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South Africa’s Karoo region is a key location connected to the roots of human civilisation. This unspoiled landscape is the future site of a telescope that will reveal the even older history of the universe.

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20 Days in Mariupol

After the Russian aggression began in Ukraine in February 2022, journalists from the Associated Press (AP) remained in the besieged city of Mariupol. The film goes behind the scenes of their work and the creation of footage that shocked the world.

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20,000 Species of Bees

Surrounded by beehives, eight-year-old Cocó discovers her identity as a trans girl. Not only does Cocó undergo a gradual social transition – her mother changes too as together, in the heat of the Basque sun, they reassess what it means to be a woman.

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A Bit of a Stranger

Much changed after Russia invaded Ukraine. The events force four generations of Ukrainian women to reassess not only their relationship to their native land but mainly towards each other.

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A Dangerous Boy

An Icelandic teenager captures the attention of WikiLeaks’ key players when, at the age of 14, he hacks into the private communications of Icelandic banking. The young hacker is drawn into a risky business with secret information.

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A New Kind of Wilderness

A Norwegian-British family decides to leave the hustle and bustle of the city. But along with independence, their chosen lifestyle brings challenges. After a tragic loss, these will be even more difficult to deal with.

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A Pan-African Mission

Liberian social workers are seeking funding from rich American church patrons, but instead of money they find an alliance with a poor activist church in Detroit that claims Jesus came from Africa.

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A Shaman's Tale

A modern-day shaman sets out across Siberia to Moscow on a protest march and is gradually joined by others. How will the Russian authorities react?

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A Storm Foretold

Roger Stone has been Donald Trump’s political advisor for the past 30 years and plays the lowest game possible for his benefit, not afraid to lie, provoke, or partner up with the extremists who stormed the Capitol in 2021.

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Abang Adik

The Malaysian director’s feature-length debut about two paperless orphans shines a light on a harsh world on the fringes of society and the complicated alchemy of a relationship.

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Against the Tide

Long-time friends Rakesh and Ganesh are fishermen. While one tries to preserve the traditional practices of his ancestors, the other is driven by visions of high profit paying no regard to the law or ecological ethics.

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Agent of Happiness

Bhutan has long boasted a high Gross National Happiness index. The film follows two government workers who travel through the glorious Himalayan landscape and find that GNH is not only a number, but also a mixture of many sad and happy stories.

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Alemania

Love, rebellion, anxiety, frustration and psychological issues – in this Argentinian coming-of-age drama the protagonist must deal with them all. The film sensitively portrays life growing up alongside a family member with a mental illness.

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All Men Become Brothers

For many, Alexander Dubček symbolises the Prague Spring. This humorous film mosaic dissects the image of the admired statesman and tries to understand the man behind the myth.

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And, Towards Happy Alleys

The young director uses her love of Iranian poetry to examine the situation of the Persian artistic community, which is constantly under threat from the authorities due to its criticism of the regime.

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As the Tide Comes In

The community on the sinking island of Mandø is troubled by both rising sea levels and loneliness. But rather than leaving, the locals look for various, sometimes bizarre, ways of coping with an uncertain future.

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Bad Press

The USA’s indigenous peoples have long been struggling for their civil rights and freedom of speech. Only 5 out of 547 recognised tribes have been granted freedom of the press – and now even that is under threat.

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Between The Rains

Young Kole of the Kenyan Turkana tribe is a goatherd in his village. A long drought has intensified conflicts with the neighbouring Samburu; there’s no time for childhood between the rains. Kole must quickly become a man and join in the task of protecting the tribe.

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Beyond Utopia

Both individuals and entire families want to escape from North Korea. Pastor Kim has dedicated his life to God and refugees, whom he tries to assist on their treacherous journey across a wild river, inhospitable Chinese mountains and the Vietnamese jungle.

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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

The protagonist of this unforced ode to female independence is a middle-aged single woman who, after a close encounter with danger, re-evaluates her priorities and discovers her own sexuality.

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Bride Kidnapping

Every hour, a woman is kidnapped and violently forced into marriage in Kyrgyzstan. The film reconstructs the chilling reality played out before the eyes of the locals.

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Bull Run

Filmmaker Ana Ramón Rubio became so obsessed with cryptocurrency trading that her family started to become alarmed. A new film project is supposed to be the antidote to her addiction. Can she give up her passion before it’s too late?

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Dogs Are People Too

The unlawful killing of a dog leads to conflict in a part of US society when a later investigation shows that while Americans view their pets as family members, the law sees things differently.

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Donga

The story of a war correspondent nicknamed Donga is played out against Libyan historical events from the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 to today.

