Saturday 28 March 2015

Human Rights Films on Mubi

MOLOCH TROPICAL

directed by RAOUL PECK
Haiti, 2009

SYNOPSIS

Raoul Peck claims Alexander Sokurov’s Moloch as his own. Transplanting the Russian director’s unsettling mountain idyll between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun from Bavaria to the green heat of Haiti, Peck tucks a searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.

THE SHELTER

L’ABRI

directed by FERNAND MELGAR
Switzerland, 2014

SYNOPSIS

One winter in an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night, the same ritual plays out at the door to this unassuming basement: a dramatic dash for the entrance, a ruckus sometimes occasioning violent altercations…

THE SQUARE

"AL MIDAN"

directed by JEHANE NOUJAIM

Egypt, 2013

SYNOPSIS

In February 2011, Egyptians—particularly young ones—showed the world the way people demanding change can drive an entire nation to transformation. The result was a profound movement toward democracy that is still evolving across the Arab world…

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