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I Am Gay and Muslim
I AM GAY AND MUSLIM is an intimate documentary focusing on gay rights in the Islamic world. Director Chris Belloni spent the major part of 2011 traveling Morocco, interviewing gay Muslim men in a land where homosexuality and the Islam seem irreconcilable.
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Pit No. 8
In Marianna Kaat's documentary, 15-year-old Yura puts his dreams on hold in an emotionally riveting struggle to provide for his sisters the only way he can: illegally and perilously mining the remaining scraps from a once-thriving Ukrainian coal town.
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Baghdad Taxi
Director Frédéric Tonolli travels across Iraq in a taxi, shortly after the withdrawal of American troops. At every step of the journey, passengers board his taxi and talk about their daily lives, fears and hopes for the future.
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Es geht nicht nur um unsere Haut
Germany, 81 min.
D: Holger Wegemann*NEW*Es geht nicht nur um unsere Haut
This documentary by Holger Wegeman traces the story of the 2006 labor dispute at Bosch Siemens Home Appliances. The staff go on strike to fight against a factory closure in Berlin, Germany.
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I Want My Father Back
A powerful film by documentary filmmaker Suma Josson about the suicide wave among farmers in Vidarbha, India. It is also a case against Monsanto's genetically modified seeds, the debt trap farmers face, and a plea for organic agriculture.
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Copper Age
This documentary by Ivo Bystřičan investigates the role of the global economy in the privatization of Zambia's mines and why one of the largest copper exporting nations remains dependent on outside aid.
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Niyamgiri - You are still alive
An environmental short film from eastern India by female director Suma Josso. It follows the fight by the indigenous Dongria Kondh to stop the British mining company Vedanta from destroying the rich biodiversity and wildlife in the Niyamgiri Hills.
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Kamenolom Boží (jeden rok v Severních Čechách) - God’s Stone Quarry (One Year in North Bohemia)
Czech Republic, 88 min.
D: Břetislav Rychlík*NEW*Kamenolom Boží (jeden rok v Severních Čechách) - God’s Stone Quarry (One Year in North Bohemia)
A social documentary that explores North Bohemia as a living and spiritual landscape. The expulsion of the German population there after WWII erased that region's ancient cultural memory.
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I have to do something about that
I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT is a portrait of the National Socialism resistance fighter Hilde Zimmermann. The film includes interviews from the video archive Ravensbrück.
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Romský král - The Romany King
Czech Republic, 56 min.
D: Viliam Poltikovič*NEW*Romský král - The Romany King
This documentary follows Romanies living in impoverished settlements in Slovakia and the transformation processes they face.
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Daily I Appear Before Your Face
This documentary tells the story of an ethnic German living in the Czech border region of the Orlik mountains in Eastern Bohemia. A personal view of 20th century history.
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Spiegelgrund
SPIEGELGRUND is the name of the children's hospital in Vienna where hundreds of children were murdered by National Socialist Party doctors. This documentary reconstructs these atrocities and shows how decades later, in 'modern' Austria, the criminally responsible doctors continued to be protected and held in high esteem.
