1. A letter to Nikola (Lettre à Nikola)
As a letter to her son, the filmmaker testifies her experience as a photographer aboard the Aquarius, a ship that rescued 29,523 people in the Mediterranean between 2016 and 2018.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. Marcos Medeiros - Codinome Vampiro (Marcos Medeiros - Codinome Vampiro)
Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.
3. A Story in My Skin (في جسمي حكاية)
Political activist Kader Affak—the unforgettable surveyor of Tariq Teguia’s film Inland—runs a charity on the same premises as Le Sous-Marin literary café that he is renovating. In powerful chiaroscuro, he tells Yanis Kheloufi about the final days of his mother, a constitutive episode that gave birth to his unshakeable faith in the Algerian people.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. Dancing with Le Pen (Danse avec Le Pen)
In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a party long associated with her controversial father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. See how three of her supporters faced similar obstacles in changing the narrative.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
5. Summer of revolution (Summer of revolution)
(Summer of revolution)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
6. René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra (René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra)
(René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. Storm in the Andes (Storm över Anderna)
Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides to find out the truth about the legendary Augusta.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
8. Bandit Queen (बैंडिट क्वीन)
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
It has an average vote of 6.558 on TMDB.
9. Corte Seco (Corte Seco)
Corte Seco, Renato Tapajós' first fictional feature, takes place in 1969 and accompanies Rodrigo, a militant active in the fight against oppression and in favor of the removal of the military government. In this fight, everything was possible: invasion of radio studios to transmit a rebellious message; kidnapping of ambassadors promoted by groups, the so-called apparatuses; assault on banks to finance such activities.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
10. Alliance of Philippine Patriots (Makapili)
Makapili, was a militant group formed in the Philippines in December 8 1944 during World War II to give military aid to the Imperial Japanese Army. The group was meant to be on equal basis with the Japanese Army and its leaders were appointed with ranks that were equal to their Japanese counterparts.
11. Burn! (Queimada)
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
It has an average vote of 6.791 on TMDB.
12. A Battle Restored (Strijd op 16mm)
Following the restoration of the forgotten Surinamese documentary Oema foe Sranan this film exposes stories of activism and struggle that enabled the production and distribution of this militant documentary.
13. Eleven Moving Moments with Evelyn Lambart
An instructive compilation about pioneer Ottawa animator Evelyn Lambart, playfully contextualized by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.
14. Unzertrennlich (Unzertrennlich)
Approximately 4 million people in Germany have a brother or sister who is chronically ill or disabled. They have to deal with issues such as responsibility, renunciation and loss much earlier than their peers. Their reality is fundamentally different from that of other children and adolescents. Quietly observing and with great respect for all family members, the film approaches the different life realities of such siblings and depicts their everyday lives.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
15. Joy in Iran (Joy in Iran)
Documenting the performance journey of the artists Susie Wimmer, Andreas Schock and Moni Single from "Clowns Without Borders" to Iranian aid institutions - homes for orphans and street children, hospitals, psychiatric clinics and refugee camps.
16. Talentprobe
Documentary about a singing contest.
17. Chasing the Magic: The Nigel McGuinness Story
The story of Nigel McGuinness, a man with lifelong aspirations of becoming a WWE Superstar, whose career was unceremoniously cut short
18. Trop de Picasso tue-t-il Picasso ? (Trop de Picasso tue-t-il Picasso ?)
"Too much Picasso kills Picasso?" In France as in a lot of other parts of the world Pablo Picasso's art and life is on exhibition. An episode of Le Figaro's Les Décrypteurs.
19. Alone (Sama)
Alone is about the 91-year-old actress and writer Luba Skořepová, who used to be a member of Czech National Theatre group for almost 70 years. She still wants to work but for many people she is too old. So she tries to manage her last play from her small apartment by a cell phone. The film is about hope and about hopelessness of faded glory.
20. Exit (Exit)
An exploration into the motives and histories of individuals, including herself, who have exited the world of violent extremism.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
