Documentary
After a year and 10 months in power, the Macapagal – Arroyo regime has committed 967 cases of human rights violations in the Southern Tagalog Region. “Alingawngaw ng mga Punglo” discusses the grim human rights situation in the region. It seeks to let the voices of the victims be heard: their anguished cry for justice and call for lasting peace.
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Others' Gold
Hunted Like Animals
America; I Too
Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini
Memórias de Izidora
Hard to Believe
Fadia’s Tree
Hijos de África
It Started with Trees – Revolt in the Gezi Park
Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté
Wars Don't End
Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison
Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015
Seeing Through the Darkness
The World According to Xi Jinping
The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?
L'Aventure
The Overnighters
Black Box Diaries
Motherland Memories
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Others' Gold
IMDB 9 | Jan , 2012
The arrival of the mining company Osisko creates a lot of excitement in Malartic, a small community of 3600 souls in Quebec, Canada. Faced with the implacable Mining Act, which prioritizes the right to exploit subsoil resources rather than the right to property, many families and seniors need to write off certain elements of their heritage plus a part of their lifestyle to make room for the largest open-pit gold mine in Canada. The characters in Others' Gold experience in their own way this major change that will affect their lives and urban environment.Hunted Like Animals
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2008
A documentary about the atrocities committed against the Hmong people by the Laos government. Shot by Hmong people with cameras provided to them in 2006, this film provides a unique look into one of the worst, and silent, human rights tragedies of the 21st century.America; I Too
IMDB 1 | Mar , 2017
Three arrested and detained undocumented immigrants must navigate the system to fight impending deportation.Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2024
The documentary begins when the fictionalized drama ends. Sara spent three years volunteering to save refugees on the same journey that made her so famous, and was suddenly arrested in Aug. 2018, accused by Greek authorities of running a criminal enterprise with charges including “international espionage and people smuggling.” If convicted, she faces up to 25 years in prison and the end of her humanitarian career. Shot over three years, the film follows Sara’s fight for justice and journey of self-discovery.Memórias de Izidora
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2020
Hard to Believe
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2016
A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.Fadia’s Tree
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2022
While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an ancient mulberry tree that once grew next to her grandfather’s house in historic Palestine, a tree that stands witness to her family’s existence.Hijos de África
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2023
It Started with Trees – Revolt in the Gezi Park
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2013
Protesters diary from Gezi Park - Taksim Square, Istanbul. Occupy Gezi movement started when the government decided to build shopping mall in place of the last green area that remained in the middle of Taksim Square.Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté
IMDB 8 | Jan , 2024
Wars Don't End
IMDB 8 | Sep , 2018
During World War II, 12 000 children were born to Norwegian mothers and German soldiers. In WARS DON’T END five of these children tell their stories about lives of discrimination and abuse stemming from the choices of their mothers and the actions of their fathers.Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison
IMDB 9 | Aug , 2016
For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2020
On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The shipwreck resulted in the death of at least 43 people, making it the deadliest incident of that period, also known as “the long summer of migration.” One of the survivors, the artist Amel Alzakout, recorded the journey and the shipwreck on a waterproof camera attached to her wrist. This footage – which also forms the basis of her subsequent film Purple Sea – provides a unique situated perspective on this tragic event at the threshold of Europe.Seeing Through the Darkness
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
Carried by an immersive sound environment that plunges us in the reality and the perceptions of these resilient and inspiring people, this film questions our own blindness face to violence and suffering of our time — despite the overabundance of images that reach us — and highlights the urgency of lending an ear to hear these stories.The World According to Xi Jinping
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 2018
The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?
IMDB 8 | Feb , 2011
Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The gay Radio 1 DJ finds out what it's like to live in a society which persecutes people like him and meets those who are leading the hate campaign.L'Aventure
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2021
In the Briançonnais mountains, in France, men and women on the roads of exile find the courage to cross the passes on foot, risking their lives. Arrived at the end of a long journey, exhausted, they do not know if they could settle down somewhere to start their life over. It is this transitional time that "The Adventure" tells. Ossoul, the Sudanese poet, Mamadou, survivor of an icy night at the Col de l'Échelle, Charlotte, Mother Courage and others are gradually getting back on their feet and settling to embark on a new life. Filmed over three years, "L'Aventure" is a story of resilience, friendships and revealed emotions. The portraits are drawn and deepened until everyone can recognize themselves in the other, put themselves in their place and understand them.The Overnighters
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2014
Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.Black Box Diaries
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
Journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.Motherland Memories
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2022
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interweave her past and present as a wife, mother, healer and indigenous land defender in two neighboring villages. Her multi-layered stories are juxtaposed with visual records of everyday life in the two villages, where people’s living space is still increasingly threatened by a giant pulp expansion.