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- As the disaster of yet another school shooting hits, some parents are faced with a brutal fact: their child was the one pulling the trigger.
- Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in which Christmas as we know it is produced for the entire world. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can now afford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories. All migrants in their own country, nostalgic for some place far away, some miss their families left in hometowns, other miss their friends and lovers from the factories when they go home for holidays. Young generation is already tired of long factory hours, chemical fumes and glitter particles, and they do not care for their parents' wishes to get educated. Stuck in between Chinese tradition and the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, to be rich, to be independent, to be in love.
- Greece is experiencing conditions in post-war history that no European thought would face again. Homeless people, soup kitchens, unemployment, poverty, violent conflicts and the rise of the extreme-right. The dream of prosperity has turned into a nightmare and the political scene of the last four decades is crumbling. Yorgos Avgeropoulos urgently turns his camera towards his homeland. He records the development of the crisis from its early stage, while tracing its impact on the lives of people. He witnesses popular protests in the streets, the development of solidarity movements as well as the rise of fascism, while at the same time he seeks answers from Greece's most significant political personalities, insiders, analysts and key decision makers from the international political scene.
- How did Palestinian filmmaker Abu-Assad achieve the impossible ? With zero film education and low-budget films about his home country Palestine, he made it to Hollywood and received two Oscar nominations, won the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize at Cannes and a Golden Globe, with political low-budget films about his tormented home country. However, his dream is to make it to USA, the country that supports financially and militarily the repression of his own people. In his quest for Hollywood success, he discovers that giving up your political ideals and artistic integrity comes at a price.
- Ashcan tells the story of the secret prison where the main Nazi leaders were incarcerated following the Allied victory on 8 May 1945.
- Isolated takes us in a journey to the most highly populated artificial island in the Colombian Caribbean while it muses on the role of men in society and uses this island as a metaphor of our planet.
- In the spring of 1941, two strikes shocked the Liege region in Belgium, and then the north of France. Supported 2'000 women, about 200'000 workers and miners, driven to extremes by unbearable living and working conditions, challenge the fascist invaders.
- What it means to be rootless despite having a home.
- The portrayal of a city that refuses to die along with its defunct Soviet-era nuclear power plant. The mainly Russian speaking citizens there face identity issues in modern Lithuania. This portrayal inevitably raises questions of democracy, inclusion, citizenship, and freedom of expression.