Planet of Snail by Seung-Jun Yi Minch&Films | 52’ - 90’ | South Korea - Japan | 2011 | HDV 16:9 Widescreen | Young-Chan lost his vision and hearing from a serious fever when very young. He often describes himself as a ‘snail’ since he has to rely only on his tactile senses, just as slowly as a snail, to communicate with others. Being unable to speak other’s language, he once believed he had been singled out from the world. But his life changes it dramatically when he meets and marries Soon-Ho, who is also disabled. The once lonely snail goes sleighing, swimming and writes essays, poems and even a script for a play, translating every experience into his unique words.

POWERLESS by Fahad Mustafa & Deepti Kakkar Globalistan Films | India | 80' - 52' | India | 2013 | HD Shariq, a 22-year-old electrician living in Kanpur, is renowned for his prowess in stealing electricity. In the face of day-long power-cuts, he runs illegal connections from one neighborhood to another so that homes, factories and business are not left in the dark. Meanwhile, the city administration is renewing its efforts to clamp down on power-theft, which costs them millions of rupees in losses each year.

Scarlet Road. A Sex Worker's Journey by Pat Fiske, Catherine Scott, Catherine Scott Paradigm Pictures | 70’ - 54’ | Australia | 2011 | HDCAM | Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele - people with disability.

Shipwrecked America by Alexandra Kandy Longuet Crescendo Media Films, Eklektik Productions | 52’ | France, Belgium | 2016 | HD | On the 29th of August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, the most violent storm in the history of the United States, ravages the city of New Orleans. The city’s entire population is displaced and the Crescent City is to be rebuilt completely. The disaster provides an opportunity for the city’s renaissance on a fairer basis: The film uncovers how New Orleans becomes the US laboratory and reveals the divisions of a whole country.

Shock Room by Kathryn Millard Charlie Productions | 70’ | Australia | 2015 | HD | In the early 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram, in seeking to understand the Holocaust, ran a series of controversial experiments on obedience. An authority orders you to inflict painful shocks on another person. Most of us will obey, claimed Milgram. But will we? And were Milgram’s experiments as much art as science? In dramatising previously un-filmed versions of the world’s most famous psychology experiment, Shock Room turns a light on the dark side of human behavior and forces us to ask ourselves: what would I do?

Smog Town by Meng Han DuGood Productions, SonaFilm, MF Production | 89’&52’ | China, South Korea, Netherlands | 2019 | HD | Langfang is one of the most air-polluted cities in China. There, the interests of the local environmental protection bureau, which is under political pressure, clash with those of industry. A case study on China’s fight against pollution.

South to North by Antoine Boutet Les Films du Présent, Sister Productions | 109' | France | 2014 | DCP, dvd blu ray, video, hd, quicktime | The Nan Shui Bei Diao (South Water North Move), designed to move water from the south to the north of China, is the biggest water transfer project the world has ever seen. Charting the path of this national construction project, the film maps the turbulent cartography of a territory where cement defeats the plains, rivers are deviated from their natural course, deserts become forests and where gradually people are becoming vocal, demanding justice and the right to speak out. While matter decomposes and individuals are becoming alarmed, a science-fiction landscape, against nature, is reconstituted.

State of Play by Steven Dhoedt VisualAntics, Minch&Films | 85’ - 55' | Belgium | 2013 | | In Seoul, hundreds of young boys compete to be the best at one single video game: Starcraft. As top players earn hundreds of thousands of euros, being a professional gamer isn’t only a wise career move, it is also the path to respect and credibility in the highly competitive society of South Korea. The stars of the Starcraft league are national celebrities, participating on all levels of popular culture.But what happens when play becomes work? For some it will be a struggle to stay on top of their game, for others it might be the turning point of their lives.

Stranger in Paradise by Guido Hendrikx Zeppers Film &TV | 72’ | The Netherlands | 2016 | HD | Being unwanted is a reality that the thousands of refugees flowing into Europe have to face. Three different scenarios of welcoming are presented to three groups of refugees: a dismissive, an empathetic and the actual European migration policy. Is it human to categorize someone else’s life?

SWEET DREAMS 2014: 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide by Lisa Fruchtman & Rob Fruchtman | Liro Films | 89’ - 52’ | USA | 2012 | HD Ingoma Nshya is Rwanda’s first and only all women’s drumming troupe. Made up of women from both sides of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the troupe offers a place of support, healing and reconciliation. When the group decides to partner with two young American entrepreneurs to open Rwanda’s first ever ice cream shop, these remarkable women embark on a journey of independence, peace and possibility. Sweet Dreams interweaves intimate, sometimes heart-wrenching stories, with joyous and powerful music to present a moving portrait of a country in transition.

