October 2019, Frédéric Furnelle is hosted for a week by Assayuh, who lives in an isolated village, seven days' walk from Lalibela in Ethiopia.
Karima helps her mother, Aïcha, who suffers from Alzheimer, go over valuable moments of her life on tape, rendering them immortal. From Brussels to Tangier, the odyssey of a family marked by exile is evoked through confessions, pains, separations, grieves and joys. A touching tribute from a daughter to her mother.
From 1996 to 2012, Anny’s life -or more precisely, Anny’s lives- was -were- recorded by Helena Trestíková. Living in Czech Republic, Anny is a modest, funny and persevering woman from the working class.
In 1984, the Swedish mining company Boliden had toxic waste shipped to Chile, where it was supposed to be properly treated. In reality, some of the waste was dumped on the edge of the desert town of Arica, with disastrous consequences for the health of the inhabitants.
Through the portraits of three young women environmental activists , Dear Future Children, captures the energy, determination and creativity of a generation which, although they might not know it, are already making a big impact on the world. A powerful movie from which you don’t leave the same !
For two decades, the victims of the Six-Day War in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been fighting for the recognition of this bloody conflict and demanding compensation.
In Turkey, more than one in three women is a victim of domestic violence and the number of femicides continues to grow. Filmed over a period of five years, Dying to Divorce follows the poignant struggle of a Turkish lawyer, Ipek Bozkurt, in the face of scandalously lenient justice towards violent men.
Millenium Studio debate on 9 May here
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As Hungary’s political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the pretend-to-be democratic parliament of Hungary and retires from politics. She and her musician partner, Nóra, decide to adopt a child and focus on building a family together.
Two young intellectuals arrive in a small industrial town to work as teachers. They are idealistic and dream of changing the educational system in an environment marked by conservatism.
In a remote hamlet in Belarus. Walentyna, 92, lives in a small cottage where she takes care of her daughter, Tania, who was born paralyzed.
Welcome to Icemeltland Park, a new amusement park where tourists flock to watch the collapse of the Greenland ice pack. Treated as a dystopia, this documentary is a pamphlet as effective as it is caustic, pinning down, with biting irony, a disastrous environmental spectacle.
Based on the audio testimonies of three immigrants, Immersion reflects their adaptation to a festive but flooded city.
Erlend Mo, his wife and their three children lead a picture-perfect life on an idyllic farm in Norway. The only downside is that both parents often commute to work by plane, and their carbon footprint weighs heavily on their conscience.
Jac has everything he needs to be happy; land with horses, chickens, a vegetable garden... A little earthly paradise that he shares with his wife Ria, and which he considers to be his life's work. Unfortunately, he suffers from an incurable cerebral sclerosis which has created irreversible damage and which time will hardly improve.
The Australian model Maddy Stuart has walked the catwalk at New York Fashion Week, been on the cover of international fashion magazines, and has more than 700,000 followers on Facebook. But life is not straightforward, as Maddy has to fight her own battles every day.
Millenium Studio debate on 9 May here
Thousands of visitors come every day to the zoo of the Iranian city of Mashhad to see Bengal tigress Maya and her trainer Mohsen. Since he raised the animal, he is the only person Maya listens to, and both of them formed an astonishing relationship.
This experimental short film revisits the 2014 massacre in Isla Vista, California, during which six people’s lives were taken away by Elliot Rodger.
Once a goldmine for the entire Venezuelan population thanks to its oil reserves, the region surrounding Lake Maracaibo is now abandoned. Stricken by drought and pollution, forgotten by the government, the floating village of Congo Mirador sees its inhabitants inexorably exile and die little by little.
Located in the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea. Ophir looks back at the history of a people who have suffered colonisation but are still seeking freedom and independence.
In July 2019, five women attempt to cross Kuururjuaq Park in Quebec's far north. They follow a 160-kilometre passage that has been used by Inuit hunters for thousands of years.
At the end of 2019, a revolution rises in Chile. A group of friends actively joins the protests.
It is through family photos and fictional conversations that the director, Firouzeh Khosrovani, tells us how her father, turned towards modernity, and her mother, religious and conservative, coexist under one roof and evolve differently with the changes in Iranian history.
When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for a stable and secure future for their family, they are separated from their children. Rana is in Denmark, Muklhes lives in Canada and their sons Jad and Nidal, aged 11 and 17 years old, are alone in Turkey.
A tribe in the desert decided to stay on its land and fight for an education for its children. A dream that does not come true without difficulties, because when a child goes to school, they cannot work next to their parents.
Khavaj, a young and hopeful Chechen of MMA (mixed martial arts), was forced to flee his country under threat from his brother, who discovered he was gay. The shock of exile and death threats caused psychogenic aphonia, leaving him unable to speak.
In the heart of the Calais Jungle, the "blue house on the hill" is the work of Alpha, an artist in exile for many years.
What is the boundary between the "I" of the individual and the "actor's play", and what are the limits that should not be transgressed? These are the questions this documentary raises through the testimonies of six young women who were manipulated, assaulted and sexually abused during an audition.
Ten years ago, Wu lost his one-year-old son, kidnapped in his own house during the night. Convinced that his son was sold to another family, Wu does not give up hope.
A political refugee in France, Diako Yazdani returns to Iraqi Kurdistan and seizes the opportunity to introduce his family to Kojin, a 23-year-old gay friend.
From its manufacturing process to its first intrusion into our lives and through its gradual invasion into our daily lives, The Story of Plastic traces with exceptional thoroughness and great originality the history of this material considered at one time as a revolution but the use and recycling of which are now one of the major environmental issues.
Millenium Studio debate on 9 May here
In search of the reasons for his chronic insomnia, the director films his own investigation into sleep.
Filmed like a real spy movie, Wood is an unmistakable environmental thriller that is by no means fictional.
Songs, stories and voices resound in the camp of Dheisheh, Palestine, along with a group of young men looking for their friend who is about to go out of jail.
