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Decades in the making, Haile Gerima's sweeping survey of Italy's brutal colonial legacy in Ethiopia is a monumental reckoning with suppressed history. With a balladeer's spirit, Gerima forges an epic ballad of resistance, freedom and national pride.

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A psychedelic docu-essay, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s visionary poem Une Saison en Enfer, in which the poet’s ghost travels through history, encountering revolutionary figures and queer ‘freaks’ such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz, and Marsha P. Johnson. These encounters form a multilayered collage that interrogates identity, the meaning of revolution, and the role of the artist in shaping radical histories and collective imaginaries.

Fantastique is a magic-realistic coming-of-age in Guinea-Conakry. We follow the 14-year-old contortionist Fanta, who juggles between care for her ailing mother, school, and what she loves the most: Training with the acrobatic circus Amoukanama, with the hopes of joining their next big tour. Trying to bridge all expectations, Fanta starts to doubt what she really wants, searching for her own voice.

Fernando's 45th birthday dinner turns into a territorial war when his alpha-mom meets his empowered girlfriend. To survive the night, he must finally cut the umbilical cord or remain her "little boy" forever.

African American composer Julius Eastman’s music and voice take turns. Sparked by colonial and life history. Raw, radical, crystal clear. A multipart, flashy, transnational-collective performance by six artists. An homage.

A love story between a Spanish conquistador and a Native tribal princess from the Hispaniola island.

When a mysterious car crash leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere, a wannabe race car driver takes shelter with a traveling theater troupe seeking safety, only to find herself in a twisted romance she couldn’t have imagined.

Dylan gets a nasty surprise on Halloween and uses an unorthodox method to fix it.

In mourning, Anat Even began travelling with a camera along the Gaza Strip after October 7 – again and again. Striving to show the reality of this painful border. Trying not to look away. An essay about questions of causality and responsibility.

A bumbling Priest and his hapless Cameraman are thrust into the world of exorcisms in order to save the soul of a young Girl from an existentially conflicted Demon.

Sakit, the father of three daughters, cannot accept that they have already grown up and reached the age to start a family. For him, his daughters are still little children. When Sakit finds out that his eldest daughter Lala and his middle daughter Jala have someone they love, he cannot find peace. Instead of accepting the prospective sons-in-law, Sakit begins to put them through increasingly difficult and funny trials, one after another. Caught between being a father and being a father-in-law, Sakit tries both to protect his daughters and not to stand in the way of love. At the same time, he himself is still being tested by his father-in-law, Vidadi.

An enigmatic, fluid actor embodies a mythical figure tied to Virgil's egg, blurring reality and fiction as he recreates a film about his own life, an homage to Patroni Griffi's Il Mare. Through encounters, passions, and visions evoking ancient cults and legends, the work becomes a sensual, unsettling tribute to Naples and its magical-literary heritage.

Karin, a female student who attends the most modern Islamic boarding school in Indonesia. The Islamic boarding school allows its students to use gadgets for learning such as cellphones or laptops. One day, suddenly there was a rumor that Karin spread a selfie photo of herself naked in her dorm room. Even though it was just a rumor, people believed the gossip so much that Karin was shunned by her friends. Assisted by her secret boyfriend, Affan, the two of them tried to find out the truth about this gossip. And if the photo really exists, who faked the photo and spread it?

In 2017, young Mapuche Rafael Nahuel was killed by police in the Patagonian forest. Site visits, court proceedings – the film unites the elements involved in solving the crime. Meticulously observed: the struggle for civil rights and narrating history.

In the arid Brazilian hinterland, girls play poised between their mothers’ difficult pasts and fantastic dreams for the future. In a place where men are still seen as giants compared to women, the girls cross the threshold from childhood into adolescence.

After his best friend’s mysterious and sudden death, a troubled teenager spirals into a desperate search for meaning testing the limits of his own body and mind as he grapples with grief, family dysfunction and the nature of water.

A Shanghai woman journeys alone to a rubber plantation in southwest China, where her late father was sent during the Cultural Revolution. As she searches for a mysterious woman, some strangers unexpectedly drift into her path.

A high school dropout and delinquent, Jie, falls in love with a quiet, speech-impaired high school girl, Guang, leading to a story of mutual growth and healing.

Between light, metal and silver, a collection of solidarity pins turns into an archive of another scale: spectres of exile and international struggle against Portugal’s fascist and colonial regime.