Current Affairs/Politics

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  Pepe Mujica – Lessons from the Flowerbed

  Germany | 2014 | 52/90-94min

  A portrait of the eventful life of Pepe Mujica – a former guerrilla fighter and flower grower, and the current president of Uruguay. Read More

   
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  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

   
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  From My Syrian Room

  France / Syria / Germany / Qatar | 2014 | 70min

  How 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

   

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  The Gas Weapon

  Sweden | 2014 | 52min

  The 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

   
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  Miners Shot Down

  South Africa | 2014 | 52/86min

  MINERS 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
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  Velvet Terrorists

  Slovakia / Czech Republic / Croatia | 2013 | 83min

  A 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

   

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  Leninland

  Russia | 2013 | 52min

  The most ambitious Museum of Lenin was built in the USSR in 1987. Now this “Temple of the God” is still open, reflecting the situation in society and in the country. Read More

   
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  No Burqas Behind Bars

  Sweden | 2012 | 58/75min

  NO BURQAS BEHIND BARS by Nima Sarvestani takes viewers inside one of the world’s most restricted environments: an Afghan women’s prison. Read More

   
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  Bravehearts

  Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2012 | 59/118min

  BRAVEHEARTS 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