1. Warm Welcome (어쩌다 활동가)
Lee Yunjeong, my mother, who was devoted to church, stopped attending after the Sewol ferry disaster. Instead, she started going to work at the office of a human rights group for migrants in Ilsan. As her daughter and a film director, I began filming her surprising and unfamiliar transition.
2. Persona Non Grata
2003 documentary film produced by Oliver Stone for the HBO series America Undercover about the conflict in occupied Palestine. He speaks with Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime ministers of Israel, Yasser Arafat, late president of the Palestinian National Authority, and various Palestinian activists resisting the oppression of the zionist regime.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
3. Kiruna - A Brand New World (Kiruna – překrásný nový svět)
What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna is built on the world's largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, which created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometres to the east. In doing so, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world?
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
4. Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté (Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté)
(Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
5. Algorithmes - vers un monde manipulé (Algorithmes - vers un monde manipulé)
By observing the technological developments of artificial intelligence in several countries, this film sheds light on the advantages and limits of algorithms and their repercussions on the lives of citizens. Whether at the level of the State, the police, universities, or companies, artificial intelligences should be used as a tool, but very often become a substitute for the work of the individual. There are many abuses: manipulations, addictions, or centralization of power. What can governments and States do to best regulate these technological advances?
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
6. Swamp Dialogues
The Danube Delta in Romania - the 'Last European Sanctuary’ - is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect biodiversity, the plight of local communities is largely overlooked. Social scientists claim that the traumatic nature of the swamp bears heavy on the villagers' lives. But is Nature really to blame? Swamp Dialogues is based on an extensive field-research in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. Through a careful ‘argument montage’ built entirely on cinematic language the film represents an anthropological analysis formulated in image and sound.
7. Massacre River
Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic, reverses birthright citizenship and she and 200,000 others are left stateless.
8. Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship (Biélorussie, une dictature ordinaire)
It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occurances. But while half of Belarus moves closer to Russia, the other half is trying to resist…
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
9. Before Father Gets Back (სანამ მამა დაბრუნდება)
In a darkened classroom, the white cracked walls serve as a movie screen. We are in a remote mountain village in Georgia. The light from the projector breaks the darkness: the children's first cinematic experience is about to begin. Among the kids are Iman and Eva, two Muslim girls, for whom the experience becomes a turning point and inspires them to pick up a camera and start filming their daily lives. The girls are growing up in a valley infested by radicalism, where most people live in constant fear that their relatives will sacrifice their lives in the name of God.
10. Xondaros - Guarani Resistance (Xondaros - Guarani Resistance)
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police violence, fires, lack of infrastructure and sanitation, among others. Unable to live like their ancestors, their millenary culture is lost as it merges with the urban culture.
11. Lost and Found
An inspiring documentary about overcoming homelessness and addiction in the City of Los Angeles.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Alice in the Land of National Guard of Russia (Алиса в стране росгвардейцев)
A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"
13. A Litany for Survival
A Litany for Survival' explores the shades between love, rage, and rebellion as a black person surviving in America. Two months before the shocking revelation of Daniel Prude's murder video surfaced, BLM activists organize at the Mayor's house to make their case for equal human rights in the heavily segregated city of Rochester, NY.
14. Paragraph 175 (Paragraph 175)
During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.
It has an average vote of 6.583 on TMDB.
15. Black Box Syria: The Dirty War (Blackbox Syrien - Der schmutzige Krieg)
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers.
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
16. Cherrie - ut ur mörkret (Cherrie - ut ur mörkret)
(Cherrie - ut ur mörkret)
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. Boll Mo: Sexism in Kosova
A documentary exploring sexism and patriarchy in Kosova.
18. Welu De Fasli (Welu De Fasli)
Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a conversation among the sounds of candlenuts.
19. Golek Garwo (Golek Garwo)
Golek Garwo is a matchmaking forum, held monthly vis-a-vis in Yogyakarta. Basri , a worker who longed for love and one out of hundreds of participants of the event, falls for Musiyem , who is also a participant. They then decide to join a mass wedding, but Basri’s wish for a life together turns out differently in reality.
20. Notes about identity (Notes about identity)
(Notes about identity)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.