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Welcome to Chechnya
2020
The documentary takes us inside the fraught, day-to-day workings of an underground pipeline of activists who face unimaginable risks to rescue LGBTQ victims from Chechnya’s brutal government-directed campaign. In a republic where being gay or transgender is unspeakable, the LGBTQ community lives...
filmes premiadosautoritarismoLGBTQI+retrato socialRússiadocumentárioEUA
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Numbers
2020
In a dystopian world, ten people are controlled by an authoritarian government. They do not remember who they are or where they come from. They don’t even have names: the men are identified by odd numbers and the women, by even numbers. An omnipresent leader, called The Great Zero, applies rigid...
repressãoautoritarismodistopiaFrançaPolôniaRepública TchecaUcrânia
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There Is No Evil
2020
Every country that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people.In Iran, four men are put in front of an unthinkable but simple choice. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly corrode themselves, their relationships, and their entire lives. The four stories are...
autoritarismofilmes premiadosretrato socialRepública TchecaAlemanhaIrã
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Ahed`s Knee
2021
Y., an Israeli filmmaker in his mid-forties, arrives in a remote village at the far end of the desert to present one of his films. There he meets Yahalom, an officer for the Ministry of Culture, and finds himself fighting two losing battles: one against the death of freedom in his country, the...
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House Arrest
2021
David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances,...
festivais internacionaisautoritarismoRússia
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Visions of Empire
2020
A film about the Portuguese colonial empire as it is seen and shown through photography, from the end of the 19th century until the 1974 revolution that put an end to the political regime that ruled Portugal.
memóriamulheres na direçãoidentidadedocumentárioautoritarismoartehistóriaPortugal
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The Dawn
2020
Set in the near future, society has seen a drastic political turn. As their neighbors flee from the radicalism, Matija and his family are confronted with an unresolved tragedy. While he loses his faith and struggles to find his true self, the dawn breaks over the valley, revealing that the only way...
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Leave No Traces
2021
Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk, a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek, the only witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state. The oppressive regime used its...
autoritarismohistóriacrimefestivais internacionaisRepública TchecaFrançaPolônia
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Suffocated Memory
2021
Colonel Ustra (1932-2015) is the only military man in Brazil who has been convicted for acts of torture during the dictatorship. But what is the truth behind it? Through internet searches, Brazilian history is reconstructed and rebuilt up to a harrowing present.
repressãohistóriamemóriaautoritarismoditadurapolíticadocumentárioBrasil
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A New Old Play
2021
The leading clown role in a renowned theatre troupe passes on, and is welcomed into the underworld. As he relives his vivid memories one last time before entering the afterlife, fifty years of art, struggle and love play out against the background of 20th-century China’s tumultuous history. ...
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Let It Be Morning
2021
Sami lives in Jerusalem with his wife and kid. An invitation to his brother’s wedding forces him to return to the Arabic village where he grew up. After the wedding, with no explanation, the village is put under lockdown by Israeli soldiers. Chaos rises overnight amongst those stuck within the...
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No Choice
2020
Golbahar is a sixteen-year-old girl who is sold to a middle-aged man to have a baby for him. After a month, Golbahar is still not pregnant, and after some medical tests and to her surprise she finds out that her tubes have been tied. Golbahar has no knowledge of such an operation ever done. She is...
autoritarismojustiçaviolência sexualsaúdefeminismopressão socialretrato socialIrã
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Boycott
2021
When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 33 states in America. Boycott traces the impact of state...
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The Pastor and the Revolutionary
2022
At the turn of the millennium, Juliana, the illegitimate daughter of a colonel who has commited suicide, discovers that her father was a torturer during the military dictatorship in Brazil.
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Achilles
2023
A former filmmaker works nights as an orthotist in Tehran. In the hospital’s restricted psychiatric ward, he meets a sedated patient, a political prisoner who has been institutionalized for years. Together they flee in contemporary Iran and encounter citizens across the country, all wounded by...
autoritarismofestivais internacionaispolíticaFrançaAlemanhaIrã
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Transition
2023
Jordan has been filming from the epicenter of the Afghan conflict for over five years, during which time the Taliban retook control of the country. Transition follows the Australian as he navigates life as a trans man in the country, alongside Afghan filmmaker Teddy and Iranian photojournalist...
mulheres na direçãoautoritarismoguerrajornalismoLGBTQIA+documentárioEUA
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2073
2024
It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Ghost is a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past —a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big...
festivais internacionaisdistopiacaosautoritarismoReino Unido
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Waves
2024
As the Prague Spring uprises in 1968, former Czechoslovak secret services target the radio station where Tomáš works. At the same time, he must protect his revolutionary brother and finds himself obliged to face History —especially when the radio broadcasts the content of a confidential...
políticafilmes premiadosfestivais internacionaisautoritarismojornalismoEslováquiaRepública Tcheca
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The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
2024
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with a past he can no longer ignore. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay via Brazil, the...
autoritarismofestivais internacionaisFrançaAlemanha
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Lavagante
2025
A story of love and deceit, set against the backdrop of the political police of the Salazar dictatorship, censorship, persecution and imprisonment, and the student uprising of the early 1960s. The final screenplay by António-Pedro Vasconcelos, adapted from the last work of José Cardoso Pires.
políticaautoritarismoditadurahistóriaadaptação literáriaPortugal
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San Simón
2025
October 1936. Franco’s dictatorship is opening concentration camps all over the country, setting up convents, factories, schools, bullrings, monasteries, and so forth. Amidst them all, San Simón stands out since it is an island. The Regime turns it into a place of death where prisoners are...
memóriaautoritarismofestivais internacionaisEspanha
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Vitrines
2025
Chile, 1973. Shortly after Pinochet’s military coup, hundreds of left-wing Latin American activists take refuge in the Argentine embassy, waiting for visas to leave the country. For 12-year-old Pedro and 11-year-old Ana, children of activists, this forced confinement becomes a parenthesis in...
infânciaautoritarismoAmérica Latinamulheres na direçãoBrasil
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The Secret Agent
2025
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks. Winner of the awards for best director, best actor, to Wagner...
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