On instructions from Polish intelligence, a group of bandits dress up in Red Army uniforms and attack a Soviet border town.
Based on the tragic figure from Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere, Sisa tells the story of a mother’s desperate search for her missing sons, Crispin and Basilio, ultimately leading to her own demise. Beyond its heartbreaking narrative, the film highlights the enduring strength and resilience of women in the face of adversity.
A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.
The second part of the duology on the famous Estonian artist Ülo Sooster continues his life story, paying homage to many other great artists who were spiritually consonant with his work.
Dear Enemy tells the true story of the director’s grandfather who became friends with a German officer during the WWII German occupation of Albania while hiding a partisan, an Italian soldier and a Jewish watchmaker in his cellar.
The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the history of Iranian cinema to the Shah. The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.
After the incarnation of Lord Adinath and Lord Mahaveer primarily, a chaityavas follower, Vardhaman comes to know that he has been following the wrong Dharma.This leads him to become a whistle-blower and his search starts for true Dharma.
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?
The tragic true story of Doctor Ossian and Gladys Sweet, a prominent young Black couple in 1920s Detroit.
A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves.
Goodwin's Way is a 1-hr. documentary exploring a British Columbia town's resistance to a coal-powered future 100 years after the killing of controversial local labour activist Ginger Goodwin.
The story of a girl who grows up full of dreams, with parents who didn't understand that her mischief hid her intelligence.
Yana is a teacher. Her courage intrigued the German nobleman von Cheeter. Yana receives an order from the Soviet intelligence service to go to Berlin. There she finds herself in a society that shocks her with its arrogance, cynicism and nationalistic prejudices. After giving valuable information, the Gestapo seizes her. Yana is tortured but will not betray her friends.
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.
During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she puts on men's clothes, becomes a troop boy and later even a cornet - only the sutler knows her secret. Little by little, Christine realizes that the man she loves has been brutalized by the war and is no longer capable of true feelings. When she gives herself to him instead of a peasant maid, she is horrified by his brutality. She shoots him in a duel. She is sentenced to death as a cornet, but acquitted as a woman.
A staging of Albert Camus' play "Caligula" by Stéphane Olivié-Bisson.
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.
It's 1960's rural Ireland and two young trouble makers get in over their heads when their an attempt to launch a rocket to the moon goes wrong.
The life of Basava, a philosopher and social reformer from Karnataka who lived in the 12th century A.D.