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Lie To Me

2024

Lie To Me

2024
8.5
Lie to me is a documentary about lies, hope and greed. When OneCoin was launched as "the bitcoin killer" in 2014, it was promised gold and green forests. Anyone could get rich if they invested. But OneCoin was not a new financial revolution. It wasn't even a cryptocurrency. OneCoin turned out to be the world's biggest crypto scam, and the man who exposed it all was Norwegian Bjorn Bjercke. Yet the fraud continues. How is that possible?
G – 21 Scenes from Gottsunda

2024

G – 21 Scenes from Gottsunda

2024
Loran, a filmmaker from the notorious suburb Gottsunda, grapples with the desire to move away but is torn by loyalty to his childhood friends who lead a criminal life. "G" marks Loran's farewell to Gottsunda but completing the film in a changed community tests his sense of belonging and identity.
The Son and the Moon

2024

The Son and the Moon

2024
The Danish-Iranian filmmaker Roja is in the most difficult period of her 36-year life. She is pregnant with her son Oskar and is diagnosed with incurable cancer. In the midst of all this, she must try to find herself. The film is her journey filmed over six dramatic years, in which she documents her everyday life and her thoughts about living with a disease that can cost her everything. How do you live when your precious time on earth is running out too soon? However, Roja is the last to feel sorry for herself. She immerses herself in being present, and then she sets out to chart her Iranian origins and the dramatic history of her family, which opened a new chapter when her politically engaged parents fled Iran after the revolution and ended up in Denmark.
Night of Nights

2024

Night of Nights

2024
A nocturnal and semi-surrealistic science fiction portrait of life in two Asian megacities after 2020, shot at night with an hypnotic intensity and with the lens pointing to the future.
Embalmed Heart

2024

Embalmed Heart

2024
A girl grows restless in a village surrounded by mountains and churches in northern Argentina. It hasn't rained for a long time and the rivers are dry. From her room, the girl fantasises about things she is not yet allowed to do. She confesses her wish to the Virgin.
Remembering Franco

2024

Remembering Franco

2024
A man from a Nordic country recreates Francoist times through his memory and the memory of others.
Night of the Coyotes

2024

Night of the Coyotes

2024
10
A small indigenous Mexican village is slowly turning into a ghost town as many of its inhabitants emigrate. To survive this, they start simulating an experience they all know: crossing the border to the US illegally. The residents of the village slip into the roles of border guards, human traffickers and drug smugglers to reenact the crossing for paying tourists so they can put themselves into the position of a migrant for one night. A story of empowerment or a village stuck in the loop of their traumatic experiences?
I Want to Go to War

2024

I Want to Go to War

2024
Why do some individuals flee from war, while others actively choose to engage in it? This military documentary explores the experiences of Belarusian volunteers who participate on the Ukrainian side in the Russian-Ukrainian war. The film unfolds in three parts: recruits, active combatants, and veterans. It delves into the psychological dimensions of these heroes, exploring what motivates them to join the war, identifying potential commonalities among volunteers, and, most crucially, addressing their return to civilian life. The documentary raises numerous questions, including the impact of traumatic events on the psyche, especially when individuals have willingly participated in them.
Adrianne & The Castle

2024

Adrianne & The Castle

2024
Alan built a castle in rural Illinois with his late love Adrianne. Facing life alone, he revisits their fantasy through musical reenactments transporting him to the world they shared.
Balomania

2024

Balomania

2024
With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.
Death of a Saint

2024

Death of a Saint

2024
A Danish director travels to Uganda to find out what happened the Christmas Eve her mother lost her life. A personal and life-affirming film about family, motherhood and confronting the past.
Sting Like a Bee

2024

Sting Like a Bee

2024
A warmhearted and beautiful hybrid film about a group of Italian teenagers flirting their way through the summer on their three-wheeled, self-styled Piaggio Ape mopeds. Love, sex and young dreams come together in a film-within-the-film about the young heroes.
Eros

2024

Eros

2024
Brazil's love motels are a sexual haven where fantasy becomes reality. When the filmmaker's own date never shows up, she gets a fresh idea for a film instead. The result is a kaleidoscopic insight into a parallel world of human desire.
Can't Feel Nothing

2024

Can't Feel Nothing

2024
8
An eye-opening film about numbness in the age of social media. The diagnosis is alarming, but it is made with understated humour and energy by director David Borenstein, himself a screen zombie in digital rehab.
Slaughter (Besmel)

2024

Slaughter (Besmel)

2024
"Slaughter" is an experimental short film that delves into the archival and historical footage of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, depicting a symbolic narrative surrounding the ritualistic act of animal sacrifice, known as "Besmel." It serves as an allegorical representation of a nation's sacrifice amidst the backdrop of political transformations.
My Want of You Partakes of Me

2024

My Want of You Partakes of Me

2024
My Want of You Partakes of Me interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world, a process of physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and scientific dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialisation and annihilation, poetry and parenting, love and citation.
April in France

2024

April in France

2024
April in France is a documentary about April, a 5-year-old English girl, who is unhappy with her family’s relocation to France. She moves to a small medieval village in southwest France where her great-grandfather lived. There, she is convinced that he is only sleeping in the cemetery and that he will come back from the dead to be with her. While waiting for him she meets his former friends, and with them she will discover her inner self while in turn transforming their lives forever.
Time to Gather

2024

Time to Gather

2024
Somewhere in the centre of Portugal, an entire village lives in harmony with the annual cycle of the cork trees. When the time is right, the cork farmers go out to harvest the cork bark from the trunks of the trees with an experienced and careful touch that has been kept alive for generations by fathers with special axes in their hands, passing on the noble craft to their sons. Strong women gather the cork in stacks and dream of a time when they didn’t have to carry it themselves, but were the cork workers’ cooks, surrounded by birdsong and scorched cork trees with nature as their kitchen. Back in the village, the owner of the plantation tries to sell the cork at ancient prices, while at the same time clashing with his daughter. Sofia Bairrão’s film is a sensuous and beautiful meditation on the Portuguese landscape, which produces more cork than anywhere else in the world.
I Shall Not Hate

2024

I Shall Not Hate

2024
9.8
From Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, to the University of Toronto and the Supreme Court of Israel, I Shall Not Hate follows the uncharted path of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, The first Palestinian doctor that worked in an Israeli hospital delivering babies, whose ethos of forgiveness and reconciliation is put to the ultimate test when an Israeli tank bombs his house, killing his three daughters. Against all odds, he turns his tragedy into a global campaign to eradicate hate.
And Still, It Remains

2024

And Still, It Remains

2024
In 2021, radioactive sand resulting from French nuclear bombs travelled in the winds all the way from the Algerian Sahara back to France. The bombs had been detonated in Algeria back in the 1960s. These returning winds were a reminder that the environmental legacies of colonialism cannot be forgotten or contained; it also raised the more pertinent question of how people live with the afterlife of toxic colonialism. ‘And still, it remains’ spends time with the residents of a village in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria who live surrounded by ancient rock art and the legacy of France’s nuclear bombs.