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Officially, the Rif war was fought from 1920 to 1926, to crush the rebellion towards independance led by AbdelKrim in a remote area of Morocco. This war involved hundreds of thousands of men and considerable resources. The Rif war not only called into question the colonial system, but it also marked...

The film returns to the origins of the creation of the State of Israel and looks at the history of Zionism (1896-1948) under the very specific angle of the responsibility of the Western World. Through the analysis of internationally renowned scholars and astonishing cinematographic archives, the fil...

Ciné-Guerrillas is a documentary that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito.  It plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for i...

On January 25, 2011, Egyptian people rose up. Suddenly, the entire world is taken aback: in only 18 days, the popular rebellion caused the fall of Mubarak’s regime. Katia Jarjoura’s new film takes us three months earlier when anger was already brewing beneath the surface. Outraged by the illegitima...

Anna Roussillon’s I Am The People is the charming, funny and fascinating portrait of a family, far from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s rural South, as they follow the Tahrir uprising via television news and local papers. From the toppling of President Mubarak to the election of Mohamed Morsi, the film cha...

Non-Aligned & Ciné-Guerrillas is a documentary diptych of two feature-length films that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito. Non-Aligned re-traces the birth ...

The threat of famine and increasing food shortages is not going to go away, on the contrary. Above and beyond the stock market phenomenon lies the problem of the decline in food production that now has a structural basis. The demonstration is overwhelming and forces on us the question: are we capabl...

The knowledge needed to build the atomic bomb was not given to us, it was consciously pursued. And the world has been living with the consequences ever since. Snake Dance is a personal reading of humankind’s catastrophic decision to play God. From New Mexico to Congo and Japan, we explore the atomi...

How does one build a country from scratch? STATE BUILDERS follows a determined UN official and the newly appointed Vice-President as they attempt to put theory into practice to shape the young democracy of the Republic of South Sudan. In July 2011 it became the world's newest nation after a 50-year...

The melting of the arctic polar ice has allowed the opening of a new maritime route between the Atlantic and the Pacific far shorter than the Panama or Suez Canals. Even though the route, going through an extremely vulnerable environment, is still considered dangerous, industrial countries are alrea...