Open Society Institut





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4 Short Stories on Iraq
UK/Iran , 2004, 48', dir. Maziar Bahari
Iraq before and after Saddam Hussein
A Country A Time A Man
Turkey, 2004, 42', dir. Huseyin Karabey
A missing Kurdish trade union activist
A Day in the People’s Republic of Poland
Poland, 2005, 57', dir. Maciej Drygas
Thursday, September 27, 1962, in the People’s Republic of Poland
A Decent Factory
Finland/France , 2004, 79', dir. Thomas Balmès
Nokia business control staff in a factory supplier’s plant
A life of An Agent
Hungary, 2004, 82', dir. Gábor Zsigmond Peapp
Instruction films for secret services from Hungary’s Interior Ministry, 1958-1988
A Postcard from Kosovo
Poland, 2005, 21', dir. Esat Fejza
Searching for the missing in Kosovo
Aftermath
Russia, 2005, 35', dir. Marianna Jarovskaya
Veterans of the Russian wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya
Armenian Genocide
France, 2005, 52', dir. Laurence Jourdan
The Armenian massacre during World War I
Belarussian Decameron
Belarus, 2003, 90', dir. Wiktor Daszuk
Four novellas – Belarus shown through the stories of women
Belzec
France, 2005, 100', dir. Guillaume Moscovitz
The Nazi German death camp
Borderline – The Peaple vs. Eunice Baker
USA, 2004, 80', dir. Sławomir Grunberg
The mentally disabled Eunice Baker before the American court
BROOKLYN CONNECTION
The Netherlands, 2005, 52', dir. Klaartje Quirijns
Arms trafficking – the Albanian liaison in New York
Bykov – Nostalgia
Belarus, 2005, 75', dir. Wiktor Daszuk
Vasil Bykov –Byelorussian author and dissident
Chemistry Byelorussian Style
Russia, 2005, 47', dir. Wiktor Fanajłow
Freedom of speech violations in Belarus
Children of Beslan
UK, 2005, 60', dir. Ewa Ewart, Leslie Woodhead
Accounts of children who survived the Beslan school raid
Citizen King
USA, 2004, 110', dir. Orlando Bagwell, W. Noland Walker
The five last years of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Coca, The Dove from Chechnya
Switzerland, 2005, 86', dir. Eric Bergkraut
Zainap Gashajeva documents human rights violations in Chechnya
Darfur: Crime Without Punishment
UK, 2004, 59', dir. Hilary Andersson
The tragedy of western Sudan
Dwarfs Go to Ukraine
Poland, 2005, 55', dir. Mirosław Dembiński
Major Fydrych’s dwarfs support the Orange Revolution
Earth Promised Sky
France, 2003, 52', dir. Sabina Subasic
Searching for the missing after the Bosnian war
El Perro Negro – Stories from the Spanish Civil War
The Netherlands, 2005, 84', dir. Péter Forgács
Amateur film footage from the Spanish Civil War
From the Auschwitz Chronicles
Poland, 2004, 127', dir. Michał Bukojemski
The death camp – a penal assembly, the camp orchestra, the loading ramp, love, Sonderkommando
Grissinopoli – Bread Stickville
Argentina , 2004, 80', dir. Dario Doria
Workers attempt to revive a bankrupt factory in Buenos Aires
Hear My Cry
Poland, 1991, 46', dir. Maciej Drygas
Ryszard Siwiec set himself ablaze in protest of the intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968
How Putin Came to Power
UK, 2005, 52', dir. Tania Rachmanowa
The former KGB officer’s path to the Russian presidency
Humanitarian Action and Cinema, ICRC Films in the 1920s
Switzerland, 1921, 127', dir. wielu autorów / many authors
The oldest films about humanitarian action, restored in 2005
Humanitarian Action and Cinema, ICRC Films in the 1920s - part I
Switzerland, 1921, 127', dir. wielu autorów/many authors
Humanitarian Action and Cinema, ICRC Films in the 1920s - part II
Switzerland, 1921, 127', dir. autorów/many authors
Irreversible Fate - Larysa Bogoraz
