The jury called to judge the finalists will be composed of: Wieland Speck (Director of the Panorama section at the Berlinale), Bijaya Jena (Indian director and actress), Sahraa Karimi (Afghan director), Laura Buffoni (critic and producer), Anja Strelec (documentary director and selector of the Festival...

Jake has only ever reported unexciting news in the local paper, but tonight he’s burdened with a much bigger task. Mr Tomassi, a father of a 4-year-old has had his car violently hijacked while parking up in the centre of town. The robbers disappear with...

A letter to the future of the humanity. We are in the future and, at the end, we didn’t save our planet. So the climate change caused a disaster. For those from the future who ask to us how we could afford it, we respond...

Pedro Opeka declined an opportunity to play professional soccer in his native Buenos Aires. He chose instead to become a missionary and live in one of the poorest countries in the world. The son of a bricklayer, he convinced destitute families living in Madagascar’s largest...

This well-researched documentary, with over 120 clips from archival films shot almost exclusively by male film-makers, portrays the domestic and social position of Iranian women from 1932 to the 1979 revolution. The patriarchal family, love and deception, unwanted pregnancies and abortions, arranged marriages and polygamy...

The mountains of Colombia have been a silent witness through 50 years of war. In the rebel camps deep in the forest, Teo writes the harsh memories of his fellow guerrilleros. Meanwhile Boris, a cameraman for the FARC, films behind the scenes of the peace...

A solitary night watchman opens the doors of his work to take us on a cathartic inner journey, in which he strips off the mask he’s created before the world to finally question who he is. ...