Sugarcane

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A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, Sugarcane, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential […]

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

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United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez explores a moment […]

No Other Land

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For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist from the other side who joins his fight.

Look Into My Eyes

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Look Into My Eyes is a cinematic exploration of a group of New York City psychics that captures human beings trying their best to connect with, witness, and heal one another. Beginning with a plunge directly into the most private and raw of psychic sessions, a diverse group of clients ask questions they can’t ask […]

Daughters

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Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

Dahomey

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From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), Dahomey is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. Set in November 2021, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of […]

Black Box Diaries

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Journalist Shiori Ito becomes both detective and protagonist as she embarks on an investigation of her own sexual assault at the hands of a high-profile offender. Piecing together the crime she experienced, while pushing herself to the extreme, her quest sparks a historic reckoning in Japan.

The Territory

CEH 2023 Nominee: The Territory

The Territory provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon. With awe-inspiring cinematography showcasing the titular landscape and richly textured sound design, the film takes audiences deep into the Uru-eu-wau-wau community and provides unprecedented access […]

A Night of Knowing Nothing

CEH 2023 Nominee: A Night of Knowing Nothing

Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they […]

Navalny

CEH 2023 Nominee: Navalny

In August 2020 a plane flying from Siberia to Moscow diverted to Omsk when a passenger became deathly ill. That passenger? Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic — Alexei Navalny, leader of Russia’s opposition, whom many had long feared would be killed for his refusal to be silent. Navalny’s wife and colleagues, convinced that Navalny had been […]