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Surfing against the odds
This beautiful and heartfelt documentary takes us into the world of the Gaza strip surfing enthusiasts, and reveals a formidable resilience pulsing within a beleaguered population.
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Perpetual systems of oppression
An in-depth look at the US prison system and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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Why are people unable to live in peace?
CONFLICT: After centuries of hatred, violence, and massacres, Ukraine is yet again at war.
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Close Reading of an Attack
Winner of IDFA's Best Mid-Length Documentary, Death in the Terminal examines – or rather dissects – the immediate aftermath of the 2015 attack at Beër Sjeva central bus station in Israel. Surveillance camera footage and interviews with a number of people present provide a close reading of the event.
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How to tell what he did
In 1988 Jens Michael Schau killed his life companion of thirteen years in a jealousy fit. As his partner was Denmark’s best selling author and leading open homosexual Christian Kampmann the scandal was unprecedented. What went wrong?
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Family therapy in five acts
What lies hidden behind the word “love”? Two women meet in a psychotherapist’s consulting room. In an intimate dialogue between these three people, psychological injuries from the past and deeply concealed emotions gradually come to the surface. The therapist takes the women on a difficult journey towards a better relationship.
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Where to go with the education?
Erwin Wagenhofer’s new film, Alphabet, further draws attention to the way the human species designs its economic and social systems, following up on We Feed The World, about the trade in food, and Let’s Make Money, about the trade in money. As the title suggests, the Austrian filmmaker this time focuses on education.
