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- In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
- Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
- Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be "at home".
- 37 years after her daughter was executed in Iran, Haleh finds the woman who betrayed her. The traitor, now a loving mother herself and just arrived in the Netherlands, does not recognize Haleh and trusts her as an older and wiser countryman. While Haleh is plotting her revenge, she gets to know the perpetrator better than she would like to.
- A timid young man joins his charismatic older brother on an impromptu hitchhike from Amsterdam to France, only to discover the time may have come to finally go his own way in life.
- Suraya, a communist, Sima, a conservative - whose friendship endures despite radically opposing political views.
- 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.
- Eleven-year-old meth addict Ginto struggles to survive in the slums of an Asian metropolis. Meanwhile, Dutch sex tourist Michael enters the city, torn apart by his dark desires.
- In the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand married a Jutland native and has since helped lonely local men and impoverished women from her village find someone to marry and share life with. Acclaimed filmmaker Janus Metz and his anthropologist wife, Sine Plambech, follow four of these Thai-Danish couples over ten years in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, dreams and everyday hardship, life and death, and the very nature of family.
- 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.
- Two fatherless brothers settle in useless mother's birth town 'for a holiday' after her last-willed funeral, which costs the entire inheritance. Sensitive Vincent (21) is dragged into elder brother Sjoerd (26)'s nihilistic lifestyle, including gambling and drug abuse. *How much love is found between the brothers, kin and life itself? $ Guinea pig
- A historical and personal story, based on the director's own experience, family, friends and acquaintances. We follow them and depict different situations throughout their lives - the sad, the vile, the emotional and the comical. A universal story of a family that has arisen from a simultaneously beautiful and tragic cultural encounter; as is the case in hundreds of thousands of families around Europe and the rest of the Western World.
- A luthier is obsessed with the idea of crafting a violin, the sound of which is so exceptional that it will thrill the musician who plays it and caress the souls of those who hear it. This will require a special type of wood, cut from a hallowed tree that is only found in a Balkan forest. A musical quest that is as thrilling as a high-stakes treasure hunt.
- 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.
- On the border of Turkey and Iran, 19-year-old twins Zahra and Fatimah from Afghanistan lose their family. To survive in a hostile world of smugglers and drug dealers, they face choices and dilemmas that severely test their symbiotic relationship and conscience.
- An introspective young girl falls for the new boy in class, an outcast who is also a hemophiliac.
- A talented young gymnast wants to reach the Olympic Games. His father guides him towards this goal. A coming of age movie.
- A high-tempered teenager struggles to find her place in life after her mother passes away.
- In search of love, the ghost of a drowned refugee frantically roams the fringes of Europe, the alleged paradise, while witnessing the brutal everyday reality of immigrants stuck in limbo.
- A mother attempts to reconnect with her jihadist son when he is allowed to await his trial at home with her.
- Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.
- 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 life of a single, 51-year-old schoolteacher Lies is disrupted when a new girl arrives in her class. She faces a traumatic event from her past. A desire slowly grows towards retaliation from the grief for what was done to her.
- In his short stories, Israeli writer Etgar Keret mixes fantasy and reality. His own life story also comes across as a modern fairy tale. In this hybrid documentary, the filmmakers investigate why storytelling is essential for Keret's survival.
- "I wake up at three o'clock at night. I open the window, I step on to the window sill. Everything looks white. It's February. I must break my neck. I must." A voice in David Brown's head left him with an ultimatum: kill his brother or jump from the fourth floor. David chose to plummet and, consequently, spends his life between countless psychiatric facilities. From an ultra-subjective perspective, Asylum depicts David's hospitalization and his attempts to climb out of his depression, with him using his musicality and enduring humor.
- According to Protocol follows the responsible but also emotional work of two employees of the emergency services 112, who are expected to adapt to the commercialization of health care.
- 15-year-old Cihan accompanies his grandmother on a trip to Turkey to attend a wedding. They have little in common and have to spend a day together in Istanbul. Despite the distance between the two, they can share some small moments.
- Grand Tour is the portrait of a 16-year old girl who travels to an island for a nocturnal meeting with the first love of her life, until the next morning when she faces the naked reality of their love.
- 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?