Ukrainian women who have survived sexual violence during Russia's war refuse to remain silent. A brutally honest testimony from the female victims of war.
During the disaster in Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian film director attempts to raise awareness among the Danish public, while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, and speak freely, a group of young women risk their lives to form a secret reading circle.
20 years of deeply personal recordings compiled into a raw and unfiltered journey from Damascus to Denmark, depicting a Syrian woman's relentless struggle against violence, betrayal, and her own past.
After 11 years locked up in her family home, Adelina flees from a Georgian village to Vienna in the hope of finding the freedom to be herself. But even in exile, the chains of the past prove difficult to break free from.
After the fall of Assad's regime, five survivors return to the former torture prison of Saidnaya to reenact what they experienced there. They reclaim their voices and bear witness for those who can no longer speak for themselves.
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.
When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Belarusian women fighting for their personal and political freedom under opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, inspire the film's director to confront and overcome her own fear.
Set by a beautiful river canyon in Western Ukraine, a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, sees their peaceful way of life gradually distressed by floods and eventually an unexpected war.
In A Fox Under a Pink Moon, we follow the strong-willed 16-year-old artist Soraya, an Afghan girl who has spent years trying to flee Iran for Europe, to reunite with her mother, filming the long journey and her hardships on her mobile phone.
In 1993, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former diplomat and peaceful opponent to Qaddafi vanished in Cairo. His daughter Jihan investigates his disappearance while documenting her mother's 19-year search for truth.
Flana is a 2025 documentary directed by Zahraa Ghandour that investigates the unexplained disappearances of women in Iraq, particularly those known as "flana," which translates to forgotten or anonymous women.
A Palestinian projectionist embarks on a journey through the West Bank, seeking parts to restore an old movie theater's projector when a German NGO arrives to renovate it, clinging to hopes of reclaiming his former position.
In the heart of besieged Gaza, a short-statured clown brings laughter amid destruction, moving among the rubble and the children, trying to protect his family in a war that knows no mercy.
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