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Journalist and activist Hoi Yi fights against the global rise of surveillance and censorship, while suppressing his queer identity from his family. The personal repression he faces is reflected in his commitment to the freedom of others.
On the first day of the Russian occupation of the peninsula, Crimean activists created a Facebook page with this title to provide up-to-date and reliable information about the situation in Crimea. Today, Crimea SOS provides urgent humanitarian, legal, psychological aid to internally displaced persons, and is fighting for the return of Crimea to Ukraine.
We embark on a journey in which the deepest feelings of a group of trans friends will guide an intimate and emotional relationship between two trans people through their experiences.
A passionate group of Australian same-sex ballroom dancers battle homophobia, injury and personal drama as they pursue their dream of competing at the Gay Games in Germany.
The best from the 1992 European Football Championship, which was played in Sweden. The Swedish national team was successful on home soil and reached the semi-finals. Denmark, who entered the tournament late at the expense of the then Yugoslavia, became sensational European champions.
About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life.
Following the Flemish adaptation of the theater classic ‘Angels in America’, two generations of people who are LGBTQ+ reflect on the past and the present.
European statistics shows that every 6th youth between 18 and 24 drops out of school before finishing their upper high school education. Meet four Norwegians who have become high school dropouts.
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) has been called the “godfather” of the human potential movement. In this film, Castaneda’s closest apprentices—in addition to contemporary practitioners of spiritually-oriented psychology—discuss his quest to become real.
Depicts the Japanese occupation of Manchukuo. Describes the mechanization of industry. Includes scenes showing coal and iron mines, steel mills, railroads, government buildings, new housing, native Chinese life, shops and trade, the Russian influence in Harbin, the raising of soy beans, schools, and hospitals.
Extension is a film about the Pampas plain or about the impossibility of accounting for that landscape. A bubble that bursts in the torrent. Thousands of birds shake the air. The storm rushes over the camera. How to represent a territory in our eyes unfathomable, in which everything changes and at the same time remains? Right there, between the detail and the panorama, between the short shots and the shots that seem to never end, the well-trodden “Argentine countryside” emerges in its elusive condition. A space filmed almost outside the human presence, in which words would be expendable except to mention an absent God.
Le Quang Vinh, a revolutionary student leader, was arrested in Saigon in August 1961. A show trial and death sentence followed. World-wide protests altered it to “life imprisonment” on Con Son, the Devil’s Island. The humiliating “Tiger-Cages” and the methods of torture are shown.
Perfect follows the Canadian synchronized swimming team beyond the beauty, to the brawn it takes to qualify for Rio 2016.
The film is about two brothers; one of them stayed at home in Lviv, and the other is held captive in a hospital in Donetsk after the last battles for Donetsk Airport. They both believe they will meet again.
Brenda Romo, a strong women who grew up in the town of Jesús María, Jalisco, wants to study and become a "maestra tequilera"; those who overview the process in which Tequila is made. She'll have to face the outdated ideas of his town and an industry dominated by men who deem her less for being a woman. Through the strength and unconditional support of her mother, Brenda manages to become a successful maestra tequilera, and opens up possibilities for her younger sister; showing her there isn't just one road for her future. Three widows is a short documentary that follows the proffesional life and struggles of maestra tequilera, Brenda Romo.
