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The Malabar rebellion, more popularly known as the Mappila Lahala, has a dramatic impact on the lives of everyone involved.

Set in 1896, “Tjoet Nja’ Dhien” celebrates one of Indonesia’s great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. ...

TV movie about the children crusade of the Middle Ages.

At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new ...

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for ...

The three protagonists listen to a storyteller recount the creation as well as the Fall. At the same time, they learn their own lessons in ...

Tony Roper wrote ‘The Steamie’ for Glasgow’s Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs ...

A man’s story parallels Hitler’s rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. ...

Become an eyewitness to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This stirring 2-hour film will bring the Founding Fathers to life as you witness ...

This film is based on the short story ‘Karczma nad Bzurą’ by Jerzy Gierałtowski. It takes places during the Partitions of Poland.

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, ...

Guy, film critic of the Cahiers du Cinéma and terminal cinephile, plans to write about the Vittorio Cottafavi retrospective at the Alcazar, his ...

Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle’s family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the ...

Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski’s poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from ...

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

A young post-graduate from Minsk Anna Mazurkevich comes to her native village, where she hasnt been for 12 years, to stay in her grannys house. ...

Frédéric Rossif and Philippe Meyer draw the terrible fresco of the Second World War of the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party until his ultimate ...

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the ...

Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He’s considered the ...

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into ...

A short film showing the 16th Century Spanish nun St Teresa of Avila caressing the crucified body of Jesus.

Set in the pre-colonial era, a certain village was besieged by witches who torment the villagers at will. Although the evil witches are often ...

In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he’s sent to a remote ...

This heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a peasant in a ...

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master’s death.

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico’s history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly ...

Three moments in the life of a woman during the 20th century in Galician society.

The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the ...