Human Interest/Society

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  Bellum - The Daemon of War

  Sweden, Denmark | 2021 | 58/88min

  A triptych of stories by David Herdies and Georg Götmark about the ways in which Western nations choose to cope with war, write the narratives of war, the different ways they find to profit from it, and how they film it. Read More

   
   
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  The Bubble

  Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/90min

  THE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine. Read More

   
   
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  Les Enfants terribles

  France, Turkey, Germany | 2021 | 52/93min

  Set in a close-Arab community, in a village situated in the south of Turkey, this film by Ahmet Necdet Cupur unfolds a familial story, where children must face their imposed fate and pressure from the community, to emancipate and follow aspirations. Read More

   
   

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  Anamnesis

  Germany | 2021 | 111min

  How do you picture a man who has murdered? A film by Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe about the story of Stefan S. and the limits of our imagination. Read More

   
   
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  Molecules

  Italy | 2020 | 54/68min

  Between February and April of 2020, Andrea Segre, who lives in Rome for several years, got stuck in Venice during the lockdown: Venice, hometown of his father and just partially his own. Read More

   
   
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  Everything Will Not Be Fine

  Romania, Ukraine | 2020 | 82min

  After ending a long-term relationship, Adrian Pîrvu, a half-blind filmmaker born in 1986 and whose mother blames his illness on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, leaves behind his life in Romania and travels to find other people who might have been affected by it. Read More

   
   

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  Cuban Dancer

  Italy, Canada, Chile | 2020 | 52 /98min

  Director Roberto Salinas portrays Alexis, a talented and proud student of the National Ballet School of Cuba, who spends his life practicing chassé and entrechats with his girlfriend and dance partner Yelenia. When his family moves to Florida, he must adjust his expectations and dreams to a radically new environment. Read More

   
   
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  Oeconomia

  Germany | 2020 | 89min

  What is money? What are debts? What are the consequences of both? And how can images be found for them? In OECONOMIA, director Carmen Losmann undertakes a journey in the strategic heartlands of neoliberal policy. 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