IDFA’14: The Alliance of Women Film Journalists' EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary Tea Time by Maite Alberdi Micromundo Producciones | 70’ - 52’ | Chile / USA | 2014 | HDV | Five elderly women religiously gather for tea, once a month, for the past 60 years. In these meetings, the friends argue and reconcile, evoke their common past, and try hard to show they are still current. Their personal stories and present events force them to question their education and beliefs. Despite all of them having attended the same religious school, they lived through a period of radical historic changes that few of them can comprehend and adapt. Afternoons, days, months and even years pass, and it seems that nothing in their lives changes, until the absence of one of them makes them go through a period of evident transformation.

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk Albatros Communicos Film Production, Moonmakers | 73' | Ukraine | 2020 | | Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. To rent or buy for home use only follow this link: VIMEO ON DEMAND

The Grown Ups by Maite Alberdi Micromundo Producciones, Volya Films | 80’ - 52’ | Chile - The Netherlands | 2016 | HD | They keep hoping for an independent life that inevitably eludes them, since no grown-up really wants them to achieve it. Now that they desires clash with their premature aging process, we see them as kids who only wanted to grow up and suddenly grew old.

The Magic Life of V by Tonislav Hristov Making Movies Oy, Kirstine Barfod Film, Soul Food Ltd | 82’ | Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria | 2019 | HD | While trying to become more independent and to help her mentally disabled brother through live-role-playing, a young woman haunted by her childhood traumas learns how to face her own past.

The New Gospel by Milo Rau Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH, Langfilm / Bernard Lang AG | 107' | Germany / Switzerland | 2020 | 4K | An authentically political, theatrical and cinematic New Gospel for the 21st century. What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be?

The Night by Steffan Strandberg Indie Film as, Walking the Dog, Fasad Produktion | 63' & 58' | Norway | 2017 | HD | When Steffan's mother died, he felt nothing. No sadness, no sense of relief. How did it come to this?

The Oath by Laura Poitras Praxis Films | 96’44” | USA | 2010 | HD 16:9 | An extraordinary inside view of militant Islamism. A quietly disturbing, often complex portrait of an Al Qaeda insider and a Guantanamo Bay detainee, The Oath offers a chilling preview of emerging Middle East battleground Yemen and poignantly questions American policies over the past decade in the Middle East. The Oath tells the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison and the first man to face the controversial military tribunals.

The Poetess by Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff Brockhaus/Wolff Films GbR | 88’ & 52’ | Germany, Saudi Arabia | 2017 | HD | Hissa Hilal, a 43-year-old housewife from Saudi Arabia, tests her boundaries in the daily struggle for change. Veiled in a burqa, she gains international fame at Abu Dhabi’s prestigious contest “Million’s Poet” with her poems critical of terrorism and the ideologies of fanatic islamists.

The Price of Sex by Mimi Chakarova Violeu Productions | 73’-52' | USA | 2011 | HDCam Widescre | Mimi Chakarova has spent seven years investigating and documenting the sex trafficking of women from Eastern Europe. "If I had stayed in the country where I was born (Bulgaria), I probably would have been one of them," Chakarova said in an interview discussing her motivations for pursuing the dangerous, sad and enraging project. "These girls risk everything because they want a better life."

The Road to Fame by Hao Wu Tripod Media LLC | 80’ - 56' | China | 2013 | HD | The film gives a rare, intimate look at the coming-of-age of some of China's most promising yet confused youth. It chronicles the staging of the musical 'Fame' by the graduating class of China's top drama academy, in China's first official collaboration with Broadway. It follows five students of divergent personalities and family backgrounds as they compete for roles, struggle with the expectations of teachers and parents, and prepare to graduate into China's reality of huge wealth gap and rampant corruption. Often confused by the conflicting cultural values shaping China today, the students must confront their anxieties about an uncertain future and negotiate their own paths to fame.

The Shelter by Fernand Melgar Climage | 101’ & 52' | Suisse | 2014 | 16/9 | DCP | Every night dozens of people are forced to sleep on the streets of my town. As the population of the excluded grows each day, silence and ignorance of their condition continues to reign. In our current climate of xenophobia I would like my film to help lift the veil on their existence and plight.

