Documentaries

  • Not to cure, but to care

    HEALTH: By including 5B in its documentary competition, the Cannes Festival sublimely uses a historical subject to speak about present-day challenges.

  • He killed because he could

    PALESTINE: Manhunt on radical West Bank settler turns into clever psychological portrait of loner with a tormented soul.

  • A personal account of Aleppo’s destiny

    SYRIA: A painful documentary infused with the occasional breath of poetry and beauty from Aleppo.

  • Breaking the silence about the Lebanese civil war

    BEIRUT: About a War demonstrates how understanding our history can breed solace, solidarity, and progress in a society where the past is a taboo.

  • Rebel with a lost cause

    JUSTICE: For almost fifty years, Lea Tsemel has been at the forefront of the fight for justice and compassion for those lost and indefensible…

  • A crescendo of unease

    NATURE: The coming of a mighty wind that can also steal your mind.

  • Hidden Corners Illuminated By Nyon Lights

    Visions du Réel: Occupying differing positions on the documentary spectrum, two shorts, Wound & Diary of Cattle, represent the adventurous approach of Nyon’s Visions…

  • Is Catalonia in need of fewer smiles, and more action?

    DEMOCRACY: With 80% of the Catalan population in favour of holding a mutually agreed referendum, the discussion is not who would win, but why…

  • A descent into the realm of torture

    SYRIA: Forced to spend three days together in a sparsely furnished room with three single mattresses and a covered window, three Syrian men sit…

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