A young Jewish man pretends to be Iranian to avoid being executed in a concentration camp.
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Vadim Perelman – Persian Lessons (2020)
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Fernanda Valadez – Sin señas particulares AKA Identifying Features (2020)
2011-2020DramaFernanda ValadezMexicoA mother travels across Mexico in search for her son who authorities say died while trying to cross the boarder into the United States.Read More »
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Dieudo Hamadi – Kinshasa Makambo (2018)
2011-2020African CinemaCongo - Kinshasa (Zaire)Dieudo HamadiDocumentaryHundreds of young revolutionaries take to the streets of Kinshasa when Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, refuses to relinquish power at the end of his second term. Protests are met with violence, but the battle for free elections and democracy cannot be repressed.
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Sidestepping conventional approaches to narrative, Kinshasa Makambo is a ground-level account of collective action told with blistering immediacy. With his attentive, perceptive camera, Dieudo Hamadi takes to the streets for an urgent portrait of young Congolese protestors fighting for democracy.Read More » -
Robert Eggers – The Witch (2015)
Robert Eggers2011-2020HorrorMysteryUSAQuote:
New England, 1630: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. “The Witch” is a chilling portrait of a family unraveling within their own fears and anxieties, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil.Read More » -
Caner Alper & Mehmet Binay – Çekmeceler AKA Drawers (2015)
2011-2020Caner AlperDramaMehmet BinayMysteryTurkeySynopsys:
Deniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and the hidden secrets in her family drawers.Read More » -
Travis Wilkerson – Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017)
2011-2020DocumentaryTravis WilkersonUSA

“In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins Travis Wilkerson’s critically acclaimed documentary, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, which takes us on a journey through the American South to uncover the truth behind a horrific incident and the societal mores that allowed it to happen. Acting as narrator and guide, Wilkerson spins a strange, frightening tale, incorporating scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird, the music of Janelle Monáe and Phil Ochs, and the story of Rosa Parks’ investigation into the Recy Taylor case, as well as his own family history, for a gripping investigation into our collective past and its echoes into the present day.Read More »
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Michael Snow – Cityscape (2019)
Michael Snow2011-2020CanadaExperimentalQuote:
Cityscape elaborates on the methods Snow used in the making of his ground-breaking 360-degree film La Région Centrale (1971). Taking the advice of his long-time friend, Graeme Ferguson, to produce it as an Imax film, Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape in La Région Centrale with the cityscape of Toronto.Read More » -
Abbas Kiarostami – 24 Frames (2017)
Abbas Kiarostami2011-2020ExperimentalIran

24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.Read More »
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Hlynur Palmason – Vinterbrødre AKA Winter Brothers (2017)
Hlynur Palmason2011-2020DenmarkDramaSynopsis
A brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.Read More »






