Nominations
The Alabama Solution
A stunning and revealing documentary about the inhumane conditions in state prisons in the United States. Prisoners risk everything to expose a cover-up in one of the most dangerous prison systems in the country: that of Alabama. A shocking story of brutality, corruption, and a system in collapse. In 2019, filmmakers ...
Betrayal
What if the man who raised you like a father was also one of the most infamous warlords in history? When Cindor Reeves was a teenager, his sister married Charles Taylor, who would later become President of Liberia. As an adult, Cindor broke the silence – at great personal cost. When teenage Cindor Reeves’s sister Agne...
Killing Anna
The extraordinary story of a woman who risks everything to expose one of the world’s most brutal regimes. When a Syrian academic in Amsterdam receives shocking footage of a massacre carried out by an unknown army officer, she tracks down the perpetrators by unconventional means. How a shocking video from Syria led to ...
Muganga
Urgent and powerful film inspired by the true story of Dr. Denis Mukwege, who treats survivors of wartime sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. When he meets Belgian surgeon Guy Cadière, they unite to help women piece themselves back together after being destroyed physically and psychologically. Denis Mu...
Nuestra Tierra
In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. After nine years of protest, a court case is finally opened. Ar...
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...
This Is My Body
Jérôme Clément-Wilz was sexually abused as a child by a priest. In this deeply personal film, he tries to search for clues in his memories and come to terms with the complicity of his former social environment. Jérôme Clément-Wilz: ‘When I file a complaint against the former priest Olivier de Scitivaux, I compulsively ...
Two Prosecutors
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one reaches its destination: the newly appointed local prosecutor Alexander Kornev. What follows is a haunting historical drama about the workings of evil bureaucracy in Stalin’s Russia. ...
