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Black Box Diaries (Country: US, UK, Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Shiori Ito)
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
Dahomey (Country: France, Senegal, Benin; Year: 2024; Director: Mati Diop)
Documentary about the return of artworks to Benin that were looted by French colonisers.
Daughters (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae)
Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, DC, jail.
Ernest Cole, Lost And Found (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Raoul Peck; Stars: LaKeith Stanfield)
Documentary profiling the Black freelance photographer.
Frida (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Carla Gutierrez; Stars: Frida Kahlo)
Documentary of Frida Kahlo, told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews.
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Union and Will & Harper
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Lucy Walker; Stars: Lhakpa Sherpa)
A single mother working as a dishwasher has another life as a record-breaking mountain climber and the first Nepali woman ever to reach the summit of Everest.
No Other Land (Country: Palestinian Territories; Year: 2024; Director: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
Porcelain War (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev; Writer: Aniela Sidorska, Brendan Bellomo, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Slava Leontyev)
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
Queendom (Country: France, US; Year: 2023; Director: Agniia Galdanova)
Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape, and protests the government on the streets of Moscow. Born and raised on the harsh streets of Magadan, a frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag, Gena is only 21. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism.
The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin (Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Benjamin Ree; Stars: Kelsey Ellison, Zoe Croft, Paul Wild, Ed Larkin, Elena Pitsiaeli, Sebastian Tjørstad, John Andrew Mclay)
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
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Queendom and Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat
Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat (Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Johan Grimonprez; Writer: Johan Grimonprez; Stars: Dag Hammarskjöld, Nikita Khrushchev, Patrice Lumumba, Andrée Blouin)
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Sugarcane (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat)
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Union (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Stephen Maing, Brett Story)
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) - a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island - takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionise.
Will & Harper (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Josh Greenbaum; Stars: Will Ferrell, Harper Steele)
When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.
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