10 años de Guerra Siria (2020)

In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-dimensional meaning of “refugee”. Using the pageant as a means of escape from political persecution, the organiser Mahmoud — already given asylum in Berlin — hopes to offer the winner a chance to travel as well as bring international attention to the life-threatening situations faced by LGBT Syrians.

Desde que comenzara la guerra civil en Siria unos cuatro millones de sirios han tenido que abandonar el país huyendo de la violencia. Más de la mitad de ellos son niños. “2016. Nacido en Siria” narra el periplo de esos refugiados desde el punto de vista de los niños que viven este calvario: los abusos de las mafias, las inclemencias del mar, la incertidumbre sobre un futuro al que la gran mayoría se enfrenta apenas con lo puesto, y descubriremos que llegar a su destino es sólo el comienzo de una nueva odisea: la de la integración en una tierra nueva y, en muchos casos, hostil. El mayor éxodo de refugiados desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial visto a un metro y medio de altura a través de siete historias de guerra, sufrimiento y desesperación… pero también de superación, inocencia, valor y esperanza, que nos permitirán entender qué significa haber nacido en Siria.

Un documental de VICE NEWS, realizado por el periodista y cineasta Medyan Dairieh, quien obtuvo acceso exclusivo al autoproclamado califato del Estado Islámico –el antiguo ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)–, para pasar tres semanas filmando en la ciudad siria de Al Raqa.

On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.

La tía favorita de Lissette, Adriana, afincada en Australia, es detenida en 2007 mientras visita a su familia en Chile y acusada de haber trabajado para la tristemente célebre policía secreta del dictador Pinochet, la DINA, y de haber participado en la comisión de crímenes de Estado. Cuando Adriana niega estas acusaciones, Lissette comienza a investigar su historia para filmar un documental sobre ella.

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkish-Syrian border. On the one hand the ISIS, in the other Erdogan’s Turkey. In the middle the borders and one hope. This hope is called Rojava, only one point on the chart of a troubled region, a region of resistance and an example of grassroots democracy that speaks about gender equality, self-determination of peoples and peaceful coexistence.

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.

Explora el tema de la memoria histórica en España, centrándose en la represión de las lesbianas y los gays bajo el franquismo. ¿Qué pasó con los homosexuales durante el régimen de Franco? Este documental revela sus historias y rompe el silencio por primera vez.

As the forces of ISIS and Assad tear through villages and society in Syria and Northern Iraq, a group of brave and idealistic women are taking up arms against them—and winning inspiring victories. Members of “The Free Women’s Party” come from Paris, Turkish Kurdistan, and other parts of the world. Their dream: To create a Democratic Syria, and a society based on gender equality. Guns in hand, these women are carrying on a movement with roots that run 40 years deep in the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey. GIRL’S WAR honors the legacy of Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the PKK who was assassinated in Paris in 2013, and reflects on the sacrifices made by all of the women in the movement, who have endured jail, rape, war, and persecution in their quest to liberate their lives and sisters from male dominance. With scenes of solidarity, strength, and love amongst these brave women soldiers, GIRL'S WAR is a surprising story of Middle Eastern feminism on the front lines.

It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occurances. But while half of Belarus moves closer to Russia, the other half is trying to resist…

La angustia y la oscuridad que se respira en la ex maternidad del hospital Barros Luco Trudeau a través de su vieja estructura, de sus pasillos infinitos que llenan el vacío del espacio oculto y reprimido. Sus paredes rayadas guardan secretos, cargan a diario con la ausencia y la ilusión de cientos de mujeres que buscan la luz que nunca vieron brillar.

A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala.

A short film produced between September and October of 1969, during the course of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It's authorship remained anonymous for a long time and the precariousness of the production was due because of its clandestinity. The film is a collage of images of popular repression, ruling power violence and its people resistance around the world.

The inside story of Mohammed Emwazi's journey from being an ordinary London boy to becoming terrorist 'Jihadi John', and the intelligence operatives' attempts to catch him.

Hundreds of Western volunteers have joined Kurdish armies in Syria and Iraq in their efforts to fight the Islamic State. What drives some Canadians to put their lives on the line?

A powerful investigation into the political and criminal enterprise of kidnappings as ISIS rose to power in war torn Syria. It inter cuts exclusive footage with interviews of negotiators, investigators, fixers and even a used car salesman who are caught up in the confusion.

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their memories of Syria's darkest detention facilities.

In 2012 Dalya and her mother Rudayna fled Aleppo for Los Angeles as war took over. Months before, Rudayna learns a secret that destroys her marriage, leaving her single at midlife. Arriving in LA, Dalya enrolls as the only Muslim at Holy Family Catholic High School. Can mother and daughter remake themselves while holding on to their Islamic traditions?