Human Interest/Society

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  Memory Games

  Germany, USA, Sweden | 2018 | 85min

  Welcome to the mind palace! Filmmakers Janet Tobias & Claus Wehlisch follow memory athletes from the US, Germany and Sweden on their way to a world championship. Read More

   
   
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  Hamada

  Sweden, Germany, Norway | 2018 | 52/90min

  With vitality and humor, HAMADA by Eloy Domínguez Serén paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of the stony Saharan desert. Read More

   
   
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  I Had A Dream

  Italy, France | 2018 | 52/84min

  From the feminist fights against Berlusconi to the last elections of 2018, the film by Claudia Tosi explores the last ten years of Italy through the political action and the everyday life of the two compelling women. Read More

   
   

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  Everything Must Fall

  South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium | 2018 | 58/85min

  An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education. Read More

   
   
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  Nine Month War

  Hungary, Qatar | 2018 | 54/73min

  Jani has left his family to serve in the Ukrainian Army for nine months. His mother wants her son back. Jani just wants independence. Combining visuals of cinema verité and mobile footage of war, László Csuja chronicles Jani’s fight for adulthood during his military service and after his discharge. Read More

   
   
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  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

   
   

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  Dark Eden

  Germany | 2018 | 80min

  Directors Jasmin Herold & Michael Beamish explore Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil reserve on the planet, searching for an answer to the question, "How high is the price for a better life?". Read More

   
   
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  My Home, in Libya

  Italy | 2018 | 66min

  Martina Melilli questions her grandparents' life in Tripoli, Libya, before being expelled in 1970. To search their traces she contacts a young Libyan. As their relation grows, the images and thoughts they exchange online bring us into a world the media has no access to anymore. Read More

   
   
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  Exit

  Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2018 | 52/80min

  What makes a person join an extremist movement - and what exactly makes a person leave it again? Director Karen Winther puts on a personal journey, reflecting on her very own extremist past and the stories of the people she meets along her travels in Norway, Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. Read More