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- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
- DirectorRafiki FarialaStarsRafiki FarialaAaron KoyasukpengoNestor Ngbandi NgouyouThe filmmaker turns the camera on himself and his friends, capturing their everyday life as students of Bangui University. At once clear-eyed and poetic, they share their thoughts about their future in the Central African Republic.
- DirectorSusanne Regina MeuresThe 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin.
- DirectorHyuck-jee ParkStarsSujin KwonKyungwon LeeSujin is at a crossroads: since childhood, she has felt the higher calling to become a shaman, like her grandmother before her, but she is young and wants to go to university too, maybe even lead an ordinary life.Girl Who Dreams about Time
- DirectorKathryn FergusonStarsSinéad O'ConnorGay ByrneJohn O'ConnorFollowing the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
- DirectorEva WeberStarsAngela MerkelRobin AlexanderJoe BidenDriven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became the de facto leader of the Free world, told for the first time for an international audience.
- DirectorEmma DavieStarsRachael AlexanderKevin AndersonEmeka EmemboluThe Oil Machine explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil.
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsJoan HallTed HallJoseph AlbrightThe incredible story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia.
- DirectorSara NewensMina T. SonWas the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in Palm Springs a symbol of segregation?
- DirectorMark CousinsStarsAlba RohrwacherDonald TrumpMark CousinsDepicts the ascent of fascism in Italy, and its fallout across 1930s Europe.
- DirectorGorana JovanovicDecades after being at war with each other, the armies of six former Yugoslav republics are getting together to play ball.
- DirectorLuka PapicSrdja VucoThe landmark free elections in Serbia in 1990, reimagining through montage how history might have otherwise unfolded.
- DirectorJuan BugarínA veteran of Malvinas' War repair a small boat to return to the islands to plant Argentina's flag forty years after. During the preparations for the sailing, family bonds emerge as well as memories from the past.
- DirectorAna Sofia FonsecaStarsCesária ÉvoraJanete ÉvoraJosé da SilvaWorld renowned Grammy Award winning singer Cesária Évora from Cabo Verde in a new, intimate documentary. With previously unseen footage and insights into the singer's life, the film follows the struggles and success of the Barefoot Diva.
- DirectorLiliane MuttiDaniel ZarvosStarsChico BuarqueSílvia BuarqueVinicius de MoraesDespite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian Bossa Nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha, has been largely underappreciated.
- DirectorElwira NiewieraPiotr RosolowskiStarsSlavik GavianetsKatia KotliarovaRoman KrivdikA group of young Ukrainians is preparing a modern stage version of Hamlet. Their goal is to use their own wartime experiences and traumas to relate to Shakespeare's play.
- DirectorSara van OostrumBeyond our Stars is a poetic short documentary film for children from 9 years and up that creates a space where they talk about death.
- DirectorNatasa UrbanOn 11 August 1999, most of Europe was engrossed in the total solar eclipse, which momentarily enveloped the Earth in darkness. But in Serbia, people were busy barricading themselves in their homes and shelters for fear of the dark. Filmmaker Natasa Urban returns to the eclipse as motif and metaphor in her paradoxically evocative and thoughtful film about her own upbringing during the war in the former Yugoslavia, to which she travels back in THE ECLIPSE to collect stories and anecdotes from her family and acquaintances. A cotton curtain in the wind on a spring day, a lush forest floor. The war is far away - or is it? Shot on analogue 16mm film with an artist's eye for how traces of the past remain deposited in the present - both physically and mentally - Urban creates a rich, existential work of imagery with a quiet, philosophical weight that is rare and precious. As when her father wanders the lush landscapes while you hear him reading from his journals about the wanderings he took while the war was still going on.
- DirectorArnaud des PallièresParables about fairies and sharks, fond memories and dreams of catching fish and collecting precious stones slowly turn into stories about wars, atom bombs, patriots and veterans, as well as about our alienated childhoods.
