Human Interest/Society

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  5 Seasons of Revolution

  Germany, Syria, Norway, The Netherlands, Qatar | 2023 | 95min

  Born in Damascus, Lina starts to report on the events around her but is compelled to become a war reporter and later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny. Read More

   
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  Against the Tide

  India, France | 2023 | 97min

  Two friends, both indigenous Koli fishermen in Bombay, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families. Read More

   
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  Racist Trees

  United States | 2022 | 85min

  Racial tensions are reignited as a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs fights for the removal of a wall of trees that many believe were originally planted as a totem of segregation. A film by Sara Newens & Mina T. Son. Read More

   

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  Kristos, the Last Child

  Italy, France, Greece | 2022 | 90 / 52min

  There are one-thousand goats and thirty-one people living on the island of Arki. No mayor. No police. No doctor nor hospital. There is a school though. A school with just one teacher and one child, Kristos. Read More

   
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  A Holy Family

  Taiwan, France | 2022 | 88min

  After 24 years of absence, director Elvis A-Liang Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan. A HOLY FAMILY is an intimate journey of home-coming, a portrait of rekindled family bonding despite differences in religious beliefs, and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking. Read More

   
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  Outside

  Ukraine, The Netherlands, Denmark | 2022 | 79 / 58min

  The 7-year journey of Roma, once a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution, who is released from the orphanage at 18 into the adult world with nothing but a knife and a lighter. Read More

   

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  Eat Your Catfish

  United States, Spain, Turkey | 2021 | 74min

  Kathryn's ALS has left her paralyzed and her family's relations in tatters, but she holds on to see her daughter's wedding. With dark humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film by Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand & Senem Tüzen probes the breakdown of a family's bonds and of a woman's will to live. Read More

   
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  Stand Up My Beauty

  Switzerland, Germany | 2021 | 110min

  Nardos is a young singer from Addis Ababa who wants to fulfill herself as an artist, undeterred by everyday problems and strict tradition. Director Heidi Specogna tells the story of the conception of her first own, original song, through the stylistic means of a documentary musical. Read More

   
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  Brotherhood

  Czech Republic, Italy | 2021 | 97 / 54min

  BROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner is an intimate coming of age story following three young brothers in Bosnia, growing up under the shadow of their father’s influence, who must each decide: which man do you want to be? Read More