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- American Vagabond is a cinematic feature documentary about gay youth living without a home in the shadows of a promised city. It's a story about a modern Western society in which homosexuality is still so demonized in some communities that some parents are ready to abandon their children over it. One out of every four young people who are coming out to their parents is kicked out of the house. 20 to 40 percent of homeless youth are estimated to belong to sexual minorities in the United States.
- Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers struggle to survive in a country at war.
- A group of guys get together on a playground in a wooded suburb of Helsinki. A global diaspora has thrown these boys together from all corners of the world, and they have known each other all their lives. Their rootless existences have bound these boys together. Their incessant bullshitting is a verbal cockfight. They dis each other mercilessly, yet they would never leave each other. Under the hysterical cacophony, they are thinking about the big and difficult questions in life.
- Sixteen-year-old Tomi trusts no one and does his best to protect his little sister Aino from the dangers of the world. But Aino is changing, fast. Because of his own fear of loneliness, Tomi tries to stop his sister, but he will eventually find out that you cannot control another person by force.
- A fascinating film that uncovers an overlooked area in Finnish history; When German soldiers withdrew from Lapland in 1944, about a thousand Finnish women for various reasons left the country with them, the majority returning by 1948. A quarantine camp in Hanko, interrogations and contempt awaited them in their homeland. The skillful narrative constructs a coherent, cinematic whole from the humane, emotional stories of individual women, who agree to show their names and faces for the very first time in public.
- Deep in the Peruvian rainforest a policeman is killed. The government rounds up the usual suspects and picks out indigenous leaders as murderers and terrorists. But no one has actually witnessed who fired the gun and even fewer cares about the torture and the following revenge murder carried out by the police. The indigenous are poor and despised, so their chances of winning a courtroom battle are next to none. But a young indigenous leader, Fachin, refuses to give in. He contacts a well known Peruvian defense lawyer who specializes in indigenous cases and starts fighting back! And wins!
- Documentary about Finnish Jews during WWII and their unique position as German allies.
- What does it feel like to be ethnically dead?
- Alppikatu 25 - Home to the Homeless - Hopes and dreams inside an institution A film about the stories inside the Salvation Army run homeless shelter on the Alppikatu Street in Helsinki. Over the years, more than 50,000 men have stayed in the shelter. Some have passed through, some have stayed for decades. This film tells us about the unique hopes and dreams that lie behind the hundreds of identical doors in this massive, impersonal institution.