MaïgaTiécoura TraoréMaimouna Hélène DiarraBamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights...
- StarsDiane MorganJim Al-KhaliliShirley J. ThompsonFollows Philomena Cunk as she comically tells the story of our greatest inventions and asks experts hard-hitting questions about humanity's progress.
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsMamadi BarriWalid BenzianeSabine BerlièreFollows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
- DirectorPierre-Philippe BersonStarsMédine Zaouiche
- DirectorFrederick WisemanWELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
- StarsRyan ReynoldsRob McElhenneyWrexham A.F.C.Docuseries chronicling the purchase and stewardship of Wrexham AFC, one of professional football's oldest clubs, by two Hollywood actors, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.
- DirectorFredrik GerttenStarsLeilani FarhaSaskia SassenStig WesterdahlA documentary shedding light on the global phenomenon of the commodification of housing and consequent lack of affordability, especially through the eyes of Leilani Farha, a United Nations special rapporteur on housing who lives in Canada.
- DirectorFredrik GerttenSylvia VollenhovenStarsMariette LiefferinkPule MolefeMpho MolefeFollows the work of activist Mariette Liefferinck and her seemingly unending struggle to mitigate the hazardous legacy of gold mining. Mountainlike dump sites of mining waste riddled with uranium covers the town of Jozi in a radioactive dust causing damage to humans and the environment alike.
- DirectorFredrik GerttenStarsAline CavalcanteDan KoeppelRaquel RolnikBikes vs Cars is a documentary about the bike and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a conflict in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels.
- DirectorFredrik GerttenStarsRutger BregmanGerald BrysonSarah ChayesExamines turning points that make people want to organise and protest such as the assassination of an investigative journalist in Malta and a dried up river in Chile.
- DirectorJenifer MalmqvistSofia, Hedvig and Maja grew up together on the countryside in Southern Sweden with their mom Carolina - a radiant personality and a devoted mother. In 2010 Carolina took her own life.
- DirectorJoakim DemmerStarsAlexander KarimMohammed AlamoudiIvan HolmesFarmland - the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia's government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side where the World Bank plays a very questionable role... Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas investigates land grabbing and its impact on people's lives. Pursuing the truth, we meet investors, development bureaucrats, persecuted journalists, struggling environmentalists and evicted farmers deprived of their land.
- DirectorAndrés HabeggerStarsErnesto CarmonaCarlos CoccioLeonardo HenrichsenA documentary on the life and work of Swedish/Argentinean photojournalist Leonardo Henrichsen (1940-1973), a known international news cameraman whose final image shot was his own death on the hands of a soldier, while capturing images from an attempted military coup in Chile on June, 1973.
- DirectorAris ChatzistefanouKaterina KitidiStarsSamir AminHugo AriasAlain BadiouDebtocracy seeks the causes of the Greek debt crisis and proposes solutions sidelined by the government and the dominant media. It follows countries like Ecuador that created debt Audit Commissions and tracks this process in Greece.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAnselm KieferDaniel KieferAnton WendersAnselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.
- DirectorBouchra KhaliliResponding to the call for solidarity extended by the Black Panther Party, the French novelist, playwright and poet Jean Genet traveled secretly to the U.S in 1970 and spent two months among Black Panthers supporting their struggle for collective emancipation and equality. Nowadays, two young African-American women investigate Genet's commitment and ask themselves what the position of Genet was in regard to the BPP. Was he a sympathizer? An ally? Or a witness?
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanAkerman spends a month in Tel Aviv, in an apartment by the sea, contemplating her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood.
- DirectorZakaria JaberStarsFarah DarwishNour HajjarYehia JaberIn the ever-present desire to capture, record, and understand Beirut, and by extension himself, Zakaria has been trying to give a coherent story to his city. It is through the intersectionality between the general and the personal, the public and private, the old and young, that we are able to answer: why are we anxious in Beirut?
- 20211h 58mPG-138.0 (14K)96MetascoreDirectorQuestloveStarsDorinda DrakeBarbara Bland-AcostaDarryl LewisDocumentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.
- DirectorAmélie BigardJade Boudet
- DirectorKip AndersenKeegan KuhnStarsBruce HamiltonKip AndersenAl GoreFollow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.
- DirectorAnna Giralt GrisStarsEnric DuranWant to know how to steal half a million euros from thirty-nine different banks to fund social causes? Robin Bank - the story of a man who did this and how.
- StarsRedjep MitrovitsaAudrey VernonGaetano Manfredonia"Ni Dieu Ni Maître" reviews all the great events of the social history of the last two centuries and reveals the origin and destiny of this political current that has been fighting for over 150 years all masters and gods.
- DirectorJennifer NgoFaceless takes us to the frontline of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong to meet four such young people.
- DirectorNic BalthazarStarsRoger CoxMichael GerrardTessa KhanA documentary following Dutch lawyer Roger Cox as he attempts to make global legal history by establishing that governments and Big Oil have a duty of care to prevent catastrophic climate change.
- DirectorRoland NurierStarsVera BabounGilles DeversRichard Falk
- DirectorThierry MichelStarsMobutu Sese SekoPaul KagameLaurent-Désiré KabilaAn in-depth account of two assassinations that occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017.
- DirectorAxel DanielsonMaximilien Van AertryckStarsChris AndersonFelix BergssonUlrika BergstenFrom the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
- DirectorWaad Al-KateabEdward WattsStarsWaad Al-KateabSama Al-KhateabHamza Al-KhateabFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
- DirectorLina SoualemStarsHiam AbbassUm AliNemat AbbassYears after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
- DirectorDaniel GordonBrendan DonovanBryn EvansStarsMisha GlennyEric ChienMikko HyppönenThe story of one of the most daring cyber heists of all time, the Bangladeshi Central Bank theft. Tracing the origins of cyber-crime, from basic turn of the millennium credit card fraud by individuals to global criminal organizations.
- DirectorYannick KergoatStarsDaniel BertossaYves BertossaJohn ChristensenWelcome to the world of capital flight. A funny, shocking and true in-depth investigation - a unique and hopeful cinematic call for change.
- DirectorMustafa Abu AliShooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) - this film was shot on the same 16mm camera - and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which explodes at the intersection between the political and the aesthetic.
- DirectorRaymond DepardonStarsValéry Giscard d'EstaingCharles AznavourJacques ChiracThis documentary closely follows the French 1974 Presidential campaign of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (who then became President).
- DirectorDaphne MatziarakiPeter MurimiUnresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.
- DirectorAvi MograbiStarsDani VilenskiShlomo GazitRoni HirschsonAn account of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with statements from Israeli soldiers about their service there.
- DirectorMalek BensmaïlMalek puts his camera at the service of El Watan, a prestigious publication in an unstable democracy. This is a telling of the encounters that take place at the paper, and a reflection on freedom of the press.
- DirectorMalek Bensmaïl
- DirectorMalek BensmaïlStarsLakhdar SaïdA chronicle of the everyday life in Constantine's psychiatric hospital.