Directed by: MaryamTafakory Description: She Stuttered (Digital projection and live performance), 21 min Absent Wound, Iran, UK, 2016, 9 min I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin, Iran, UK, 2017, 9 min Poem & Stone, Iran, UK, 2015, 8 min Taklif, Iran, UK, 2014, 6 min Chaste / Unchaste, Iran, UK, 2023, 4 min
Directed by: MaryamTafakory Description: Code Names (Digital projection and live performance), 24 min Irani Bag, Iran, UK, Singapore, 2021, 8 min Nazarbazi, Iran, UK, 2022, 19 min Mast-del, Iran, UK, 2023, 17 min
The workers’ struggles of the past and those of today do not form a line of perfect continuity: perhaps the harsh working conditions, stripping the individual of their dignity and turning them into a tool, as much as the emergence, in this vitriolic context, of a branch solidarity are indeed recurrent ingredients that lead up to these movements; yet the global political and economic situation has evolved so much, particularly over the past two centuries, that drawing a perfect parallel would be an act of simplifying history....See more details
Anxious in Beirut’ examines the capital city of Lebanon in the context of various political abuses directed at its citizens, a setting where the generation after the Civil War is trying to tell its story. Director Zakaria Jaber captures, much in the manner of a diary, the oppressive atmosphere surrounding the tragedies of his hometown....See more details
Yousef Srouji's film is short, personal, and powerful, using materials that make up the very fabric of his childhood to probe the seemingly eternal conflict between Israel and Palestine. During the second Intifada in the early 2000s, the home-movies shot by Yousef's parents suddenly become politically charged, turning into unsettling documents of a family's efforts to protect their domestic universe from the ever-tightening noose of outside dangers....See more details
A herd of cows is slowly moving along. A grandfather is putting the community's fear of the infamous Bayraktar drones into words. A hulking car is circling the foothills of the mountains, across the hostile plains of the Caucasus. Filmmaker Daniel Kötter is working his way through the tangled threads of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict....See more details
Renowned documentarian Jean-Gabriel Périot bases his newest ‘Facing Darkness’ on the raw video footage shot over the course of a few years, starting with April 1992, by four Bosnian filmmakers. That very same month sees the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo. What we see on the screen are images recorded in the heat of the conflict – images that oscillate between samples of journalism under imminent danger and documentary-like fragments exhibiting an incipient analytical stance....See more details
Goran Dević's documentary could be termed an investigative art film, benefitting from a strong activist approach and revealing the human cost of government corruption and contempt for the ordinary worker. Following a Croatian rolling stock company, the film observes a decade-long story of union members fighting to protect their jobs and for the right of a decent living in the face of unbridled capitalism....See more details
Acest film iconoclast, aflat la granita dintre ficțiune și documentar, explorează „prea sacra” latură a Ierusalimului. Pentru locuitorii săi un riscant joc politic, pentru vizitatorii săi un mit, Ierusalimul rămâne un obiect universal al dorinței, la limita fetișismului....See more details
Having made ‘Aqabat Jaber, Passing Through’ just before the Intifada, Eyal Sivan returns to a refugee camp the day after the evacuation of the region by the Israeli army. A few kilometers from Jericho and built 50 years ago, Aqabat-Jaber is a refugee camp that is under Palestinian control today....See more details