Fourteen-year-old Ethiopian Hirut is kidnapped by a gang of farm workers on her way home from school. One of them wants to marry her and locks her up. Brave Hirut escapes and shoots her assailant. Beautiful movie based on a true story about the gap between tradition and the modern legal system in contemporary Ethiopia....
A very young, beautiful Turkish bride is waiting for her freshly wed groom, who is old enough to be her grandfather. While the teenager fears the upcoming wedding night, it turns out that the old, broken man did not deliberately choose this situation either. Poetic Kammerspiel with subtle acting performances about the ...
In this entertaining documentary about the reverse side of the American dream, the serious problem of income inequality in the US is light-heartedly brought across using animations, archive footage and Dolly Parton’s Nine to Five. In Inequality for All, an economic version of Al Gore’s ‘alarmist’ about global warming f...
Saturday Night Fever in grim Chili in the year 1978. Augusto Pinochet’s regime is oppressing and killing, yet all Raúl can think about is winning a John Travolta lookalike contest. Fascinating story about obsession delivers an impressive analysis of dictatorship, subclass and Americanisation. Santiago, 197...
Biopic about German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt who observed the trial against Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker. Her findings about ‘the banality of evil’ still stir controversy. German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt fled to the United States to escape the Nazi regime. She worked there as a journali...
Colorful documentary about the court case against three Russian punk chicks from the rock band Pussy Riot. Putin put them behind bars for three years because of an illegal appearance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Nadia, Masha and Katia were arrested by the Russian police in 2012 after their 40-second...
Proceedings of the trial against Hungarian right-wing extremists who murdered six Roma, including a five-year old. Claustrophobic, confusing and unsettling. In 2008 and 2009, a group of Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of attacks on random members of the Roma community. Six people were killed, includi...
‘David versus Goliath’ story about the determination of Guatemalan Rebeca to find the assassin of her sister Adela and bring him to justice. Despite opposition, corruption and prejudice she seeks justice in a country where femicide (killing of women) is commonplace. One day, 27-year-old Adele leaves home to...
Unique, intimate and humorous insight into in the life of Palestinian refugees in the Ain el-Helweh (‘sweet spring’) camp in Lebanon, where some 70,000 refugees live on a few square miles. Using a wealth of homevideo footage and archive films, director Mahdi Fleifel pays tribute to friendship and family ties.Mahdi Flei...
Far from the big cities, in the wild countryside of Hungary, Balogh runs a farming company together with his family and their slave. He tries to be the head of the family, running the roost according to unyielding traditions. Short film about modern slavery, based on newspaper articles, news reports and the vivid accou...