Human Interest/Society

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  Tarzan’s Testicles

  Romania, France | 2017 | 107min

  The film by Alexandru Solomon looks at a monkey research institute in Sukhumi, the capital of the de facto Republic of Abkhazia. Men and monkeys are caged in a territory ravaged by war and decades of cruelty, both victims of a failed series of experiments. Read More

   
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  Berlin Rebel High School

  Germany | 2016 | 52/92min

  Germany's most unusual high school has no headmaster, no hierarchy and no pressure. This Berlin based school is entirely organized by its students without any outside funding. The adult pupils pay their own teachers and decide what they want to learn. A tribute to curiosity by Alexander Kleider. Read More

   
   
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  The Other Jerusalem

  Sweden, Finland, Norway | 2017 | 58min

  PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian portray the daily struggle of those moving into and those fighting to stay in East Jerusalem, 50 years after the Israeli occupation. Read More

   
   

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  Little Yellow Boots

  Finland, Germany | 2017 | 95min

  Filmmaker John Webster sets out on a road-trip with his imaginary great granddaughter in an attempt to understand the moral and behavioural choices that make tackling climate change so difficult. Read More

   
   
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  Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas

  Sweden, Germany, Finland | 2017 | 80min

  A documentary thriller by Joakim Demmer about the murky concept of 'land grabbing' in Ethiopia - a modern form of colonisation where foreign investors buy or lease large farmland areas in developing countries without benefiting the local population. 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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  Gogita’s New Life

  Georgia, Croatia, Russia, Ukraine | 2016 | 71min

  A tragicomic tale of a simple man and woman looking for love in a world that’s placing high demands on them, a tender and humorous glimpse into the life of a Georgian man. Read More

   
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  Off the Tracks

  Germany | 2016 | 85min

  Workers from the nearby slaughterhouse, the unemployed, the local taxi driver, retirees, a single mom.... meet the locals, their shared reflections on their lives, their frustrations and hopes at Boizenburg's pub kiosk, portrayed by Dieter Schumann. Read More

   
   
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  The Giant is Falling

  South Africa | 2016 | 58/77min

  THE GIANT IS FALLING by Rehad Desai asks why South Africa, a middle-income country, rich in mineral wealth has failed to address inequality in twenty-two years of democracy and why the gap between rich and poor is growing. Read More