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Hyde Park on Hudson

2012

Hyde Park on Hudson

2012
5.2
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Amnesia Diaries

2012

Amnesia Diaries

2012
The director creates a parallel of thirty years of her life (mid-1980s to 2012) and the evolution of her country, Greece. The loss of her lover, revived in archive photographs and 8 mm movies, is the background for her despair facing contemporaneous Greece, seen by her in the streets and viewed on television broadcasts from American and Russian channels.
Supremo

2012

Supremo

2012
A film about Andres Bonifacio.
Saint Barbara

2012

Saint Barbara

2012
6.1
The beautiful daughter of the Roman governor during a time of fierce Christian persecution is a nonbeliver. But when a slave raised alongside her like a sister is condemned to death for her Christian faith, she valiantly attempts to save her.
The Debridement of Rome

2012

The Debridement of Rome

2012
5.5
Vignettes of Empire; history as doomed love affair.
La conspiración

2012

La conspiración

2012
6
Man Made Place

2012

Man Made Place

2012
8.5
China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.
Buscando al comandante Andresito

2012

Buscando al comandante Andresito

2012
Heredia travels in search of traces of Andrés Guazurarí (1778-1821?) in the lands of Corrientes and Misiones, while trying to decipher why official history wanted to erase his name from the memory of the Argentine people.
Hatsumi

2012

Hatsumi

2012
In Japanese, “shi kata ga nai” means “it can't be helped”. As a phrase, it represents the philosophical basis of the Japanese cultural reserve, through which adversity is never acknowledged. Nancy Okura is a Canadian of Japanese decent. During the Second World War, she was involuntarily removed from her home and relocated to an internment camp by the Government of Canada. Shi kata ga nai prevented Nancy Okura from ever speaking about her internment.
Stay In Algeria

2012

Stay In Algeria

2012
10
Algeria, summer 1962, eight hundred thousand French people left their native land in a tragic exodus. But 200,000 of them decided to attempt the adventure of independent Algeria. Over the following decades, political developments would push many of these pieds-noirs into exile towards France. But some never left. Germaine, Adrien, Cécile, Guy, Jean-Paul, Marie-France, Denis and Félix, Algerians of European origin, are among them. Some have Algerian nationality, others do not. Some speak Arabic, others do not. They are the last witnesses to the little-known history of these Europeans who remained out of loyalty to an ideal, a taste for adventure and an unconditional love for a land where they were born, despite all the ups and downs that the free Algeria in full construction had to go through.
Adesuwa

2012

Adesuwa

2012
In 1752, conflict breaks out when the beautiful Princess Adesuwa, betrothed to the king and ruler of the Benin Empire, is abducted.
Girlfriend in a Coma

2012

Girlfriend in a Coma

2012
6.9
Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

2012

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

2012
7.4
In 1733, Johann Sebastian Bach gives an explosive and unexpected music lesson at the Leipzig church.
The Norse: An Arctic Mystery

2012

The Norse: An Arctic Mystery

2012
7
The history books say that the first European to make contact with Native Americans was Christopher Columbus. New evidence tells a different story, that another civilization arrived in the New World centuries earlier. They were the Norse, a seafaring people who originated in the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They bore the name Viking, an "Old Norse" term for a pirate raid.
Ambassador of the Dawn

2012

Ambassador of the Dawn

2012
Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of Azerbaijani drama, a great public figure, who left an indelible mark on the history of Azerbaijani and Middle Eastern literature . The film depicts three periods of the playwright's life - childhood, youth and old age.
National Security

2012

National Security

2012
7.4
On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.
Operation Autumn

2012

Operation Autumn

2012
6.8
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
In the Fog

2012

In the Fog

2012
6.2
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
Kanji Ishiwara: The Man Who Triggered the War

2012

Kanji Ishiwara: The Man Who Triggered the War

2012
5
Most people think that World War II started on September 1st, 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, and then spread to Asia on September 7th 1941, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. However, World War II actually started ten years earlier, when Manchuria was invaded by a now-forgotten Japanese general: Kanji Ishiwara. This is the little known truth about the most famous war in history.
Général Ishiwara - L'homme qui déclencha la guerre

2012

Général Ishiwara - L'homme qui déclencha la guerre

2012