A year ago, thanks to the precious support of 7819 people, we started a journey in democracy (s). Over the weeks and months, according to meetings, exchanges and readings, we questioned this strange word: democracy. In France but also in Greece, Iceland, Belgium and Spain, we met citizens who are working to insert more democracy in their daily lives. Here is, in 90 minutes, the result of this adventure to try to grasp what this word contains.
The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF is an epic investigation into the new regime of illiberal democracy. From the young students of Hong Kong, to a rapper in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and the viral comedians of Bollywood, we discover how people from every corner of the globe are fighting the same struggle. They are fighting against elected leaders who trample on human rights, minorities, and their political opponents.
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?
In the past, when spring came, there was a spring atmosphere in politics. But the spring of 1959 brought the CHP's spring offensive on the contrary. Seeing that the opportunity for a dialogue was completely lost after Menderes' plane crash, İsmet Pasha put on his boots in April and took his 46 deputies with him to the expedition. The chosen route was the route of the Great Offensive in the War of Independence. Uşak, where İnönü took the Greek Commander-in-Chief Trikupis prisoner, was the first stop...
Torturas, malos tratos y otras vulneraciones de derechos humanos se siguen produciendo hoy en el Estado español por parte de funcionarios públicos encargados de la custodia de detenidos y penados. ¿En qué condiciones se tortura en España? ¿Por qué cuesta tanto denunciarlo? ¿Qué consecuencias tiene para las víctimas y para quienes vulneran la ley? Víctimas, abogados, jueces, policías, defensores de los derechos humanos y otros expertos analizan sus causas y apuntan posibles vías de superación de una lacra que pone en entredicho nuestro Estado de derecho.
¿Cómo sería la democracia estadounidense si estuviera en manos de chicas adolescentes? En este documental, unas jóvenes lideresas de Missouri provenientes de entornos muy distintos forman parte de un experimento inmersivo para crear un gobierno desde cero.
THE MAZE dissects the terror-attacks since Paris Bataclan in November 2015 and looks for common patterns. Why was intelligence failing? And why keep our governments pushing for more of the same? A road movie into surveillance reforms, power, money and cover-ups. A search for a way out of this maze - with a glimpse of hope on the horizon.
A documentary of Turkish political history about multi-party period, Democrat Party government and the coup d'etat of 27th May. Including eye-witness interviews with journalists, officers, politicians and family members.
Érase una vez, el pueblo venezolano de Congo Mirador era próspero, lleno de pescadores y poetas. Ahora está decayendo y desintegrándose, un pequeño pero profético reflejo de la propia Venezuela.
En la Corea de 1987, bajo un régimen militar opresivo, un estudiante universitario muere durante un interrogatorio policial. El gobierno cubre su muerte y ordena su cremación. El abogado encargado de firmar su cremación se pregunta cómo un joven de 21 años puede morir de un infarto y empieza a investigar el caso.
Mayo de 1980. Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) es un taxista en Seúl que vive al dia, criando a su pequeña hija solo después de que su esposa lo abandonara, con altas facturas de hospital detrás. Un día, él escucha que hay un extranjero dispuesto a pagar mucho dinero por un viaje de ida y vuelta a la ciudad de Gwangju. Sin saber que el extranjero es un periodista alemán (Thomas Kretschmann) con una agenda oculta para investigar los rumores extraños de Gwangju, Man-seob toma el trabajo y los dos comienzan su viaje juntos.
Revolutionaries passed before the streets of the 1960s on the road to democracy. Then the youth with the victory songs, the workers with the rebel flags, the rightists, the leftists and the putschists again. The country spent 12 years in the grip of the revolution and in the end all roads came to the same crossroads. Ankara was restless in the minutes when the ousted prime minister of the Democratic Party, Adnan Menderes, was hanged. The news of Menderes' execution had not yet come. There was an anxious wait in the houses. Ears were on the radio. Everyone was wondering what happened in Imrali. In the Assembly, the National Unity Committee was in a meeting. They were also trying to learn the fate of Menderes. Suddenly, news came that EP Chairperson Ragıp Gümüşpala and Secretary General Şinasi Osman wanted to meet with the committee urgently. The committee members did not break the request of their former commander Gümüşpala and made an appointment for 14:30...
A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration.
Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and rival political parties that it spawned since 1994, all claiming the Freedom Charter’s legacy. Freedom Isn’t Free assesses the history and role of the charter, especially in relation to key political and socio-economic aspects of developments in South Africa up to the present period. It includes rare archival footage with interviews of a cross-section of outspoken influential South Africans.
Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which candidate Viktor Yushchenko suffered a near-fatal poisoning and his unpopular opponent, Viktor Yanukovych, was declared the winner. In the aftermath, more than a million people -- including the ailing Yushchenko -- took to the streets of Kiev, protesting the results that contradicted exit polls showing Yushchenko with an impressive lead.
Song Woo Seok se graduó de la escuela secundaria y finalmente aprobado el examen de abogacía. Él es ahora un abogado en Busan especializado en derecho fiscal. La única razón por la que él se convirtió en un abogado es por el dinero. A diferencia de otros abogados que le rodean, él entrega su tarjeta de visita para recoger a los clientes. Un día, sus puntos de vista han cambiado por el activista estudiantil Jin Woo. Debido a esto, Jin Woo es brutalmente torturado y sometido a juicio. Song Woo Seok decide defender a Jin Woo como su cliente.
Aunque una vez Brasil fue un país lastrado por una dictadura militar, el 2002 se produjo uno de los acontecimientos más importantes de su historia social: la elección de Lula da Silva como presidente, un activista que había luchado largo y tendido para defender los derechos del pueblo carioca. Bajo su mandato, más de 20 millones de personas lograron superar el umbral de pobreza. En 2010, Lula cedió el testigo del poder a un prodigio llamado Dilma Rousseff. Por desgracia, la corrupción institucional alcanzó al pueblo llano que, influenciado por un juez partisano, acabó poniendo la lupa sobre Lula y Dilma, así como sobre cualquier persona que no estuviese dispuesto a bailar a su son. Este documental explica el proceso que llevaría a ambos políticos a juzgados por distintos crímenes judiciales.
Documental canadiense dividido en tres partes en la cual se analiza la evolución y el comportamiento de las corporaciones multinacionales modernas.