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- DirectorTim WardleStarsRobert ShafranMichael DomnitzHoward SchneiderIn 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
- DirectorMatthew ShoychetStarsOskar GröningJeff AnsellHedy BohmSeventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- DirectorPaul Damien WilliamsStarsGeoffrey Gurrumul YunupinguMark GroseMichael HohnenGURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalEdward BurtynskyNicholas de PencierStarsYoussef Suleiman MohammedAlicia VikanderFilmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
- DirectorJuliano Ribeiro SalgadoWim WendersStarsSebastião SalgadoWim WendersLélia Wanick SalgadoThe life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- DirectorLucy WalkerKaren HarleyJoão JardimStarsVik MunizOn the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
- DirectorMiguel EekDeath is still a taboo that causes fascination and fear in equal parts. Nevertheless, there are people who face it every day in their work and have found another way to understand and cope with it. City of the Dead is a film on death, driven by those who have learned to live with it.
- DirectorClaudia TosiManuela and Daniela have fought all their lives to make of Italy a more honest and women-friendly Country. The political election of 2008 seems the chance to contribute defeating Berlusconi and make their dream come true. Manuela runs for the Parliament and Daniela manages her campaign. Once elected at the Parliament in the defeated Left coalition, Manuela faces the lack of results and the raise of anti-politics sentiment over ten years of political mandates. Daniela, in the far province, over the same years, climbs up the political ladder fighting against gender disparity and violence on women, while populism raises around her. Torn between their sense of duty and the wish to quit politics, only their friendship and irony succeed in refreshing the two friends from their disenchantment, casting unexpected lightness and hope on the dark times faced by Italy.
- DirectorMads BrüggerStarsMads BrüggerClarinah MfenguSaphir Wenzi MabanzaDanish 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.
- DirectorJosé Luis López-LinaresStarsJean-Claude CarrièreNahal TajadodCarlos SauraFollows late screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, as he researches the painter Goya in a trip filled with culture, cinema, emotion, painting and Spain.
- DirectorAlon SchwarzStarsAvigdor FeldmanYoav GelberTeddy KatzIn the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
- DirectorTerence DixonStarsJames BaldwinA meeting with James Baldwin doesn't quite go according to plan for a group of presumptuous white filmmakers in this Paris-set documentary short.
- DirectorMohanad YaqubiAn undelivered letter written by a Japanese activist that was lost on its way, has been found by a Palestinian filmmaker after 30 years.