Talal Derki • 2017 • Germany-Syria • A father trains his sons to join the global jihad.
Aged twelve and thirteen respectively, Ayman and Osama live with their father in Idlb province, Syria. Their father, an avowed al-Nusra fighter, is training them to join the global jihad. Feigning fundamentalist sympathies, Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki embedded himself for two years inside a radical Islamist family to capture the ideology of extremism.
Patricio Guzmán • 2014 • Chile-Spain-France-Switzerland
Navigating Chile's colonial and political histories vis-à-vis its expansive waterways, The Pearl Button charts the labyrinths of individual and collective memory.
Directed by Amos Gitaï • 2015 • Israel
Rabin, the Last Day offers a nuanced account of the unraveling of a modern democracy while gesturing to alternate histories—the peace that might have been.
Scott Thurman • USA • 2012
The Texas Board of Education dictates the curriculum for nearly five million public schoolchildren. Over the course of a decade Don McLeroy, a dentist, Sunday school teacher, and avowed young-earth creationist, rose from his local school board to state chairman, leadi...
