Story from Croatia (1991)

África do Sul, início do século XX. Após ser expulso da 1ª classe de um trem, o jovem e idealista advogado indiano inicia um processo de auto-avaliação da condição da Índia, que na época era uma colônia britânica, e seus súditos ao redor do planeta. Já na Índia, através de manifestações enérgicas, mas não-violentas, atraiu para si a atenção do mundo ao se colocar como líder espiritual de hindus e muçulmanos.

A produção é uma sátira aos filmes bíblicos e à intolerância religiosa. Na Palestina do ano 1 d.C., três reis magos trazem presentes à mãe de Brian, confundindo-o com Jesus que nasceu no mesmo dia, na manjedoura ao lado. Brian, depois de crescido, engaja-se em um dos muitos grupos revolucionários que se opõem ao domínio romano. Após tentar seqüestrar a mulher de Pôncio Pilatos com seu grupo, ele é visto como Messias pela uma multidão, ávida por lideranças religiosas.

Década de 1920. Durante a ocupação japonesa da Coreia e da China, guerreiros pela independência enfrentam policiais e agentes secretos japoneses tentando contrabandear explosivos pela fronteira e utilizando meios violentos para alcançar os seus objetivos.

Jeon Ji Hyun vive um franco-atirador que estava aguardando uma sentença de morte em Xangai, mas foi libertado por um agente secreto do governo, interpretado por Lee Jung Jae, famoso pelo filme The Face Reader. Eles iram unir forças com outros lutadores, incluindo um pistoleiro chamado Hawaii Pistol, interpretado pelo ator Ha Jung Woo, para lutar pela independência da Coréia.

No Verão de 1975, Ryszard Kapuscinski, um dos maiores repórteres de guerra do século XX, é enviado para Angola, numa altura em que os portugueses estão em debandada e os movimentos de libertação se envolvem numa guerra civil sem tréguas. De uma Luanda transformada em cidade fantasma sitiada, até à fronteira sul à beira da invasão sul-africana, Kapuscinski é uma testemunha ímpar do nascimento conturbado de um novo país.

Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization Bulryeongsa and his relationship with Japanese comrade Fumiko Kaneko.

During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Japanese Empire seeks to eradicate the Korean language and identity. In retaliation, a small group of Korean patriots try to protect their language by compiling the first Korean language dictionary.

17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910.

Musa, who is only a thirteen-year-old shoe shiner, undergoes destiny through his adventure of waging war during the war time. Will he manage to bring peace among the troops who keep on fighting for nothing?

A film that explores the lives of female independence activists who fought against the Japanese Occupation in the North and South of Korea.

Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence Movement.

Set in 1896, "Tjoet Nja' Dhien" celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient times as a trade port, enter into a fierce war with the Dutch. Tjoet Nja' Dhien, the widow of a rebel leader operating in Aceh in Sumatra, assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Uma is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch. Despite personal obstacles, she remained in the thick of the struggle for ten years.

After the breaking of mass movements in 1971., the student Ilija Baric must leave the country because of his political beliefs, and his father Luka lost a job and goes to work to Germany. After Titos death in 1980. there is a new political motion, but repression is still strong. That feels even decennial John, the brother of Ilija, who is in love with Marina, the daughter of the Head of the police and Communist Andrew.

This intimately-constructed drama traces the consequences of the tumultuous political and social changes that swept through India in the years since pre-Independence 1937.

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.

A serious crisis has shaken Spain since the referendum on self-determination and the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia by the government of Carles Puigdemont, bold actions firmly fought by the Spanish government by applying the constitutional article that allows it to place a region under guardianship. While Spain is on the verge of implosion, Europe is holding its breath.

This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yu Gwan-sun, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As the Independence Movement becomes more and more intense among Korean students, the Japanese authorities order schools closed temporarily. Yu Gwan-sun (Do Geum-bong) persuades her neighbors to join the national movement, and continues her aggressive struggle against Japanese rule. An independent campaign at Aunae, a market site, is successful with the passionate participation of many people. She is arrested by the Japanese police for leading the campaign and has to endure horrible tortures. But she never gives up her fight, encouraging her cell mates to participate in the movement. She is finally taken to an underground room by the Japanese police and murdered.

Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray.