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What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world. by Charmaine Poh
Singapore, 2024, 15m

“What’s softest…” is a glimpse of queer parenthood in Singapore, where such families are illegitimate under the eyes of the law. Like Kin, the hybrid documentary film combines interview material with a constructed communal space for play and imagination.

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english
english
14 Years and a Day by Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim and Ayo Lawson
Nigeria, 2023, 21m

In a riveting tale of love and self-discovery, a restless young woman finds herself embroiled in a passionate conflict with her partner of 14 years.

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french
english
Les Femmes Palestiniennes (Palestinian Women) by Jocelyne Saab
France, 1974, 17m

Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab.

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Nation Estate by Larissa Sansour
Palestine / Denmark, 2012, 9m

Nation Estate is a 9-minute sci-fi short film offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.

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english
A Room with a Coconut View by Tulapop Saenjaroen
Thailand, 2018, 29m

Through a fictionalized account of the bodiless voices hovering over commercially made presentation and historical strata, A Room with a Coconut View is an essayistic investigation of the politico-aesthetic relation through imagery surface and its netlike-technology apparatuses with a capitalistic-dictatorial-touristy regime as a backdrop.

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english
english
Tropic Fever by Mahardika Yudha, Perdana Roswaldy, Robin Hartanto Honggare
Indonesia / Netherlands, 2022, 59m

Tropic Fever uncovers the racial and spatial imprints of colonial plantations and their entanglement with our contemporary society.

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Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali (Tobacco Embers) by Yugantar
India, 1982, 25m

Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali traces the history and strike actions of the all women trade union of over 3000 tobacco workers in Nipani (Karnataka). It was made in collaboration with female tobacco factory workers.

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Molkarin (Maid Servant) by Yugantar
India, 1981, 25m

Molkarin exposes the oppressive working conditions of thousands of domestic workers in Pune. Through re-enactments of significant moments of the original process of unionising, the film narrates the coming together of women workers and union activists to form the Pune Shahar Molkarin Sanghatana (Pune City Domestic Workers Union) to fight for their rights.

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english +1
english
Tigress by Maya Bastian
Canada, 2021, 13m

When a young Tamil-Canadian woman comes face to face with another version of herself as a paramilitary fighter for the Tamil Tigers -- her sense of western privilege collides with the reality of her ancestors.

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siraiki
english
Lok Sath (People’s Tribunal) by Ali Nobil Ahmad
Pakistan / Germany, 2018, 20m

The true story of a rural community's resistance to the building of a coal power plant in Pakistani Punjab, Lok Sath is an experimental short featuring stills, video footage, abstract art and exquisite animations by Iranian artist and filmmaker Neda Ahmadi.

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french
english
On a le Temps Pour Nous (Time is on Our Side) by Katy Léna N'diaye
Belgium / Senegal / Burkina Faso, 2019, 1h 3m

Burkina Faso, October 2014. What many had not dared to imagine happened. The people of Burkina Faso put an end to the reign of Blaise Compaoré. Rapper Smockey, a member of Balai Citoyen, is one of the architects of this change, of the victory of utopia over reality.

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indonesian
english
Pesantren (A Boarding School) by Shalahuddin Siregar
Indonesia / Japan / Qatar / South Africa / Finland, 2019, 1h 28m

Pesantren offers a rare look inside an Islamic boarding school, showing the practice and ideology of a traditional educational system based on peaceful religious teachings that has been practiced in Indonesia for centuries.

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To Pick A Flower by Shireen Seno
Philippines, 2021, 17m

This video essay incorporates archival photographs from the American Colonial Era in the Philippines (1898–1946), exploring the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire.

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indonesian
english
Cerita Dari Pulau Karaka (A Story From Karaka Island) by Halaman Papua
Indonesia, 2014, 21m

Mama Dobo, Mama Maria Gema, Mama Yakoba and Mama Anas are four mamas who among many others are often asked for help by the residents of Karaka Island to assist mothers giving birth.

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french +1
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Madame Brouette by Moussa Sene Absa
Senegal, 2002, 1h 44m

Proud and independent, Mati, also known as Madame Brouette (“Mrs. Wheelbarrow”), makes a living by pushing her wheelbarrow through the marketplace in Sandaga, Senegal.

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english
english
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Fofo Means Father by Denzel Owoo
Ghana, 2023, 10m

After some years of grappling with a mental health struggle that stole pieces of his personal and professional life, Fofo finds his way back to his true love: Cinema.

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tagalog
english
Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) by Stephanie Comilang
Philippines / Canada, 2017, 26m

Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) is a science fiction documentary that uses the backdrop of Hong Kong and the various ways in which the Filipina migrant worker occupies Central on Sundays.

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