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1. Your Neighbour's Son (Your Neighbour's Son)

The film documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police recruits into torturers and touches on the subject of the power of the institution to compel otherwise moral human beings to torture. The documentary examines the processes and methods of the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.

2. Behind the Mask

Survivor Abduweli flees a Chinese Uyghur internment camp to Norway. Now, heading to Germany to confront a past torturer, his daughter’s panic attack forces a choice: exposing Uyghur genocide for the world, or shielding his family from painful memories.

3. Savages: The Story of Human Zoos (Sauvages, au cœur des zoos humains)

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.

It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.

4. The Overnighters

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

5. The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?

Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The gay Radio 1 DJ finds out what it's like to live in a society which persecutes people like him and meets those who are leading the hate campaign.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

6. The Team (El Equipo)

An unlikely collaboration between a forensic scientist from Texas and a group of Latin American students changes the course of forensic science and international human rights.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

7. Crossing's End (彼岸)

On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call an ambulance, but the woman dies. The man and his friend are imprisoned for murder when an eyewitness reverses her original statement and says that she saw the two men throwing the woman from the bridge. After more than a decade, director Shih Yu-Lun collaborates with the ‘Taiwan Innocence Project’, a private organization that helps innocent people who have been unjustly convicted, to re-investigate the case.

8. Hard to Believe

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

9. Um Crime Entre Nós (Um Crime Entre Nós)

(Um Crime Entre Nós)

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

10. Political Animals

The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

11. Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra (Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra)

(Flor Brilhante e as Cicatrizes da Pedra)

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

12. Una de nosotras (Una de nosotras)

For more than forty years, Belela Herrera has dedicated her life to saving that of others. The politically persecuted, those displaced by civil wars, and the world's refugees are her concern and vocation. Her story is also that of a woman who defined herself and twisted the destiny reserved for girls of her social class: marrying to a man from high society, having a large family and a comfortable and elegant existence . And it is also the story of a female legacy that is part and consequence of the invisible resistance of thousands of women.

13. The Walk (The Walk)

Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a charming gigantic puppet named Amal, who represents millions of migrant and displaced children in a walk from the Syrian border in Turkey all the way across Europe. Escorted and animated by a group of puppeteers who are themselves refugees, Amal’s epic journey is one of compassion and discovery.

14. Divergente (Divergente)

(Divergente)

15. Fadia’s Tree

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an ancient mulberry tree that once grew next to her grandfather’s house in historic Palestine, a tree that stands witness to her family’s existence.

16. The World According to Xi Jinping (Le Monde selon Xi Jinping)

(Le Monde selon Xi Jinping)

It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.

17. Motherland Memories (Tano Na Uli, Hagodanganki)

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interweave her past and present as a wife, mother, healer and indigenous land defender in two neighboring villages. Her multi-layered stories are juxtaposed with visual records of everyday life in the two villages, where people’s living space is still increasingly threatened by a giant pulp expansion.

18. Memórias de Izidora (Memórias de Izidora)

(Memórias de Izidora)

19. Hijos de África (Hijos de África)

(Hijos de África)

20. Holy Angels

Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.