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Nollywood, Smara

2011

Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after the war against Morocco (36 years ago) live in this refugee camp, located in the Sahara’s inhospitable north, in the middle of the Algerian hamada. They live here, under poor human conditions, thanks to international help. A small film cooperative fights, with barely any means, to elevate the voices of young Saharawis. It is one of the many Nollywoods (Hollywood of emptiness) found in Africa.

5.3

H.A.G.S. (Have a Good Summer)

2021

A portrait of growing up told through filmmaker Sean Wang's middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.

7.0

Olappeeppi

2016

Olappeeppi portrays the story of an ordinary Malayali family and the changes in the socio-economic scene in Kerala from 1970's to the 2000's . As the name suggests, its about colours of the past, taking us to that era along with a boy named Unni and his grandmother.

0.0

A message to Obama

2014

"A message to Obama" is a true story about a black man that writes a letter to the President of the United States of America - Barack Obama. The film features the history of his family and his people as well as his wishes to live in peace in his homeland Sahara.

8.0

I Love You I Miss You I Hope I See You Before I Die

2020

A harsh and dreamy story of a young girl from the American West and her longing heart. Through Betty we experience a tight family clan of children born by children born by children where love and dependency go hand in hand.

6.0

A Floating Hope

2017

Life perhaps resembles a football match. Losses could have been undone if you are ambitious enough. In A Floating Hope, Kit seemingly takes up this football philosophy. As a little school boy, he has to face the consequences of his parents’ divorce. On his birthday, Kit meets his mother for a brief time, wishing to regain a mother-and-son relationship.

0.0

The ladies of the desert

2011

The film offers an insight into a nearly forgotten world. The times when the Sahrawi war of independence was on the international agenda seem to be long forgotten. The fate of hundreds of thousands Sahrawis living in refugee camps since the 1970s seems not to be spectacular enough for further attention. Inthe film the women get a chance to speak. It is a film about their experiences and hopes. It is mainly a film about life in surroundings where seemingly normal things are real challenges. The film is a simple and impressive portrait of women, who have been fighting against their fate to help their people. They have never lost their drive, no matter how unfavourable the circumstances have been. It reminds us of the fate of the Sahrawi people. The film is realistic, without any kitsch elements. It shows impressive pictures of the real lives of strong women, who have never stopped fighting for independence.

0.0

The other side of the wall

2011

The documentary tells how 35 years of struggle of Sahrawi people became the starting of the Arab spring. From both side of the wall, Sahrawi tell us the Story of their country, the story of the last colony of Africa.

8.0

Good Girls

2016

Two sisters navigating the no man's land between childhood and adulthood have to deal with the consequences of their actions after one of the horses of their farm loses one eye.

5.0

III

2022

By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.

5.8

Sister My Sister

1994

A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.

5.0

Closeout

2024

Auksė and her father Saulius arrive at her late grandfather’s house, where Auksė learns that Saulius intends to sell it. Guided by visions of the past Auksė tries to convince Saulius to reconsider the sale, but the cold relationship between them leads to a conflict where no one is completely right.

7.3

A Girl Returned

2021

A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.

0.0

Thaidina, music in the desert

2009

A documentary that shows the current state of territorial limbo in which the Sahrawi people live through the gaze of those who arrive and leave, those who resist, of the occupiers and the occupieds; a multifaceted view of what is behind the facts.

7.6

The Fabelmans

2022

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

6.2

The Curse of the Cat People

1944

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

6.0

The Home Song Stories

2007

A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.

6.6

Reinventing Marvin

2017

Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.

7.6

Echoes of the Rainbow

2010

Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.

0.0

I Lit the Fire!

2025

The plot of the movie brings two people together - an immigrant filmmaker from Belarus and a 10 years old girl from the village in the south of Kyrgyzstan.

Genre	Documentary, Drama
Production Companies	Natia Docufilm
Production Ccountries	Western Sahara, Italy

Champs-Elysées

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Nollywood, Smara

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The ladies of the desert

The other side of the wall

Good Girls

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Sister My Sister

Closeout

A Girl Returned

Thaidina, music in the desert

The Fabelmans

The Curse of the Cat People

The Home Song Stories

Reinventing Marvin

Echoes of the Rainbow

I Lit the Fire!