Russia, 1998, 39', dir. Sergiej Niekipielow
Larisa Bogoraz, a legend of the human rights movement in the USSR and Russia
Liberia: An Uncivil War
USA, 2004, 102', dir. Jonathan Stack, James Brabazon
The Liberian civil war seen from both sides of the conflict
Life in Peace
Russia/Switzerland, 2004, 45', dir. Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarow
Father and son leave Chechnya and settle down in the heart of Russia
Lora – Testimonies
Croatia , 2004, 65', dir. Nenad Puhovski
Former inmates of the military prison in Split speak out
Lost Children
Germany, 2005, 97', dir. Ali Samadi Ahadi, Oliver Stoltz
Runaway children from Kony’s Ugandan army
Mighty Times: The Children’s March
USA, 2004, 40', dir. Bobby Houston, Robert Hudson
Child and student protests against racial segregation in the USA in 1963
Nobel Peace Prize: Shirin Ebadi, a Simple Lawyer
France, 2005, 48', dir. Bani Khoshnoudi
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights activist
Orphans of Nkandla
UK, 2003, 48', dir. Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley
The stories of two South African families affected by AIDS
Radovan Karadzic – Most Wanted?
Germany, 2004, 45', dir. Marc Wiese
How is Radovan Karadić able to hide from the Hague Tribunal?
Reaction
Russia, 2005, 42', dir. Władimir Gierczikow
Society’s reaction to Mikhail Kodorkhovsky’s court trial
Russian Newspaper Murders
UK, 2004, 59', dir. Paul Jenkins
Freedom of the media in modern-day Russia
Rwanda: History of A Genocide
France, 2004, 100', dir. Raphael Glucksman, Pierre Mezerette, David Hazan
The Rwandan genocide in 1994
Sentenced to Marriage
Israel, 2004, 65', dir. Anat Zuria
Women in Israel fighting for the right to divorce
Sisters in Law
UK, 2005, 104', dir. Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi
Two women – a judge and a prosecutor – in a Cameroon courthouse
State of Weighlessness
Poland, 1994, 57', dir. Maciej Drygas
Russian cosmonauts after the break-up of the Soviet Union
The 10th District Court
France, 2004, 105', dir. Raymond Depardon
12 defendants in minor cases before a Parisian court
The Accused
Poland, 2004, 23', dir. Piotr Morawski, Joanna Sławińska
Leszek and Przemek were sent to prison as a result of a judicial mistake
The Children of Leningradsky
Poland, 2005, 35', dir. Andrzej Celinski, Hanna Polak
The Liberace of Baghdad
UK, 2004, 70', dir. Sean McAllister
A famous Iraqi pianist in post-war Baghdad
The Peacekeepers
Canada/France, 2005, 84', dir. Paul Cowan
The chances of the UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Women of Mount Ararat
France, 2004, 52', dir. Erwann Briand
A Kurdish female guerilla battalion
This Way Out
Canada, 2004, 32', dir. Jill Burnett
Kahunya, Ana Claudia, Arsian – homosexuals granted asylum in the USA
Tibet – History of A Tragedy
France, 1995, 56', dir. Ludovic Segarra
Tibet under Chinese occupation
Transformer
Russia/Switzerland, 2003, 16', dir. Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarow
A huge power transformer has fallen from a train
Triumph of Evil
The Netherlands, 2002, 90', dir. Mirko Klarin
case of Radoslav Krstic before the Hague Tribunal
Ukrainian Choice
Ukraine, 2005, 55', dir. Rusłan Gonczarow
Ukrainian society divided into two camps – supporters of Yushchenko and supporters of Yanukovych
Voice of Hope
Poland/France, 2002, 58', dir. Maciej Drygas
Radio Free Europe
We All Are Made of Coal
Poland, 2004, 45', dir. Tomasz Wiszniewski
An amateur filmmaker films his friends working in “poor mans mine shafts”
What Kind of Poland
Poland, 1996, 56', dir. Paweł Kędzierski, Andrzej Piekutowski
presidential elections in Poland in 1995