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Joseph Hillel
At All Kosts
An acting ensemble rehearses for an upcoming theater festival. They rig up stage scenery…
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Danial Shah
Make It Look Real
“Make it look real,” the clients of a photo studio in Pakistan urge the photographer.…
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Eliza Kubarska
The Last Expedition
The true story of Wanda Rutkiewicz, the first woman in the world and the first person…
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Sandra Beerends
Neshoma
Neshoma is the Yiddish-Hebrew word for soul or spirit. In Sandra Beerends’ new film, this…
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Eliza Petkova
Silent Observers
In a remote Bulgarian mountain village, six animals reveal the mysterious world of…
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Bassam Mortada
Abo Zaabal 89
Raised in an environment where socialism and the pursuit of justice in Egypt were…
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Ilrhan Kim
Edhi & Alice
Edhi and Alice intimately follows two transitioning women, Edhi and Alice, as they…
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Mathijs Poppe
The Jacket
Jamal Hindawi, a 50-year-old Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee…
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Marcin Modzelewski
Lift Lady
When Mzia was younger, and Georgia had just gained independence after the collapse of the…
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Vicky Du
Light of the Setting Sun
A Taiwanese American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of…
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Ileana Dell'Unti
A While at the Border
Argentine sisters Julia and Claudia Meirama were promising architecture students at the…
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Angie Obeid
Yalla, Baba!
Lebanese director Angie Obeid embarks on a road trip with her father, Mansour, retracing…
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David Usui
Been Here Stay Here
For generations, fishermen have made their home on Tangier Island, in the heart of the…
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Mengzhu Xue
Before Then
Every form of communication involves deciphering codes. In this fascinating student film,…
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Yasemin Akinci
A Strange Colour of Dream
The retired architect Ertil lives in an apartment complex in the center of Istanbul. He…
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Andra MacMasters
Bright Future
In the summer of 1989, the 13th edition of the World Festival of Youth and Students was…
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Carmen Trocker
Personale
Folding towels, straightening out sheets, taking bathrobes out of the dryer, stripping…
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Raha Faridi
Please Step Aside!
An Iranian woman who has just forcibly moved to Berlin after being targeted in her home…
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Max Keegan
The Shepherd and the Bear
In the Ariège region in the French Pyrenees, the brown bear has been reintroduced in an…
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Michele Cinque
Things That Happen on Earth
Brave cattle ranchers in an increasingly arid part of Italy have changed course: this…
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Polen Ly
Until the Orchid Blooms
In Cambodia, Neang, an indigenous mother, tries to rebuild her life after her village is…
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Carolina Sá, Lírio Ferreira
The Water Eyed Boy
The universe of the famous Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal translated into a visual…
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Nay Mendl
Whoever Deserves It, Will Be Immortal
Sergio, Ubaldo, Yolexquis and Winston belong to different generations of the Cuban gay…
