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In A Place to Be Ourselves, director Alex Gabbay follows eight people across Europe and Asia fighting for authenticity in a world demanding conformity. The film asks: can we rebuild connection not by abandoning the self but by expanding it?
”Combatants for Peace” (CFP) is a group of former enemy combatants – Israelis and Palestinians – who refuse to surrender to violence. With the devastation of October 7th and the war in Gaza, the movement faces great challenges in showing that there is another way.
‘Three Comrades’ is framing the Ukrainian-Russian conflict through three displaced teenagers living in France, trying to find their place in a new country where they are safe but never stop feeling like outsiders. The film avoids heavy-handed geopolitical talking points, offering an intimate, observational character study.
After Alexei Navalny’s death, Alyona, along with thousands of others, laid flowers at the Wall of Sorrow in Russia to honor his memory. This act became a powerful symbol of resistance, leading to her arrest and persecution.
NY-based filmmaker Halil Efrat follows Shahar Cohen two decades after their acclaimed documentary ”Souvenirs”. Shahar now lives in Amsterdam raising two Dutch-Yemeni children, fulfilling his late father’s dream. To support his family, he runs the city’s favorite falafel truck, employing refugees from around the globe.
Architecture students join Shelly-Rachel Levy-Drummer to Bitola, North Macedonia, once known as Monastir. The history of her family is bound to Bitola’s destroyed Jewish community, to uncover and document the city’s lost Sephardic heritage through design and memory.
World champion Thai boxer Nili Block, embarks on a journey to claim the one title she’s missing and discovers that the most defining battles await outside the ring.
Living side-by-side on a single street in East Jerusalem, Palestinian families facing eviction confront the daily reality of their Israeli settler neighbors. ”One Street in Silwan” offers a powerful look at how one small community’s struggle embodies the larger Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A Polish family takes in a Syrian refugee who is trapped in the grim border area between Polish and Belarusian pushbacks. Time is running out and there are few options. Despite the language problems, they develop a bond.
Marek Hłasko — writer, rebel, carouser — was hailed as the Polish James Dean for his looks and the Polish Boris Pasternak for the brilliance of his prose and his experience of exile.