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Mediha and Inshallah A Boy
After The Fire (Avant Que Les Flammes Ne S'éteignent)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Mehdi Fikri; Writer: Mehdi Fikri; Stars: Sofiane Zermani, Camélia Jordana, Samir Guesmi, Makita Samba)
In the aftermath of a crime, the victim's sister fights to obtain a fair trial and justice for her brother.
Coconut Head Generation
(Country: France, Nigeria; Year: 2023; Director: Alain Kassanda; Writer: Alain Kassanda)
Documentary capturing the words and emotions of students at the University of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria. The country’s first university, it was founded in 1948 and is still reckoning with its colonial British legacy.
Inshallah A Boy (Inshallah Walad)
(Country: Jordan; Year: 2023; Director: Amjad Al Rasheed; Writer: Delphine Agut, Rula Nasser, Amjad Al Rasheed; Stars: Mouna Hawa)
A mother fights for her rights in a partriachal system after her husband's death.
Land Of My Dreams
(Year: 2023; Director: Nausheen Khan)
In 2019, protests broke out after the Indian government enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act, which overtly discriminates against Muslims. Nausheen Khan follows the women at the forefront of the resistance.
Mediha
(Country: Iraq; Year: 2023; Director: Hasan Oswald; Writer: Hasan Oswald; Stars: Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad)
Mediha is a member of the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority. She’s also the survivor of an ISIS-orchestrated genocide in 2014. Through video diaries, Mediha provides an intimate account of her grief and trauma.
Power Alley (Levante)
(Country: Brazil, France, Ururguay; Year: 2023; Director: Lillah Halla)
A teenage volleyball champion finds her whole future in jeopardy after discovering that she's pregnant, and struggles to access an abortion.
A Revolution On Canvas
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Sara Nodjoumi, Till Schauder; Stars: Nahid Hagigat, Nicky Nodjoumi)
Art-heist-thriller-meets-portrait-documentary delves into the disappearance of over 100 "treasonous" paintings by the co-director's father, revolutionary Iranian artist Nickzad (Nicky) Nodjoumi.
Summer Qamp
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Jennifer Markowitz)
At a camp in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counsellors who can relate to their experience.
Tree Of Violence
(Year: 2024; Director: Anna Moiseenko; Writer: Vincent Coen, Anna Moiseenko, Guillaume Vandenberghe; Stars: Victoria Lomasko)
Russian artist Victoria (Vika) Lomasko’s work has always been political. However, as tensions in Russia rise and her new project on patriarchal violence evolves, Vika’s art has become even more essential... and dangerous.
We Are Guardians
(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2023; Director: Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman, Edivan Guajajara)
As Indigenous Brazilian forest guardians in the Amazon fend off attacks from illegal loggers, miners, and exporters, we bear witness to what happens when Indigenous rights, land stewardship, and political corruption converge.
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