In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...
Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil'...
Shudra: The Rising is a Hindi language film with a storyline based on the caste system in ancient In...
Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and i...
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migr...
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district a...
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...
Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Weste...
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...
Chauncey Wright, a champion bull rider, has been risking his life on the weekly to give his kids the...
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the ...
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the isl...
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds he...