ALA-KACHUU (GRAB AND RUN)
Director: Roser Corella
Germany, 2017
86 min
More than half of Kyrgyzstan's women are married to the men who kidnapped them. Some managed to escape after violent scenes, but the majority are persuaded to accept the marriage out of tradition and fear of social rejection. Although bride kidnapping is considered a crime under Kyrgyzstan's penal code, the law is rarely enforced to protect women from this violent practice.
COMPLICIT
Directors: Heather White, Lynn Zhang
United States, 2017
89 min
Complicit. We exclusively premiere the documentary that uncovers the labor exploitation to which thousands of Chinese workers are subjected to build our electronic devices.
FORGOTTEN CHILDHOOD
Director: Reza Farahmand
Iran, 2017
73 min
“Forgotten Childhood” follows the lives of refugee children from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan on their way to Europe, handing them the camera to film themselves. European children have also been given the camera to film their opinion on refugee children. In reality, all the children in 'Forgotten Childhood' release their feelings, their dreams and their thoughts honestly.
FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF
Director: Rupert Russell
Germany, 2017
89 min
FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF is an epic investigation into this new regime. From young students in Hong Kong, to a rapper in post-Arab Spring Tunisia, to viral comedians in Bollywood, we discover how people from all corners of the world are fighting for the same cause. They are fighting against elected leaders who trample on human rights, minorities and their political opponents.”
GAS THE ARABS
Director: Julio Pérez del Campo
Spain, 2016
64 min
The documentary is a trip to Gaza in which, through various characters, we learn about the violation of human rights that is experienced daily in the occupied territories of the West Bank and the situation of blockade and war in which the Palestinian population tries to survive. the Gaza Strip. A journey through its cities, its people and also, in some way, its history under the occupation of Israel.
GENDERBENDE
Director: Sophie Dros
Netherlands, 2017
97 min
A story about five young people who do not feel like men or women, but rather place themselves somewhere in between. Every day they are faced with being different and yet they are proud to be who they are. The young people in this film all have their own battles, but together they tell a strong story about acceptance. The film plays with curiosity, interest and incomprehension about anything outside the established social gender norms.
JACKSON
Director: Maisie Crow
United States, 2016
93 min
With the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi, the city of Jackon has become ground zero in the national battle over reproductive health. Jackson is an intimate portrait of the lives of three women in the city. Forged from the racial and religious undertones of the Deep South, the lives of two women are greatly affected by the director of the local pro-life pregnancy center and the movement she represents.
LESA HUMANITAT
Director: Hector Faver
Spain 2017
98 min
The documentary is a reflection on the urgent need for action on Universal Jurisdiction that allows action where other initiatives fail. We intend to give a voice to the forgotten victims of Franco's Spain and be catalysts to disseminate different events that have marked Spanish society. Facts, today, unknown to a large part of our society or in the best of cases they have known a manipulated version of the facts.
CORN IN WAR TIME
Director: Alberto Cortés
Mexico, 2016
88 min
The feature film illustrates the exceptional process of corn. A Wixárika (Huichol) family in the north of Jalisco, another Ayuujk (Mixe) family in Oaxaca, and two Tseltal families in the jungle of Chiapas speak to us from their cornfields, the roads and their houses about the importance of planting, practical knowledge that allows the epic of corn, the dangers that lurk.
MR GAY SYRIA
Director: Ayse Toprak
France, Germany and Türkiye, 2017
87 min
Documentary about how two Syrian refugees experience the migration crisis, being gay, living in Turkey and hoping to find a better future in Europe. Husein is a hairdresser in Istanbul, living a double life between a conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is a refugee in Berlin and founder of the Syrian LGBTI movement. What unites them is a dream: participating in an international beauty pageant as an escape from their trapped lives and as a response to their invisibility.