”Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another”, said the man who would forever change the fate of South Africa. Nelson…
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So close that it seems unreal. Former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is sitting mere yards from – by the looks of it – a cheap VHS-camera. The blurry images mediate the immersive quality of private…
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When a massive earthquake shook the Abruzzo region in April 2009, 300 people were killed and the lives of some 70 000 inhabitants of L'Aquila were affected. For shelter most of them were put up in…
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After screening two films in the last five years (Allegro and Offscreen were both shown at Stockholm International Film Festival), Danish director Christoffer Boe returns with this dark psychological…
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Four Lions has stirred up quite a controversy wherever it has been shown, and what is to expected from a full-on comedy about a group of Muslim terrorists planning an attack in England, with the 7/7…
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Brutal violence, questions of guilt and innocence, moral or immoral behavior saturates Of Gods and Men, as well as Beauvois’ previous oeuvres. This film aims to understand the mysteries of faith…
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Recently released from prison, Ali now lives for the few hours of daytime off work that he can spend with his family. Occasionally, he retreats from an uneasy, pre-election Tehran into the silence of…
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The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain's most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by…
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In 1976, in the wake of the Black Panther movement, Marcus returns to Philadelphia where he spent his troubled salad days. He soon finds out that he is forgotten neither by friends nor foes, and that…
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In the spring of 2010, the Sweden Democrat party, a political organization with roots in the Swedish White Power Movement, is full of anticipation. Its campaign, run from a secret office in a garage…
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