Movies: Human rights

  • 2019
    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

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    Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun....

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
  • 2022
    Come Outside 2022

    Come Outside 2022 (2022)

    Come Outside 2022

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    An astrological event changes the vibration of the sun, affecting the consciousness of all living things for better or for worse....

    Come Outside 2022
  • 2010
    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2010)

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

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    Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Sri Lanka and others where there is great opposition to pride parades. In North America, Pr...

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
  • 2020
    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War (2020)

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

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    A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers....

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War
  • 2021
    Lines

    Lines (2021)

    Lines

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    Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes....

    Lines
  • 2009
    The Casuarina Cove

    The Casuarina Cove (2009)

    The Casuarina Cove

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    A former military officer makes a film about a man he encountered in Tanjong Rhu, a secluded cruising ground....

    The Casuarina Cove
  • 1969
    Victim

    Victim (1969)

    Victim

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    A father sacrifices an animal on the day of Eid al-Adha according to the traditions and customs of the past. According to the old custom, he gives the last bowl of water to the goat, but his son tries to save the goat. The father angrily looks for t...

    Victim
  • 2023
    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History (2023)

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

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    The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology....

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
  • 2008
    Black Power Salute

    Black Power Salute (2008)

    Black Power Salute

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    A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their...

    Black Power Salute
  • 2015
    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity

    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity (2015)

    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity

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    Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at the place where a murder happened? What constitutes trans* life? How to cope with daily violence and hatred? We begin to search for traces. We follow...

    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity
  • 2012
    A Thirsty World

    A Thirsty World (2012)

    A Thirsty World

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    Today, against a backdrop of sharply increasing demand, growth in the world population and the growing impact of an unsettled climate, water has become one of the most precious natural resources of our planet....

    A Thirsty World
  • 2012
    Jinsuk & Me

    Jinsuk & Me (2012)

    Jinsuk & Me

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    I have been pretty satisfied with my life before I got on the bus. When I do in June 2011, my whole life turns upside down. I am just a regular passenger at first. Like other people I was sorry, and felt obliged to help and care for other passengers....

    Jinsuk & Me
  • 2024
    letters to eleanore

    letters to eleanore (2024)

    letters to eleanore

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    "letters to eleanore" is a poignant feature-length documentary that explores the intertwined journeys of two remarkable girls, Keith from Canto Grande in Lima, Peru, who bravely navigates life with cerebral palsy alongside her devoted mother, and Oli...

    letters to eleanore
  • 2008
    All Human Rights for All

    All Human Rights for All (2008)

    All Human Rights for All

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    Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration....

    All Human Rights for All
  • 2020
    The Void Inside

    The Void Inside (2020)

    The Void Inside

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    After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating call from a buyer, a wish for a better life starts to grow within him....

    The Void Inside
  • 2018
    The World According to Xi Jinping

    The World According to Xi Jinping (2018)

    The World According to Xi Jinping

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    Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China is on its way to becoming the leading world power of the 21st century. What goals is the mysterious autocrat, who was deeply influenced by Maoism in his youth, pursuing? What drives him? In terms of domestic ...

    The World According to Xi Jinping
  • 2016
    Hard to Believe

    Hard to Believe (2016)

    Hard to Believe

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    A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spir...

    Hard to Believe
  • 2020
    Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance

    Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance (2020)

    Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance

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    Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial recognition cameras, emotion detectors, citizen rating systems, autonomous drones… A security obsession that in...

    Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance
  • 2017
    Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

    Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle (2017)

    Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

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    For fifty years, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has challenged the abuses of U.S. power and championed the causes of human rights....

    Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
  • 2019
    Alice in the Land of National Guard of Russia

    Alice in the Land of National Guard of Russia (2019)

    Alice in the Land of National Guard of Russia

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    A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alic...

    Alice in the Land of National Guard of Russia