Dissident
A prisoner writes messages in order to distract the prison guard, so he can attempt to escape the confines of his prison.
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A prisoner writes messages in order to distract the prison guard, so he can attempt to escape the confines of his prison.
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expo
In 1960s Ukraine, at a time when many in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc were re-evaluating the socialist system, Oleg is a former soldier in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that fought against both Nazi Germany and the c
Fall, Nantes. Hua Liu, a 60-year-old Chinese woman, is assisted by her daughter to obtain a long-stay visa and retire with her family, especially Paul (8), her grandson whom she has recently met.. A committed poet, she g
Once upon a time there lived a young man who served where “enemy voices” were suppressed, wrote, and wanted to make a film. It seemed to him that complete freedom was needed in order not to let his abilities die out, so
A film about the life and work of the Macedonian dissident Dragan Bogdanovski, one of the most famous Macedonian political emigrants after 1945. His contemporaries speak about Dragan Bogdanovski, as well as documents, da
A short documentary about the Finnish fisherman, ornithologist, philosopher and deep ecologist Pentti Linkola (1932–2020).
While the world knows of the KGB spies and agents who crossed over to the West, few know of this tale of secret dissention from within. There is one officer, Viktor Orekhov, who went from repression of dissidents to join
One day, a man with a green backpack arrives at a railway station and begins reading a book aloud in the waiting room. This deeply unsettles the order-loving stationmaster, who seeks to have him removed by appealing to h
Based on the story of Nina Voronel's husband, a physics professor and Jewish "dissident" in the Soviet Union.
An intimate portrait and chronicle of a techno-political war challenging how information is created and shared in the digital age. A 7 year document trailing the Federal battles, personal struggles, growing 3D gun commun
The incredible friendship between Semyon Gluzman, a psychiatrist and former dissident, and General Volodymyr Prystayko, the deputy director of the Ukrainian Security Service, who was in charge of keeping Gluzman's files
Gabriela Misstrans, a trans artist and performer, is invited to the gala of the Viña del Mar Festival. To prepare, various members of the LGBTQ+ community come together to help her with her makeup, hair, and wardrobe. Sh
Follows a Chinese political artist in exile, on a personal challenge to stop the Communist regime's whitewashing of history and abuse of human rights - and in the process, risking his family's freedom.
An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa is an Italian documentary that aired on the Videomusic channel on January 7, 1994. It includes footage from Zappa's Universe, Video From Hell, Does Humor Belong In Music?,
Dr. Helen Caldicott, firebrand anti-nuclear campaigner, celebrated author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is too alarmed to retire. Certain that the White House's War on Terror is escalating the global nuclear arms race,
About the investigation into the Romanian Gregorian Bivolaru and his yoga federation, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (Misa), that began after reports of psychological manipulation and sexual exp
Digital Dissidents are the warriors of the digital age: republican patriots, radical anarchists and cyber-hippies fighting side by side for transparency and privacy in a digital world which is permeating our lives more a