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Dead Angle: Borders

Dead Angle: Borders

Dead Angle is a multi-year curated program that uses documentary cinema as a torch to illuminate the dark corners of our awareness. Starting with the theme Borders, the program delves into the complex symbolism of borders, exploring them not just as physical barriers, but as profound metaphors for identity, community, and the human condition.

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Black Harvest

Black Harvest

Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson

A coffee plantation owner of multi-ethnic origin expands his enterprise together with members of his tribe. Is he a neo-colonialist taking advantage of his Ganiga family, or a new-style tribal leader who can bring economic prosperity?

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The Diary of a Sky

The Diary of a Sky

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

“Private ear” Lawrence Abu Hamdan collected data and audio recordings from Israeli fighter jets over Lebanon. This “symphony of violence” is the soundtrack to shots of Lebanese airspace in an audiovisual essay.

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The Great Wall

The Great Wall

Tadhg O'Sullivan

This essayistic documentary maps the borders around Europe in light of the migration crisis, through images that verge on the poetic. Based on a short story by Franz Kafka.

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Infiltrators

Infiltrators

The Palestinians’ search for openings in the wall at the Qalandia checkpoint is nerve-racking. Unsentimentally, Khaled Jarrar shows both the humiliation and the resistance against the absurdity and repression that define daily life.

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Jakub

Jakub

Jana Ševčíková

The life story of Jakub serves as a symbol for the history of the marginalized Ruthenian community in Northern Romania and Western Bohemia. From interviews with other residents of his village, an oral history of a displaced people emerges.

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Respite

Respite

An essay documentary using intertitles to comment on the infamous Westerborkfilm, an unreleased propaganda film about life in Westerbork, the Dutch World War II transit camp. What information can be gleaned from the images, and what remains hidden?

Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

Eyal Sivan , Michel Khleifi

A Palestinian and an Israeli filmmaker travel together along the partition lines that divided Palestine according to the UN resolution of 1947. The people they meet each have their own way of evoking the frontiers that separate them from their neighbors.

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There Are So Many Things Still to Say

There Are So Many Things Still to Say

Shortly before his death, the celebrated Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous reflects on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A poetic farewell to a generation of intellectuals whose political identity is based on conflict and disillusionment.

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Would You Have Sex with an Arab?

Would You Have Sex with an Arab?

Yolande Zauberman

A documentary filmmaker dives into the nightlife of the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv with a simple, yet thorny, political and deeply loaded question: would you have sex with an Arab?