Millenium Festival 26.03 – 06.04, 2023

COURAGE

Director: Aliaksei Paluyan Year: 2021 Country: Germany Language: Belarusian, Russian Subtitles: English, French Maryna, Pavel and Denis belong to an underground theatre group in Minsk, Belarus.

Détruire rajeunit

Director: Benjamin Hennot Year: 2021 Country: Belgium Language: French Subtitles: English The winter of 1960 to 1961 saw the longest general strike to ever take place in Belgium since the Second World War. Up to two months of total shutdown in the country to oppose an austerity law.

Behind The Swedish Model

Director: Viktor Nordenskiöld Year: 2022 Country: Sweden Language: Swedish, English Subtitles: English, French A unique behind the scenes documentary from deep within the Swedish government, following the decision makers, the management and their controversial fights against the Covid 19 pandemic.

Before the Dying of the Light

Director: Ali Essafi Year: 2020 Country: Morocco Language: Arabic, French Subtitles: English, French In Morocco, the 1970s represent the last period where social struggles and dreams of change were a reality.

Tout commence

Director: Frédéric Choffat Year: 2022 Country: Switzerland Language: French Subtitles: English In early 2019, young people marched through the streets of Switzerland and around the world to raise awareness of the climate emergency.

Estos Muros

Director: Alberto Pascual Year: 2021 Country: Spain Language: Spanish Subtitles: English, French A poem written on the ruins of a building near a train track in the Sierra of Madrid leads us to one of the darkest episodes in Spanish history, namely the labor camps for Republican political prisoners under the Franco dictatorship.

Game of Truth

Director: Fabienne Lips-Dumas Year: 2021 Country: Belgium, France, Ireland Language: French, English Subtitles: English, French For thirty years, Northern Ireland was scarred by a conflict between Catholics and Protestants. In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the Troubles, thirty years of attacks and assassinations marked by state secrecy.

Ghosts of Afghanistan

Director: Julian Sher Country: Canada Language: English Subtitles: French As the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and the “good war” ends in chaos and tragedy, Graeme Smith, a war correspondent, gives a first-hand account of NATO’s failed attempt to bring democracy, women’s rights and freedoms to the country.

Judges Under Pressure

Director: Kacper Lisowski Country: Poland Language: Polish Subtitles: English, French In Poland, the independence of the judiciary  has been seriously threatened since the coming to power of Law and Justice, a far-right party.

Media Crash

Director: Valentine Oberti, Luc Hermann Country: France Language: French Subtitles: English There’s what you see, what some want you to see, and what you don’t see.