Current Affairs/Politics

  • Time of Pandemics

    South Africa | 2022 | 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

     
  • 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

     
  • 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

  • Those Who Said No

    Sweden, Germany | 2014 | 55/89min

    For the first time an International People’s Tribunal convenes in The Hague court of justice to investigate the mass executions of political prisoners in Iran during the 1980s. The survivors testify against a crime that has been kept secret from the world for over 25 years. Read More

     
  • The Collaborator and his Family

    USA / Israel / France | 2011 | 57/84min

    THE COLLABORATOR AND HIS FAMILY is the story of a Palestinian family torn apart by espionage. Read More

     
  • The Network

    Greece | 2005 | 58/82min

    A documentary about the illicit trade of Greek antiquities. Read More

     
  • The Bridge

    Romania | 2004 | 58/75min

    It is forbidden to cross the bridge between Slatina, Ukraine and Sighet, Romania. Families and neighbors are separated by political actions that seem senseless to the communities that have been divided for decades. Read More

     
  • The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

    Finland | 2004 | 106min

    The award-winning, stunningly beautiful documentary THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA by Pirjo Honkasalo reveals how the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in Chechnya. Read More