Change Makers

With the actor Tim Robbins as director, hardcore criminals find new faith in themselves and each other in a film about theatre as therapy.

From oligarch to icon for the democracy movement. A political thriller from Russia with Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the lead role.

A team of Romanian journalists dig their way deep into a corruption scandal which goes all the way to the top of the system. A true documentary thriller, and one of this year's best-received films.

When disabled youths started their own Woodstock and fought a battle for rights and recognition, they laid the foundations for the political changes of today.

The fatal consequences of the one-child policy reveal themselves in a China where unmarried women are ostracised, but where three of them stubbornly continue to try their luck.

An adventurous and activist sea voyage with Javier and Carlos Bardem to Antarctica – the only place on Earth that is still mostly untouched by human beings.

This year's biggest sensation is filmed in secret on an smartphone by a courageous Saudi-Arabian woman, who gambles everything on escaping before it's too late.

An idealistic environmental inspector is given three months to do something about the air quality in one of China's most polluted cities.

A popular journalist is fighting to find a place for both his family and his political work in modern Kenya.

The deeper causes of the global invasion of plastic are presented in a film that look at one of the planet's greatest problems from the big perspective.

How does an image gain its significance? And what are the political consequences of the eyes that see? An analytical experiment, which takes a new look at the Israel-Palestine conflict.

In Chechnya, a secret network of LGBTQ+ activists risk their lives in the fight against extreme oppression.