S5.E35 ∙ 2022 in Fifty Films

A filmmaker travels to Beirut to develop his next film and is faced with the third largest explosion in history that destroys his plan along with his city.

A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.

A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in yards, where everything is for the first time - from secretly bought cigarettes and cans of G&T to first love and almost real tragedies.

We are surrounded by all kinds of sounds, but how far are we conscious about them? The director and investigator Raquel Castro has been working with the concept of sound landscape. And in particular the way sounds, silences, noises, frequencies and all spectral densities - infra or ultrasounds - can shape each place and all of us. This is also a film essay about citizenship, ecology, and the responsibility we have for the sounds we produce.

Masha Drokova joins Nashi, a Russian ultra nationalist youth group, at the age of 16 and rapidly ascends its ranks, famously garnering a medal and the opportunity to kiss Vladimir Putin. The film details her growing disillusion with the group's leaders and her falling in with the anti-Putin opposition, especially a journalist and blogger named Oleg Kashin, who gets brutally attacked.

A documentary about the intellectual pacifist progressive President Woodrow Wilson, showing his place in history as the president who oversaw America's transformation into a singular global power, but also his failed quest for world peace, due to his poor physical stamina and political dexterity.