Catherine Rascon

Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are lots of these “artisanal” oilfields dotted around Myanmar, where people have swapped crop cultivation for selling the oil they pump from the ground by hand.

A road trip, over ten years, across the so-called Amexican border, a mythical boundary, both physical and cultural, that separates the United States of America from the United Mexican States; a journey in search of the multiple stories of those who inhabit it or are passing through: an audacious expedition that aims to paint a colorful fresco where politics, violence, visual poetry and frustrated ambitions cruelly coexist.

The adventures of three female wanderers on their journeys thorough the United States of America, who hop on freight trains to travel free. The particular reasons of each one of them for living this life of perpetual motion are unique, a life that gains sense in the wide open empty space of an immense country, historically marked by the mythical rail roads.

Na província de Gansu, no noroeste da China, estão os restos mortais de inúmeros prisioneiros abandonados no Deserto de Gobi há 60 anos. Designados como ultra-direitistas na campanha anti-direitista do Partido Comunista de 1957, eles morreram de fome nos campos de reeducação de Jiabiangou e Mingshui. O filme nos convida a conhecer os sobreviventes dos campos para descobrir quem eram essas pessoas, as dificuldades a que foram forçadas a suportar e qual acabou se tornando seu destino.

Perseguidos por seus inimigos implacáveis - o Estado islâmico, o exército turco e as tropas de Bashar Al-Assad - os curdos da Síria levantaram-se, com mulheres levando armas ao lado dos homens. Durante sete meses, o filme segue a vida cotidiana dessas mulheres.

At the end of the road lies a track, the very last, a track swamped with the mud of a Siberian autumn, and at the end of this track lies a vast, dark forest which secretes those who have made this their final refuge, in hamlets that fray a little more with every passing day, sapped by misery and alcohol. We have to travel as far as we can, and be prepared to fall into the ditch, to see what makes us human.

A mãe deixou o Chile 26 anos antes, seus dois filhos nunca mais a viram desde então. As crianças cresceram: o irmão é um cineasta, a filha uma bibliotecária. Neste filme, vão tentar reencontrar a mãe, dar um corpo a voz telefônica, termina com o limbo desse fantasma da família.

About the Chinese drivers who transport coal from the coal fields to the buyers.

The challenge of the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" set up by Nelson Mandela in South Africa is to achieve a truly democratic society. Composed of 17 members and Desmond Tutu, this Commission will be relayed throughout the country by groups called "Khulumani" (literally: "Free the Word"). For a little over a year, it will invite victims, perpetrators and witnesses of apartheid to tell the truth about the past. The filmmakers have been authorized to follow this incredible process, which should lead to the re-founding of the nation, for its entire duration. The film focuses on the collective character of the Commission, crossed by ethical, political and philosophical questions, as well as on a few characters, victims and executioners, linked by a common history. They are filmed in their interrogations and their steps to re-establish a link between a past and a possible future.