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Best Documentary Bodil Award winners

The Look of Silence

The Look of Silence

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.3

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail,...

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Last Men in Aleppo

Last Men in Aleppo

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Winner of the Grand Jury Documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad’s breathtaking work — a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage — follows the efforts o...

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The War Show

The War Show

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A Syrian radio DJ documents the experiences of herself and her friends as their dreams of overthrowing their elected government give way to the grim realities of sectarian death squads and extremism.

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Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6.5

After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. He suffers from sleeping disorder and memory loss, 18 cameras are monitoring his studio and home, p...

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Putin's Kiss

Putin's Kiss

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her d...

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