HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara 2024
HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back to the region’s Spanish colonisation, and subsequent occupation by Morocco.

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Hackitat: 9 Layers of Political Hacking 2020
9 Layers of Political Hacking

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3 Stolen Cameras 2017
A video activist group is struggling to keep their cameras in the occupied Western Sahara where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a near total media blockade.

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Detained 2015    star_border 7
A documentary from within the Swedish Migration Board's locked repository where people are in custody awaiting forced deportation. Prisoner and guard are in close proximity around the clock. Converses during sleepless nights and playing football during hot summer days. We follow Sophie, 29, who loves her job at the repository, Sami, 20, the young rebel who is locked up but free inside, and Aina, 47, who were separated from her children and kept locked up while the police are stepping up efforts to enforce their expulsion order.

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Embryo 2014
Animated documentary about women who have had an abortion.

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Repainting Cuba 2009    star_border 5
Repainting Cuba takes a critical look at communist Cuba, where both the facades and the aging regime were given a coating of colorful paint in connection with the 50 year anniversary of the revolution. Two young Cubans under house arrest talk about being imprisoned for dealing with foreign tourists in a society where gossip and backstabbing is endemic, and where the heavy varnish can’t conceal the cracks.

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Hitmusik: Konsten att sätta rytm till revolt 2006
Documentary about feminism in music and the challenges it has faced through the years from the '70s to present day.

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Lolita Separates 1988    star_border 5
In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick that she had magically brought to life. Despite this tragic event, not all is lost for Lolita, as she soon meets an unexpected new friend.

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