Monuments (2021)
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Tiempo de ejecución : 7M
Director : Sara Aniqah Malik
Sinopsis
As anti-racism movements sweep the globe, young people are pushing for political action, drawing our attention to the racialised power structures embedded within society. Change is on the horizon.
Sudáfrica, 1978. Tim Jenkin y Stephen Lee, dos activistas políticos blancos, miembros del Congreso Nacional Africano, encarcelados por el régimen del apartheid, ponen en marcha un plan para escapar de la infame prisión de Pretoria.
Un hombre que intenta volver a casa con su perro queda atrapado en un bucle temporal que le hace revivir un accidente mortal con un policía.
Estados Unidos, 1 de septiembre de 2016. El jugador de fútbol americano Colin Kaepernick se arrodilla durante el himno nacional, en protesta por la brutalidad policial contra los afroamericanos. Parte de la población considera el gesto como una afrenta inaceptable a la bandera. Más tarde, pierde su lugar en el equipo. Sin embargo, hoy en día, muchos le consideran un verdadero héroe.
Pilot JP Schulze and filmmaker Louis Cole set off to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine, 1974 Cessna T210L airplane named Balloo. They had 90 days to complete the journey, and as they traveled they met people from many different cultures and asked them - is what divides us greater than what brings us together?
Moving the Chains — Sundance 2021
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A man arrives at an unknown home with an unknown agenda.
El 30 de abril de 2014, Dontre Hamilton, un hombre negro, desarmado, diagnosticado con esquizofrenia, murió tras recibir 14 disparos a manos de un policía de Milwaukee. Su muerte despertó todo tipo de inquietudes. Su familia inició un viaje en busca de respuestas y justicia.
Explorando cómo el punk influyó en la política a fines de la década de 1970 en Gran Bretaña, cuando un grupo de artistas se unieron para enfrentarse al Frente Nacional, armados solo con un fanzine y amor por la música.
La animación y el activismo se fusionan en esta respuesta multimedia a viva voz ante la brutalidad policial y la injusticia racial.
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En enero de 2015, el Presidente de la República Democrática del Congo, Joseph Kabila, recurrió a una enmienda constitucional para poder ser elegido presidente por tercera vez. Esta película documenta las manifestaciones posteriores y sigue a tres personas de la resistencia.
A low-intensity war is being fought on the streets of Europe and the aim is on fascism. This critically acclaimed documentary takes us behind the masks of the militants called antifascists. In 2013 a group of armed nazis attacks a peaceful demonstration in Stockholm where several people are injured. In Greece the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn becomes the third largest in the election and in Malmö the activist Showan Shattak and his friends are attacked by a group of nazis with knives and he ends up in a coma. In this portrait of the antifascists in Greece and Sweden we get to meet key figures that explain their view on their radical politics but also to question the level their own violence and militancy.