IDFA’14: Nominated for Best Mid-Length documentary The Storm Makers by Guillaume Suon Tipasa Production, Bophana Production (Rithy Panh) | 66’ - 62’ | France / Cambodge | 2014 | HD | At the age of 16, Aya, a young Cambodian peasant, was sold into slavery by a “Storm Maker” - a human trafficker – who promised her a job as a maid in Malaysia. Now back in village, she is just as poor as when she left. Dishonoured and traumatised, what is left of her humanity? The unveiling of Aya’s fate, intertwined with the testimonies of human traffickers, offers an unsettling view of contemporary Cambodian society. By revealing the cruel exploitation of the rural population, the film raises an unsettling question: what is the price of a young peasant‘s life in Cambodia?

The Unforgiven by Lars Feldballe-Petersen Kinocompany Ltd., Film & TV Compagniet | 75' | Finland, Denmark | 2017 | |

THE WOODMANS by C. Scott Willis C Scott Films LLC | 82' | USA | 2010 | HD | The Woodmans are a family of well-known artists bonded in their belief of art-making as the highest form of expression, but for their daughter Francesca -- one of the late 20th century's most recognized and influential photographer -- fame came only after a tragedy that would forever scar the family.

Tokyo Idols by Kyoko Miyake Brakeless Limited, EyeSteelFilm | 88' & 52' | UK/Canada | 2017 | HD | Girl bands and their pop music permeate every moment of Japanese life. Following an aspiring pop singer and her fans, Tokyo Idols explores a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality, and the growing disconnect between men and women in hyper-modern societies.

Transnistra by Anna Eborn Momento Film, Adomeit Film, Clin d’oeil films | 93’ | Sweden, Denmark, Belgium | 2019 | | Shot on 16mm, Transnistra follows a group of young people as they move from a carefree summer through an unforgiving winter in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria. At the forefront is Tanya, a headstrong young woman who spends her time with young men who all seem to be in love with her.

VOICES OF THE SEA by Kim Hopkins Labor of Love Films Ltd | 90’ & 52’ | UK | 2018 | HD | Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access and empathy, this is the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband - one desperate to leave, the other content to stay - builds into a high stakes family drama after her brother and the couple’s neighbors escape.

Special Flight by Fernand Melgar Climage | 103' - 52' | Switzerland | 2011 | HDCAM-35mm | For the first time in Europe, a film crew gained authorisations to a detention centre for illegal migrants. Behind the closed prison doors, tension builds day by day awaiting for their deportation.

Wake up on Mars by Dea Gjinovci Mélisande Films , Alva Film, Amok Films | 74’ | France, Switzerland | 2020 | 4K | A 10-year-old Roma boy living in Sweden attempts to come to terms with the mysterious Resignation Syndrome that has put his two sisters in a coma. The tight-knit family is trying to rebuild a normal life far from their native Kosovo where they were victims of persecution. While their entire future hangs in the balance of a pending asylum request, the little boy dreams of building a spaceship to leave it all behind.

We did it on a Song by David André Brotherfilms | 82’ | France | 2014 | HD | This film tells the stormy tale of a group of friends from Boulogne-sur-Mer, a French town hit by the financial crisis. A year between dreams and disillusion, imagined by teenagers from a working or middle class background, with songs that regularly add poetry, laughter, and emotion to reality.

WHICH WAY HOME by Rebecca Cammisa Reason Pictures - Mr Mudd - White Buffalo Films - Cactus Three An HBO Documentary Films | USA | 2009 | 82' | Color | HD | As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States.

Wild. Life, Death and Love in a Wildlife Hospital by Danel Elpeleg, Uriel Sinai Anemos Productions | 60’ | Israel | 2018 | HD | Patient-doctor relationships are always complex, but when the patient cannot talk or make decisions for himself it becomes particularly complicated. This is the everyday reality for the protagonists of this film: Ariella, a veterinarian, and Shmulik, the chief caretaker of a wildlife hospital.

Winter’s Yearning by Sidse T. Larsen, Sturla Pilskog Blåst Film AS, Bullit Film & Anorak Film | 75’&52’ | Norway, Greenland, Denmark | 2019 | Red raw 5k | When the American aluminium giant ALCOA decides to build their next aluminium plant in Maniitsoq, Greenland, the citizens of the small finishing town have high hopes. Could this be the first major step towards Greenlandic independence? But as years go by and ALCOA is nowhere to be seen, the people of Maniitsoq fall into a state of waiting. The future has been postponed, but for how long? "Winter's Yearning" is a cinematic film about dreams, lives on hold and the human capacity to rise again.