- DirectorShrutiman DeoriStarsSundari BongjangGautam TeronNeha TeronDuring the pandemic, Gautam, a 14 year old boy studying in a residential school in the city remains stuck in the dormitary. He yearns for his village while his mother tries contacting him.
- DirectorRumbi KatedzaStarsFrank MalabaChrysthle Malaba-NcubeMiles Malaba'Transactions' tells a story of Zimbabwean migration through a family divided by the circumstances of a failed economy. Three siblings, Frank, Miles and Portia, sustain their family through remittances while longing for the country and family they left behind. While the fourth sibling, Chrysthle, who is still in Zimbabwe, is frustrated by her inability to help financially, even though she has a full-time job. Their mother, MaMlilo, is a conduit of all the family's challenges in hyper-inflationary Zimbabwe. Everyone who needs money comes to her in the hopes that she can help them financially. With each monetary transaction, expectations are raised on both sides.
- DirectorLucia ChicosAlexandra DiaconuFatima has been living in Bucharest for four years since fleeing Afghanistan with her family. The thoughtful 18-year-old films her life in the Romanian capital: her trips to the park, life at home with her brothers and sisters, and the conversations she has with her Romanian friends. When the Covid-19 pandemic approaches, bringing a lockdown, she has to spend a month indoors. She kills time with funny observations of life outdoors, filmed through the window.
- DirectorCoco SchrijberLook What You Made Me Do shows three women, victims of terrible abuse, who killed their partners. The women testify with courage and disarming sincerity of a patriarchal system that wants to deprive them of the right to rebellion.
- DirectorShaunak SenStarsSalik RehmanMohammad SaudNadeem ShehzadAmidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
- DirectorSierra PettengillStarsCharlene ModesteLyndon B. JohnsonOtto KernerWelcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.
- DirectorMoses BwayoChristopher SharpStarsBarbie KyagulanyiBobi WineFollows Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine. He used his music to fight the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
- DirectorVuslat KaranBurcu MelekogluStarsOnur Rüzgar ErkoçlarOn October 4, 2012, a beaming Rüzgar Erkoçlar received his first testosterone injection, marking an important step in his gender affirmation. Could he have imagined then how arduous that journey would be? That traditional Turkey would make him front-page news because formerly he was a well-known actor? Maybe so, because this film leaves no doubt about the degree of homophobia and transphobia in Turkish society. The crowning glory of this transition is the exchange of his pink identity card for a blue one. The entire process, a path paved with frustration, humiliation, and endless waiting, is captured in home movie-esque observations and self-assured phone videos. An intimate report of a struggle with self-realization and acceptance in a traditional society, under intense media scrutiny.
- DirectorNicolas van HemelryckClare WeiskopfTen young women reside in a home for girls from the streets of Bogotá. They talk about their roommate, Alis. She is a collective invention and at the same time a protected space that makes it possible to express painful truths.
- DirectorHumaira BilkisStarsHumaira BilkisKhaleda BilkisAbdul Mannan MiaHumaira Bilkis has a problem: after a pilgrimage to Mecca, her mother, who was previously an emancipated poet, has now become devout.
- DirectorManuel BauerA "railroad-movie" following the itinerary of the Central Andino, a mine train pulling an endless string of wagons, which descends from the Peruvian Altiplano at an altitude of 4,800 metres to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. The film witnesses the Andean landscapes transformed by "progress", the open-pit mines that have destroyed entire towns. Leaving open spaces behind it, the train crosses canyons and gorges, impossible slopes and makeshift bridges, invading the roads as it approaches the capital, cutting shanty towns in half. With a politically committed perspective, the film denounces the fatalist paradox of a resource-rich country that is victim of a flagrant step back in terms of health and education. While all of Peru celebrates Independence Day, the festivities punctuated by populist speeches and street parades, its population fluctuates between scepticism and resignation as it talks about the systematic exploitation of its resources, seen disappearing aboard foreign cargo ships on the horizon.
- DirectorNick ReadAyse ToprakStarsMutlu KayaThe inspirational story of a Kurdish teenager, Mutlu Kaya, who comes from a remote community in South East Turkey.