“I chose this film because I believe that love is love, and everyone should be free to be who they want to be and to love whomever they want.”
For his documentary “Ghost Hunting,” Read Andoni seeks former prisoners of Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation center, so that they can reenact their experiences of torture and imprisonment through a role-playing game.
Iraq was a devastated country in the early 1990s. When we think of Iraq, war and Saddam Hussein come to mind first. One region, Kurdistan, was subjected to particularly heavy pressure by the regime at the time. “Bekas” tells the story of two homeless boys who make a living as shoeshiners. When they catch a […]
The Syrian refugee Fareed wants to bury his deceased wife according to Muslim customs and struggles against bureaucracy and narrow-mindedness in a Swiss village.
Dozens of migrants board an overcrowded truck. Their destination: Fortress Europe. After a arduous journey, when they finally arrive, they face a confrontation with a different brutal reality: Europe’s treatment of refugees.
Sonita is 18 years old, from Afghanistan, and lives as an undocumented migrant in Iran. Her dream is to have a career as a rapper. She hopes to escape her family’s plan to sell her to an unknown husband. The Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami followed Sonita Alizadeh for three years and documented her story.
