Films

Arna's Children

Arna's Children

Juliano Mer-Khamis, Danniel Danniel (Israel,Netherlands 2004)

Lens Politica honors the memory of the murdered director Juliano Mer-Khamis and the life's work of his mother Arna with the screening of the film Arna's Children.

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Better This World

Better This World

Kelly Duane, Katie Galloway (United States 2011) 

The young Texans David McKay and Bradley Crowder were arrested in 2008 for planning a petrol bomb attack to the convention of The Republican Party.

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Boyamba Belgique / Crisis in the Congo

Boyamba Belgique / Crisis in the Congo

Dries Engels, Bart Van Peel (Belgium 2010)

A photograph witnesses an unusual event on the day before Congo gained independence in 1960.

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Cirkus Columbia

Cirkus Columbia

Closing Film

Danis Tanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Great Britain, Slovenia, Belgium, Serbia 2010)

Danis Tanović explores the collapse of Yugoslavia through little anecdotes about a family in a small and peaceful Bosnian village right before the war.

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Cultures of Resistance

Cultures of Resistance

Iara Lee (United States 2010)

This film by Iara Lee, a filmmaker and an activist, is a riveting journey through the conflict-ridden areas of South America, Africa and the Middle East.

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Debtocracy

Debtocracy

Aris Chatzistefanou, Katerina Kitidi (Greece 2011)

How did Greece end up in the economical and political dead end in which it now finds itself? What is the part of the average Greek in the country’s debt crisis – or, for that matter, the role of the EU...

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Fire on the Marmara

Fire on the Marmara

Opening Film

David Segarra (Venezuela 2011)

Israel attacked an aid fleet at sea heading to Gaza in May 2010.In a seize of less than an hour, nine people were killed and 53 wounded.

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Forbidden / No More Fear

Forbidden / No More Fear

Amal Ramsis (Egypt, Spain 2011) / Murad Ben Cheikh (Tunisia 2011)

"Forbidden to travel, to sing, to speak… and with every day I love you more and more." Thus sings Sheikh Imam, an Egyptian artist himself on the list of forbiddens.

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Heynowski & Scheumann Documentaries

Heynowski & Scheumann Documentaries

Heynowski & Scheumann (DDR 1968-1976)

In DDR Walter Heynowski (1928) and Gerhard Scheumann (1930–1998) produced documentary films which were artistically and economically independent...

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If a Tree Falls

If a Tree Falls

Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman (United States 2011)

The capitalists knock down trees. The people complain to politicians. The politicians fear to make decisions. The activists take justice in their own hands.The capitalists' offices burn to ground. The activists turn into terrorists. Or do they?

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Istanbul Express

Istanbul Express

Short films, documentaries

In fall 2010, Istanbul Express, a multilingualism-themed filmmaking workshop organized by the international NISI MASA film network brought 45 young European filmmakers to Istanbul from three European cities...

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Made in Cuba

Made in Cuba

Short films (Cuba 2010)

The films presented in this series show a wide variety of proposals by young Cubans. All the titles represent the common voice of Cuban youth, deeply critical towards their economical and political environment.

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Memories of Overdevelopment

Memories of Overdevelopment

Miguel Coyula (Cuba, United States 2010)

Tämä useita palkintoja kerännyt kuubalainen elokuva peilaa nykyaikaa vasten TomásThe multi-awarded Cuban feature serves as a contemporary mirror to the seminal classic by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Memories of Underdevelopment (1968).

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Red Forest Hotel

Red Forest Hotel

Mika Koskinen (Finland 2011)

"They said that the Finns are coming. Even the word ‘Finland’ scares us," says an anonymous farmer in Red Forest Hotel.

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Superheroes

Superheroes

Michael Barnett (United States 2011)

There are hundreds of real life superheroes in the US, to whom the life of a caped crusader is a hobby and an alternate lifestyle.

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The Big Fix

The Big Fix

Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell (United States 2011)

Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig contracted out by the oil company British Petroleum, blew up on the 20th April 2010 off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Death of Pinochet

The Death of Pinochet

Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut (Chile 2011)

On December 10th 2006, General Pinochet surprisingly dies in the military hospital of Santiago. For 24 hours after his death, the political divisions that defined the recent history of Chile with death and violence re-emerge.

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The Prize

The Prize

Paula Markovitch (Mexico, France, Poland, Germany 2011)

Seven years old Ceci lives in a small house by the beach with her mother. The family is hiding for a reason or another and the hiding has to continue even though Ceci starts the local school.

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Um-Shmum

Um-Shmum

Gideon Gitai (Finland 2011)

Um means the U.N. in Hebrew and shmum is a dismissive rhyme for it. In 2006 the Israeli military dropped a bomb in Khiam, regardless of the resistance from the U.N.

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