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Coexistence, My Ass! Coexistence, My Ass!
Coexistence, My Ass! and Mistress Dispeller
2000 Meters To Andriivka (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Mstyslav Chernov)
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.
Apocalypse In The Tropics (Country: Brazil, US, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Petra Costa, Moara Passoni; Writer: Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, David Barker, Nels Bangerter, Tina Baz, Moara Passoni; Stars: Petra Costa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Silas Malafaia, Michelle Bolsonaro, Elizete Malafaia, Oscar Niemeyer)
Examination of the rise of the far right in Brazil.
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.
Come See Me In The Good Light (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Ryan White; Stars: Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley)
Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life, and mortality.
Cover-Up (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus; Stars: Seymour Hersh)
A documentary about the life and work of the journalist Seymour Hersh.
Cutting Through Rocks Cutting Through Rocks
Cutting Through Rocks and 2000 Meters To Andriivka
Cutting Through Rocks (Country: Qatar, Chile, Iran, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, US; Year: 2025; Director: Mohammad Reza Eyni, Sara Khaki)
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
Heightened Scrutiny (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Sam Feder; Stars: Chase Strangio)
Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias, exposing how the narratives in the press influence public perception and the fight for transgender rights.
Mistress Dispeller (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Elizabeth Lo; Writer: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, Elizabeth Lo)
Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband's affair.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (Country: Czechia, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Ilyich Talankin; Writer: David Borenstein)
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
My Mom Jayne (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mariska Hargitay; Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield, Zoltan Hargitay, Mickey Hargitay Jr., Ellen Hargitay, Rusty Strait)
Mariska Hargitay was three years old when her mother, Jayne Mansfield, tragically died in a car accident at the age of 34, now the Law & Order: SVU actress considers her mothers public and private legacy.
The Tale Of Silyan The Tale Of Silyan
The Tale Of Silyan and Come See Me In The Good Light
Orwell: 2+2=5 (Country: France, US; Year: 2025; Director: Raoul Peck)
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
The Perfect Neighbor (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Geeta Gandbhir)
A seemingly minor neighbourhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida’s 'stand your ground' laws.
Predators (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Osit)
To Catch A Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. An exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show and the world it helped create.
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk (Country: Iran, France, Palestine; Year: 2025; Director: Sepideh Farsi)
The everyday reality for those living in Gaza.
The Tale Of Silyan (Country: Macedonia; Year: 2025; Director: Tamara Kotevska)
A farmer's bond with a white stork intertwines with North Macedonian folklore.
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