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- A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
- A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
- A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
- Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- In 2020 Gurbaz Sangha, a young Punjabi farmer led thousands to Delhi protesting new Farm Laws. Joined by over half a million from diverse backgrounds they remained at borders despite COVID lockdown vowing to stay until laws were repealed.
- An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
- As life crumbles, a struggling musician takes a big leap to find his true artistic expression. A life-changing process ensues with an unlikely source of inspiration.
- An in-depth look into the unique bond between Evangelical Christianity and the Jewish State.
- In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption.
- What started as a docu-drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, became an investigation of a massive hoax and an unprecedented international cover-up.The Magnitsky Case in the version of the financier Bill Browder became the basis for laws and sanctions targeting Russian police and other officials, and for the claims that Putin personally had received a share of the millions looted from the Russian people. The film's director and a Kremlin critic, Andrei Nekrasov discovers that a narrative defining Western Russia policies is riddled with falsehooods.
- One season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.
- The New Greatness Case offers remarkable access to a group of young Russians entrapped by the secret service, resulting in unjust trials and prison sentences - echoing the intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia we see on the news every day. As we are witnessing the intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia, The New Greatness Case brings you into the life of young Russians caught in the crossfire. Anya was an ordinary teenager, discussing Russian politics and social issues on the internet with a group of friends, when a secret agent joined their chat group and rented them a meeting space - pushing them towards direct physical action. Police storm their homes to arrest and jail the teens, accusing them of plotting to overthrow the government and fabricating charges of extremism. Three years later, Anya's mother, continuing her desperate fight to prove her daughter's innocence, has transformed from a loyal follower of Vladimir Putin to a hunger-strike enacting political activist. With hidden camera footage, and an intimate relationship with the protagonists, director Anna Shishova shows the complete repression of present-day Russia, and how young, free-thinking people, are seen as a threat to the government.
- A camera in the hands of African Union soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, captures the war on the jihadist militants in Al-Shabaab.
- Today, more than 200.000 men, women and children are locked up in North Korea's concentration camps. Systematic torture, starvation and murder is what faces the inmates. Few survive many years in the camps, but the population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be 'class enemies'. A small group of people have managed to flee from the camps to a new life in the prosperous South Korea. Some of them gather and decide to make an extraordinary and controversial musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp. Despite death treats and many obstacles the musical becomes a tour de force for this ensemble of refugees and for them a possibility opens to talk about their experiences and inspire others to protest the existence of the camps.
- How John Dalli the EU commissioner of health was accused of being in the pocket of tobacco companies.
- An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter.
- A wild and funny documentary showing how the progressive youth of Afghanistan are rejecting the use of armed force and see film production as an alternative means of bringing peace and social change to their war-torn and occupied country.
- The film starts as a journey by the two directors-protagonists. Olga and Andrei, on the two sides of the frontline during the Russian-Georgian wars in August 2008. A film on such a hot political (and geopolitical) subject first of all establishes emotional contact with the audience by depicting human drama, before coming up with political conclusions. They emerge naturally and powerfully as overwhelming evidence of Russian imperialist plot shows through the Russian media smokescreen as well as mistakes and naivete of the Georgians. The filmmakers return to their St. Petersburg studio loaded with unique footage and evidence which they analyze in the process of film-editing. This process is intertwined in the film's narrative and the viewer gets a sense of partaking in it. In this way the filmmakers are able to come to forceful conclusions without slipping into propaganda and prejudice that characterize too many films about the August war. Importantly the film puts the recent war in context of the post-Soviet history which has managed to keep its darkest secrets away from the international public's attention despite dozens of relevant UN resolutions. At the same time as Milosevic was earning the reputation of the biggest evil of the post-communist world, Russia was sponsoring and conducting the campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing against the Georgian population of integral parts of Georgia, with cruelty exceeding that of the war in the former Yugoslavia.
- A dozen years after his Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments, American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence.
- A personal journey of director Avani Rai, who follows her father, the famous Indian photographer Raghu Rai.
- Snow Monkey is an epic portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
- A film about a Moroccan woman Hind who doesn't officially exist, because she was raped as a teenager, but who now is one particle of the greater political change sweeping across the Arab region.
