Seeds from Kivu
Panzi Hospital was founded by Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, to physically and psychologically help the women of the zone, who were gang raped by local guerillas.
Voiceless
Fereshte is a girl who dreamed of singing, but her dreams ended when the Taliban came and established a nightmarish new reality, forcing women to stop pursuing their aspirations in education or music. The will of the Taliban is also imposed by the people closest to her, out of fear of what punishment may befall […]
Pietra
In daydreaming about unlikely relationships, the flower – as delicate as it is revolutionary- represents an act of love amidst the suffocation and embrace of a classic Portuguese neighborhood.
The Public Bodies
An essay on prostitution told in two parts; a series of interviews, and interpretive dance created by four contemporary dance choreographers.
Daisy
A little girl attached to a music box discovers a company of strange observers, and tries to break free.
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 […]
My Stolen Planet
The Iranian director is forced to emigrate to her own private “planet” to be free. She buys other people’s memories in the form of Super 8 mm films, as well as records and archives her own memories with her cell phone, in order to create an alternative history of Iran while highlighting the struggle for […]
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 […]
Blue Land
Elionor discovers the secrets of adulthood in 1940’s Mallorca. She lives in a remote farmhouse, from which the inhabitants have never ventured out. Everything will change with the arrival of a movie.
