Current Affairs/Politics

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  Stronger Than A Bullet

  Sweden | 2017 | 58/75min

  Maryam Ebrahimi’s film explores the misuse of photographer Saeid Sadeghi’s images from the first Persian Gulf War for Iran’s war propaganda, which propelled a generation to their deaths as martyrs. Read More

   
   
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  The Red Soul

  The Netherlands | 2017 | 58/90min

  Why is it that still so many Russians defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? The film by Jessica Gorter lays bare the Russian psyche of today and shows a world full of contradictions. Read More

   
   
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  The Other Jerusalem

  Sweden, Finland, Norway | 2017 | 58min

  PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian portray the daily struggle of those moving into and those fighting to stay in East Jerusalem, 50 years after the Israeli occupation. Read More

   
   

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  Rodnye (Close Relations)

  Latvia, Germany, Estonia, Ukraine | 2016 | 60/90/112min

  Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan Revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. Not only they live scattered all across the country, but also represent opposite sides of the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Read More
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  The Giant is Falling

  South Africa | 2016 | 58/77min

  THE GIANT IS FALLING by Rehad Desai asks why South Africa, a middle-income country, rich in mineral wealth has failed to address inequality in twenty-two years of democracy and why the gap between rich and poor is growing. Read More

   
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  Pavlensky – Man and Might

  Germany | 2016 | 58/99min

  In the course of his performances, the Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky has sewn up his mouth, nailed his scrotum to Red Square, and severed an earlobe. This is how a courageous freethinker is challenging the power of the Russian state. Read More

   

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  Prison Sisters

  Sweden | 2016 | 58/90min

  Two young women after being released from prison in Afghanistan: risking her life Sara escapes to Sweden to find a brighter future, while Najibeh is forced to stay in the Taliban nest. Read More

   
   
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  Under the Sun

  Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, Latvia, North Korea | 2015 | 58/106min

  A film by Vitaly Mansky about the ideal life in an ideal country. We can see how much effort the North Korean people have to undertake to make this ideal world work. Read More

   
   
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  Café Waldluft

  Germany | 2015 | 58/79min

  Once a tourist hot spot nestling in the picturesque mountains of Bavaria „Café Waldluft” turned out to be a run-down hotel with a few remaining guests in their late sixties. But there is something very unique about the place: it offers shelter to refugees. Read More