- There has always been a distance between Bjarte and his grandfather, the great patriarch Alf Morner. This is about to change when Alf gives his grandson the strangest gift: a chest full of 8 mm films. In these films Bjarte finds the secret stories of Alf's adventurous past. Bjarte believes he has been given a treasure! However the gift has strings attached and soon Bjarte must embark on a voyage of his own. The gift is not a treasure chest, it's a map. Discoveries of a Marionette is a poetic and special award-winning documentary inviting to a melancholic, humorous and unforeseen expedition through life and death, over the sea and into eternity. Nothing less.
- Farewell Comrades paints a portrait of the Soviet Union's decline from the inside, covering the period from 1975 to 1991.
- A documentary on the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China, under strict control by the Chinese government.
- Richard Ringheim is a young celebrity criminal whose initially funny story turns ugly. From white-collar crime and zany stunts, he slides into a darker reality, where he plays a high-stake game involving forces few dare challenge.
- Nagieb Khaja is a Danish journalist of Afghan origin and he believes that the West makes decisions on Afghanistan based on an uninformed view of the country and its people. Nagieb a man with a mission. A few years ago Nagieb traveled to Afghanistan in order to refine the simplistic media image of the country, but he ended up as a prisoner of the Taliban and barely escaped. On the next trip, Nagieb brought 30 mobile cameras and asked Afghan civilians to film themselves. For the first time, we are invited into life in the forbidden zone with all the joys and sorrows, victories and defeats associated with living in the shadow of war.
- Instant Happiness is a documentary probing the lives of five youths in the house- and techno scene in Norway. It's about their search for identity and social position, but also about drugs and how it influence the participants lives.
- In many Western democracies, trust between the people and the politicians are at a low point while populist movements are on the rise. In Italy, Movimento vows to send all politicians home and bring the people to power. They win a stunning 25% of the vote, but what happens when political ideals meet parliamentary reality? Can you be uncompromising and democratic at the same time? Are internet referendums direct democracy or faceless mob rule? The film follows this democratic experiment.
- Whistle-blowers David Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, William Binney, Julian Assange and Annie Machon are interviewed about illegal surveillance by NSA, Nixon, MI5, MI6 and BND and the price whistle-blowers pay.
- A personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. The directors followed the artist Pushwagner for three years. He is an artist who is in danger of losing everything.
- In five years, Norun Haugen went undercover in the Norwegian pig industry with a hidden camera. What kind of life did the pig have before ending up on your dinner plate? What Norun found during her undercover is very shocking.
- A warm, charming and entertaining documentary about several first or second generation immigrants living in Oslo and Bergen. You will among others meet an immigrant on skis, an African woman living in Bergen who refuses to be buried any other place than her native Tanzania, a Norwegian army recruit from Sri Lanka, an Afghan business woman and a drug-addict of Norwegian-African heritage. Welcome Home flips your assumptions of immigrants upside-down whilst being a different take on the term 'home'.
- Get to know some of the people furthest down on the human rank. They have disconnected from society, which often had them written off as kids. They are gladly criminals, so they get their next fix.
- Norway has had one royal family for over 100 years, but now there is a man in the little community Fusa on the West Coast who challenges the centralized government and Oslo-based royalty. He decides to make Fusa the second kingdom of Norway, installing himself as supreme ruler. In a respectful but fairytale-like ceremony, Morten Holmefjord is crowned King of Fusa. Soon afterwards, he starts the necessary steps in order to secure his Rebel Kingdom sovereignty. He founds the Central Bank of Fusa, validates the Fusian currency and issues Fusian passports. The King then orders a Fusian flag, and soon it waves in the moist winds of the North sea. But all is not well in the little kingdom. The citizens, supportive of the King at first, start to divide. Some turn against him, and threats of violence and exclusion reaches the King. »I feel like I have released a Frankenstein monster. I have lost all sense of control» says the Fusa King. The film follows the King through the critical months where the future of the small kingdom will be determined. In order for Fusa to declare independence, the King must win the public vote. If he loses, he must abdicate and go in exile. There is a lot at stake.
