Researcher
Archaeological gardens and tunnels are built. Khaled and other Palestinians lose their homes. Lawyer Ziad gets angry new clients every day. Arieh and other Israeli settlers move in. PeÅ Holmqvist and Suzanne Khardalian follow a turbulent Jerusalem, 50 years after Israel took full control.
Writer
Archaeological gardens and tunnels are built. Khaled and other Palestinians lose their homes. Lawyer Ziad gets angry new clients every day. Arieh and other Israeli settlers move in. PeÅ Holmqvist and Suzanne Khardalian follow a turbulent Jerusalem, 50 years after Israel took full control.
Director
Archaeological gardens and tunnels are built. Khaled and other Palestinians lose their homes. Lawyer Ziad gets angry new clients every day. Arieh and other Israeli settlers move in. PeÅ Holmqvist and Suzanne Khardalian follow a turbulent Jerusalem, 50 years after Israel took full control.
Writer
Cecilia Uddén, known as "Camelen", is a Middle East foreign correspondent working for Swedish Radio and alone in having been awarded Stora Journalistpriset ("The Swedish Grand Journalism Prize") twice. This film chronicles her life in Cairo, thereby highlighting the complex situation and conflicts in the Middle East.
Director
Cecilia Uddén, known as "Camelen", is a Middle East foreign correspondent working for Swedish Radio and alone in having been awarded Stora Journalistpriset ("The Swedish Grand Journalism Prize") twice. This film chronicles her life in Cairo, thereby highlighting the complex situation and conflicts in the Middle East.
Producer
Grandma's Tattoos is a powerful documentary that reveals the fate of thousands of forgotten women, mostly teenagers and young girls, who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide but were forced into prostitution by their captors. Many of these women were tattooed as a permanent mark of their status.
Director
Grandma's Tattoos is a powerful documentary that reveals the fate of thousands of forgotten women, mostly teenagers and young girls, who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide but were forced into prostitution by their captors. Many of these women were tattooed as a permanent mark of their status.
Director
Motivada por el carácter huraño de su abuela, un ser misterioso que llevaba guantes de forma permanente y que transmitía miedo y distancia en lugar de esa ternura propia de los mayores de la familia, la periodista y directora Suzanne Khardalian en su documental Los tatuajes de mi abuela, rescata del olvido a aquellas mujeres armenias sobrevivientes que fueron violadas por los turcos y obligadas a vivir como prostitutas en los harenes, donde las marcaban por todo el cuerpo.
Director
Ayed es un psicólogo palestino de 28 años que trabaja en el campo de refugiados de Jabaliya, en Gaza, donde la población vive marcada por la guerra y el bloqueo ejercido por Israel. La cámara lo sigue mientras va de casa en casa con su maleta, haciendo visitas a domicilio. Ayed hace terapia al joven Inas, que tiene tendencias suicidas; a Maysa, que vio morir a su prometido; a Hanan, que vive en extrema pobreza, y a Abed, un suicida que sobrevivió a un intento de atentado. En el contexto de una población traumatizada y a falta de profesionales especializados en salud mental, Ayed es un psicólogo entregado que quiere ofrecer a sus pacientes un poco de luz y calor. Un documental trágico y a la vez cómico, filmado en Gaza entre el 2006 y el 2008, cuando la región estaba completamente apartada del mundo.
Director
Her opponents gave her the “Bullshit Award” for sustaining global poverty. Time Magazine hailed her as one of the great heroes of our time – an icon for young people all over the world. She is Vandana Shiva and this is a film about globalization, genetic engineering, bio-piracy, and indigenous knowledge.
Director
Garbis is 99 years old, and one of the last survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
Director
At the height of the Vietnam War, in 1969, Swedish filmmaker PeÅ Holmquist traveled to South East Asia to make a film on a Hmong village leader named Lao-Tong and the Hmong. This film documents Holmquist’s return after 30 years. With new material filmed in Thailand, Laos, and the United States, and incorporating scenes from the 1969 documentary, the film shows how much has changed, and what has happened to the Hmong, both in Thailand and Laos, and in the United States.
Director
The first genocide of this century occurred during the first World War, when 1.5 million Armenians were killed, and an entire nation was driven from its land. Back to Ararat is the first film to examine this tragic episode in depth. Traveling from the old ruins to new Armenian communities around the world, the film presents a people united in its dream of returning to its homeland. But no one will listen to their arguments. In fact, Turkish representatives in the film argue the genocide never took place. Back to Ararat is a powerful reminder of a global injustice which has gone unaddressed.