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Extremists.br

Threats and violence are common tactics of right-wing extremists within Brazil’s divided society. Their unprecedented attack on symbols of democracy was intended to trigger a coup and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

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Fauna

The film, shot near Barcelona where flocks of sheep graze in flowering meadows next to a hypermodern laboratory carrying out Covid vaccine research, explores the question of what a healthy relationship between humans and nature should be like.

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Flickering Lights

The rhythm of life in Tora is dictated by the alternating hours of daylight and darkness. The film tracks the slow process of electrification and what happens when things once shrouded in darkness are illuminated by fluorescent light.

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For the Time Being

Michelle won’t give up her fight with the USA’s justice system. She wants nothing more than to live a happy life with her husband, who she is convinced was wrongly convicted of murder and doesn’t belong in prison.

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Green Border

Bashir decided to flee Syria with his family after being tortured by the so-called Islamic State. Together with young border guard Jan, activist Julia and Afghan teacher Leila, they find themselves at the Polish border in the middle of one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time.

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Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?

Unpublished footage from the last 3 years of Václav Havel’s life in a personal portrait of the ageing ex-president who always put the public interest above his own.

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Hollywoodgate

The camera tracks two Taliban members for a year after the group’s 2021 takeover of Afghanistan. To establish a military government, they enlist the help of abandoned US military technology.

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Home Land

This longitudinal documentary tracks 5 young people from Russia and Ukraine as they try to integrate into Czech society. How do they adapt? And how will their new country accept them?

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Hong Kong Mixtape

How is it possible to stay creative in spite of the regime? The film delves deep into the artistic underground – a space of political and personal protest through the works of the local creative community.

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Hotel Metalurg

People who fled their homes during the Abkhaz-Georgian war have been living in crumbling Soviet hotels in the spa town of Tskaltubo, Georgia, for over 30 years. But isn’t it time to move on?

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Chagrin Valley

It looks like an American suburb of the 1950s. The residents of Chagrin Valley, a facility for elderly people with dementia, sit in the front yards of their simulated homes and gather in a plaza over which the sun never sets.

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Invisible Nation

The president of Taiwan bears heavy responsibilities – she takes care of democracy in her country, at the same time as standing up to the threat of aggression from China. Through it all, she remains true to her values and her people.

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Io Capitano

Director Matteo Garrone won a Silver Lion in Venice for this narrative drama that follows two young Senegalese men on their gruelling odyssey to a better future in Europe.

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Is There Any Place for Me, Please?

When 25-year-old Martina’s ex-partner douses her with acid, her world falls apart. She loses her sight, and her face and upper half of her body are badly burned. Step by step she learns to live with blindness and reclaims her life.

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Jackie the Wolf

“Old age is unavoidable; death is unavoidable. Suffering is not.” Nonconformist Jackie is a euthanasia activist. Her son decides to document her life from the moment she announces the date of her planned death in a TV interview.

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KIX

Over the 10 years of filming, Sanyi changes from a curious street kid to a troubled teenager. The film captures his attempts to avoid the fate of a child from a poor family in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

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Knit's Island

The filmmakers unmask modern society’s fantasies, fears and dreams as they try to get to know the player community hidden behind virtual avatars and voluntarily locked into a simulated post-apocalyptic world.

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La Singla

Talented, passionate, creative, rhythmically accurate – and deaf. Antonia Singla mesmerised crowds with her dance while she herself moved in complete silence. 50 years later, a young woman fascinated by the extraordinary flamenco dancer’s art reveals her forgotten story.

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Les Indésirables

In his second feature film Ladj Ly tells the urgent story of people on the fringes of Paris and political interest as they mobilise against a callous urban renewal project.

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Life Is Beautiful

When young Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed leaves for his first trip to Europe, he has no idea that his 1-month stay in Tromsø, Norway, will turn into forced exile with no end in sight. It’s 2014. The only access route to his native Gaza is closed indefinitely.

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Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning

Gender norms are reflected even in elite sport. Who has historically been excluded from the Olympics and other sports events? And who is being pushed out to the margins today?

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Limits of Europe

7 years ago, journalist Saša Uhlová described poor working conditions in the Czech Republic. In a follow-up to this project, she reports on modern forms of exploitation in Western Europe.

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Lost Country

Serbia, 1996. Stefan, an ordinary secondary school student, loves water polo and has little interest in politics. This all changes when the political party for which his mother works is accused of election fraud.

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Manifesto

Warning sirens sound through the city. Deafening shots echo in the school corridor. Horror and fear – the subject of this disturbing study uses footage recorded by Russian teenagers on their smart phones from behind their desks.

