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- DirectorTheo MontoyaStarsAlejandro HincapiéCamilo MachadoAlejandro MendiganaA funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.
- DirectorJesse JokinenPetri LuukkainenIt follows Verneri Junkala, a CS:GO e-athlete who wants to be the best in Finland. He always comes in second until he begins working with the world's best Esports psychologist.
- DirectorJohn WebsterStarsDavid GraeberBernardo AlvesJames HarterHow empty corporate jargon, management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy masquerading as efficiency hijacked the purpose of work. How it came to be and above all; how we can break free from it.
- DirectorHanna NobisTwenty-two-year-old Antek grows up in a deeply religious and radical right-wing family in contemporary Poland. Catholicism, nationalism and especially celibacy define his world. Filmmaker Hanka Nobis follows him and his friends of the Brotherhood, a small group of like-minded young men, for more than four years. Antek leads them in survival camps and at anti-pride demonstrations. At the same time, he is curious about the world, and mostly, about the women in it.
- DirectorBen MullinkossonBass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town.
- DirectorGuy DavidiMaking a war is a storyteller's job. A good story is crucial to legitimize the use of military force. That's why militaries need strong promotion and Israel is a model country in promoting its military ventures. We've successfully colonized, occupied and overgrown, and only got stronger and more accepted amongst the nations. Our history as persecuted Jews, our enlightened democracy are both in use in our solid PR kit. But before pitching our story to the world, we need to pitch it to our children. As moral corruption linked with apartheid thrives, avoiding service becomes a threat. For some children we'll offer benefits, for most we'll sell fictitious promises. Every child is screened to serve with bearable pressure and an adjusted amount of exposure to violence. 'Innocence' tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
- DirectorLuka BeradzeDuring its 2012 election campaign titled "Smiling Georgia," the governing party promised its country's poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people's decayed teeth, but after the election defeat, the trusting public never received their new pearly whites... In his bitterly humorous documentary, Luka Beradze takes us to a sleepy Georgian village, introduces us to its inhabitants, and shows that it rarely pays to believe the promises of populist politicians and to vote for purely selfish reasons. In the broader context, the film asks questions regarding the value of ordinary people in the eyes of political leaders.
- DirectorChristoffer GuldbrandsenStarsChristoffer GuldbrandsenRoger StoneJoe BiggsWith Trump's political godfather, Roger Stone, as the film's central character the film documents how Trump's presidential period had to find its logical end point in The Storm at the Capitol.
- DirectorTomás Kratochvíl
- DirectorVlad PetriStarsIlinca HarnutVictoria StoiciuTwo women separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.
- DirectorKacper LisowskiStarsIgor TuleyaDorota ZabludowskaWaldemar ZurekThey were taught that they were to speak only by their decisions, to keep their distance, to participate in public life with restraint. But professional ethics also obliged them to courageously defend judicial independence. Kacper Lisowski and Iwona Harris devoted their film to those Polish judges who listened to the voice of ethics in the times of the attack on free courts. In a short time, Igor Tuleya, Waldemar Zurek, Dorota Zabludowska and other heroes of the film were reborn as judges-citizens who, alongside independent prosecutors, lawyers and civil society, defend our right to independent courts.
- DirectorMatt SarneckiStarsRobert FicoRobert KalinakAndrej KiskaIn Slovakia, a young investigative journalist is brutally murdered. When the police files of the murder investigation are leaked to the reporter's colleagues, they uncover vast corruption reaching the highest levels of Slovak society.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
- DirectorFaustine CrosStarsFaustine CrosValérie Declef-CrosJean-Louis CrosMy father immortalized in family films the most beautiful moments of his life, while my mother's difficulties hit the blind spot of his images. Today, I revisit these images to tell a different story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother take away her freedom step by step.
- DirectorJana PoctováThe film is an inquiry into contemporary forms of alternative models of partnerships. For many protagonists, polyamory, open marriage or long-term lover-to-lover relationships present a fulfilling life style, but also a struggle with misunderstanding of the society or conflicts within their own relationships. The director follows the development of relations of her protagonists over several years, while in intimate talks, she searches for the joy, striving and insecurities brought along by such unusual faces of love, revealing a need for redefining partnership in our times.
- DirectorAhsen NadeemAfter decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation.
- DirectorCoco SchrijberLook What You Made Me Do shows three women, victims of terrible abuse, who killed their partners. The women testify with courage and disarming sincerity of a patriarchal system that wants to deprive them of the right to rebellion.
- DirectorKek Huat LauKaohsiung served as an important military base under Japanese colonial rule and had incurred heavy casualties during the 228 Incident. The film subtly tends to the deep scars of the witnesses, survivors and their descendants as an act of resistance to oblivion. Memories survive through different eras of oppression and continue to live in people's hearts, just like the wild tomatoes grown in this land.
- DirectorZayne AkyolA camera aboard a drone flies over a territory. The aerial images show barren landscapes, dotted with shabby houses, animals and a few human figures. We scarcely have time to wonder where we are when a text appears on the screen directly addressing the viewer: we are in Syrian Kurdistan, liberated from the occupation of the Islamic State, whose jihadist members are currently in prison. The woman who speaks has been given permission to question them; about their ideas, their past and the future. The Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol, who made a great impression on the Visions du Réel audience in 2016 with GULÎSTAN, LAND OF ROSES, shows towards them dialectic behaviour typical of those who want to understand before they pass sentence. Their stories thus take shape, framed by a mise en scène that shifts between words, faces and aerial views of the landscape. An unexpected look at a far-reaching current political issue and a film whose subject matter and rhythm create an impressive cinematographic object.
- DirectorSteffi NiederzollStarsReyhaneh JabbariShole PakravanFereydoon JabbariFollows a female student in Tehran who was hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defense against a rapist. For a pardon and after seven years in prison, she would have had to retract her testimony.
- DirectorLukasz KonopaEmil LangballeStarsKrispus AyenaDominic OgwenAs a nine-year-old boy, Dominic Ongwen was abducted and conscripted into Joseph Kony's army of child soldiers. Some 30 years later, he is the first former child soldier to be indicted in International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes.
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsHyeonseo LeeSung-eun KimSo-yeon LeeThe story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
- DirectorJoële WalingaA portrait of humanity as captured by its surveillance cameras. Woven together as a poem, Self-Portrait moves from moment to moment around the world, beginning with the frozen storminess of winter, to the melt of spring, the lush heat of summer, and finally the decay and cooling of autumn: the dawn of winter. The film shows a candid peek at humanity as it has chosen to document itself - all of these cameras set up for primarily capitalistic, "property"-protecting purposes, but yielding a beauty and a truth - an incidental portrait.
- DirectorAxel DanielsonMaximilien Van AertryckStarsChris AndersonFelix BergssonUlrika BergstenFrom the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
- DirectorShalini KantayyaStarsRichard Cannon IIIJon 'TheBlondeJon' MadridJonathan MadridWith TikTok crowned the world's most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists and experts alike.