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Ossta Shah-Tir

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The Hunter

The Hunter

By Rafi Pitts

2010 | 92 min | Crime

Ali Alavi is a passionate hunter who was recently released from prison. His wife and daughter get shot during a demonstration. Despite his stigma as a former prisoner, he is given a job in Tehran as a night watchman. From now on he sees his wife Sara and daughter Saba only on weekends. When he comes home from work one day, he waits for Sara and Saba. But they do not appear. Finally he goes to the police and reports them missing. After a long wait he learns that Sara and Saba have been shot by police ...

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Face the Wall

Face the Wall

2009 | 85 min | Documentary

Five people representing the more than 72,000 formerly imprisoned East German state refugees reveal the torture, cruelty, and the violations of human dignity that they endured in their daily lives. They are extraordinarily open about their struggle with the interrogation methods and the appalling conditions of imprisonment. In this sensitive documentary, which focuses closely on the eyewitnesses, the open wounds and psychological injuries that made it impossible to lead a normal, fear-free life ...

Dreams of the City

Dreams of the City

1984 | 123 min | Drama

Dib moves with his younger brother and their mother from his home town of Quneitra to Damascus after the death of his father. The children’s grandfather, who was known for his tyranny, reluctantly agrees to shelter the grieving family, and tries to force his daughter to marry again. The magic of the city of Damascus takes over the conscience. Dib, whose main concern has become discovering all the secrets of this city, is driven by his heart full of dreams, but he sees nothing in his life except humiliation ...

Solomon's Stone

Solomon's Stone

2015 | 25 min | Drama

Hussein, a Palestinian young man, receives a letter from the Israeli post office to appear in person to receive a package. He has to pay the sum of 20.000 $ US dollars in order to collect that package. Hussein’s curiosity to find out what the package contains drives him to sell everything he owns, despite the outright rejection of his mother, the matter that changes their lives afterwards. "Ramzi Maqdisi’s black-comedy short, “Solomon’s Stone,” could be considered a parable of present-day Jerusalem ...

In Heaven's Meadow

In Heaven's Meadow

2018 | 30 min | Drama

Maya awakes suddenly in Heaven Meadow. She is not dead, she is in Vienna. It is night. She checks out her body. What is she missing? Her shoes, that's for sure. The culprits are gone. Injured and without shoes, Maya runs back to the city - home. Without further ado she goes to Italy, to Daniel, her boyfriend. Daniel does not know what happened to her in Vienna, but he senses something is different. Maya wants to regain control over her life, not be a victim. And yet she's just drifting through ...

It Happened Just Before

It Happened Just Before

2006 | 72 min | Crime

The documentary deals with the global phenomenon of human trafficking. The stories of affected women are told by people who have no actual connection to the facts, but could have. Director Anja Salomonowitz chooses an original approach to her topic. The film is based on real stories of trafficked women, which the director has condensed into a documentary screenplay. Thus, the films constantly finds new connections between the narrative logic of cinematographic fiction, the “what could happen” and ...

The Net

The Net

2003 | 121 min | Documentary

Between 1978 and 1995, a series of bombings convulse the United States. The targets of the letter and pipe bombs are managers of major airlines, scientists from various elite universities and technology companies. The trail of attacks finally leads to Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but reclusive former math professor who, under the pseudonym Unabomber, formulates a radical critique of technological development. Why does a scientist become a terrorist? The search for an answer leads into the past: from ...