Current Affairs/Politics
Pepe Mujica – Lessons from the Flowerbed
Germany | 2014 | 52/90-94minA portrait of the eventful life of Pepe Mujica – a former guerrilla fighter and flower grower, and the current president of Uruguay. Read More
Those Who Said No
Sweden, Germany | 2014 | 55/89minFor 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
From My Syrian Room
France / Syria / Germany / Qatar | 2014 | 70minHow can one become a free and responsible person when he's been educated to remain a little soldier of the Assad's Regime? The Syrian painter and filmmaker Hazem Alhamwi tries to understand with some Syrians why they have lived in distress and anxiety. Together, they express the will of freedom of a whole country. Read More
The Gas Weapon
Sweden | 2014 | 52minThe film by Alex Shiriaieff offers a factual background to the complicated relations between Russia and Ukraine and exclusive, emotional footage from the dramatic events during the last winter in Ukraine’s capital. Read More
Miners Shot Down
South Africa | 2014 | 52/86minMINERS SHOT DOWN by Rehad Desai is a haunting glimpse into the days leading up to the massacre of 34 miners in Marikana in August 2012. Read More
Velvet Terrorists
Slovakia / Czech Republic / Croatia | 2013 | 83minA documentary by Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes about three romantic heroes, who had a go at armed resistance against the communistic regime in Czechoslovakia. Read More
No Burqas Behind Bars
Sweden | 2012 | 58/75minNO BURQAS BEHIND BARS by Nima Sarvestani takes viewers inside one of the world’s most restricted environments: an Afghan women’s prison. Read More
Bravehearts
Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2012 | 59/118minBRAVEHEARTS by Kari Anne Moe is a documentary depicting the generation of young people in Norway, whose lives will forever be shaped by the terror attack of 22 July 2011. Read More