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The ReFOCUS Media Lab is a film school in Europe's best-known refugee camp: Moria on Lesbos. Here, young refugees have been learning to express their view of the world in pictures since 2018. Direct…

The story begins in Cairo, January 25, 2013, the second anniversary of the revolution. An explosion of politically charged sexual assaults of women sweeps through Tahrir Square. After the public rape…

Cox's Bazaar - the world's largest beach near the Rohingya refugee camp Kutupalong is home to Shob, Shuma, and Ayesha. Fearlessly, the Muslim female surfers hurl themselves toward the highest waves…

The film tells the story of an unusual duo that exposes illegal sterilizations in women's prisons in California. A woman affected and her lawyer wage an almost hopeless battle against the Department…

Franco Antonello has a son, Andrea, who is autistic. When Andrea turned 18, father and son decided to cross the US by motorbike. From that adventure, the writer Fulvio Ervas wrote the book Don’t Be…

FINDING SALLY tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally…

When Teodora Vázquez wakes up at the hospital, her nightmare begins: after a miscarriage, she is accused of killing her baby – and charged with aggravated murder. FLY SO FAR follows Vázquez, the…

The war in Afghanistan  raged for 20 years. Suicide attacks, bombings and kidnappings have cost the lives of nearly 200,000 people. Now the US and its allies – including Germany – have withdrawn…

On her 98th birthday, a spirited South African Holocaust survivor reveals her amazing life journey to her family. Born in Warsaw in 1921, Ella Blumenthal grew up in a large family with a passion for…

Five-year-old Imad has spent more than half of his life in IS captivity. Deeply disturbed, he returns to his Yazidi family. Imad has been brainwashed and is a child obsessed with terror as a result…

A real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah. Surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements and soldiers, most people will never have the chance to travel more…

In 1945, when the first concentration camps in Europe were liberated, the need arose to document the unimaginable. Renowned filmmakers are asked to rework the material. While the Americans quickly go…

Dilya became a human rights activist the day her brother Iskandar was thrown in prison, accused of being a terrorist. For years she challenged the dictatorship, and the consequences were brutal. She…

OPHIR tells the story of an extraordinary indigenous revolution in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, that may have initiated the creation of the world's youngest nation. A poetic yet dramatic ode to a…

They call it "The Game." Every day, children and young people try to cross the border into Europe. For protection and a better life, they left behind their families and their country. Now they travel…

In the Central African Republic, rebels have abused religion as a tool to convince Christians and Muslims to kill each other. Warlords control almost all of the territory and its resources. A…

A group of the world’s leading scientists and entrepreneurs isolate themselves for ten days at the renowned Santa Fe Institute, hidden in the New Mexican desert. They come from all corners of science…

Anita Chitaya is a fighter: she can get men to stand up for equality and knows how to grow food even on dead soil. But to fight hunger in her native Malawi and secure people's livelihoods, she faces…

On April 28, 2012, journalist Regina Martínez was strangled in her home. Since 2000, 119 reporters have been murdered in Mexico, making the country the most dangerous place in the world for members…

For over 40 years, Ashur Shamis was a member of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood and Colonel Gaddafi’s enemy number one in exile with a million-dollar bounty on his head. His dream of a “free” Libya…

Commander X (a.k.a. Christopher Doyon) spent time on the streets of Toronto and Mexico hiding from the FBI. But this infamous hacktivist feels most at home on the internet where he gained notoriety…

At the height of the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans undertook the long journey to the border of Iran to flee the war. Taghi, born after that generation, is unwilling to…

Three people on a unique Pacific Island face the devastating effects of climate change. As an enormous flood threatens to engulf their paradise, who will decide to flee and leave their culture behind…

International chemical companies sell highly toxic agrochemicals in Kenya, that have long been banned in Europe because their ingredients cause cancer. Nonetheless, in Kenya these toxic chemicals are…

UNAPOLOGETIC follows Janaé and Bella, two Black Lives Matter activists working in Chicago to solve the murders of Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald and fight to convict their killers– police officers…

"What happened is not only about us. It is about human beings." Kutapulong in Bangladesh, the world's largest refugee camp, a place seemingly caught in time. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims live here…

WATCHERS OF THE SKY interweaves stories of remarkable courage, compassion, and determination, telling the story of the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin– the man who created the word "genocide" and…

WELCOME TO CHECHNYA follows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril by confronting the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian Republic. Since 2017, Chechnya’s…

In India, where the news landscape is dominated by men, three women decide to launch the first woman-owned newspaper. They belong to the Dalit who used to be the lowest caste in India and continue to…