2020s

Two students marry in secret despite objections from the woman’s mother. In a mosque in Hamburg, they promise to stay together, but the man commits to an act that will shake the whole world.Read More »

Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.Read More »

A woman, released from prison, drifts between nightmare and reality.Read More »

When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children’s and adult’s worlds.Read More »

A 2021 internationally co-produced drama romance film, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. It stars Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie. It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 11 July 2021

Krieps and Roth play a married couple of filmmakers spending a working retreat on Fårö where cracks begin to appear in their marriage.Read More »

Marwa Arsanios’ Who is Afraid of Ideology? series (2017 – 2020) weaves together ecological activism, the struggles of women, and Indigenous land rights, from Northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan to the so-called ‘coffee belt’ of Colombia. Self-defence, autonomy, collectivity, eco-feminism, Indigenous struggle, and seed-protection define the common ground for these women in their resistance to the capitalist logic of extraction and exploitation of the land. The last film in this trilogy, Part III – Micro Resistances, takes place in Tolima, Colombia, and focuses on the ongoing systemic war waged by transnational corporations against one of the smallest and most essential elements of life: the seed. Against forced displacements, violence and murder, Indigenous women are preserving their native seeds, and an ancestral knowledge of cultivation and care.Read More »

Completing Toshiaki Toyoda’s politically urgent Resurrection Trilogy following Wolf’s Calling (2019) and The Day of Destruction (2020), this electrifying short follows a man tasked with assisting in the ritual suicide of a samurai who won’t die without condemning the corrupt powers that be.Read More »

This is a documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: in the city of Iasi, on the 29th of June 1941, more than 10.000 Jews were killed – first by bullets, than by asphyxiation in freight trains.Read More »

When Zoo Station – The Story of Christiane F. was published in West Germany in 1979 it shocked the public. The book tells the true story of Christiane Felscherinow, a West Berlin teenager who prostitutes herself to pay for her heroin consumption, bringing to light the extent of German youth’s drug problem.Read More »