- In Belarus, the totalitarian regime cracks down on all opposition. Anyone criticizing the dictator risks imprisonment and torture. Our film, Belarusian Waltz is on the incredible personal story of the performance artist Alexander Pushkin, who is one of very few who is not scared. Facing grave consequences he organizes public stunts that mock president Lukashenka. Through his art and sense of humour we take a deep dive into the soul of the Belarusian people.
- A year after the euphoria on Tahrir Square, the demonstrators' goals have not even come close to being reached. The country is ruled with an iron fist and there is still no democracy. The 'eye of the world' has moved elsewhere. How things have been in Egypt since 25 January 2011 is explained using five portraits of people from various walks of life. What have the sacrifices on Tahrir Square at the start of 2011 yielded? Unfortunately, not a great deal; this much is apparent from the stories of five Egyptians involved, about six months after the historic revolution. A young horse herdsman tells how he drove to the square to ask for the pyramids to be opened again; he only just managed to survive that day. A taxi driver talks about his six years in prison, the torture, and how the police now behave worse than ever. A young woman talks about intimidation and unjust arrests, which according to human rights lawyers are happening continuously. The young Salwa describes how she met her first love during the demonstrations. And then the brother of Michael Nabil: a blogger who was arrested because of his internet comments and is now on hunger strike - he is followed on Tahrir Square during the protests that still continue against the ongoing violations of human rights.
- A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart as they witness and film the Qana massacre. They secure video evidence indicating that Israel deliberately bombed a UN camp killing 106 refugees.
- 8:45 am. Hypochondriacs Clinic, Bergen, Norway. A young man is waiting for his consultation to start. In the next room, Dr. Wilhelmsen reads briefly through his journal, invites the patient in and sets up a video camera framing the nervous man in front of him. «Have you done your homework?» Dr. Wilhelmsen asks. «Yeah, I've looked through the tape from the last session, and what strikes me is that I didn't explain my problems properly.» Wilhelmsen plays the tape on TV. They watch the part from the last session where the patient explains his heart symptoms. The young man laughs at his own words and says: «Don't you agree it sounds a bit insane?» Wilhelmsen leans towards him and asks: «Do you know why? It is insane!» The film explores the insane world of hypochondriacs and points to a possible way out of the disease through therapy at the world's only dedicated hypochondriacs clinic. The clinic is situated in Bergen and is led by the renowned Dr. Ingvard Wilhelmsen.
- Exposing the true face of the fur industry
- A film that captures the live theatrical musical whose backstory is explored in Andrzej Fidyk's documentary film "Yodok Stories". The performance - shot in Seoul, South Korea in 2006 - creatively tells the shocking true story of a group of escapees from one of North Korea's most notorious concentration camps.
- SCIENTIFIC POETRY is a series of short, poetic documentary films in the crossroad between life/death and God/science, made in collaboration with performance artist Kurt Johannessen. FIRST MEMORY (FØRSTE MINNE) (6 min) is a short documentary with live portraits of people under water. CONVERSATION (SAMTALE) (3 min) is a short, poetic film about the art of conversation. ANNAMME (2 min) is a small and poetic film about the art of receiving.
- What is insanity? What is normality? Nineteen-year-old Ina documents life with her apparently psychotic mother, who wants to marry herself. The filming sparks a process of change, and anxiety, misunderstandings and aggression are replaced by love and happiness.
- How new technology creates new addictions and other unwanted consequences.
- The heavily trafficked Bergen street Nygårdsgaten gets taken over by the international art project Streetlevel. The artists behind the project describe it as an art project set within the public urban space which unites different artistic positions and presents them in specific urban and social situations. One of the main goals is to turn the street into a scene for experimenting, and to enable reflections over the prevailing social and urban structures. The film explores the impact of the project on the general public, which includes bodily injuries, vandalizing and repeated theft of artwork.
- In this documentary we meet Linn and Mikael, two young members of the charismatic Christian congregation "Living Words" in Bergen, Norway. Linn and Mikael are getting married, and since they don't believe in sex before marriage, they have never had sex, never kissed each other, and never slept in the same room. Straight to Heaven is a personal meeting with a young couple who have left all their decisions in life in the hands of God.