Nasir (2020)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 15M
Director : Arun Karthick
Sinopsis
Follows Nasir, a middle-aged street salesman, who belongs to the Islamic minority and who lives with his mother Fatima, his wife Taj and his cousin Iqbal in a densely populated ghetto. As his day unfolds we find him to be a nimble romantic, marshalling a love of love, song, children, friendship, and even God to rise into something resembling a life well lived. But the increasing communal bigotry has other plans.
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Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
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When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.
En Uganda, una nueva enmienda permitirá castigar a los homosexuales con la pena de muerte. David Kato –el primer hombre de Uganda en “salir del armario”- y sus compañeros activistas trabajan a contrarreloj para derrocar esta legislación mientras luchan para sobrevivir a las continuas persecuciones. Pero nadie, ni siquiera los directores/productores, está preparado para el fatal asesinato que llevará al movimiento a su auge y se expandirá por todo el mundo.
Documentary - A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra Right Wing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves archival video, contemporary Christian Nationalist movement propaganda (recruiting videos, apocalyptic/military videogame imagery, etc.) and original investigative material) to create an intense examination of the totalistic mindset and its will to power.
This documentary portrays the way in which attacks against a twisted concept of “gender ideology” in four countries are being used to gain political power by right-wing conservative politicians supported by conservatives in the Catholic and evangelical churches.
El fotógrafo de guerra Daniel Fisher (Hugo Weaving) regresa a casa y, pese a las quejas de su pareja, decide prepararse para su próximo encargo al otro lado del mundo. Mientras tanto, comienza a articular una exposición del trabajo que ha realizado en sus distintos trabajos en zonas bélicas alrededor del mundo. Al mismo tiempo, un refugiado del sur de Sudán, Sebastian Aman (Andrew Luri), vive en paz con su familia en Australia. Cuando descubre que la exhibición de Daniel mostrará fotos de una masacre que tuvo lugar en su pueblo sucedida hace 15 años, Sebastian decide encontrarle para convencer al fotógrafo de que las omita de su exposición. Cuando se conoce, ambos entablan una relación de amistad que cambiará para siempre sus vidas.
