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Battle royale
NAM: In a documentary diptych, Mila Turajlić examines the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement via an expansive unexplored archive of former Tito cameraman Stevan Labudović.
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Get out
RACISM: A row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs begs the question, can a tree be racist?
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Silent House
IRAN: The fortunes of three generations of an upper-middle-class Iranian family tracked across forty years of turbulent Iranian history.
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Bizarre love triangle
NATURE: The extraordinary love story of volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died as explosively as they lived.
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Safe sex scenes
SEX: Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it means for women in the real world.
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Subjective truth
DOCS: Some of the biggest non-fiction films of the past years go under the microscope, investigating the ethics of documenting trauma.
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State-conjured terrorism
RUSSIA: An ordinary Russian teenager was arrested and incarcerated on charges of extremism. Three years later, the fight for her innocence continues.
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Blindspots: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century’
VIEWS: Beginning with a flawed premise, British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's book of interviews does not provide the full picture.
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Soviet 2.0
UKRAINE: A brand new film from the grey zone of war in Donetsk, on Ukraine's eastern front, where war has been raging for years.