When a City Rises

2021

Cn

7.0

♡ 2

Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the world. But they share a demand for democracy and freedom. They have the will and the courage to fight – and they can see that things are going in the wrong direction in the small island city, which officially has autonomy under China but is now tightening its grip and demanding that ‘troublemakers’ be put away or silenced. Amid the violent protests, we meet a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a new father.

Putin's Kiss

2011

English

6.5

♡ 1

81%

Lise Birk Pedersen Director

Vladimir Putin as Self

Dmitry Medvedev as Self

Anton Smirnov as Self

Viktoria Drokova as Self - Masha Drokova's sister

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 dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a "group of hooligans," and she's forced to confront the group's dirty – even violent – tactics.

A Taxi Driver

2017

Korean

7.9

♡ 132

97%

82%

Action

based on a true story

Hun Jang Director

Kim Min-Seok as Highway checkpoint soldier 2

Kang-ho Song as Man-seob / Kim

Thomas Kretschmann as Peter

Bong-ryeon Lee as Pregnant Woman

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

The Edge of Democracy

2019

Portuguese

7.3

♡ 2

97%

Petra Costa Director

Petra Costa as Self

Queen Elizabeth II as Self

Nelson Mandela as Self

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Self - Ex-Presidente

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

Girls State

2024

English

6.6

♡ 4

95%

political documentary

Amanda McBaine Director

Faith Glasgow as Self

Cecilia Bartin as Self

Nisha Murali as Self

Brooke Taylor as Self

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in Missouri navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up.

Meeting Snowden

2017

English

6.8

♡ 2

national security agency (nsa)

political activism

whistleblower

Flore Vasseur Director

Edward Snowden as Self

Lawrence Lessig as Self

Birgitta Jónsdóttir as Self

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place. Apparently, Russia is interfering in the US presidential elections while it mourns the death of its ambassador to Turkey. Snowden carefully chooses his interviews, so nobody really knows something about him. As the world prepares for Christmas, they gather to discuss the only issue that matters, their common struggle: how to save democracy.

Norwegian Democrazy

2024

Norwegian

6.3

♡ 1

democracy

Documentary

Fabien Greenberg Director

To promote SIAN (Stop the Islamization of Norway) racist-ivist Lars Thorsen publicly burns the Qu’ran, hiding behind freedom of expression laws. The outraged public pushes back in this revealing look at the street-level battle for democracy.

Primary

1960

English

7.1

♡ 4

100%

presidential election

staging

usa president

Robert Drew Director

John F. Kennedy as Self

Robert Drew as Self

Muriel Buck Humphrey as Self

Joseph Julian as Self - Narrator

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.

Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

2017

English

7.3

♡ 2

93%

Joe Piscatella Director

Agnes Chow as Self

Joshua 'Chi-Fung' Wong as Self

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.

Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

2020

Spanish

7.3

♡ 13

95%

Anabel Rodriguez Rios Director

Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.

1987: When the Day Comes

2017

Korean

7.7

♡ 33

82%

military dictatorship

Joon-Hwan Jang Director

Kim Yun-Seok as Park Cheo-Won Na Chul

Na Chul as Public Security Office Investigator

Lee Hee-Jun as Reporter Yoon Sang-Sam

Tae-ri Kim as Yeon-Hee

In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.

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When a City Rises

Putin's Kiss

A Taxi Driver

The Edge of Democracy

Girls State

Meeting Snowden

Norwegian Democrazy

Primary

Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

1987: When the Day Comes