Chimpanzees and gorillas are mankind's closest relatives but throughout the forests of Africa these great apes are in peril. The hunting of these species for their meat and for babies as pets is taking a devastating toll. Shows the results of an investigation into this trade in four African countries.…
Escape and Embrace is a documentary capturing the life-altering odyssey of a young woman who defied oppression in Iran. From childhood challenges to grappling with societal pressures, the film chronicles her refusal to comply with the state religion and her evolution into an advocate for women's…
Escapes de gas retrata el origen y construcción en tiempo récord del Edificio UNCTAD III, uno de los proyectos culturales más ambiciosos de la Unidad Popular: El edificio destacó por su concepción artística. Con el mismo sueldo de un obrero, 34 artistas se…
"Featuring rare footage of endangered animals and interviews with the world’s leading animal welfare and conservation specialists, this pioneering feature explores the work of zoos and aquariums across the globe as they race to protect and preserve animals from all seven of Earth’s continents.…
Over 200,000 people have fled Marawi since ISIS militants swarmed the city on the island of Mindanao. As the extremists fight to build a South East Asian caliphate, the city is more dangerous than ever.
John Daly, an ex-neo-Nazi skinhead, fled to Israel after his own gang attempted to murder him for being Jewish. Years later he receives an e-mail from someone in his long forgotten past. Kevin Connell, a former friend and fellow ex-neo-Nazi is on a mission to change his own life and make amends for…
When eighteen-year-old Rahaf Al Qunun decided to renounce Islam, an action that is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, fleeing the country became her only option. As her family slept, she planned her route to Australia. After being stopped in transit in Bangkok, she barricaded herself into a hotel room…
Directed by Ludovic Petho and Christian Popp Produced by YUZU Productions In coproduction with Découpages, DOCDAYS Productions, and ARTE GEIE Siberia is a rough land known for its extreme conditions. It is as difficult to cross nowadays than it was a hundred years ago, at the time when Lajos…
Escape to the Rising Sun documents the experience of 20.000 Jews who fled Nazi persecutions in Europe and took refuge in Shanghai, China, during World War II. For several thousands of them, escape meant travelling through the Soviet Union and Japan before eventually reaching Shanghai. Throughout the…
Logline: Held hostage in India after their gender and sexual orientation is discovered, Naveen* fights back. Synopsis: 19-year old non-binary college student, Naveen Bhat chronicles their experience of being illegally detained by their parents in Agra, India after their true gender and sexual orientation…
When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, cycling was made illegal, turning the sport into an act of rebellion for Afghanistan’s women riders. With their lives at risk, an extraordinary international rescue mission is launched to get them out of Kabul and to safety. This gripping…
Tim Jenkin from Cape Town, South Africa, escaped the Pretoria prison during Apartheid in a spectacular way. Today he is co-founder of the Community Exchange System (C.E.S.), an alternative money system which to Tim is even more revolutionary then what they were doing at the time. As the camera follows…
