20 Days In Mariupol and Iron Butterflies
20 Days In Mariupol
(Country: Ukraine; Year: 2023; Director: Mstyslav Chernov)
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.
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5 Seasons Of Revolution
(Country: Germany, Syria, Netherlands, Norway; Year: 2023; Director: Lina)
An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
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Against The Tide
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Sarvnik Kaur)
The threats facing India's Koli fishing community are explored through the story of two friends with very different approaches to their tradition.
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The Eternal Memory
(Country: Chile; Year: 2023; Director: Maite Alberdi)
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognises her.
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Fantastic Machine (And The King Said, What A Fantastic Machine)
(Country: Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck)
From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity’s unique obsession with the camera’s image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
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Against The Tide and Fantastic Machine
Iron Butterflies
(Country: Ukraine, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Roman Liubyi)
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot's body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.
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Is There Anybody Out There?
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Ella Glendining)
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
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The Longest Goodbye
(Country: Israel, Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Ido Mizrahy)
Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist is tasked with protecting these daring explorers.
World premiere. Day One
Milisuthando
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2023; Director: Milisuthando Bongela)
Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.
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Pianoforte
(Country: Poland; Year: 2023; Director: Jakub Piątek)
Young pianists take part in the legendary International Chopin Piano Competition. A unique chance of a lifetime, portrayed from backstage and set to Chopin’s music.
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Is There Anybody Out There? and Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
(Country: Estonia, France, Iceland; Year: 2023; Director: Anna Hints)
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
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Twice Colonized
(Country: Greenland, Denmark, Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Lin Alluna)
Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But can she both change the world and mend her own wounds?
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