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- DirectorÉléonore WeberStarsNathalie RichardTo shoot: a gun or a movie camera. The military analogy is born with the beginning of cinema. Eléonore Weber's (Les Hommes Sans Gravité, IndieLisboa 2008) documentary is exclusively based upon footage recorded by French and American soldiers in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. From the top of their helicopters, a viewfinder scans the night and watches for suspicious activity from moving heat dots. They have the power to take or keep lives.
- DirectorMatthieu LietaertErika Gonzalez RamirezThree Latin American women's stories of tireless environmental advocacy as they risk their lives to resist and sue harmful transnational corporations. Maxima Acuña (Peru), Berta Cáceres (Honduras), and Carolina (Brazil).
- DirectorFranny ArmstrongStarsPete PostlethwaiteJehangir WadiaAlvin DuVernayA future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
- DirectorJRAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaJRJeannine CarpentierDirector Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsNardjes AsliAlgeria, February 2019. A wave of protests takes over the streets of Algiers against the 5th candidacy of then president Bouteflika. Nardjes, a young activist, finds in the movement a space to demand a better future for her country.
- DirectorMichael DominicStarsEdgar Ezequiel Quintero HernandezEmmanuel Salvador Quintero HernandezFrancisco Jose Quintero HernandezShot over the course of seven years Clean Hands documents the human drama, personal struggle, innocence, and salvation of one family in Nicaragua surviving against the backdrop of Central America's largest garbage dump, La Chureca.
- DirectorPawel LozinskiComposed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.
- DirectorJared P. ScottStarsMichael BreenSharon BurkeStephen CheneyThis Emmy® nominated investigation unpacks how climate change interacts with migration, unrest and conflict through the lens of US national security.
- DirectorLars EdmanWilliam JohanssonIn the mid-80's the Swedish mining giant Boliden dumped 20000 tonnes of hazardous waste in Arica in Northern Chile. Thousands of 'Ariqueños' were affected with cancers and other serious illness. Now a group of survivors are seeking justice.
- DirectorLinaStarsMalath AlzoubiRima DaliBassel ShehadehAn aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter.
- DirectorTracey Arcabasso SmithA filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home-movies, and long-avoided conversations surface, a family once bound by tradition forges a new path forward.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsPierre Chanel AffognonAlaa Al-SiddiqCarmen AristeguiA visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware to target journalists and human rights defenders worldwide.
- What if the best way to make more money - is to create it yourself? In this new documentary series from filmmaker Nathan Truesdell and Field of Vision, we follow folks who decided to take wealth creation into their own hands, and upended the meaning of "value" in the process. Meet a libertarian Florida coin-maker who dreams of bringing down the Federal Reserve; a Danish painter who supports a family of four by exchanging paintings for goods; and a master counterfeiter, who reveals how he minted hundreds of millions of dollars-and got off scot-free. As this series shows, there's more than one kind of currency exchange.
- DirectorNora MandrayFrance, 2017: presidential elections bring the far-right closer to power than ever. Through a mix of archives and vérité, Dancing With Le Pen traces the irresistible rise of one of Europe's most dangerous party: the 'National Front'.
- DirectorFrancois VersterSimon WoodGripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.
- DirectorAlex WinterStarsBastian ObermayerKatrin LanghansFrederik ObermaierA documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.
- DirectorRoss DomoneyAnna Giralt GrisIn 2017, the citizens of Catalonia voted to become an independent state.
- DirectorEmily PedersonA community reels as the Mexican government obstructs an investigation into one of the most notorious state crimes in recent memory.
- DirectorSomchay PhakonkhamStarsMatthew TrubianiVen. Ronnapop JotilabhoVen. Narongchai ThanachayoA cinematic journey of a Westerner who temporarily ordains as a Monk at the world's largest Buddhist temple in Thailand.
- DirectorGreta StocklassováStarsHans BlixIn an interview with director Greta Stocklassa, retired diplomat Hans Blix reflects on his career as the as the head weapons inspector for the UN during the war on terror, and the legacy he will leave for future generations.
- DirectorVinay ShuklaStarsRavish KumarSushil BahugunaDeepak ChaubeyHow independent news reporting in India and beyond is increasingly under threat by budgetary cuts and especially, extremists leveraging alternative platforms to spread misinformation.
- StarsHannah Congdon Catherine HaighTwo women. One epic journey. Countless stories that deserve to be heard. Cat and Hannah undertake a road trip across Central Asia on a mission to uncover women's stories in a region miles from their own. But along the journey, they're forced to challenge the assumptions they set out with.
- 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.
- DirectorFriedrich MoserStarsChristoph BichlerPeter BouckaertJulia HerzA deep dive into the international beer industry and the second most consumed beverage on the planet.