Current Affairs/Politics

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  I Had A Dream

  Italy, France | 2018 | 52/84min

  From the feminist fights against Berlusconi to the last elections of 2018, the film by Claudia Tosi explores the last ten years of Italy through the political action and the everyday life of the two compelling women. Read More

   
   
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  Everything Must Fall

  South Africa | 2018 | 58/85min

  An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education. Read More

   
   
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  Nine Month War

  Hungary, Qatar | 2018 | 54/73min

  Jani has left his family to serve in the Ukrainian Army for nine months. His mother wants her son back. Jani just wants independence. Combining visuals of cinema verité and mobile footage of war, László Csuja chronicles Jani’s fight for adulthood during his military service and after his discharge. Read More

   
   

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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