American Journal
A collage of street scenes, news footage and anonymous archive material shows the United States at the height of its power. However, the tone of this collective visual diary gradually shifts from euphoria to nightmare.
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A Compassionate Spy
In 1951, at the height of the Cold War, physicist Ted Hall risked his life by sharing US atomic secrets with the Soviet Union. Seventy years on, his wife explains what possessed him to do it.
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Dry Ground Burning
Oil is rebellion in a sprawling favela on the outskirts of Brasilia. A group of self-assured women illegally tap it and sell gasoline through a motorcycle gang. This is the heart of a broad panorama of a Brazil we rarely see.
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Everything Will Be OK
A dystopian vision by Rithy Panh à la Animal Farm and Planet of the Apes. Inspired by 20th-century dictators and the horrors of factory farming, animals—represented by clay figures—maintain totalitarian rule over humans.
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The Golden Thread
Beautifully composed images and an immersive sound design capture the last vestiges of Bengal’s jute industry, which has been virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Workers carry out their routine work along endless rows of antique looms.
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Goodbye, Captain
For decades, Vincent Carelli filmed the struggles of his friend Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião in the Brazilian Amazon, a man who tirelessly defends the traditions of his people against political, economic and cultural assimilation.
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Gumbo Coalition
Multiple Oscar winner Barbara Kopple tracks Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, two heavyweights in the battle for equal rights in the US. A portrait of a tireless warrior duo, and of an America in extremely turbulent times.
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How Do You Measure a Year?
Year after year, a father asks his growing daughter the same questions: What are your dreams? What are you afraid of? The camera captures this gradual becoming of a human being, revealing the leaps we all make on the way to adulthood.
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In viaggio
Gianfranco Rosi presents a chaotic and unjust world, as seen through the eyes of Pope Francis. The director draws from archive material, news reports and footage from his own work in this film about the many journeys made by the church head.
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The Kiev Trial
In January 1946, 15 Nazis were put on trial in Kiev for their role in the murder of 10,000 civilians in Ukraine. Sergei Loznitsa draws on recovered archive footage of the trial to assemble a shocking and urgent documentary.
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