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Our award-winning films - 2019
América
Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside - 75' Diego, a young circus artist, must return home and reunite with his brothers after their ninety-three year old grandmother, América, falls from her bed, causing their father to be jailed under accusation of elder neglect. Diego is a dreamer who sees poetry and purpose in this tragedy.
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Genesis 2.0
Christian Frei - 113' On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths.There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost not only releases precious ivory.
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Letter from Masanjia
Leon Lee - 76' A desperate SOS letter penned by a political prisoner turns up in Halloween decorations sold in Oregon,
which sparks a nail-biting chain of events that exposes appalling human rights violations and prompts sweeping changes to China’s labour camp system.
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Mignon
Oláh Kata, Csukás Sándor - 28' Mignon is sweet, sweet as Marika. Marika is the brightest star of the senior clubs in Budapest. Over 80, she has an infant soul and a passionate existence: craving for desserts, playing with her stuffed toys and dressing up like a pretty ballerina.
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Over The Limit
Marta Prus - 74' Over the Limit shows how the successful Russian system for training athletes transgresses boundaries. Elite rhythmic gymnast Rita Mamun has reached a crucial moment in her career. She’s soon to retire, but has one final goal set out for her: winning Olympic gold.
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The Cleaners
Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck - 88' Enter a hidden third world shadow industry of digital cleaning, where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn‘t like. Here we meet five “digital scavengers”, among thousands of people outsourced from Silicon Valley, whose job is to delete “inappropriate” content of the net.
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The Deminer
Hogir Hirori - 83' After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 Fakhir, a father of eight and Major in the Iraq armed forces, goes on a mission to disarm the thousands of mines laid across Mosul. Shown via home movie footage shot by his fellow troops and discovered by his son years later, the videos show how Fakhir manages to disarm thousands of mines with just a simple knife and a pair of wire clippers.
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This is Congo
Daniel McCabe - 91' This is Congo is a highly-immersive, unfiltered look into one of the longest conflicts in the world. The
Democratic Republic of the Congo has seen more than five million conflict-related deaths, multiple
regime changes and the wholesale impoverishment of its people in the past two decades.
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