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Masterclass Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta

The International Competition will present the Czech premiere of Flickering Lights. The documentary about the electrification of a village on the India-Myanmar border was awarded the Best Cinematography Award at the IDFA International Competition last year. Director Anupama Srinivasan and filmmaker Anirban Dutta will also discuss the film in their FAMU masterclass on Monday, 25 March 2024, 7-8:30pm at the FAMU Screening Room.

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Mediha

A Yazidi teenager films her life after returning from Islamic State captivity. She works to overcome her own trauma while caring for her younger brothers and trying to find kidnapped relatives.

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Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods

Afrin, an orphaned 12-year-old girl lives on a muddy island in the Brahmaputra River. For her, water is both home and enemy. As the water rises, she decides to embark on a dangerous journey to find her missing father.

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Monster

Award-winning director Hirokazu Koreeda returned to Japan to film an effective drama about the search for truth, which received the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes.

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Mourning in Lod

In May 2021, the lives of three families are turned upside down after a group of Israelis cause unrest in Lod, an Israeli city where Jews and Arabs have long lived side by side.

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Namaste Himalaya - How a Village in Nepal Opened the World to Us

For Michael and Anna, travel is the greatest gift. Driven by curiosity, together they discover colourful locations around the world. But when they reach the Himalayas in Nepal, the borders close as the world is paralysed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Nila's Dream in the Garden of Eden

Leyla and her 6-year-old daughter live in the northern Iranian city of Mashhad, known not only as an important site for Shiite pilgrims but also for the infamous phenomenon of sigheh – temporary marriage.

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Notes from Eremocene

Today’s era could be called the Eremocene – the Age of Loneliness. What causes the feelings of existential isolation and how can we cope with it?

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Nuclear Nomads

A glimpse into the world of nuclear power plant workers who move in caravans from plant to plant, all hoping to make enough money before they reach their annual maximum radiation exposure and have to stop working.

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Of Caravan and the Dogs

During the invasion of Ukraine, Russian independent media try to continue objective reporting while resisting government pressure. The Russian opposition suspect that Putin wants to get rid of them. But when and how will it happen?

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One of the Thousand Hills

Almost a million people were murdered during the Rwandan genocide. Now, 30 years later, the perpetrators and the survivors are once again living in close proximity in the same villages. But can they ever truly reconcile?

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Patrol

Beef exports are a pillar of Nicaragua’s economy, but the huge cattle industry is leading to the decimation of vast areas of rainforest. Though much less powerful, groups of local inhabitants are its determined opponents.

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Ping Pong Family

A group of people from various backgrounds regularly meets in Oslo’s Schous plass to play table tennis. Through the sport, they make friends and create a distinctive community.

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Praying for Armageddon

Many of those waiting for the Second Coming of Christ believe that humanity must first face a series of catastrophes leading to the end of the world. A significant number of them live in the USA, and their influence reaches the highest political levels.

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Q

With camera in hand and a talent for creating scenes with multiple meanings, the debut director paints an enigmatic portrait of a generation of women who have chosen to pay a heavy toll for their loyalty to their faith.

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Queendom

Gena, a Russian queer artist, expresses herself through outlandish costumes. Her public performances attract not only new followers but also aggression from passers-by.

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Radical

This bittersweet film based on true events tells the story of a Mexican teacher whose unorthodox methods became an inspiration for one primary school’s students.

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Rahčan – Ella’s Riot

Ella is Sámi, a member of the indigenous population of Northern Europe. She’s also a pop star and activist who wants to protect the Sámi cultural heritage and the northern ecosystems.

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Riders on the Storm

Brothers Khaiber and Kalakov are among the best riders of buzkashi, a traditional sport of the Turkic peoples of north Afghanistan. At the height of the national championship, they are forced to hide from the Taliban as the game is banned.

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Silence of Reason

Using archival material from the Hague Tribunal, the film gives voice to women who faced brutal sexual violence and torture during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Slow

The film portrays varying forms of an intimate relationship between two very different people: spirited dancer Elena and reserved sign language interpreter Dovydas, who want to stay together despite their differing physical needs.

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Son of the Mullah

Born into the family of a high-ranking Islamic scholar soon after the start of the Iranian revolution, in his youth he associated with top representatives of Iran's radical Islamic government. Yet he eventually found himself on the other side of the barricades – among the regime’s most vocal critics.

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Sorry/Not Sorry

In 2017, a New York Times article accused influential comedian Louis C.K. of a series of sexual assaults. But instead of leading to the necessary legal action, the testimonies provided material for other stand-up comedians, while Louis C.K. returned to the scene unpunished.

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Sultana's Dream

This animated film, inspired by a utopian narrative about a world run by women, is a journey to an alternative reality, serving as a basis for contemplating gender dynamics and sisterhood.

