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Clarissa’s Battle
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Tamara Perkins)
A single Black mother inspired to fight for the rights of others by her experience of homelessness faces a personal healthcare crisis as the Covid-19 pandemic hits.
Delikado
(Country: Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, USA, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Karl Malakunas)
Bobby, Tata and Nieves – a charismatic lawyer, a former illegal logger and a fearless politician – are three magnetic leaders fighting to stop corporations and governments seeking to plunder increasingly valuable natural resources from the island of Palawan.
Eternal Spring
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Jason Loftus)
Following the hijacking of a TV station and police raids in Changchun City, comic book illustrator, Daxiong, a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening violent repression, but his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, who is living in Seoul, South Korea.
The Janes
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes)
In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on Chicago's South Side. Seven women were arrested. The accused were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions. They called themselves JANE.
Midwives
(Country: Canada, Germany, Myanmar; Year: 2022; Director: Hnin Ei Hlaing)
Two midwives work side-by-side in a makeshift clinic in Myanmar.
The New Greatness Case
(Country: Finland, Croatia, Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Anna Sishova)
Anya was an ordinary teenager, discussing Russian politics and social issues on the internet with a group of friends, when a secret agent joined their chat group and rented them a meeting space – pushing them toward direct physical action. Police stormed their homes to arrest and jail the teens, accusing them of plotting to overthrow the government and fabricating charges of extremism.
No U-Turn
(Country: France, Nigeria, South Africa, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Ike Nnaebue)
As a young man, celebrated Nigerian director Ike Nnaebue left Nigeria taking the route via Benin, Mali, and Mauritania to Morocco where he was forced to turn back, unable to reach Europe. In his first documentary, No U-Turn, he retraces the life-changing journey he made over 20 years ago.
Rebellion (Beyond The Emergency)
(Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Maia Kenworthy, Elena Sánchez Bellot)
A documentary about a group of ordinary people stop playing by the rules, embracing civil disobedience and sounding the alarm for climate breakdown.
Up To G-Cup
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Jacqueline van Vugt)
Northern Iraq’s first lingerie store not only sells underwear, but also acts as a meeting place where women connect to their bodies and sensuality after overcoming the traumas of oppression, war, and conservative morality.
You Resemble Me (Tu Me Ressembles)
(Country: US, France, Egypt; Year: 2021; Director: Dina Amer; Writer: Dina Amer, Omar Mullick; Stars: Lorenza Grimaudo, Ilonna Grimaudo, Grégoire Colin, Sabrina Ouazani, Zinedine Soualem, Dina Amer, Mouna Soualem, Hedi Bouchenafa, Tania Dessources, Nassima Benchicou, Elodie Rouprêt, Sana Sri, Nassima Benichou, Djino Grimaudo, Romain Royet)
Cultural and inter-generational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris.
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