Human Interest/Society

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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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  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
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  Return of the Atom

  Finland, Germany | 2015 | /110min

  The film by Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola portrays the strange and stressful life in a small "nuclear town" in Finland during an era of nuclear renaissance. Read More

   

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  Rabbit à la Berlin

  Poland / Germany | 2009 | 39/50min

  When Death Zone was the safest home - the untold story of wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls for 28 years and which had to learn to live in the free world again after the Wall came down. Read More

   
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  Russian Girls

  Germany | 2011 | 58/70min

  How can I 'hunt down' the man of my dreams? Or any man at all? Read More

   
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  Robinsons of Mantsinsaari

  Germany / Finland / Poland | 2008 | 57min

  The film tells the story of two elderly men who are the last and sole residents of a now-Russian-controlled island on Lake Ladoga – and who don’t speak to each other. Read More

   

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  Red Oil

  UK, Germany | 2008 | 58min

  The film tells the high-octane story of the only multinational oil corporation in the world that's part of a socialist revolution - in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. Read More

   
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  Recipes for Disaster

  Finland | 2008 | 63/85min

  What happens when a determined young family gives up all oil-based products for a year? Read More