Politzek, the voices that challenge the Kremlin

In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested, tried, and imprisoned. They are called “Politzek”: political prisoners. Filmed clandestinely over the course of more than a year, Politzek gives a platform to those who, despite the fear, continue to speak out against Putin’s repressive Russia. Through the intersecting stories of a teenager sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing the government on social media, a young artist jailed for placing anti-war stickers, a human rights activist, and two theater directors facing Kafkaesque trials, the film unveils the machinery of state repression in Russia. With rare footage, broken yet unyielding voices, this is a story of silenced resistance.

1988

In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.

Salvador

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.

The Eye on the Nape

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

Purple Dictatorship

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.

Crisis

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

Sombras de Resistencia

The Newcomers

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Esmeralda Bay

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Olga

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.

Talvez o Vento Saiba seu Nome

Insistir

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

The South

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Entranced Earth

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Aseo General

When The Motherland Is Knocking At Your Door

Life under an oppressive dictatorship. Where citizens surrender themselves to the regime, become the part of the system and let go their freedom and any rights.

Se busca novio… para mi mujer

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Fireflies at El Mozote

During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.

The Girls

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In the Time of the Butterflies

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

Under the Same Moon

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El Polaquito

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Hotel Coppelia

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CATO

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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

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Sky High

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Iron Jawed Angels

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Guilty by Suspicion

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Mexicali

A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

Death and the Maiden

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

What Maisie Knew

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Straight from the Barrio

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Pacto de Fuga

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The Trials of Cate McCall

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El Greco

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A Dry White Season

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Medium Cool

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Tony Manero

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".

Kamchatka

In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents of two children, who, knowing they are wanted, decide to hide.

Starving in Suburbia

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