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Homs - Syrie, la vie d’après

2025

After twelve years in exile, Syrian journalist and filmmaker Daham Alasaad returns to Homs, devastated by the war in Syria. Once the city of his childhood, it is now a relic of an authoritarian regime, where different communities (Sunnis, Christians, Alawites) are trying to rebuild their lives together after terrible years of division and destruction. Thanks to Daham Alasaad's close relationship with the city's inhabitants, the director highlights some very moving characters, torn between grief, fear, the need for justice, and the desire for peace and reconciliation. By opening up naturally to the camera, they allow viewers to experience what Syrians of all backgrounds are going through today. "Homs-Syria, Life After" is a personal and political investigation into the ability of this symbolic city to rebuild hope on the ruins of a Syria ravaged by more than fifteen years of war and facing an uncertain future.

The Sound and the Fury

2015 · ★ 5

A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.

Savior

1998 · ★ 7.1

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.

Lord of War

2005 · ★ 7.3

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

Mississippi Burning

1988 · ★ 7.7

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Michael Collins

1996 · ★ 6.9

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

The Never Ending Lightning

Miguel comes back to his country home with his wife after running away from the war, however, the memories of the conflict and his remorse for deserting and abandoning his friends haunts him persistently, avoiding him from distinguishing what is real and what not. While Miguel tries to ignore his trauma, his wife fights for bringing him back to reality.

Uprising

2023

After the United States Congress redirected its attention to the Civil War and stopped making treaty land payments to the Dakota Indians, causing their people to starve, an uprising began that would later be called "The Dakota Wars."

My Dog Skip

2000 · ★ 6.7

A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood.

All the Invisible Children

2006 · ★ 7

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

2005 · ★ 5.8

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

Revenge of the Black Knight

1963 · ★ 6

La Cieca Di Sorrento (also known as Revenge of the Black Knight is a 1963 cloak and dagger film directed by Nick Nostro and based on the novel of the same name by Francesco Mastriani. Masked knights fight the cruel Tyrant Amedeo, tutor of the beautiful, rich and blind orphan Isabella. The knights are led by a young doctor who in the end will defeat Isabella's evil oppressor, give her her sight and marry her.