Nominations
All About The Money
A son of one of America’s wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts. For him it’s a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in, but has now come to despise. It’s the starting point of an astonishing journey. Fergie Chambers is an heir to one of the wealthiest famili...
American Doctor
When three American doctors – Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian – enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to make a difference. As the world watches a besieged and heavily bombed Gaza grapple with a humanitarian catastrophe, a collapsing healthcare syste...
Kikuyu Land
In Kenya’s tea highlands, Mr. Mungai fights to reclaim land seized from his family during colonial rule. As his case against a multinational corporation gains momentum, local news producer Bea Wangondu begins documenting the struggle, exposing how historic dispossession continues to shape the lives and futures of the s...
MARIINKA
In the town of Mariinka in Eastern Ukraine, the film traces several young Ukrainians whose lives have been forever shaped by over ten years of war and conflict in the Donbas. A story about belonging, national loyalty and the fault lines where political conflicts trump even the bonds of blood. Amidst the war a promisin...
Sentient
An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it’s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science’s name is justified. Animal testing, specifically on prim...
Silenced
After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gendered violence, survivors swiftly found themselves facing a new kind of silencing and fear as defamation laws became weaponized against women for speaking out. International human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson takes audiences into the courtroom and behind the headlines t...
Soldier’s Bones
In 1971, 27-year-old Newsweek reporter Alec Shimkin discovers a secret US-led military campaign in Vietnam. The story is about to reveal war crimes on an immense scale, undeniably Pullitzer-worthy material. But the Scoop never got the exposure it deserved: though published in Newsweek, Shimkin’s findings were tucked aw...
Traces
Psychological portrait telling the stories of six women who survived sexual violence and torture during Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Led by Iryna Dovgan, they fight for justice and recognition. In the face of massive trauma, Iryna encourages them to rebuild their lives. Very inspiring. ‘This is my weapon with which...
