conflict
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No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman
CONFLICT: Halkawt Mustafa's No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman seizes the toxic grammar of post-9/11 war cinema and hands it to a female Peshmerga sniper, reclaiming dignity for the women, the land and the cinema that ISIS has erased.
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A Short Film About War
CONFLICT: Nadim Suleiman’s fiction short places a Palestinian film student inside the machinery of a Second World War film shoot, where performance, displacement and lived trauma begin to collapse into one another.
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Traces
UKRAINE: Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at this year's Berlinale, Traces, details the powerful story of women seeking to survive and thrive after being raped and tortured by Russian forces during the war in Ukraine.
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Love+War
CONFLICT: A first-person, morally unsettled reflection on what it means to document conflict when the storyteller is also part of the machine.
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Peacemaker
CONFLICT: Witness accounts, banned interviews and shocking street scenes reveal how hatred was engineered and a peace chief silenced as Yugoslavia fractured.
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Memory
CONFLICT: A child’s-eye chronicle of Grozny, migration, and abuse, refracted into lyrical images that soften brutality without forgetting.
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Toni, My Father
PHILOSOPHY: From prison rituals to 1970s utopias, Anna Negri’s film reframes Toni Negri beyond labels, tracing conatus, family conflict, and the power of happy passions.
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Nordic/Docs announces full 2025 programme
Norway’s #Nordic/Docs# has released the complete lineup for its 2025 edition, running 9–14 September at Fredrikstad Kino. Organisers say the program includes more than 70 films from Norway and abroad, alongside director talks, debates, seminars, a masterclass, and an awards ceremony. The festival opens with Fighter, a feature following Geir Kåre Nyland, a former MMA…
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Cinemata aims to be movement infrastructure for documentary in Asia-Pacific
Cinemata, the Asia-Pacific video platform run by EngageMedia, is positioning itself as movement infrastructure for social-issue filmmaking rather than another ad-tech venue for views. Launched in 2021 to host advocacy films that often struggle on mainstream platforms, Cinemata now says it carries more than 6,000 user-contributed works from 30+ countries, spanning documentary, fiction, animation, and…