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With flames approaching her home in the rainforest, 80-year-old indigenous healer Lucila awakens an old dream: to preserve both her culture and the Amazon rainforest for generations to come.
After Christ 2024
Gonzalo Carbonell, a former Catholic priest who, during his youth, played a role in the foundation of LGTB+ organization Lambda Valencia, shares his life experience. Now 73 years old, he faces his old age.
Shalom-Salam Peace
After October 7th, 2023, more and more Israelis have been struggling even harder to hold everyone’s humanity in Israel and Palestine. Is their dual loyalty a threat or the biggest hope for this place? Based on personal reflections from the moment she became aware of the situation at the age of twelve, Alexia Tsouni shows […]
The Witness
An old woman and activist, Tarlan, witnesses the murder of her friend Rana by her husband, who is an important government figure. When the police refuse to investigate, Tarlan decides to come forward with what she knows, but in doing so, she endangers herself and those around her. Co-scripted and edited by Jafar Panahi, the […]
Democracy Noir
The film presents a frightening portrait of how Viktor Orbán, an acolyte of Donald Trump, has been systematically destabilizing Hungary’s democratic institutions. The documentary sounds a warning to all of the world’s democracies by reconstructing the history of Orbán’s relentless work to build a Christian, white, autocratic state. But in the midst of this dark […]
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 […]
If I Die, It’ll Be of Joy
Micheline, 81, dreams of orgasms and tells anyone who will listen that she is burning with desire. Francis, 70, a tireless activist, challenges the taboos surrounding old age. Yves, 68, feels like a shell in a stormy sea and desperately seeks love. In a world that underestimates the power of elderly people, these three are […]
Tack
The Olympic athlete who pioneered Greece’s #MeToo movement inspires a younger athlete to break her own silence. In a landmark trial, Sofia stands with Amalia, who is seeking justice for the systematic abuse she suffered at the hands of her coach when she was a child.