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- After killing a cop in a Delhi brothel, Renuka takes refuge in a northern India community of sex workers. There, she begins a forbidden romance with the 17-year-old Devika. Against all odds, they try to forge their path to freedom.
- A serial killer is operating on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border. Captains Peiry from Switzerland and Bouanni from France investigate the macabre crimes. But the Swiss captain has problems of her own.
- Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find - and flee - deeper connections.
- A portrait comprised of material from the archives of Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. Through his desire to liberate his country and transform his fellow citizens' way of thinking by questioning the world order and challenging the authority of those with power at that time, he made a mark on both African and world history.
- Rosa leaves Cape Verde and relocates to Lisbon in the hope of giving her children a better life. Between the harassment of gangster bosses and police violence, she tries to find comfort in the women of the community and escape into music.
- A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to the new neighbors.
- Some Palestinians who were held in an Israeli detention center are assembled to re-enact their experience in an effort to heal.
- After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.
- When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles.
- On a road trip, Ahmed a train conductor is torn between his loyalty to the old Tunisian railway company and his personal aspirations, while Fitati, his colleague, chooses to become a whistleblower on train accidents.
- In summer 2013, a statue of Apollo more than 2500 years old is discovered in the nets of a fisherman from Gaza. Then, the statue vanishes, opening all sorts of speculations: hidden in a tunnel, hostage of armed groups, destroyed by fundamentalists or resold to international traffickers of art. Proven or fantasized, the wildest assumptions circulate about the statue. It is like a symbol of what this region of the world means in everybody's imagination. God of the Arts and Poetry, but also of the Oracles and the Divinations, who would know better than the Apollo to put his witty and elevated look on this part of the world prey to the madness of the Men?
- Inspired by his own psychological excavations, Andoni develops the concept to apply to modern-day Palestine, a project that inspires this witty, personal and compelling film. Featuring a colorful array of characters, including members of the director's own family, Andoni explores the individual memories of Palestinians, whose life experiences have been shaped by military occupation, oppression of the people and continuous erosion of citizens' rights. In a place so dominated by collective consciousness and identity, finding individuality becomes the focus of this fascinating - and moving - study.
- I spent weeks filming in Marseille's Quartier nord, a district of the city mainly known in the media for its drug trafficking, gang shootings and kalashnikovs. There, I met an amazing person, named Yvan Sorel. He runs a MMA (Mixed martial Arts) club in the middle of this neighbourhood. Day after day, all on his own, with no support from the state, which gave up on this area a long time ago, he fights to keep the children and teenagers on the right path. It's a film about violence, education, moral values, faith and dignity.
- Upon returning home to Iran after more than two decades abroad, visiting professor Arash is quickly thrust into a past he's spent his whole life trying to escape.
- Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. "Aisheen" is a tribute to life.
- They are four young men and four young women, from different backgrounds, united in their conviction that society must change. Revolted by the political situation in those troubled 1970s, they decide to mount a spectacular action to expose the complicity of Swiss banks in the crimes of a heinous South-American dictatorship. Vehicles, weapons, safe houses: "Operation Libertad" is prepared carefully. In a shrewd move, a member of the group is equipped with a portable camera; he will film the operation as it unfolds, producing material that will boost its impact in the mass media. When the day arrives, everything goes exactly as planned -- till hitting a snag. The first in a series of disconcerting hitches that throw the group increasingly off balance...
- From the summit of the Soviet empire to the solitude and poverty of her last years in Wisconsin, the destiny of Joseph Stalin's only daughter, a resolutely free woman, at the very heart of the century and its geopolitical challenges.
- In the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they produce a barrel every few days. They wish above all else to see their youngest son succeed, to break the cycle of poverty.
- Carmen Aristegui has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by more than 18 million listeners, Carmen continues her fight. Her goal: raising awareness and fighting against misinformation.
- ROUGE PAROLE is the story of the Tunisian popular revolution, emotionally told by its heroes through both their silence and their clamors. It is the story of Freedom, summoned by History.
- A mosaic of 13 short films less than 3 minutes in length, reflecting in one shot, the mood of summer.
- As the daughter of a former communist, the young director visits the interfaces of revolt, where communities attempt to realize utopia in concrete terms.
- On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show. When the kidnappers arrive at the place of detention, they find themselves cut off from their base. Ensues a 7-day no exit situation, in which both sides are forced to live together, confront each other and challenge their mutual prejudices.
- Terminus Brig and his authors Frédéric Choffat and Luis Lema received in February 2016 by the French European Foreign Affair Minister the great "Louise Weiss Prize", from the European Journalists Association.
- Is Europe guilty of non assistance to people in danger ?
- In a Lisbon neighborhood worn by gentrification, Maria, a young female rapper, and her old neighbors expect expulsion. Through her songs and by digging in the trauma of her origins, she finds the strength to face the present.
- Ten years ago, activists wanting to experience a collective way of life besieged a wooded countryside near Nantes in order to block the construction of a new airport. L'Étincelle paints an empathetic portrait of the environmentalists who raise questions about the future of the "Zone à défendre", when their struggle leads to a first victory: the cancellation of the airport project.
- Thirteen-year-old Nicolas lives in a foster home with his best friend, Saef. He enjoys many of the pleasures of childhood and sees his mother from time to time, but soon he will have to find his place.
- -In 2016, in Quebec (Canada), ten students from Maisonneuve College (in Montreal) went to jihad: the establishment then set up a "living together" project.
- On the eve of the Geneva holiday fireworks, information from the American secret services shook the canton: jihadists would be on the verge of committing an attack in the international city. A State Councilor, her communications advisor, a police officer and the Attorney General are busy in a crisis cell which quickly turns into a tense and suffocating closed session.
- Melting snow reveals a woman's body. Her murder seems to have macabre aspects. Sterenn Peiry is put in charge of the case but crosses ethical boundaries to help her son, Jérémy.
- Sterenn covers up for Jérémy. She also continues her investigation, together with French detective Lyes Bouaouni. Mélinda's absence is noticed.
- The noose is tightening around Sterenn's secret. Lyes questions Jérémy. Sterenn uncovers the link between the serial killer's victims.
- A race against the clock begins when the serial killer resorts to kidnapping. Sterenn tries to convince the killer to spare his victim's life. Where will this end?
- Sterenn has only hours left to honour the pact if she wants to save her son. Lyes is convinced that Mélinda is not one of the serial killer's victims. So who killed her?
- Lyes convinces the Swiss police that Sterenn is involved in a cover-up. Sterenn and Jérémy are both arrested, but the pact is still to be fulfilled.