New Films

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  Racist Trees

  United States | 2022 | 85min

  Racial tensions are reignited as a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs fights for the removal of a wall of trees that many believe were originally planted as a totem of segregation. A film by Sara Newens & Mina T. Son. Read More

   
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  Land of Upright People

  Italy, Burkina Faso | 2022 | 106min

  Director Christian Carmosino Mereu follows the quest for freedom of four Bukinabé citizens, during the revolution of 2014 and its aftermath. A famous raggae artist, a candidate in the upcoming elections, a miner egaged in trade union struggles and a mother with a poor and large family to care for. Read More

   
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  Kristos, the Last Child

  Italy, France, Greece | 2022 | 90 / 52min

  There are one-thousand goats and thirty-one people living on the island of Arki. No mayor. No police. No doctor nor hospital. There is a school though. A school with just one teacher and one child, Kristos. Read More

   

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  Time of Pandemics

  South Africa | 2021 | 87 / 52min

  An eye-opening documentary about the need for a fairer global distribution of medicines and health care. Documentary makers Rehad Desai and Tricia Hlongwe followed the clinical trial for an HIV vaccine in South Africa, when Covid-19 hit. Read More

   
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  A Holy Family

  Taiwan, France | 2022 | 88min

  After 24 years of absence, director Elvis A-Liang Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan. A HOLY FAMILY is an intimate journey of home-coming, a portrait of rekindled family bonding despite differences in religious beliefs, and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking. Read More

   
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  Outside

  Ukraine, The Netherlands, Denmark | 2022 | 79 / 58min

  The 7-year journey of Roma, once a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution, who is released from the orphanage at 18 into the adult world with nothing but a knife and a lighter. Read More

   

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  Angels of Sinjar

  Poland, Germany | 2022 | 109min

  Hanna Polak follows Hanifa, a young Yezidi woman, who tries to find her sisters, who were abducted by ISIS, and bring them home – as she had promised her dying father she would. Read More

   
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  Eat Your Catfish

  United States, Spain, Turkey | 2021 | 74min

  Kathryn's ALS has left her paralyzed and her family's relations in tatters, but she holds on to see her daughter's wedding. With dark humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film by Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand & Senem Tüzen probes the breakdown of a family's bonds and of a woman's will to live. Read More

   
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  Caveman - The Hidden Giant

  Italy, Switzerland | 2021 | 91min

  For almost thirty years, the Italian sculptor Filippo Dobrilla has secretly been sculpting a naked man, a 4 meters marble giant, at the bottom of one of the deepest caves in Europe. Director Tommaso Landucci discovers the secret behind the most inaccessible piece of art in the world. Read More

   

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  Stand Up My Beauty

  Switzerland, Germany | 2021 | 110min

  Nardos is a young singer from Addis Ababa who wants to fulfill herself as an artist, undeterred by everyday problems and strict tradition. Director Heidi Specogna tells the story of the conception of her first own, original song, through the stylistic means of a documentary musical. Read More

   
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  Brotherhood

  Czech Republic, Italy | 2021 | 97 / 54min

  BROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner is an intimate coming of age story following three young brothers in Bosnia, growing up under the shadow of their father’s influence, who must each decide: which man do you want to be? Read More

   
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  Bellum - The Daemon of War

  Sweden, Denmark | 2021 | 58/88min

  A triptych of stories by David Herdies and Georg Götmark about the ways in which Western nations choose to cope with war, write the narratives of war, the different ways they find to profit from it, and how they film it. Read More