Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark (2011)

Un matrimonio esconde un oscuro pasado: durante su juventud en los años 60 fueron militantes de un grupo radical violento. Un atentado con bomba, que causó varios heridos graves, los ha obligado a vivir clandestinamente y a cambiar continuamente de domicilio y de nombres para evitar ser localizados por el FBI.

¿Qué significa arriesgar su vida por sus ideales? ¿Hasta dónde van cinco revolucionarios en la defensa de sus creencias en la lucha por su nación? (FILMAFFINITY)

Conmovido al escuchar la historia de un convicto que inició su carrera delictiva siendo un niño al que nadie dio una oportunidad, el padre Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) dedice construir la Ciudad de los Muchachos, un lugar donde los jóvenes conflictivos puedan convivir, trabajar y labrarse un futuro honrado. Allí acude a la fuerza Withey Marsh (Mickey Rooney), un joven rebelde que parece un caso perdido y que está decidido a seguir los pasos de su hermano Joe (Edward Norris), líder de una banda de delincuentes.

Para la joven Carolina Matilde (Alicia Vikander), casada siendo una adolescente con el rey de Dinamarca Christian VII, es un horror vivir con un marido ciclotímico y estrafalario que propone medidas como nombrar a su perro miembro honorario del Consejo de Estado, o que circulen en Copenhague por la noche carruajes vacíos para recoger a los borrachos. Así las cosas, Carolina se rinde a los encantos del médico personal del rey, un intelectual progresista (Mads Mikkelsen) que se verá dividido entre su lealtad al rey, su amor a la reina y su oportunidad de convertir una Dinamarca aún medieval en un país ilustrado.

El abogado Sung Shih-Chieh es admirado por el pueblo como un gran hombre. Pero su mujer le hace presentarse para un puesto en el estado, y un asesinato le pone en contra de todo el mundo...

Yallah! Underground follows some of today’s most influential and progressive artists in Arab underground culture from 2009 to 2013 and documents their work, dreams and fears in a time of great change for Arab societies. In a region full of tension, young Arab artists in the Middle East have struggled for years to express themselves freely and to promote more liberal attitudes within their societies. During the Arab Spring, like many others of this new generation, local artists had high hopes for the future and took part in the protests. However, after years of turmoil and instability, young Arabs now have to challenge both old and new problems, being torn between feelings of disillusion and a vague hope for a better future.

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.

Túnez, verano de 2010, a escasos meses de la Revolución. Farah, de 18 años, acaba de terminar los estudios secundarios y su familia ya la ve cursando la carrera de Medicina. Pero ella no comparte ese deseo. Canta en una banda de rock comprometida políticamente, se emborracha y dedica las noches a descubrir el amor y su ciudad contrariando la voluntad de su madre Hayet, quien conoce demasiado bien Túnez y sus peligros. (FILMAFFINITY)

Based on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The leaders of Egypt's 2011 revolution discuss the fire, courage and resiliency behind their movement to remove President Hosni Mubarak from office.

Viola Drayton (Minter) has a fascination for fairies, but real life intervenes when her father, a colonel (W.T. Carleton), is called off to the European War (that's what they called World War I in early 1915). He leaves Viola in the care of the Nevisons (Herbert Wilke and Ina Brookes) and gives them thirty thousand dollars to invest on her behalf. When word arrives that Drayton has been killed in battle, Mr. Nevison takes Viola's money for himself, but he squanders it and his wife has to take in boarders. Viola hates her life at the Nevisons so she runs away and gets a job at a theater playing...a fairy.

A shy and reclusive young man, Anil Dhawan, gets to meet a prostitute, Seema, through his friends, Ramesh. Anil is very shy at the very first meeting with Seema, and then starts to cultivate a friendship with her. She responds also, and both fall in love. Anil proposes marriage, and Seema is delighted to accept. Anil has to go out of town for a four or five days. When he returns, he finds Seema has taken up drinking alcohol and smoking in a big way, and appears despondent, and non-chalant, making him wonder what had happened during his absence to make her regress in this manner.

In the 14 months prior to the revolution, filmmaker Lillie Paquette follows key opposition figures and young activists as they struggle against the odds and at great personal risk to remove an uncompromising US-backed regime.

The Uprising shows us the Arab revolutions from the inside. It is a multi- camera, first-person account of that fragile, irreplaceable moment when life ceases to be a prison, and everything becomes possible again.

As the "Arab Spring" protests for justice and democracy spread through the middle east in early 2011, people long repressed by the Bahrain monarchy spontaneously gathered at the central Pearl Square to join in the call for their rights.

Amid the tumult of the Arab Spring in Cairo, vendors in a small souk observe the political upheaval while seeking to preserve an ancient tradition of fabric making.

Sohrab, un joven soldado iraní, debe acudir a una manifestación para disuadir violentamente a los participantes. En medio del caos, sus enemigos se convierten en congéneres.

Two politically-opposed young women fight to shape their lives along with the political future of Tunisia, the sole country to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings as a functional democracy.

Narra la historia de Pablo, un joven que regresa del exilio a su país en los años 70, dispuesto a hacer justicia, ya que la ley ha perdonado a los militares que asesinaron a su padre.

The story of Zineb El Rhazoui, a young Moroccan woman who, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, finds her life radically transformed : from a censored journalist in Morocco she becomes the most protected woman of France.