I Shall not Hate
From Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, to the University of Toronto and the Supreme Court of Israel, ‘I Shall Not Hate’ follows the uncharted path of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, the first Palestinian doctor that worked in an Israeli hospital delivering babies. His ethos of forgiveness and reconciliation is put to the ultimate test when an Israeli […]
The Antique
Lado, a young Georgian man, smuggles antique Georgian furniture into Russia. Tired of his immaturity, Lado’s girlfriend Medea buys an apartment in the historic center of St. Petersburg. The rent for her apartment is cheap because the apartment comes with its owner, Vadim Vadimich, a temperamental old man. At one point, the Russian government illegally […]
Shikun
Set within different spaces of the Shikun, an Israeli building, and inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s play “The Rhinoceros”: Shikun is a disjointed series of episodes that dramatize the rise of authoritarian thinking among its inhabitants; those that accept this authoritarian thinking become rhinoceroses, while others resist.
De la guerra fría a la guerra verde
En la historia moderna d’Amèrica Llatina, una línia directa va des de la repressió anticomunista dels anys cinquanta als vuitanta, fins a la lluita contra els defensors de la terra i els activistes dels drets humans actuals. A tot el continent, i amb el suport dels EUA, els opositors polítics a les dictadures de dreta […]
Sunset Sumberness
Documentary about and featuring the director Darius Mehrjui, the father of the “new Iranian cinema”. After a heavily censored career, Mehrjui was assassinated, along with his wife, in October 2023.
The voices they had
In 1962, the French director Yann Le Masson filmed the reunion of Algerian activists as they were released from a French prison where they were serving time for their participation in the Algerian revolution. More than 50 years later, without the soundtrack, the director of this documentary goes in search of these women. Silenced until […]
To a Land Unknown
Chatila and Reda, two Palestinian cousins, commit petty theft so they can buy fake passports to leave Athens. When Reda loses the money he has saved due to his drug addiction, Chatila devises an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get out of their desperate situation.
Cafe
Currently imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihandoust presents the self-referential story of a director who lives surrounded by uncertainties while waiting to be sentenced and taken to prison. Mihandoust made the film while out on bail, without obtaining permission from the authorities, as he was convinced that cinema and art have a world of their own […]
I’m His Daughter
Matsumoto Rika’s father was the guru of Aum Shinrikyo, the religious cult responsible for the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995– a mass murder that shocked Japan to the core. Rika was brought up within the cult. Although she was just a child when the crimes were committed, she has been exposed to discrimination […]
Pirineus, el mur invisible
The French-Spanish border, which runs 623 km along the Pyrenees, has been subject to recurrent controls and closures by the French government since 2015. The excuse was the terrorist threat. The reality is different, Paris wants to control the migration that comes to it from Spain. The Schengen Agreements of 1985 abolished controls on the […]
