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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
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
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

Pinochet’s Children
Germany | 2002 | 60/80min
A sentimental biography on the generation brought up during the three decades of Pinochet´s dictatorship in Chile. Read More
Pit No. 8
Estonia, Ukraine | 2011 | 58/95min
In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal mining region, the film is timely portrait of parents and teenagers trying to earn a living in abandoned coal pits, as poverty overtakes their world. Read More
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

Putin's Witnesses
Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republik | 2018 | 95/102min
With this film, Vitaly Mansky gives a strictly documentary testimony of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the President who still rules the country today: Vladimir Putin. Read More
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
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

No Burqas Behind Bars