A comedy from Nejat Uygur Theater.
Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial recognition cameras, emotion detectors, citizen rating systems, autonomous drones… A security obsession that in some countries is giving rise to a new form of political regime: numerical totalitarianism. Orwell's nightmare.
Survivor Abduweli flees a Chinese Uyghur internment camp to Norway. Now, heading to Germany to confront a past torturer, his daughter’s panic attack forces a choice: exposing Uyghur genocide for the world, or shielding his family from painful memories.
Gülmira, a Uyghur journalist in Washington DC, risks everything to bring the disappearance of her people in northwest China to light. Maryam escapes from a brutal detention camp. Only by making enormous personal sacrifices can the two women succeed in gaining the attention of the world public.
A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, speak a Turkic language and practice the Muslim religion. The Uighurs suffer brutal cultural and political oppression by Xin Jinping's tyrannical government: torture, disappearances, forced labor, re-education of children and adults, mass sterilizations, extensive surveillance and destruction of historical heritage.
Eighteen-year-old Shahnura is about to graduate from high school. Her mother spends hours at the dining table while Shahnura is at school, wondering if her mother, sister, and brother are still alive. Living in Germany without a passport or nationality, she listens to the harrowing stories of her mother and two friends who have experienced imprisonment and re-education camps in China. These accounts reveal the suffering, human rights abuses, forced adoptions, and the grim reality of the camps where the predominantly Muslim Turkic Uyghurs are tortured and mistreated.
A report on the detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China.
La grande roue
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
An animated short set to the tune of Pat Boone's Exodus Song satirizing the history of the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant.
Aaron "Amadeus" Overlake is a visionary filmmaker revered for his genius but plagued by his own demons—a volatile alcoholic whose life is consumed by anger, controversy, and from a bitter heartbreak. As tabloids revel in his self-destruction, Aaron’s only anchor is his best friend, Santiago "Baron" Gonzalez, a charismatic actor fresh out of rehab, fighting to rebuild his career. Bound by shared struggles and a tangled history, Aaron and Santiago navigate the toxic undercurrents of fame and friendship. As Aaron embarks on his next masterpiece, his chaotic life threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Another modern spin-off of Romeo & Juliet, this time about two families who each run rivaling pizza restaurants in New Jersey.
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
A young woman in her thirties feels very happy and excited – she has a partner, everything in her life is under control, so now is perfect time to have a baby. Unfortunately, that's not as easy as it sounds...
A young man Ivan finds himself in his hometown, leaving this place 17 years ago. He looks around incredulously, trying to see in the surrounding fragments of his childhood. In this city lived his first love - little Anya. Now she is no longer 12, and he, too. But thoughts about the feelings of the past days still do not give him rest ... Vanya specifically changed his ticket to see Anna, but is she here? Does she remember him? But what if her life was too much shabby? 3 hours to plunge into the abyss of first love ...
Beijing is happening these days, but not everyone is living the golden life. Dumped, fired, evicted and abandoned by everyone (including his dog), a down-on-his-luck man finds solace with a circle of equally ill-fated friends, in this touching and lighthearted drama from independent Chinese auteur Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards). (TIFF.)
Öğretmen 2
A man is getting married, but that is a big deal for the best man. Despite man's constant plea not to have a bachelor’s eve; great man has other plans with or without the groom.