Politics

Worker Maks Bigec decides to take things in his own hands when he hears that his factory will be closed. He takes the factory director as a hostage and demands that the state should reopen the factory.Read More »

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A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists’ networks in Europe, North America and Russia. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war and segregation.Read More »

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“How I Killed a Saint” tells the story of a young woman returning from America to discover the realities of life in Macedonia, that looks as if it will explode with all the soldiers, corrupt crooks and terrorist idealists.Read More »

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who’s an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom’s constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there’s incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?Read More »

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A young Portuguese man, exiled in Paris, often visits the country, between April 25th 1974 and October 1978, without choosing to settle on ether, due to the social-political situation – a behavior developed by his experiences in foreign countries, the transformations made in his original family environment and, in particular, in the relationships he keeps.

The story of his experience is reveled through several female portraits, and successive temporal-geographic landscapes.Read More »

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Premiered at the Galleria Milano for the inauguration of the Hammer and Sickle exhibition in 1973, this 16mm film is made by Enzo Mari with the work group of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia students in Spring 1971. The film collects the exclusive witnesses of union spokepersons, the employees and the workmen at the Minganti, Sasib, Comi Rhodiatoce, Châtillon and the Petrochemical factory in Porto Marghera.Read More »

Charting her experiences of civil war and migration to her rise as a popular but controversial star, this documentary film traces the life of the singer and pop icon M.I.A.

Drawn from a never-before-seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.Read More »

In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenklatura and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to play themselves in a film which reconstitutes the crime and the investigation. At the end of their trial, filmed live, they are sentenced to death and executed. A month later, the film Reconstitution was released and became a sensation throughout the country.Read More »

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If you ever wanted to understand the debate about the independence of Québec, this is likely the best documentary made on the subject. Sadly, it comes without subtitle. A few may find it somewhat demagogical… it mostly is once it enter the popular opinion, the average man take on it. But the politicians are also abhorrent and you hear it loud and clear. Those against it are very vocal, screaming anger and anguish, always yelling. Using the same scare tactics that always are used to defeat the opposition. Showing it to be dangerous, irrealistic, etc. Even, as a testament to how little have changed, taking the oil price as a measure of achievement, saying Canada have it the cheapest and that the independence of Québec would double it’s price.Read More »