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A personal tale of political courage

May 8, 1945, the day of victory over Nazism, is also a day of mourning. In Algiers, thanks to demonstrations for victory, the Algerian flag appears for the first time, thus claiming independence. But in Sétif, the standard bearer is shot dead at the head of the procession and a riot breaks out. The colonial massacre that followed would extend to all of Constantine. The commission of inquiry never delivered its conclusions and an amnesty law erased the traces of this savage repression. Fifty years later, the file is open.

A documentary film by Heddy Honigmann on the traumatic effects of war on the soldiers of United Nations peacekeeping missions.

A 1971 BBC documentary about love across the religious divide of Northern Ireland is the starting point of this heart-breaking story of a woman reuniting with her estranged father after many years. Los Angeles-based artist Mariah Garnett picks up her personal story with interviews and investigations revealing the traumatic effects of political upheavals on Belfast communities then and now. Mariah Garnett adds a queer playfulness through an incredible performance as her father, alongside multiple camera formats that interrogate constructions of identity. A remarkable debut film created partly with a local crew in Belfast, featuring trans actress Robyn Reihill playing the girlfriend of Garnett's father.

Al Badar was one of the three militias that were formed under one act of Pakistan Civil Armed Forces to help Pakistan Army during the War of Independence of Bangladesh. The members of Al Badar were die hard Pakistanis among the Bengalis mainly recruited from the fundamentalist activists. They were trained not only to collect information about the freedom fighters but also to kill them when necessary. Since its inception on 7th November 1971, Al Badars were engaged in abducting, torturing and killing the freedom fighters especially the Bengali intelligentsia. By 14th November 1971 i.e. two days before their final defeat, Al Badars tried to kill all the intellectuals who supported Bangladesh and it is evident from the close interviews of the family members of martyred intellectuals and others who could manage escape from the killers. Besides, interviews of some eminent scholars, journalists, lawyers, economists, academics, and politicians tried to reveal the conditionality of their presence in Bangladesh from different perspectives including militancy of the fundamentalist.