New 'movies that matter' on the big screen

Two movies that matter will premiere in Dutch cinemas Thursday the 2nd of September. War film La Rafle tells about one of the biggest French Holocaust tragedies. 13.000 Jews were round up and transported to Auschwitz. We follow the 11-year-old Joseph who is arrested in the Vélodrome ...

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Malawi - Human Rights Film Festival

Movies that Matter offers modest monetary assistance to initiate human rights film festivals and to help circulate and exhibit human rights films in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. One of the supported projects takes place in Malawi. From 23 till 29 August, in the ...

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'Eastern Plays' in cinemas

Eastern Plays takes place in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Georgi and Itso, two brothers who've lost all contact, are suddenly brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating. While Georgi, who has recently joined a neonazi group, participates in the violence, ...

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Namibia - Lunchbox cinema

Movies that Matter offers modest monetary assistance to initiate human rights film festivals and to help circulate and exhibit human rights films in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. One of the supported projects takes place in Namibia. From June till September 2010, ...

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Two new 'movies that matter'

Thursday the 29th of July two movies that matter premiere: Five Minutes of Heaven and Silent Voice. The film Five Minutes of Heaven takes place in Northern Ireland, Februari 1975. Seventeen year-old UVF member Alistair Little kills the catholic Jimmy Griffin in his house in Lurgan ...

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