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Paradise Now and Hunger
1980
(Year: 2014; Director: Iñaki Arteta)
Direct witnesses of the terrorist attacks that took place in the Basque Country and the rest of Spain during 1980 relate their experiences.
5 Broken Cameras (Five Broken Cameras)
(Country: Palestine, Israel, France; Year: 2011; Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi)
A Palestinian journalist chronicles his village’s resistance to a separation barrier being erected on their land and in the process captures his young son’s lens on the world.
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.
Armadillo
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2010; Director: Janus Metz Pedersen)
A documentary charting the experiences of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan.
Asier And I (Asier ETA Biok, Asier Y Yo)
(Year: 2013; Director: Aitor Merino, Amaia Merino)
Personal documentary about a man whose friend was driven to join ETA.
5 Broken Cameras and The Act Of Killing
The Attack
(Country: Lebanon, France, Qatar, Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Ziad Doueiri; Writer: Ziad Doueiri, Joelle Touma, based on the novel by Yasmina Khadra.; Stars: Ali Suliman, Evgenia Dodena, Reymond Amsalem, Dvir Benedek, Uri Gavriel, Ruba Salameh, Karim Saleh, Ramzi Makdessi, Ezra Dagan, Michael Warshaviak, Eli Gorenstein, Vladimir Friedman, Mohammed Nabulsi, Hassan Yassine, Nisrine Seksek)
An Arab surgeon is faced with his wife's dark secret in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (La pelota vasca. La piel contra la piedra)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2003; Director: Julio Medem; Writer: Julio Medem; Stars: Xabier Arzalluz, Bernardo Atxaga, Txiki Benegas, Txetxo Bengoetxea, Julen de Madariaga, Odón Elorza, Iñaki Gabilondo, Carlos Garaikoetxea, Anika Gil, Felipe González, Carmelo Gómez, Juan José Ibarretxe, Fermín Muguruza, Gemma Nierga, Arnaldo Otegi)
Documentary about the Basque nationalist movement in Spain.
Bloody Sunday
(Country: UK, Ireland; Year: 2002; Director: Paul Greengrass; Writer: Paul Greengrass; Stars: James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds, Carmel McCallion, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Villiers, James Hewitt, Declan Duddy, Edel Frazer, Joanne Lindsay, Mike Edwards, Gerry Hammond, Jason Stammers)
Dramatisation of the Bogside Massacre.
Cirkus Columbia
(Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, UK, Germany, Slovenia, Belgium, Serbia; Year: 2010; Director: Danis Tanovic; Writer: Ivica Djikic, Danis Tanovic; Stars: Miki Manojlovic, Boris Ler, Mira Furlan, Jelena Stupljanin, Mario Knezovic, Milan Strljic, Svetislav Goncic, Almir Mehic, Ermin Bravo, Mirza Tanovic, Miralem Zupcevic, Mirsad Tuka, Slaven Knezovic, Jasna Beri, Adnan Besirovic)
In 1991, family trouble brews in a small town in the former Yugoslavia, when a man returns to his roots with a pocketful of cash and a life full of problems.
Common Borders (Mugaminak)
(Year: 2016; Director: Xuban Intxausti )
Examining the two halves of Cyprus.
The Look Of Silence and The State I'm In
Darwin's Nightmare
(Country: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany; Year: 2004; Director: Hubert Sauper; Writer: Hubert Sauper; Stars: Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia, Marcus Nyoni, Sergey Samarets, Jonathan Nathanael, Msafiri 'Safiri' Habat, Dima Rogonov, Vladimir Tarasenko, Jura Biriuchev, Stanislav Ivanchenko, Jakob Maiseli, Lalit Malhotra, Shadard Mkono, Cleopa Kaijage)
Documentary concerning the effect of fishing on the Nile perch in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
The Day God Walked Away (Le jour où Dieu est parti en voyage)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2009; Director: Philippe Van Leeuw; Writer: Philippe Van Leeuw; Stars: Lola Tuyaerts, Pierrick Le Pochat, Lætitia Reva, Ruth Nirere, Aphrodice Tuyizere, Juliette Nsengiyumya, Ismael Dusengimana, Emmanuel Kayitaba, Pacifique Niyotwizera, Mariam Mupenzi, Afazali Dewaele)
One woman's experience of the Rwandan genocide.
The Disintegration (La désintégration)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2011; Director: Philippe Faucon; Writer: Philippe Faucon, Eric Nebot, Mohamed Sifaoui; Stars: Rashid Debbouze, Yassine Azzouz, Ymanol Perset, Mohamed Nachit, Zahra Addioui, Kamel Laadaili, Keltoume El Hanafi, Habib Bejaoui, Mustapha Kharmoudi, Emilie Wiest, Franck Andrieux, Smaïn Guattai, Meriem Amari, Mourad Bekhiti, Michel Masiero)
Young men are recruited by a terrorist cell.
