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Deep in Peru’s Amazon region, the Marañón River is home to a vast network of spirit villages ruled by the Karuara, or “People of the River.”
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A powerful film that sneaks up on you, combining personal reflection and experience with a wider critique of power and corruption in Lebanon.
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In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.
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In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present, even to defend themselves.
Ten different Athenian drag queens fabulously challenge social conventions while deconstructing gender, queerness and nationalism.
A film on the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices on US campuses and the resistance of students and professors.
Episode One of this series boldly takes up the troubling history of the British Asian community’s fight against the white far-right between 1976 and 1981.
Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist
An astonishing work of social movement cinema, this dynamic documentary captures the complexity and spirit of India’s largest farmers protest in history.
The year of the 20th anniversary of the prison, Scott’s field recordings and Adayfi’s memories come together to create a visceral new landscape of this notoriously secret place.
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