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France, Germany 2022, 99 min
by Stephane Malterre

27,000 photos of civilian detainees tortured to death were stolen from the Syrian regime’s secret archives by a military defector codenamed Caesar, and made public in 2014. But international justice proves impotent in prosecuting the criminal Syrian state. As the case seems doomed to oblivion, victims’ families, along with activists and Caesar himself, seek truth and justice through state courts across Europe instead. More than five years of investigations and fighting will lead to the first trial against high officials of the Syrian death machine.

Israel, France, Germany, Finland 2021, 110 min
by Avi Mograbi

5 million Palestinians live in the occupied territories under Israeli military rule, 2 million of them in the Gaza Strip, under total siege for the past several years. “The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has already lasted for 54 years.” This statement does not tell much about occupation. What does 'occupation' imply?The first 54 years aims to provide an exclusive insight into the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people while it is still ongoing. Describing their orders, their missions and their actions, Israeli soldiers witnesses report on the mechanisms of oppression of Palestinians from 1967 to the present day. With these testimonies, they reveal the factory of the occupation machine.

France, Germany 2006, 86 min
by Jürgen Ellinghaus, Hubert Ferry

When France surrendered in 1940 and German soldiers showed up in the small village of Housseras (Vosges, Région Grand Est, Northeast of France), an unknown French infantryman burned his papers and killed himself in a farmer's barn. Four years later he was identified as "soldat Doblin, Vincent". In fact, he was none other than the mathematician Wolfgang Doeblin, son of the famous German novelist Alfred Döblin ("Berlin Alexanderplatz") who was forced to flee Germany with his family in 1933 because of his resolutely anti-Nazi positions and Jewish descent.A French citizen since October 1936, Wolfgang Doeblin carried on his research in Probability Theory during his military service and even during the hardships of the "Phoney War" in the winter of 1939-40. In February 1940, four months before his death at the age of 25, he sent his most important manuscripts ("About Kolmogorov's Equation") in a sealed envelope to the Academy of Sciences in Paris, where they were kept in safe custody for 60 years.Wolfgang Doeblin's short and dramatic life story, almost forgotten, was finally brought into the limelight when the sealed envelope was opened in May 2000. Far ahead of their time, his groundbreaking contributions to the theory of random processes place Wolfgang Doeblin among the major innovators of probability, the "mathematics of randomness". Mathematical models for evaluation of chances and risks went on to gain major importance in vast domains of modern science, in everyday life and especially in the contemporary financial mathematics and its numerous applications in capitalist economies.

France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia 2023, 107 min
by Kaouther Ben Hania

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of 4 daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters.An intimate journey full of hope, rebellion, violence, intergenerational transmission and sister-hood, which will question the very foundation of our societies. With: Hend Sabri

Germany 2020, 74 min
by Jim Rakete

From Greta Thunberg to the Extinction Rebellion. For the young activists the rebellion is both a means and an end in the struggle for the climate of the future.School strikes, demonstrations and civil disobedience. The new wave of young activists, who spearheaded by Greta Thunberg have taken to the streets all over the world, use everything they can to awaken the politicians and the rest of the population to the climate change that will shape their future. NOW is a film about the drive of the young activists, their fear of climate change and their willingness to find new and alternative ways to live in a sustainable future. Hardened activists such as the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and the iconic rock poet Patti Smith contribute with decades of experience in working for change - now! (CPH:DOX)