Dry Season (Daratt)
(Country: Chad, France, Belgium, Austria; Year: 2006; Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun; Writer: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun; Stars: Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro,
Aziza Hisseine, Khayar Oumar
Defallah, Djibril Ibrahim)
After an amnesty is declared on
crimes committed during the civil
war, Atim's grandfather gives him
a gun and send him out to
avenge his murdered father; but
the man he meets is not what he
expected.
El Violin (The Violin)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2006; Director: Francisco Vargas Quevedo; Writer: Francisco Vargas Quevedo; Stars: Don Angel Tavira, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama, Octavio Castro, Mario Garibaldi)
An old violinist tries to help his son's guerrilla faction.
Armadillo and El Violin
Heli
(Year: 2013; Director: Amat Escalante; Writer: Amat Escalante, Gabriel Reyes)
A man's search for his missing father sees him drawn into a world of drugs and crime.
Hunger
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Steve McQueen; Writer: Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Liam McMahon, Brian Milligan), Official Site, Trailer
Examination of the events leading up to and during Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike. Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes.
Je Suis Charlie (L'humour à mort)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Daniel Leconte, Emmanuel Leconte; Writer: Daniel Leconte, Emmanuel Leconte; Stars: Elisabeth Badinter, Gérard Biard, Marisa Bret, Cabu, Charb, Corinne Rey, Antonio Fischetti, François Hollande, Richard Malka, Eric Porthault, Riss, Tignous, Philippe Val, Besse, Soufiane Zitouni)
Documentary paying tribute to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in France.
Johnny Mad Dog
(Country: France, Belgium, Liberia; Year: 2008; Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire; Writer: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire; Stars: Christophe Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy), Trailer
As civil war rages in an unnamed African country, the lives of a boy soldier and a young girl fleeing the fighting become intertwined.
Lasa And Zabala (Lasa Y Zabala)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Pablo Malo; Writer: Joanes Urkixo; Stars: Unax Ugalde, Román Reyes, Aitor Mazo, Ricard Sales, Pep Tosar, Oriol Vila, Francesc Orella, Pedro Morales, Iñigo Gastesi, Jon Anza, Cristian Mercha)
The true story of Lasa and Zabala, two Basque refugees who were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1983. Twelve years later, lawyers Iñigo and Fede will struggle to identify the murderers, putting their convictions and even their own lives on the line.
Johnny Mad Dog and S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
A Light At The End Of The Tunnel In The Basque Country (Al Final Del Tunel)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Andres Guiloff)
Documentary investigates the end of terrorism by ETA, taking a look at its roots in Basque nationalism and offering a collective portrait of this part of Basque society at a moment key to its future in peace and freedom.
The Look Of Silence
(Country: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Indonesia, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Joshua Oppenheimer)
Consideration of Indonesian genocide.
Maidan
(Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.
Oblivion (El Olvido)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2008; Director: Heddy Honigmann; Writer: Sonia Goldenberg, Heddy Honigmann, Judith Vreriks)
The filmmaker returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru.
Omagh
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2004; Director: Pete Travis; Writer: Paul Greengrass, Guy Hibbert; Stars: Gerard McSorley, Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker, Stuart Graham, Peter Ballance, Pauline Hutton, Fiona Glascott, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Clare Connor, Gerard Crossan, Ian McElhinney, Sarah Gilbert, Alan Devlin, Frances Quinn, Tara Lynne O'Neill)
An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Dry Season and Maidan
Paradise Now
(Country: France / Germany / Netherlands / Israel; Year: 2005; Director: Hany Abu-Assad; Writer: Hany Abu-Assad, Bero Beyer, Pierre Hodgson; Stars: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhom, Mohammad Bustami)
Palestinian thriller on the explosive subject of suicide bombers
The Problem, Testimony Of The Saharawi People (El problema, testimonio del pueblo saharaui)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Jordi Ferrer, Pablo Vidal)
Documentary about the Saharawi, whose lives are threatened by Morocco's occupation of the Western Sahara.
The Sea's Daughter (Itsasoaren Alaba)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: José Martínez)
A young woman researches the story of her refugee father, who was killed when she was an infant.
S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine (S-21, La Machine De Mort Khmère Rouge, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine)
(Country: Cambodia, France; Year: 2003; Director: Rithy Panh; Writer: Rithy Panh; Stars: Khieu 'Poev' Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhiem Ein, Houy Him, Ta Him, Nhieb Ho, Prakk Kahn)
A look inside the S21 prison at the heart of the Cambodian genocide.
The State I'm In (Die Innere Sicherheit)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2000; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki; Stars: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer,
Richy Muller, Bilge Bingul,
Gunther Maria Halmer, Katharina
Schuttler)
Old revolutionaries still on the
run flee from Portugal to
Germany with their teenage
daughter.
Heli and The Sea's Daughter
To Die In Jerusalem
(Country: Israel; Year: 2007; Director: Hilla Medalia)
The effects of a suicide bombing on the family of the attacker and a victim.
Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand)
(Country: Iran, France, Iraq; Year: 2004; Director: Bahman Ghobadi; Writer: Bahman Ghobadi; Stars: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari)
In a Kurdish refugee camp, on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, teenagers await their fate.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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