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- DirectorMahdi FleifelStarMahdi FleifelAn intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.
- DirectorChristian GhazyAfter an interruption of thirty years. Christian Ghazi resumes his cinematographic work with the documentary "Coffin of the Memory". The film mixes newly shot interviews with archive images. In the interviews it sheds light on two basic issues, solitude and economic situation. Through images and simple daily situations, Christian Ghazi draws a portrait of the Lebanese society, a society drowning in its contradictions and its search for an empty individualism and the superficiality of daily consumption, that of production, ideas, time and space.
- DirectorHerman AxelbankStarsMax EastmanGrand Duchess AnastasiaGrand Duchess MariaA narrative of the Russian Revolution.
- DirectorsAlessandro CavadiniCarolyn StrachanDocu-drama outlining the culture clash in law between indigenous Australians and white European settled Australia.
- DirectorJean-Marie TénoStarsJean-Marie TénoNarcisse KouokamMarie Claire DatiA documentary examining political repression in Cameroon, Central Africa.
- DirectorMads BrüggerStarsMads BrüggerHeather SchmidDanish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.
- DirectorSamirStarsShimon BallasMoshe HouriSami MichaelA filmic reflection about the stereotypes of "the Jew" and " the Arab" through one hundred years of film, linked with the biographies of four extraordinary people: Iraqi-Jewish communists.
- DirectorsRobert HessensAlain ResnaisStarsMaría CasaresJacques PruvostOn April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo Picasso was shocked and he translated his emotion into a magnificent but terrifying picture bearing the name of the martyred city. This film does not only comment on the painting, it also gives it a new life through frantic camera and sound effects.
- DirectorsPetra EpperleinMichael TuckerStarYunis Khatayer AbbasA freedom-loving Iraqi journalist is mistaken as Tony Blair's would-be assassin and sent to Abu Ghraib Prison where he discovers the true meaning of liberation.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsHelmut TausendMarcel VerdierAlexis GraveAn in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- DirectorAdolfo García VidelaStarLev Trotskiy
- DirectorsChristine ChoyRenee Tajima-PenaStarsLily ChinRonald EbensStarleneThe film recounts the murder of a Chinese-American automotive engineer in a racially motivated hate crime, and how the murderer escaped justice in the court system.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsJean-Pierre RonfardRaymond BarrePierre BrodeurMade shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.
- DirectorsDenise DiAnniDenise DiIanniFor four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA tells the story of this notorious human experiment. George Strait hosts.
- DirectorDarlene JohnsonA film about the Australian government's practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families.
- DirectorDaryl DelloraStarsSusie FraserDave GrayFrank Hardy
- DirectorsWalter HeynowskiGerhard ScheumannStarSiegfried MüllerAn interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.
- DirectorYale StromStarsNick CagleTom 'Jack' DanielsSteve GundersonBernie Sanders inspired a generation - but who inspired him? This is the passionate, thoughtful biography of the founder of the American Socialist Party, five-time presidential candidate and the only presidential candidate in US history to be imprisoned for his campaign platform. The values with which lived his life and fought for social and economic justice remain in short supply today.
- DirectorJohn PilgerStarJohn PilgerVeteran filmmaker John Pilger takes us through a history of threats to Britain's National Health Service ,from its 1948 founding by Labor through a privatizing push by Margaret Thatcher's bureaucrats, to challenges by new Conservatives.
- DirectorMichel RégnierStarsGretta ChambersKathleen FeeMark HellmanA shocking look at the living and working conditions of Haitian agricultural laborers in the Dominican Republic.
- CreatorSusan WilkinsStarsBuki ArmstrongRosie RowellDinah StabbFormer school friends secretary Pearl Parker and tearaway Finn Gallagher have a flair for investigation so decide to try their hands has private detectives.
- DirectorMai MasriStarHanan Ashrawi
- DirectorsJean Khalil ChamounMai MasriA documentary depicting grief and despair in the four figures marginalized by the war, they trying to rebuild their lives