A Symphony For a Common Man
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Dir. José Joffily - 86min - 2022 - Brazil
Brazilian ambassador José Bustani, the first director of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, tried to avoid the destruction of Iraq, but was forced out under pressure from the USA in their march to war. Ousted from his position, he now revisits the chilling events that marked a turning point in global power structures. Today, similar situations are repeating themselves in multilateral organisations.
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Abendland
Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 2011 - Austria - Subtitles in English
A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilisation, while ...
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Absence
Dir. Ekta Mittal - 2018 - India - Languages: Hindi, Punjabi - Subtitles: English
In a faraway village called birha, missing people, mothers and tired lovers yearn to see beyond the mist. They meet each other with impenetrable silences and endless mourning. They curse the moon for witnessing thei...
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Ahlan Wa Sahlan
Dir. Lucas Vernier - 94min - 2020 - France
Between 2009 and 2011, I filmed in Syria. Reconnecting the threads of a family memory that goes back to the French Mandate, I connect with families in Palmyra. Then came the Revolution, then the violent repression of the regime which plunged the country...
