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A Fidai Film
When the Israeli Defence force invaded Southern Lebanon in the summer of 1982, they stole the archive collection of photographs…
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Black Box Diaries
When young Japanese journalist Shiori Itō fails to get the police to investigate and prosecute her charge of sexual assault…
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Bye Bye Tiberias
This intimately made film chronicles the life and family history of the great Palestinian actress Hiam Abbas, most familiar to…
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Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
When a massive explosion destroyed a large part of Beirut in August 2020, it was yet another blow to a…
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Defectors
This affectionate family portrait explores the history of a divided Korea from a deeply personal perspective. South Korean director Hyun…
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Going to Mars
This masterfully produced look at the life of hugely influential African American poet and activist Nikki Giovanni is made instantly…
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Hollywoodgate
When the US Army withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban immediately took over, declaring themselves the de facto government…
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Johatsu
In Japan, around 80,000 people disappear every year. Most of them are eventually found or return home but thousands of…
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London Recruits
London Recruits seamlessly fuses dramatic reenactments with contemporary interviews and a rich pool of archive footage to tell the story…
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My Mercury
Set on the remote Mercury Island, off the coast of Namibia, My Mercury explores the life of Yves, a conservationist…
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No Other Land
No Other Land is filmmaker Basel Adra’s powerful first-person account of living in the Palestinian village of Masafer Yatta, located…
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Our Land, Our Freedom
A quest for answers results in so much more in the film Our Land, Our Freedom. We follow a Kenyan…
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
This densely hyperactive masterpiece of documentary filmmaking tells the story of how the CIA weaponised African American musicians during the…
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The Mother of All Lies
In this remarkable fusing of the documentary and memoir form, young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir uses a miniature reproduction…