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Summer Qamp

A camp in Alberta, Canada, becomes an annual retreat for queer, non-binary and trans teens. To the sound of rustling pines and crackling fires, the local community forms a safe space for sharing.

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Tack

Sofia Bekatorou is a member of the Greek Olympic sailing team. But her life takes a completely different course after she accuses a high-ranking sports official of rape, igniting the first spark of the #MeToo movement in Greece.

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Tehachapi

Artist JR uses large portrait photographs of inmates of a supermax prison in the USA to show that even a person on the very fringes of society can change for the better.

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Terrestrial Verses

Nine meetings with authorities, nine expressive stories from today’s Iran. The struggle through a maze of absurd orders and prohibitions creates a satirical portrait of everyday oppression.

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The Accidental President

A personal and political portrait of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the rightful president-elect who never took office. The falsified election results were the last straw for thousands, igniting the largest wave of protests in modern Belarusian history.

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The Body in My Head

Starting at a young age, they have faced criticism, insults and humiliation because of how they look. Now a group of men and women meet in a TV studio to talk about their experiences of body shaming and ways to confront it.

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The Body Politic

The new mayor of Baltimore promises to end street violence and reduce the murder rate. He believes that the city’s complex organism needs to be healed.

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The Burdened

The film tells the story of a pregnant mother of 3 who is pushed by circumstances to have an abortion. On top of the unstable political and economic situation in Yemen, she also has to face the pressure of a conservative society.

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The Buriti Flower

80 years of persecution, freedom struggles and traditional rituals – the turbulent history of the Krahô who live in the heart of Amazonia comes to life in this Cannes award-winning narrative film poem.

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The Clinic

Against the backdrop of daily routine in an out-of-the-way private health centre in Yangon, personal dramas unfold in the context of today’s Myanmar.

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The Dmitriev Affair

Yuri Dmitriev, whose life is devoted to uncovering Stalinist crimes, has identified over 30,000 bodies buried in mass graves. But his battle against the rewriting of history has made him a persona non grata, who faces his own erasure from history.

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The Invention of the Other

In 2015, a group of indigenous people separated from their tribe in the western Amazon. The organisation for their protection, FUNAI, sent 30 employees to find them and establish humanitarian contact.

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The Monk

A prominent Danish scientist abandons his career and family to spend the rest of his life in Buddhist meditation on a Sri Lankan mountaintop. But rifts gradually emerge in this seemingly idyllic tale of rejection of Western society.

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The Mother of All Lies

The school photo she thought was her own turns out to be a fake. Asmae sets out to untangle the web of family lies spun from myths related to the 1981 uprising in Morocco.

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The Prison of History

The film centres around the former prison in Uherské Hradiště. Unspoken memories remained embedded in its walls until the film set them free.

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The World According to My Dad

Artist Marta and her scientist father Jiří set out on a journey with the aim of not only saving the world, but also reaching a mutual understanding. The documentary is a humorous observation of a family dream, which is not always understood by the public.

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Three Promises

Director Yousef Srouji uses his mother’s home videos to show how an ordinary Palestinian family experienced the second intifada from 2000 to 2005.

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Twice Colonized

For centuries, Greenland was a Danish colony without true autonomy. How do the indigenous peoples handle the sad legacy of colonialism that continues to pervade all aspects of their lives?

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Under the Sky of Damascus

To call public attention to patriarchal violence in Syrian society, a group of female artists decide to use real testimonies as the basis for a theatre performance.

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Vai Cavalo

Every second and every penny counts at the Prado races in one of Brazil’s poor regions. For 12-year-old Dirlinho, racing offers a chance to earn money and enter the big world of professional jockeys. But it is a dangerous and ruthless path.

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Venezuela: Country of Lost Children

Venezuela is plagued by poverty, hunger and violence. This observational documentary shot in local slums shows how long-term neglect of infrastructure affects women and children.

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What's to Be Done?

Željko heads a union at a bankrupt train parts factory. After his deputy Mladen commits suicide under the strain, the responsibility for the lives of 1,000 workers lands on Željko.

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White Angel – The End of Marinka

Policeman Vasyl Pipa helps evacuate the population of the town of Marinka, which came under Russian fire. For several months, the camera on his helmet captures footage that provides evidence of war crimes.

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Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus

In 2020, mass protests were held in Belarus against the 30-year dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko. Women were often on the front lines. The film tracks 3 of them: Darya, Nina, and Tanya.

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Your Struggle – My Struggle

Forty-something and feeling blue? You’re not alone. This sarcastically therapeutic documentary uses the director and his friends as examples of the 21st-century midlife crisis. As they try to define their inner emptiness, they discover that the world isn’t such a terrible place after all.