Social Issues / Current Affairs
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Kigali, Sarajevo, Beirut, Medellín. Out of Darkness maps out the soul of four cities whose names conjure the idea of destruction and pain. The challenge is to overcome the past and to look ahead with renewed hope. Political leaders have no role to...
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Alfredo Jaar is one of the most relevant contemporary artists. His works issue different issues all over the world such as the USA-Mexico border, the genocide in Rwanda or the military coup in Chile. He sees art as “the last place” of freedom in our...
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During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge becomes an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who force him to work for them in an extreme violent way. He is able to escape from Chile to Berlin, where the Stasi mistakes him for a Pinochet secret...
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War of religions? The Republic of Central Africa is abandoned to the violence between Muslims and Christians. The fierce fight between both sectors and impunity have pushed the population into a disaster. What are the interests of other countries?...
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Litter, wastewater, industrial products and chemicals–it is all ending up in the sea. There are some people that observe and feel the pollution day by day with their own body: surfers . Their love of nature and the water gives them the strength to...
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This documentary shows six stories about sex and functional diversity, real and varied stories where sex is turned into a pleasure weapon for poeple's individual and collective rights. Beyond sex, this project shows, without inhibitions, censorship...
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DEGROWTH, tackles the big question of economic growth in a finite world from the point of view of a social and deeply ecological movement known as degrowth. Professors, economists, engineers and philosophers are taking part in this important...
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Having sex outside the matrimony is illegal in Morocco. Invisible Mothers shows a new perspective of women in a muslim country and their struggle against prejudices and rejection. Hafida is a single mother in Tangier. She ran away from home when she...
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They are a group of Spanish volunteer lifeguards, they are on a mission: with very few resources, they challenge the sea to save the lives of thousands of economic migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece every day. They...
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ILLEGAL shows a mother's fight to ensure her daughters right to health . Her struggle originated a national movement towards the legalization of medicinal marijuana in Brazil. In one side, a 5-year-old girl. In the other, a substance derivated from...
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A journalistic approach to the violence in one of the bloodiest cities in the world: Caracas by the Emmy award winning Marcel Mettelsiefen and the war reporter Mayte Carrasco . Focused on three characters: Maricruz, Wiwi and Gerardo, a police...
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Made in BY looks into Europe's last dictatorship and show brightly how young people are dealing to be creative in such an oppressive society. Discovering public and private lives of incredibly talented guys, this documentary tests how much the...
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The tale of two parallel stories narrates the student movement in Chile. A teenager immersed in the political climate in his school and a former political prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship find in the social and student's movement the sense to...
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The district of M’Sallah used to be the symbol of hard drugs in Tangier (Morocco). Today it has transformed, through a progressive approach to the fight against drug use that includes a needle exchange program, social support, methadone prescription...
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In the heart of Sicily, where the Mafia still rules, one man and his family-run TV station, has become a relentless voice against corruption and organized crime. La Valle dello Jato follows the daily life of selft-made journalist Pino Maniaci on his...
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Europe Trap is a film depicting the true struggle of a refugee. A close-up of Zakereh, a 55-year-old mother trying to reunite with her son, who is trapped in Greece. Through her eyes we shall witness her struggle against herself and society; a...
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