Politics

Normal

A shocking animation capturing a path of hope away from Franco's Spain, leading hundreds of thousands of people to another impasse. When a gorgeous cartoon is combined with historical recording. Official Selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.

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February 1939. The French government is inundated with Spanish people trying to escape Franco's dictatorship. Its solution is to place them in concentration camps where refugees have no choice but to build their own barracks, feed on the horses that transported them out of their country and die due to lack of hygiene and water. In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbed wire, will become friends. One is a police officer, the other is Josep Bartoli, a designer and anti-Franco fighter.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2020
Best Screenplay | Athens International Film Festival | 2020
Audience Award | Athens International Film Festival | 2020

Josep

A political satire that brings the nightmare of fascism to the present, incarnated by one of its main representatives in the 20th century, in a magical and surreal journey through time and evolution of the Italian society.

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Present day Rome. 80 years after his death, Benito Mussolini reappears under strange circumstances in Piazza Vittorio. The war is over, his beloved Claretta is lost, and everything seems to have changed. Mussolini believes he can re-rule Italy - what if he returned for good?

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Nominated for Best Actor (Massimo Popolizio) | Golden Globes | 2018
Nominated for Best Comedy | Golden Globes | 2018

I am Back

Political thrillers are not always defined by the lives and actions of politicians, but also by those of normal people during turbulent times. Rafa Russo exquisitely showcases that in his tight-knit film that looks for the unseen heroes at the dawn of the dictatorship in Uruguay.

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Uruguay (1972) unavoidably falls into a terrible dictatorship. Two writers of a well-known TV comedy show, struggle to maintain their integrity under the pressure they receive to tone down their political satires against the military. On the side of the oppressors, the lieutenant in charge of torturing subversive youth, finds emotional refuge in a prostitute. Slowly, the lives of all of them are deeply impacted by the yoke of the dictatorship that looms over them.

The Year of Fury

Not the ghost story you expect. A terrifying 16th century myth turns into a political allegory and metaphysical thriller in the hands of the talented up-and-comer, Jayro Bustamante, whose every new film is a surprise. With awards in Venice and San Sebastian.

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In 1980’s Guatemala, Alma and her children are murdered during a military operation led by dictator Enrique Monteverde against the local Mayan population. 30 years later, the general who ordered the attack is found not-guilty, and Alma returns to the world of the living to haunt him.

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Best Director - Giornate degli Autori | Venice Film Festival | 2019
Fedeora Award | Venice Film Festival | 2019
EFADs-CAACI Award | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2018
Official Selection | London Film Festival | 2019

La Llorona

An exhilarating look at the politics that shaped the world as we know it. Brian Cox's brilliant performance paints a profound portrait of uncompromising Churchill. If you ever wondered how it feels to hold the future of the world in your hands, then this film is for you.

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The untold story of Winston Churchill, Britain's most famous leader. The film reveals his true nature in times of war, as well as his crucial relationship with "Clemmie", his wife and backbone, whose love was an inspiration and source of life for the genius Prime Minister.

Churchill

Palestinian director, Amin Naife’s fiction debut, which won awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, captures with intensity, passion and unrelenting pace the family – and not only – drama of a divided people.

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The Israeli wall in the West Bank has separated a man from his family. When he finds out his son’s been in an accident, he hurries to his side, but a bureaucratic technicality at the checkpoint denies him entry. 200 meters will become an odyssey of 200 kilometers.

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Best Film - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2020
Best Director - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki International Film Festival | 2020
BNL People's Choice Audience Award | Venice Film Festival | 2020