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Coexistence, My Ass! and GEN_

Coexistence, My Ass! (Country: US, France; Year: 2025; Director: Amber Fares; Writer: Rachel Leah Jones, Rabab Haj Yahya; Stars: Noam Shuster-Eliassi)

Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.

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Free Leonard Peltier (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: David France, Jesse Short Bull)

Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A new generation of Native activists is committed to winning his freedom before he dies.

GEN_ (Country: France, Switzerland, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Gianluca Matarrese; Writer: Gianluca Matarrese, Donatella Della Ratta)

At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro fertilization and the journeys of individuals reconciling their bodies with their gender identities. He navigates the constraints set by a conservative government and an aggressive market eager to commodify bodies.

Under The Flags, The Sun (Bajo las banderas, el sol) (Country: Paraguay, Argentina, Germany, United States, France; Year: 2025; Director: Juanjo Pereira)

Consideration of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay.