Freedom of Inês Etienne Romeu

August 29, 1979, Talavera Bruce Penal Institute, Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. After serving eight years in prison, Inês Etienne Romeu, the only survivor of the "House of Death" in Petrópolis and the first political prisoner sentenced to life in prison in Brazil, left prison benefiting from Amnesty. Norma Bengell filmed this moment: from the prison door to her home with her family, Inês was welcomed by family, friends and members of the Brazilian Amnesty Committee, in what marked the first act of the historic denunciation that Inês would carry out against her tormentors and the Military Regime.

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Back in High School

In high school, Lan Feichi and Qi Shu fell in love. Nine years later, the two met again at Qi Shu's wedding. Lan Feichi saw Qi Shu's ordinary desolation and felt guilty. Later, Lan Feichi accidentally entered a magic watch shop that can transport time and space and returned to the high school era with the pocket watch donated by Qi Shu. Lan Feichi, who has returned to the past, has done many ridiculous things to change reality, but each time the ending is much worse than the original. When Lan Feichi returned to the scene of their first encounter, he decided not to meet Qi Shu again.

Australia Says Yes

Packed with drama, high emotions and cliff-hanger moments, Australia Says Yes is the intimate and personal history of struggle and perseverance that propelled Australia to say Yes to marriage equality. The film shows how a group of determined individuals fought tirelessly against unjust laws that treated LGBTIQ people as second-class citizens, creating a movement that saw them go from criminals to legally equal over the course of five decades.

The Great Safae

Depicting a transvestite who worked for a family without them knowing her gender.

The Whisper of the Leaves

A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.

Outlawed: A Punk Rock Uprising in the Basque Country

A sonic journey through Basque punk rock and the turbulent past that defined its sound, chronicling the rise of the gaztetxe movement.

B.Selvi & Daughters

B. Selvi & Daughters is the story of Selvi, a 50-year old woman in Chennai, India who is trying to get her fledgling online saree store off the ground. Like any Good Indian Mother, Selvi gave up her career aspirations for family life, and left all major decisions to her husband. Now, a year after his death, Selvi has taken her hobby of selling sarees door-to-door to the next level via Whatsapp, and is struggling with the confidence to build it into a real business. When Kavitha - Selvi's fiercely independent, idealistic daughter comes home for Pongal - she discovers her mother's secret with pleasant surprise, and runs an ad for the sari business without consulting her. Now, with close to a hundred orders to fulfill overnight, Selvi is overwhelmed. Can she do this? Is she capable of handling a business on her own? She needs to take the plunge in order to find out.

I Thought You Would Last Forever

A narcissistic man realizes that his devoted wife was the main person in his life only after her death. He goes to the past to repent to her, and also to find an answer to the question why, secretly from him, she wished to be buried by the old grave of a stranger...

Pick up the Wind

A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of his daily life as he interacts with different forms of environmental, familial, and social influences. While Anthony displays contradictory traits of creativity, destruction, rigidity, and tenderness as he interacts with his external and internal worlds, we see a story built from the the multidimensionality of Anthony's layered personality as a young man.

Feel So Tawawa

Aya, an erotic writer, lives with her boyfriend, Hajime, a company employee. Recently, they have been a little bit growing apart, and she feels somewhat unfulfilled. One day, Aya learns that the magazine to which she contributes will suddenly cease publication. That night, she is invited out for a drink by Tanaka, an editor whom she respects, and drinks deeply, losing consciousness. When she wakes up, she finds Tanaka in another room making intense love to a mysterious woman, Maria.

Akemi Bar: Happiness After Getting Moist

Sumire has been working at “Snack Akemi” for the past three years. After returning home from shopping, the owner, Goro, entrusted her with the preparations for opening the bar, and he lay down on a box seat and puffed on a cigarette. Three years ago, Sumire, who had been selling her body to make ends meet, was found huddled on the street with blood all over her face after she was caught trying to skim off a customer’s money. She was saved by Goro, who was passing by at the time.

The Jesus Music

A political documentary that tells the stories of over 25 artists who give depictions of the controversy surrounding Christian Rock in the 70's.

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