Half a million Cambodians work abroad, a third of them are exploited as slaves. The film tells the story of Aya, a girl who returned pregnant after two years of exploitation. We also meet two ‘recruiters’: characters who make good money enlisting young people. Cambodians call them ‘storm makers’...
No interviews with perpetrators and victims like in his earlier films S21 and Duch, but clay figures and found footage are the means by which Rithy Panh recounts his own history during the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. He has no other choice: besides the Khmer’s propaganda, there is no recorded material from that tim...
Observational documentary about the daily goings-on at Malpensa international airport in Milan. The airport serves as a metaphor for a society in which basic freedoms are restricted due to red tape, procedures and controls. Long, silent shots of a deserted arrival hall, small vehicles driving across the runway, a custo...
According to estimates, one million children end up in the sex industry every year. Especially in Southeast Asia, the problem has taken on huge proportions. Redlight tells the personal stories of two young Cambodian victims of child traffic and two brave women who fight this form of child abuse: human rights defen...
According to UN estimates more than 850 million people suffered from chronic malnutrition in 2005, and it is expected that they will be over a billion in 2010. Figures that remain abstract statistics as long as we do not know what hunger really means. What are the effects of malnutrition? What future is there for a chi...
To power the green economy, a new frontier is found for extracting minerals: the deep sea. But mining the ocean floor may have enormous unforeseen consequences. And who really owns the deep sea anyway? With amazing, otherworldly images, and fantastically narrated by Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Game of Thrones). ‘The future ...
Portrait of French author and end-of-life activist Jackie Jencquel, filmed by her son Tuki. Jackie causes great controversy when she announces in an interview the date on which she wants to die. ‘Old age is unavoidable, death is unavoidable,’ she says. ‘Suffering is not.’ ‘I should be telling you: don’t do it,’ Tuki Je...
A moving and personal documentary by filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko, who made a profound choice in 2022: while her partner and their four-year-old son left for France, she joined the Ukrainian army. During four months at the front, she wrote letters to her son Theo and recorded her experiences in a cinematic diary. In My D...
Four intertwined stories of two families: one Israeli and the other Palestinian, caught in secrecy. Small lies escalate into a reckoning, exposing the fragile balance between tradition, ambition, and family duty. As one lie unravels another, the characters must face their greatest fear: the truth. Fifi, a university s...
In the mountains of central Afghanistan, a Hazara family embarks on a journey for truth and justice after their daughter Zahra mysteriously dies at Kabul University. A moving and poetic contemplation of love, loss, and perseverance, on the eve of the Taliban takeover of the country. Kamay is a wild, self-sufficient pla...