Human Interest/Society

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  Cuban Dancer

  Italy, Canada, Chile | 2020 | 53 /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

   
   

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  Walchensee Forever

  Germany | 2020 | 110min

  In her documentary family saga, director Janna Ji Wonders embarks on a voyage of discovery spanning a century: she takes us from the family café at the Bavarian Walchensee to San Francisco to the infamous "Summer of Love“. Read More

   
   
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  Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Sweden / Serbia, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar | 2020 | 54 / 94min

  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 | 52/81min

  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