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Across three continents, this month’s International Women's Day titles (Deepa Dhanraj’s INVOKING JUSTICE, Tamara Dawit’s FINDING SALLY, and Sylvia Hamilton’s CARRIE M. BEST: CHAMPION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS) illuminate three distinct struggles for women’s autonomy against white supremacist, misogynist, and authoritarian structures.
 

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We’re delighted to announce that the winners of our annual Audience Choice Award are Abdallah Al-Khatib’s LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE (Best Feature Film) and Rehab Nazzal’s VIBRATIONS FROM GAZA (Best Short Film).
 

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If there was ever a time to fight for what is right, including against those on the right, it is now. With the gilded ascent of trolls, neo-fascists and the broligarchy, the world is on a political precipice.
 

A powerful film that sneaks up on you, combining personal reflection and experience with a wider critique of power and corruption in Lebanon.

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Kamal Aljafari  ·  2024  ·  1h18m
Kamal Aljafari  ·  2024  ·  1h18m

In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive.

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Deepa Dhanraj  ·  2011  ·  1h25m

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Deepa Dhanraj  ·  2011  ·  1h25m

In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present, even to defend themselves.

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor  ·  2024  ·  1h35m
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor  ·  2024  ·  1h35m

Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist

Jess Shane & Katie Mathews  ·  2022  ·  13m
Jess Shane & Katie Mathews  ·  2022  ·  13m

The year of the 20th anniversary of the prison, Scott’s field recordings and Adayfi’s memories come together to create a visceral new landscape of this notoriously secret place.

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