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Films screening during the NYC edition of the festival
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Which Way Is The Front Line from Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington and Tall As The Baobab Tree
99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Kristic)
New York premiere
The Occupy movement erupted in September 2011, propelling economic inequality into the spotlight. In an unprecedented collaboration, filmmakers across America tell its story, digging into big picture issues as organisers, analysts, participants and critics reveal how it happened and why.
The Act Of Killing
(Country: Denmark, Norway, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn)
People responsible for the mass murder of suspeced Communists at the onset of the military regime in 1965 are challenged to restage their actions and question the pride they still take in them.
ANITA
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Freida Mock)
New York premiere
American woman, charges Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment in explosive Senate hearings in 1991 – bringing sexual politics into the national consciousness and fueling 20 years of international debate on the issues.
An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Al Reinert; Writer: John Dean, Nellie Gonzalez, Al Reinert; Stars: Nellie Gonzalez)
New York premiere
Story of one man's fight to overturn his murder conviction.
Born This Way
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Shaun Kadlec, Deb Tullmann; Stars: Alice Nkom)
New York premiere
A visit to a support centre for LGBT people in Cameroon, and the judge who is fighting for their rights.
In The Shadow Of The Sun and The Act Of Killing
Camera/Woman
(Year: 2012; Director: Karima Zoubir)
US premiere
With enthusiastic musicians and ornate wedding parties setting the stage, we meet Khadija, a Moroccan divorcee who works as a camerawoman at weddings in Casablanca.
Camp 14 - Total Control Zone
(Year: 2012; Director: Marc Wiese)
New York premiere
Documentary about the life of a man born in a North Korean prison camp.
deepsouth
(Country: US; Director: Lisa Biagiotti)
US premiere
Explores the rural American South and the people who inhabit its most distant corners
Fatal Assistance (Assistance mortelle)
(Country: France, Haiti, US, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Raoul Peck; Writer: Raoul Peck)
US premiere
Award-winning Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a two-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory, and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.
Going Up The Stairs
(Country: Iran; Year: 2011; Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami)
New York premiere
A dutiful Iranian wife overcomes her insecurities and her husband's objections and becomes an internationally celebrated artist.
My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone and Solar Mama
In The Shadow Of The Sun
(Country: UK, Tanzania; Year: 2012; Director: Harry Freeland), Official Site
The story of two men with albinism in Tanzania pursuing their dreams in the face of virulent prejudice.
New York premiere
My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2012; Director: Nagieb Khaja)
Nagieb Khaja, a Danish journalist of Afghan origin, gives people living in outlying communities in Helmand province mobile phones equipped with cameras and asks them to film their daily lives.
The New Black
(Year: 2013; Director: Yoruba Richen)
New York premiere
The story of how the African American community is grappling with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in light of the marriage equality movement and the fight over civil rights.
The Parade (Parada)
(Country: Serbia / Croatia / Macedonia / Slovenia; Year: 2011; Director: Srdjan Dragojevic; Writer: Srdjan Dragojevic; Stars: Nikola Kojo, Milos Samolov, Hristina Popovic, Goran Jevtic, Toni Mihailovski)
Srdjan Dragojević’s film takes a comedic look at survival strategies for gays in Serbia and at a society that even now, years after the Balkan war, is still fragmented and riven by two entrenched fronts.
Solar Mama (Rafea: Solar Mama)
(Country: US, Denmark, Egypt; Year: 2012; Director: Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim; Stars: Abu Badr, Umm Badr, Raouf Dabbas, Rafea)
New York premiere
Documentary follows a Bedouin woman as she joins a programme that trains illiterate women to be engineers.
Camp 14 - Total Control Zone and ANITA
Tall As The Baobab Tree (Grand Comme Le Baobab)
(Country: Senegal, US; Year: 2012; Director: Jeremy Teicher; Writer: Jeremy Teicher, Alexi Pappas; Stars: Dior Kâ, Oumoul Kâ, Cheikh Dia)
After her brother has an accident, her father is forced to sell her younger sister into an arranged marriage, but Coumba hatches a plan to save her.
New York premiere
The Undocumented
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Marco Williams)
New York premiere
Investigating the deaths of undocumented migrants in the Arizona desert.
Which Way Is The Front Line from Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Sebastian Junger)
Tribute to the photojournalist and documentarian who was killed in Libya in 2011.
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