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It's the post-war period. Europe has been rebuilt. Everything is going well in the "model colonies" where the French Republic leads its wards with a maternal hand towards the lights of reason and progress. However, not everyone shares this view. The first anti-colonial film in France, banned and recently awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this effective pamphlet against colonialism in ...
_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
_In Flow of Words_ follows the journeys of three interpreters at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They translated the shocking testimonies of witnesses, victims, and defendants, never allowing their emotions, feelings, and personal history to interfere. In contrast to their role in the courtroom, this film puts their voices and experiences at the forefront of the s...
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae's Jewish parents, renowned author Amos Elon and former literary agent Beth Elon, hired Musa Obeidallah, a Palestinian father of eleven, to look after their only six-month-old daughter on a daily basis. He would remain there for 20 years, until Danae left to study in the United States. After losing touch with each other, not least because of growing p...
_Coyolxauhqui_ recasts the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, the Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.
The film follows the struggles of Paúl Jarrín, a local mediator in Río Blanco, northern Ecuador, and Fernando Villavicencio, an investigative journalist, against their government, which is depriving its population of control over the country's mineral resources by awarding contracts to Chinese contractors. Mark Wiese gives a voice to the people caught up in the geopolitical machinery and victim...
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
On Thuesday September 22 1998, General Augusto Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip. He rested for a few days. He had tea with Margaret Thatcher. He had every back pain and underwent an operation in a London clinic. Upon waking from surgery, he was arrested by the police. Who was responsible for this?
For decades, Colombia has ranked first among countries in the number of social leaders assassinated. From 2002 to 2009, more than 470 leaders were killed by paramilitary militias in the pay of companies ready to do anything to crush the unions. Among these unscrupulous corporate brands were bottling plants of Coca-Cola company products. These unpunished crimes spur U.S. activists Dan Kovalik, T...
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Une plongée au cœur de Waseskun, un établissement de réinsertion pour hommes autochtones au passé criminel. Un regard empathique dénué de naïveté qui décrit sans tabou la complexe reconstruction d’hommes en lutte contre eux-mêmes. À Waseskun, la guérison passe par la spiritualité et par une réappropriation de l’identité et de la culture ancestrale. Une chronique sensible à propos de rescapés de...
Through the archived TV news, a look back at the 2005 riots in France, which occurred following the death of two teenagers chased by the police.
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
This is the story of a universal and familiar tool: barbed wire. It goes back to the first settlers, to the spirit of conquest, and is anchored in the space-time of the American West. It's the story of a small agricultural tool that turns into a political story and gets carried away by the train of capitalism. It's the story of the evolution of surveillance and control techniques; the inversion...
It's the post-war period. Europe has been rebuilt. Everything is going well in the "model colonies" where the French Republic leads its wards with a maternal hand towards the lights of reason and progress. However, not everyone shares this view. The first anti-colonial film in France, banned and recently awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this effective pamphlet against colonialism in ...
_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
_In Flow of Words_ follows the journeys of three interpreters at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They translated the shocking testimonies of witnesses, victims, and defendants, never allowing their emotions, feelings, and personal history to interfere. In contrast to their role in the courtroom, this film puts their voices and experiences at the forefront of the s...
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae's Jewish parents, renowned author Amos Elon and former literary agent Beth Elon, hired Musa Obeidallah, a Palestinian father of eleven, to look after their only six-month-old daughter on a daily basis. He would remain there for 20 years, until Danae left to study in the United States. After losing touch with each other, not least because of growing p...
_Coyolxauhqui_ recasts the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, the Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.
The film follows the struggles of Paúl Jarrín, a local mediator in Río Blanco, northern Ecuador, and Fernando Villavicencio, an investigative journalist, against their government, which is depriving its population of control over the country's mineral resources by awarding contracts to Chinese contractors. Mark Wiese gives a voice to the people caught up in the geopolitical machinery and victim...
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
On Thuesday September 22 1998, General Augusto Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip. He rested for a few days. He had tea with Margaret Thatcher. He had every back pain and underwent an operation in a London clinic. Upon waking from surgery, he was arrested by the police. Who was responsible for this?
For decades, Colombia has ranked first among countries in the number of social leaders assassinated. From 2002 to 2009, more than 470 leaders were killed by paramilitary militias in the pay of companies ready to do anything to crush the unions. Among these unscrupulous corporate brands were bottling plants of Coca-Cola company products. These unpunished crimes spur U.S. activists Dan Kovalik, T...
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Une plongée au cœur de Waseskun, un établissement de réinsertion pour hommes autochtones au passé criminel. Un regard empathique dénué de naïveté qui décrit sans tabou la complexe reconstruction d’hommes en lutte contre eux-mêmes. À Waseskun, la guérison passe par la spiritualité et par une réappropriation de l’identité et de la culture ancestrale. Une chronique sensible à propos de rescapés de...
Through the archived TV news, a look back at the 2005 riots in France, which occurred following the death of two teenagers chased by the police.
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
This is the story of a universal and familiar tool: barbed wire. It goes back to the first settlers, to the spirit of conquest, and is anchored in the space-time of the American West. It's the story of a small agricultural tool that turns into a political story and gets carried away by the train of capitalism. It's the story of the evolution of surveillance and control techniques; the inversion...