There is undoubtedly a return to what we might call cinema of reality. Even fiction and auteur films are increasingly engaging with real events, contemporary life, and the major issues we face every day: wars, climate change, social tensions, discrimination, populism, authoritarianism. These films are not journalistic reports like the ones we receive daily from the media. Rather, they offer an opportunity for deep, nuanced, and often contradictory reflection on issues that are extremely complex.
To recount the dramatic story of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl trapped under a car in Gaza who called the Red Crescent in a one-hour plea for help, the director chose to use the original audio of the call. Completed in just twelve months, the film is set entirely in a sin...
Aboozar Amini takes us into the heart of an Afghanistan scarred by war, occupation, and radicalization. Following the lives of two brothers, the documentary exposes the cracks behind the rhetoric of martyrdom. Samim, 23, is a young Taliban stationed at a Kabul checkpoint, torn...
At just thirteen, Azucena is forced to leave her newborn son in an orphanage following an unwanted pregnancy. Eighteen years later, when they meet again, Julio is now a teenager. Their bodies resemble each other, and it is precisely on these bodies and their instinctive connec...
