Explores the extraordinary six-year ordeal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - a British-Iranian dual national held in Tehran - as well as the tireless campaign by her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, to bring her home. This documentary offers the real-life account - an emotional, human story of wrongful detention, resilience, and love. With exclusive access to former hostages and key political decision-makers, Prisoner 951: The Hostages’ Story offers a rare look at the toll of being used as leverage in political negotiations between states. The film lays bare how authoritarian regimes are increasingly using foreign nationals as geopolitical bargaining chips. Through the lens of Nazanin’s six-year imprisonment in Iran, the film examines the wider pattern of wrongful detention, the international failure to prevent it, and the hidden costs to families, diplomacy, and justice.
Sign and See the World sheds light on the journey of three young Surinamese men who, far from home, travel from Suriname via Canada to Europe during World War II to join the Princess Irene Brigade. Driven by a determination to help liberate the Netherlands, the film reveals the challenges and hardships of their journey, as well as the personal motivations, courage, and sacrifice that drove them to play a crucial role in the liberation of the Netherlands and Europe - one that never made it to the history books.
With the chasms that doing so entails, Leiva personally paints a raw and unpretentious portrait of the frenetic spiral of his existence today, giving us an unwonted glimpse of his life at the height of his career. An irreversible vocal cord issue constantly challenges the present and future of a Leiva incapable of conceiving any option other than to keep going. Until his voice gives out.
In the National Archives of the Kingdom of Morocco, thousands of files await inventory, including those of victims of political violence during the Years of Lead. Among them is Fatna El Bouih, who was disappeared and tortured as a 21-year-old student in the 1970s. Now 67, she continues her fight, pursuing her “dream of change,” active in prisons, advocating for gender equality, and sharing her experience with Syrian survivors of Sednaya prison. Fatna, a Woman Named Rachid follows her activism in Casablanca, in particular at a film festival at Oukacha prison, and blends past and present to portray El Bouih’s journey as a pioneer of women’s engagement and her intimate struggle to exist.
South Tyrol, 1961: Paul was hoping to escape the confines of his village and study painting. But because his older brother Anton is a wanted terrorist, he’s forced to stay at the farm and help Anton’s wife, Anna, and their son. As Paul is drawn into a vortex of violence and toxic masculinity, Anna struggles with the radicalization of her husband and the patriarchal structures in place at the time.
ZHANG Weili, the first-ever Asian UFC women’s world champion, secured the UFC strawweight belt with a 42-second TKO victory over the reigning female boxing champion. She successfully defended her title against the legendary fighter Joanna. However, after two back-to-back defeats at the peak of her career, she found herself in a personal slump. Determined to reclaim her identity, she took the bold step of cutting off her long hair.
When 65-year-old Fatima discovers that her husband has been living a double life in Morocco for the past ten years, her world collapses. Furious and determined not to let fate get her way, she decides to pick up where she left off 50 years earlier, when she was to play Hamlet. Together with her best friends Mériem, Romaissa and Inès, three other grandmothers from Molenbeek, these "Baronnes" are about to make a decision that will turn their lives, those of their entourage, their neighborhood and the whole country upside down.
From a small apartment in Buenos Aires, disturbing material was recovered.
What begins as a simple documentation of everyday life turns into a dark and nightmarish descent.
The discovery of apartment 1C was no coincidence… and you shouldn't look at this poster at night either.
Twelve years after the death of their son, Diana and Martín decide to reunite for a weekend at their old lake house. She is a specialist in Artificial Intelligence; he gave up his profession to live withdrawn from civilization. When an enigmatic young man bearing a mysterious resemblance to their deceased son appears at the house, old secrets and new suspicions come to light. The very existence of a future may depend on the family’s past.
A woman encounters a hitchhiker in the middle of the night while driving. From there, things spiral into absurdity, blurring the lines between what's real -and what isn't.
While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight : 1. make money fast 2. stay strong. Dirty underwear, dildos and neurotic parents will unexpectedly help.
Sara is reunited with her father after an attack. In the meanwhile she finds love in the fight against corruption and its objectives, achieving to propose the new bases for a future and worthy education in her country.
Jason lives with his grandmother, a folk healer, along with his older brother and their cousin in a secluded house in Auvergne. As a rumor spreads about the disappearance of a foreign soldier who came to train in the region, the old woman's health begins to deteriorate.
This documentary offers a rare look at domestic abuse through the concept of coercive control. With exceptional access to hearings in Poitiers, Colmar, and Paris, Karine Dusfour captures the first French trials to address this form of psychological violence. The film shows how coercive control traps partners through constant monitoring, a hidden terror affecting hundreds of thousands of women and children in France.
An isolated private investigator is convinced by a friend to come out of hiding to help find her missing sister, putting him back in reach by those who want his family dead.
Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is repeatedly turned away. Desperate, he unknowingly finds refuge at the house of Bishop Bienvenu, who lives simply, with his sister and a single servant. There, he is surprised by their warm welcome, and his inner demons start to waver. But the temptation to be what society sees in him still haunts him, and he steals the Bishop’s silverware. When the police ultimately catches him, the Bishop forgives him and gifts him the candlesticks. This acts becomes the starting point of Jean Valjean’ transformation into a new man who reclaims his humanity.
David has spent days without sleep, craving someone to talk to. One night, a lost traveler arrives at his door. David insists he stay, and their small talk begins. But what starts as a way to calm his anxiety soon grows into something far beyond his control.