Human Interest/Society

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  Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Serbia, Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar | 2020 | 55 / 93min

  An intimate film by Mladen Kovačević about everyday lives of Chinese workers stuck in between Chinese communist tradition and newly discovered Chinese dream that takes place in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories which produce Christmas for the entire world. Read More

   
   
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  Never Whistle Alone

  Italy | 2019 | 58 / 74min

  Think about your job, your office, your colleagues... What if you discover that your boss is corrupt? Seven people tell director Marco Ferrari what they witnessed inside their office. Their words were so similar that it became one collective story: the story of a whistleblower. Read More

   
   
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  This Train I Ride

  France, Finland | 2019 | 77min

  Lured by the call of the rails, 3 women left everything behind to pursue a hobo lifestyle. A quest for identity, freedom and finding one’s place in the world by Arno Bitschy. Read More

   
   

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  Little Man, Time and the Troubadour

  Netherlands, Belgium | 2019 | 55/104min

  Bypassing political propaganda and combining elements from documentary, fiction and animation, this road movie by Ineke Smits sheds a poetic light on a highly topical question in a world that is on fire: what is home, what makes a country? Read More

   
   
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  Traces

  Germany | 2019 | 90min

  The National Socialist Underground murders in the early 2000s left scars. Not only among the relatives of the victims, but also in the migrant communities and the entire German society. TRACES by Aysun Bademsoy follows these scars and poses the question of whether such injuries can ever heal completely. Read More

   
   
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  Mother

  Belgium, Netherlands | 2019 | 52 / 82min

  MOTHER by Kristof Bilsen is a character-driven film that allows us to explore the struggles of motherhood and the frustrations of being unable to care for our loved ones. Read More

   
   

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  Selfie

  France, Italy | 2019 | 78min

  Italian teenagers Alessandro and Pietro accepted director Agostino Ferrente’s proposal to shoot themselves with an iPhone, commenting on their own daily life, their close friendship, their neighbourhood in Naples. Read More

   
   
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  Heimat is a Space in Time

  Germany, Austria | 2019 | 218min

  Director Thomas Heise pics up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a country, of a century. Read More

   
   
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  Honeyland

  Macedonia | 2019 | 85min

  When a nomadic family moves in and breaks Honeyland’s basic rule, the last female wild beekeeper in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance. Read More