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- The end of an long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.
- In the remote mountains of central Afghanistan, a Hazara family embarks on a journey for truth and justice after their daughter Zahra mysteriously dies at Kabul University. Told through the eyes of Zahra's younger sister, Freshta, the film is a moving contemplation of love, loss, and perseverance in spite of increasing unrest on the eve of the Taliban takeover of the country.
- School headmaster Kevin McArevey tries to change the fortunes of an inner-city Irish community plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty and drugs.
- Atmospherically shot on 16mm film, Transnistra is an intimate and vital account of love and friendship in a complex, contradictory world. Award-winning director Anna Eborn (Pine Ridge) intimately follows a group of young people as they move from a sweltering, carefree summer through an unforgiving winter in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle.
- A documentary series about female cartoonists from all around the globe, challenging the red lines and taboos of their society. In search of people who experience their drawings in reality, they take us on a bold journey into their world.
- Intent on providing a better life for herself and her children after her farmer-husband's suicide, Sanjivani struggles against her culture's traditional abandonment of widows, until she joins a discussion group with other farmer-suicide widows. Empowered by community, shared stories of resilience, and unexpected solidarity, Sanjivani forges a path forward.
- On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him. She was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the 1950s, and a mother that put her two sons into a children's home. Fassaert decides to accept her invitation. But when his grandmother makes an unexpected confession, his venture becomes much more complicated than he could ever have imagined.
- When Brazilian president Bolsonaro announces that industries can settle in the Amazon on Yanomami territory, Davi Kopenawa and his son Dario take their fight to an international level to defend their land against the invaders.
- The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jimenez tell the story of a young woman who winds up in the clutches of forced prostitution when her initially hopeful attempt to escape the constrictions of her village goes wrong. Step by step, she is robbed of her moral and physical integrity. The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to a fate formally made nameless. With its powerful imagery, the girl's traumatic odyssey embodies the destruction of life in a capitalist world in connection with horrific natural devastation.
- Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Torn between adolescence and heavy responsibilities, the teenage girl struggles to keep everyone afloat.
- Ben Felten (51), who as a teenager was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease that left him completely blind in his mid-thirties. Despite his visual impairment, he wants to fulfill his childhood dream: top-level motorcycle racing.
- Thirteen-year-old Bo grows up in a protected environment where everything seems possible, but she is frightened by the dark predictions of the future. Together with her friend Luka, she decides to take up the fight against climate change and they join Extinction Rebellion. They occupy factory sites and highways, they are arrested and criticized. But what are politicians doing? Why does all this take so long? As Luka proposes increasingly radical actions, the more thoughtful Bo wants to find her own way. But how can she continue in a world that is eating away at her own future? PLANET B is a coming-of-age story of two youngsters exploring how to grow up in a world destroying itself.
- In an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.
- In Bolivia, the glaciers are melting. Samuel, an old ski lift operator, is looking out of a window on the rooftop of the world. Through generations his family lived and worked in the snowy mountains, but now snow fails. While scientists are discussing and measuring ominous changes Samuel honors the ancient mountain spirits. Clouds continue to drift by.
- In the early 90's, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became a ritual among thousands of families. Video cameras and presents allowed these mothers and children to share glimpses of their realities while being apart. As time passed, it became clear that the mothers' return was an increasingly distant prospect. Children turned into teenagers and, disillusioned, they stopped recording. Through these intimate private archives, Otilia Babara, a Moldovan filmmaker living in Brussels, depicts the fragility of family bonds through the eyes of a generation of mothers and daughters who were forced to live apart in order to survive. While doing so, she portrays a post-soviet country caught in a crossroads of history. A country whose women were unwittingly put in charge of making the transition from communism to capitalism.
- The question of domestic slavery in our globalized world, while emphasizing those women's determination, sisterhood and the strategies they find to face the obstacles that awaits them in the near future.
- In 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.
- The district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is a familiar home. Here, they listen to spiders, discover black holes, and fight about what is going to steer a flying carpet. Together they search for the answers to life's big questions. But the brutality of the adult world makes itself known when terrorists detonate a bomb in the neighborhood. Aaatos envies Amine's Muslim faith and looks for his own gods, although his classmate Flo questions him; she is strongly convinced that anyone who believes in God is completely nuts. Gods of Molenbeek is a wonderful portrayal of childhood friendship, inquiry and the creation of meaning in a chaotic time.
