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1) Scars
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We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several people with profound visible scars which have dictated certain elements of their lives but have not come to define their humanity. The subjects' perceptions of themselves are dynamic, unexpected, and even...
2) Le Joli Mai
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Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, LE JOLI MAI documents the hopes, beliefs and uncertainties of Parisians in the early 1960s. Interviews with workers, students, houswives and lovers combine to create a panoramic portrait of social and political life in Paris.
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A portrait of 77-year-old Juliane Sellam, who is as full of life and vibrancy as the iconic Parisian neighborhood she calls home. Director Sofia Bohdanowicz, however, doesn’t turn her camera on these frequently photographed streets (once walked by the likes of Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh) or attractions like Sacré Cœur. Instead, Bohdanowicz focuses on the daily life of Sellam in the pre-war apartment this French astrologer...
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A re-edited version of Joris Postema's Stop Filming Us, Vivuya and Twahirwa's film takes a closer look at the imbalance of power inherited from colonialism and its consequences on the representation of the DRC, cinematic and otherwise. The idea to produce this new version arose from discussions within Postema's film about whether a Western director is capable of capturing an image and narrative of the DRC shared by its citizens. It was then suggested...
5) Speak Up
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Women of African descent converse about what it means to be a woman today and belong to the Afro community. By sharing their experiences and aspirations for the future, they SPEAK UP and take control again of their own representation.
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Every day, in a consultation room, the patients land; broken, sick and marked by life. In front of them, sits an invested person who tries, without false hope, to repair the bodies and the psyches. In this cramped room where the world and a suffering humanity parade, each one of them confides in a disarming authenticity. At night, when the doors of the resources are closed, street workers storm the city to extend their support to all those unfortunate...
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Presented by Isabel Coixet, DROWNING LETTERS goes beyond traditional storytelling to reflect on the plight of migrants and Europe’s refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of people cross the sea in search of a better life. We follow the letters written, from mothers to sons, as we accompany the Spanish NGO ship Open Arms struggling to save 550 people from shipwreck. We will come to forget that this is a true story, the situation will...
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As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
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Recruited by a Lebanese maid agency, Sabine leaves Cameroon and embarks for Lebanon. After many years of servitude, she escapes to Belgium, but her arrival there is complicated by the fact that she enters illegally, by way of Greece and Syria. She settles in Matonge, the African quarter, where she becomes the manager of the beauty salon CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE. Here, patrons, many of them undocumented immigrants, are not only be made to feel beautiful...
10) The class
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Based on Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough Paris neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...
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