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Investigating religious power in Poland
RELIGION: The entertaining and self-reflecting Czech film crew embark on a surrealistic road movie to unveil the wickedness behind the facade of the Catholic Church in Poland.
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Children of the Intifada
CONFLICT: At the time this film was made there were over four hundred children under the age of sixteen held in Israeli prisons, an alarming fact - as is the recognition someone is engaging them to become front-line warriors.
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A new film movement on the rise
ENVIRONMENT: Humans are extraordinary in how they manage to isolate themselves away from their problems.
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Children in the free
SOCIETY: On the outskirts of Bucharest, a family lives in harmony with nature until forced to adapt to big city life.
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Kaleidoscope of injustice
Wrongful convictions and false confessions – these two documentaries inspire a demand for criminal justice reform.
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A strange experiment in human behaviour
The new documentary by Marcus Lindeen tells the story of the 1973 Acali experiment and the surprising results that emerged from the 101 days at sea.
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Impressions from Piazza Vittorio
Abel Ferrara‘s latest film is a kaleidoscope of impressions that narrates the life of immigrants in Italy and their shared experience of desperation and an uncertain future in Europe.
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From a child’s perspective
ANIMATED MOVIES: Girls dressed as boys in Kabul and Tehran’s underworld of sex, drugs and rave music are portrayed through the eyes of children in the animated movies The Breadwinner and Tehran Taboo.
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The many ways to power
The Jihlava Doc Festival of 2017 was focussed on political film. Several films took on the theme of state leaders and the election processes that led to their victory.