- In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, SAOR, a young androgynous Indian, carries a coffin. He is taking VALENTINA, his lover, back to her native village to bury her. When Valentina left this village years ago, before becoming a transgender singer in a far away city, people here knew her as POL. Valentina's past and death remain an enigma. Yet bit by bit, through his encounters with the people of the village, Saor begins to perceive what connected them to Pol. Sensitive to the world around him, Saor, like a Shaman, enters their memories. Saor begins to understand that, like all homosexuals persecuted by Shining Path terrorists, Pol lived in terror. In the village cemetery, between rage and bitterness, Saor attends the burial of Valentina's body. A ceremony that is both a burial and an exhumation.
- To prevent anxiety and optimize their well being, an increasing number of people use data technology. But what is actually measured when collecting data about our mental state? What gets lost in this quest for our optimal selves?
- Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate the leasing of the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US government so that it could build one of its largest and most secretive military bases overseas. As the military lease is about to expire, Chagossian exiles are attempting to recover their home in the middle of the Indian Ocean from Great Britain. The charismatic woman leading their fight in the UK is Sabrina Jean. Through unrelenting activism, including the exile community's improbable participation in the World Football Cup for Stateless People, she strives to keep the flame of hope alive in her community with one single goal: to return home. But as the elders disappear and memory fades, time is running out.
- In einem nördlichen Stadtteil von Belfast, einer katholischen Enklave, in der die Arbeiterklasse seit Generationen von Armut, Drogen und Schusswaffen heimgesucht wird, stellt uns diese Doku die außergewöhnliche Arbeit eines Schulleiters vor. Unter Berufung auf die Weisheit alter Philosophen, zeigt er den Kindern die Vorteile des Zuhörens, der Toleranz und des kritischen Denkens. Schauplatz des Dokumentarfilms, den ARTE im Rahmen der Reihe "MenschenLeben" zeigt, ist der Stadtteil Ardoyne im Norden von Belfast. Die katholische Grundschule "Holy Cross" liegt dort mitten in einer Arbeitersiedlung und trägt noch die Spuren vergangener Konflikte. Die politische Sackgasse zwischen Republikanern und Unionisten liegt unter anderem darin begründet, dass es mit der Entstehung einer wahren Gemeinschaft in der Region viel zu schleppend vorangeht. Kriminalität und Drogensucht breiten sich aus, und die allgemeine Verzweiflung schlägt sich in der europaweit höchsten Selbstmordrate bei jungen Männern nieder. Um dies zu ändern, hat der engagierte Schuldirektor Kevin McArevey eine Lehrmethode entwickelt, mit der er den Kindern Hoffnung vermitteln will. McArevey ist um die 50 Jahre alt und wirkt mit seinem kahlen Kopf eher hart. In seinem Büro hängen Elvis-Fotos neben Papst-Porträts. Von den Eltern seiner Schüler über Drogendealer und republikanische Dissidenten bis zur Polizei kennt ihn hier jeder. Kevin McArevey will die Resilienz seiner Schüler stärken und sie lehren, ihre Emotionen zu beherrschen. Er lenkt und leitet sie in Diskussionen über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft und ermutigt sie, alles infrage zu stellen, sogar die Standpunkte ihrer eigenen Eltern. Dabei nimmt er Bezug auf die Weisheit der altgriechischen Philosophen. McArevey und sein Team stehen vor schier unüberwindlichen Hindernissen: Gewalt zwischen verschiedenen Gruppierungen, Resignation in der Bevölkerung, Kinder mit schweren Verhaltensstörungen - selbst der beste Lehrer müsste hier eigentlich an seine Grenzen stoßen. Doch in McAreveys Schule wird das Unmögliche möglich: Die Kinder sind bereit, ihren Kurs zu ändern, und sehen Perspektiven für ihre Zukunft.
- In the village of Lussas, France, some people meet up in an old house which used to be the town grocery. Today, it is transformed into the headquarters of a SVOD platform for art house documentary films.
- In 1991 the filmmaker met several homeless boys in Burundi. They agreed to be filmed as they grew up. In 2018 he recorded their fourth meeting. Some had died. Three reflect their existence in poverty and their hopes for a better life.
- Wi-Fi routers, smartphones and cell towers are everywhere. With plans to link every digital network on the planet by 2020, connectivity will soon become ubiquitous. People will no longer commute, they'll communicate, using technology that ties us all together, anywhere and everywhere. For some people, the expanding digital network is a tightening noose of health risks associated with electromagnetic radiation. Three "electro sensitives" who endure electro-hypersensitivity in Japan, Sweden and the Netherlands share their experiences evading connectivity, running out of safe spaces and making radical life choices that cause conflict with family and friends. Are these "electro sensitives" outliers or canaries in the coal mine of our modern world, warning humanity that the wireless technologies intended to promote ease are actually causing disease?
- Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry "Sandy" Jacobs and his eccentric old friend and neighbor, architect Daniel Liebermann, live a quirky existence on a mountain in Northern California. The wise fool Sandy lives in the here and now, while Liebermann is engulfed by unfinished projects and unfulfilled dreams. These non-conformists, each in their own way, still search the world for perfection.
- The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage, known as the spiritual father of the Striptease show, now has Alzheimer's at 76. Although his memory plays tricks on him, his daughter Emmanuelle goes back in time to portray a direct cinema filmmaker who was always close to the characters he so loved to film.
- This is the story of a violent explosion. A story of a couple who are irradiated by love, of a planet that has been contaminated. An intimate and collective story. Chernobyl and HIV. A story of one man's obsessive search, of a chase across a new world. Devastation and blinding light. A story of rebirth.
- The peaceful Cape Verdean society gets shocked when public confessions about orgies, incest, attempted child rape, attempted murder and drug abuse are made by members of a Christian sect. All drafted in first person some of which belonging to highly educated and well-respected individuals of this society. Behind this lurks a spiritual leader, a self-proclaimed prophet of God. THE MASTER'S PLAN investigates the aftermath of these events and takes us on a search for truth and belief. What happens when people put aside their social position because of their faith? The result is an extraordinary journey to the human psyche.
- Before life runs out, Ornella decides to confront her aging sister Teresa with a painful untold story that might change their close forever.
- 22-year old Dilan pays for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighbouring village with her life.
- Rima who fled Syria with her family, struggles with her integration in Brussels. Caught between tradition and modernity, she draws her memories of her previous life in dialogue with an Iranian filmmaker, herself a newcomer to Belgium.
- Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
- As a community of an idyllic remote town, what do you do when the largest employer decides to retire? The inhabitants of Oranjemund, a small paradise in the middle of the Namibian desert, are faced with that dilemma. Now that the nearby diamond mine is becoming exhausted, diamond company NAMDEB, also founder, decides to fire a large part of its employees. The harmonious community fears for its future and decides to join forces to make the diamond town attractive for tourism. Desert Paradise observes and lets the residents and the breathtaking landscape tell their own story. Will Oranjemund become a ghost town, swallowed up by the sand, or will the inhabitants manage to reinvent themselves and create a sustainable city?
- The art of becoming is a poetical documentary on three unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan, Syria and Guinea, who hope for a stable future in Europe. Their stories are intertwined : Fattah toils in Istanbul, hoping to earn enough for the journey to Greece and then Italy; Saleh has been living in Europe for three years but yearns for his parents; and Mamadou tries to hang on to his job and his education in Belgium in spite of having become an undocumented migrant. The movie is character-driven. It steers clear of traditional interviews but radically opts for an artistic depiction of the reality of each of the boys through a camerawork that borders that of fictional movies.
- Enter the vibrant world of Maremoto, a young Mexican cartoonist who, through her drawings, empowers women and addresses the taboos of her society. Visit Maremoto's studio, join her on an afternoon of making street art and experience what it feels like to move as a woman through a metropolis in Mexico, a country where 10 women are murdered every day and tens of thousands go missing. In a combination of 360° video, animation and interactivity, we become part of Maremoto's ongoing search for her identity and drive through art, tackling themes such as body positivity, sexual harassment and contemporary activism.
- In Idlib, we're introduced to pioneering female cartoonist Amany Al-Ali who empowers young women and challenges patriarchal systems with art. Amid personal exhaustion and trauma, she faces the tough choice of leaving her loved ones behind.
- Doaa el-Adl stands out as one of the most prominent female cartoonists in the Arab world. In this documentary, director Nada Riyadh delves into the position of Egyptian women in the public sphere and their freedom of expression.
- Mar Maremoto is a vibrant force of queerness and punk energy. Through her dynamic and emotional artwork, she fearlessly delves into the profound impact of machismo, anguish of fat-shaming, and struggles of not conforming to societal norms.
- Sanitary Panels is the nom de plume of an Indian cartoonist challenging taboos around women's issues through socio-political commentary cartoons. Her webcomics attract a massive young liberal following but also government scrutiny.
- Artist Victoria Lomasko explores the link between domestic and state-sponsored violence in midst of an impending crisis. Having fled Russia in 2022, she embarked on a mural project depicting events since the protest-filled winter of 2021.