Hautefaye

On August 16, 1870, during the final days of the Second Empire, a crowd of peasants beat and tortured a man for several hours before burning him alive. The main perpetrators were people with no criminal record.

Athalie

“The Queen of Judah has gained her throne by eliminating the Royal Princes, but one is still alive and protected by the high priest. In a dream the Queen sees the young Prince as a king. She orders an assault on the Temple but when the Priest draws back a curtain to reveal the child king on his throne, she rushes from the scene believing it to be the fulfilment of her dream (incomplete).” - BFI.

Desert

A group of students from Tbilisi is sent to practice with shepherds. Here, the goods are treated by old methods with the advice of doctors. Students begin to use new methods of treatment. They are fiercely opposed by the doctors. One of them also commits evil deeds: he calls a sheep suffering from anthrax in the kolmeurneo flock. The sheep dies. Practitioners are trying their best to save the flock of sheep. Vaccination will be carried out immediately. Timely measures will yield results

Suite Tortilla #60: The New Man and the Schoolteacher

A documentary vignette explores the life of Revolutionary feminist and filmmaker Magda Gonzalez Grau, capturing a pivotal interview moment that reveals her evolving feminist politics during the Cuban Revolution.

Beauty and the Thief

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Thou Borned in Flames

A symbolical telling of the history of the Belarusian people, their centuries-old struggle for liberation.

To the Victory at Last

The story of Che Guevara, featuring episodes from his childhood, his career as a medical student and work with lepers, and finally his life as a militant and guerrilla fighter.

O Caçador de Esmeraldas

The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".

Incappucciati, Foschi