Featuring:
ESTER: A GYMANST’S DREAM
Dir. Waldemar Castro
An inspiring story of overcoming, perseverance and dreams coming true. By following Ester’s journey, the documentary highlights how passion and talent can transcend economic and social barriers, offering a powerful message of hope and determination for all people seeking to achieve their dreams, regardless of their background.

A JOURNEY TO SELF LOVE
Dir. Henrique Sungo
A short documentary where we touch on Neusa Catoja’s journey to find her true purpose through resilience, courage, and unwavering determination.

MEMORY
Dir. Riyad Haque
An experimental documentary reimagining the childhood recollections of a Jersey inhabitant, Margaret. Told through the intimate lens of the director’s British South Asian background by channelling his own family’s generational diasporic experience and sisterhood.

LEN & HIS SPITFIRE
Dir. Noelle Duddridge
As a young child of the 1920’s, Len sustained serious injuries from a dynamite blast cap. As a young adult, despite his disability, he enlisted in the fight against the Germans in World War II. Adventures and near deaths ensue, after he finds himself in the cockpit of a Spitfire.

UM ECHGAG
Dir. Ahmed Bouchalga
The film chronologically verifies UM ECHGAG conference along with the events that preceded and followed it. Using authentic documents and living testimonies by contemporaries, the film reveals the strong ties between the inhabitants of the Sahara – former Spanish colony – and the Sultans of Morocco. It also depicts different forms of resistance in which the population of the Sahara had participated to struggle against the French and Spanish colonizers.

RESTORATION
Dir. Gudrun Gruber
More than a decade after a sexual assault in her teen years, Detroit resident Sabrina struggles to get by. Non-epileptic seizures and other post-traumatic symptoms deprive her of her mobility and her freedom. The vacant house of Sabrina’s godmother, a source of her wounding, becomes the focal point in her need to confront that awful night. Sabrina decides to return to both – her trauma place and her own voice as a writer and speaker – to come to terms with her violent past.

 

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