Desert of the real
Overview of films
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Elephants and Grass
Dervis Zaim | 115' | Turkey | -
Critical and often acidly hilarious thriller about corruption and crime in today’s Turkey. A marathon runner becomes unwittingly involved in the dirty -
Fortress Europa
Zelimir Zilnik | 80' | Slovenia | -
The Fortress Europe is rigourously guarded: guests are not welcome in this unusual mixture of fiction and reality. -
Gas Attack
Kenny Glenaan | 71' | United Kingdom | -
Exciting feature about a mysterious virus outbreak in a suburb of Glasgow. -
The Hidden Half
Tahmineh Milani | 108' | Iran | European premiere
Clear and gripping drama set at the start of the Iranian revolution. Milani was imprisoned after the film came out on suspicion of having ‘anti-revolu -
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La hora de los hornos
Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas | 90' | Argentina | -
A still topical reconstruction of Argentine oppression. -
Hostage: The Bachar Tapes
Walid Ra’ad, Souheil Bachar | 17' | Lebanon | -
Video diary of an imprisonment with strangers. -
A Huey P. Newton Story
Spike Lee | 90' | USA | -
Writer-actor Roger Guenveur Smith made a stage monologue about the co-founder of the Black Panthers, Huey P. Newton. Spike Lee filmed a stage version -
Injustice
Ken Fero, Tariq Mehmood | 98' | United Kingdom | -
Since 1969, 1000 people have died in police custody in England. Only one policeman has been found guilty of any offence. Documentary-maker Ken Fero lo -
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Khiam
Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas | 52' | Lebanon | -
Testimony from a prison in Southern Lebanon are a political indictment and an almost metaphysical reflection on the human will to survive.
