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A Voluntary Exile

Karima Zoubir
Morocco


voluntary exileIn fisherman’s village, lost in the middle of the desert Miloud, a voluntary exile, lives as an atypical fisherman in the midst of the fishermen’s community. Chased out by the poverty and overfishing, the fishermen decided to move here, in order to flee the inequitable competition operated by the foreign vessels in all the Moroccan fishing zones.  But the problem they fled from has followed them here, as the European and other fishing vessels have acquired the right to go fishing right up to the Saharan waters. Miloud and his community have to fight for their survival.

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BİLGE ELİF TURHAN
Turkey

cicekThey are living a happy and calm life in Şırnak until the Turkish Army comes and asks them to be rangers against the Kurdish guerillas on the mountains. When they do not accept this offer, their villages are burned and they are forced to migrate.  They take refuge in Adana as most of the people before them did. They are faced with the pressure coming from the security powers of the government who ask them to leave since the land that they are on belongs to the government.  They do not have anywhere to go back.

 

FACELESS / Без лица

Nikita Sutyrin
Russia


nikita picRussia survives the neo-nazism revelry. The characters of the film are anti-fascist, who resist to neo-nazism on the streets. They defend universal positive values and   are approved  by some Russian artists, journalists,  intellectuals...  But   why do antifascists  hide their faces, use weapon and are opposed to police?

Men of Faith

Fadi Hindash
Jordan


faithless_newAn intimate portrait of the men living inside an Islamic school in Karachi. Behind the walls of Jamia Binoria madrassa, it is a calm world of religious rituals and men in similar white robes. 5,000 students live here. Some have travelled thousands of miles from China, Africa, Europe, America and the Middle East. According to the management of the Jamia Binoria, these international students are afraid to face persecution when they return to their home countries after having attended a madrassa. Hindash's documentary shows a world of piety inhabited by men juggling their devotion to God and their concern about their image in the bigger world outside. We observe this world through the eyes of a Muslim filmmaker who travels to Pakistan to reconcile his religious upbringing with his modern beliefs.

Hindash has secured two important grants, the Dutch Film Fund and IKON, Dutch broadcaster. He has also signed with two producers: Bonanza Films (Amsterdam) and Kloos & Co (Berlin).

Grounded At Shore

Ahmed Aarb
Palestine


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Grounded At Shore tells the story of Gazan fishermen who defy all odds of nature and man-made obstacles to obtain a simple right to which all humans are entitled: food.

Hijacked! The World’s First Hijacking

Ada-Maria Ichim
Romania/UK


The story of the world’s first commercial airline hijacking set during the height of the Stalinist Communist regime which brutally ruled Romania for over 40 years.

How much is Morality?

Dmytro Tiazhlov
Ukraine


how_much_moralityThe story reveals the clash between artistic community and political will for moral censorship before new presidential elections in Ukraine. Whether the work of the Board of experts in protection of public morality is the relapse of soviet system and attempt to introduce censorship on governmental level or not? We see people, which challenge the laws and those who obey. We research the questions of freedom of speech and democratic censorship and discover what’s behind it in post-Orange revolution Ukraine.

In The Dark

Goran Stankovic
Serbia


in the dark photoUnder communism miners in Yugoslavia were a symbol of the nation’s ideals. Noble, brave and hardworking. In the years since they have been forgotten in the dark. On National Miners Day the miners emerge above ground to discover the media has descended on them. In the space of one day their hard work is taken as a symbol, but of a different political reality. A film about Serbia underground and what goes on over our heads

Justice for Sale

Ilse Van Velzen
The Netherlands


justice for sale_smallJustice for Sale tells the captivating story of innocent people wrongly accused and sentenced to long prison term. Wealthy people buying their way out and corrupt judges in a failing judicial system. We follow two courage’s young human rights lawyers who fight impunity to end corruption in Congo’s judicial system.

NAKHINO/transient

Sami Mustafa
Kosovo/Serbia


nakhino - transient smallDuring 1990s conflicts, more than 70.000 Roma fled from Kosovo, most of them to Germany. 35.000 asylum seekers failed. In last 20 years Roma have built their lives and families, with a prospect of future. If they don’t fill out the conditions for asylum they are forced to return

Refugees in Transit: stories of unsettlement (working title)

Nicolas Sauret
France


Stories in Transit traces the painful paths taken by refugees through transit countries on their way to a better life. Crossing the portraits of one resettled refugee and one transit refugee, the film aims to highlight the resettlement process.

Stones

Berke Bas
Turkey

smallstones_stillA Kurdish youth basketball team go through series of "rites of initiation" as the players cross the thresholds of being men, gaining recognition and empowerment while at the same time become increasingly politically aware and active as they are confronted with hatred against their ethnic identity.

Strike Hard

Oliver Sertic
Croatia


Croatian Queer activists decided to fight against homophobia on the football fields. But they went further. They decided to make first Croatian Gay football club and play local championship, all in the year with World Championship madness is happening. Film is following three players/activists, their trainings, matches but also private life. We also discover the conflicts within the sports teams themselves and debate the sports „coming out‟ which is still completely unknown over here.

The Frontiers of Europe

Helge Renner
Germany


helge small"The Frontiers of Europe" is a film about Frontex and its role for the European border security. The film will cover both the work of the Warsaw headquater as well as the Frontex missions at the outer borders of the European Union.

The Invisible Men

Yariv Mozer
Israel


the invisible man picLouie, 31, is a gay Palestinian hiding in Tel Aviv. “The Invisible Man” documents his everyday life as he applies for political asylum abroad. On that journey, we will discover other gay Palestinians in hiding, be they in Tel Aviv, the West Bank, or Gaza. We will render them visible.

Those Who Said No

Nima Sarvestani
Iran / Sweden


bild 1 those who said no smallSkhekofes brother Omid is of one the dissidents put to trial in Iran's Revolutionary Court. Twenty years earlier their father faced the same Court. He was executed in one of the biggest mass-murder in our time. Now Skhekofe starts protesting, but will it put Omid in even more danger?