Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl (2019)

韓国現代史上最大の悲劇、1980年の光州事件を巡る実話を、ソン・ガンホ主演で映画化した実録ドラマ。戒厳令下の光州を唯一取材したドイツ人記者の真実の行動を、彼を乗せたタクシー運転手の心境を追いつつ描く。

1987年1月、全斗煥大統領による軍事政権下の韓国。南営洞警察のパク所長は北分子を徹底的に排除するべく、取り調べを日ごとに激化させていた。そんな中、行き過ぎた取り調べによってソウル大学の学生が死亡してしまう。警察は隠蔽のため遺体の火葬を申請するが、違和感を抱いたチェ検事は検死解剖を命じ、拷問致死だったことが判明。さらに、政府が取り調べ担当刑事2人の逮捕だけで事件を終わらせようとしていることに気づいた新聞記者や刑務所看守らは、真実を公表するべく奔走する。また、殺された大学生の仲間たちも立ち上がり、事態は韓国全土を巻き込む民主化闘争へと展開していく。＜1987年1月14日の学生運動家朴鍾哲拷問致死事件から6月民主抗争に至る大韓民国の民主化闘争を描いた韓国映画＞

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

1944年、ナチス・ドイツに占領されたワルシャワ。妻子がいる男性ステファンはレジスタンスである国内軍に加わるが、友人の妹アラに想いを寄せてしまうように。しばらくしてソ連の赤軍がワルシャワに進撃してくるという情報を得て、同年8月1日、国内軍はドイツ軍に武装蜂起する。だが赤軍の進撃はなく、ドイツ軍の圧倒的な攻撃力を前に劣勢を強いられる。さらに空からの爆撃によってワルシャワの町は徹底的に破壊されていく。

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student activist Park Jin-woo. When Jin-Woo is brutally tortured and put on trial for his activism, Woo-seok decides to defend Jin-woo as his client.

Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.

1940年4月9日、ノルウェーの首都オスロにナチスドイツが侵攻。ノルウェー軍も交戦するが、圧倒的な軍事力によって主要都市が次々と陥落し、占拠されていく。ドイツ軍はノルウェーに対し降伏を要求し、ドイツ公使とノルウェー政府国王のホーコン7世との謁見の場が設けられるが、ホーコン7世はその場で、ナチスの要求に従うか国を離れて抵抗を続けるかの選択を迫られる。＜第2次世界大戦時、ナチスドイツの侵攻に激しく抵抗したノルウェーの国王ホーコン7世の下した決断と運命の3日間を描いた歴史ドラマ。本国ノルウェーで大ヒットを記録し、アカデミー外国語映画賞に向けたノルウェー代表作品にも選出された。＞

NRI corporate Sundar Ramasamy comes to India to vote, only to learn that his vote has already been cast. While he reclaims his right legally, it also sets in motion a chain of events that eventually lead to him entering the political fray, trying to change the system.

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occuring.

A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.

An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.

Exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible — and how that threatens democratic freedoms.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.