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Atatürk, father of the modern Turkey

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Built on the still-smouldering rubble of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey was the first Muslim nation to enshrine itself as a secular republic in its constitution. The first one in the world and – as it prepares to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of its creation on 23 October 2023 – the only one to date. Mustafa…

Paradise Valley

award winner 2024, films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 3: Modern Era/Colonialism

Following the sudden death of her husband, a young widow in a 19th century Australian settlement faces eviction from her property; an unexpected visit from her untrustworthy brother-in-law further complicates the situation. Director Biography - Abby Garratt Abby Garratt is an emerging writer and director who grew up in rural Western Australia. Paradise Valley is her…

An Intermission

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 3: Modern Era/Colonialism

After receiving a letter and questioning everything he took for granted, Rufus prepares to leave everything behind when a chance meeting with Amelia, his childhood love, forces both of them to come to terms with the end of their young adult lives. Watch Trailer William Georges-Garcia Director, Writer, Producer Miles John Key Cast "Rufus"…

Woiwode – Of Hope and Pain: The Memories of a Survivor

award winner 2024, films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

The documentary "Woiwode: Of Pain and Hope – The Memories of a Survivor" recounts the war years 1941-1945 from Gerhard Woiwode's perspective - a citizen from Weimar. Gerhard Woiwode, a man from a simple background, always remained true to his principles. The film sheds light on his experiences, which are marked by encounters with famous…

Till the Job is Done

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Clément Horvath, author and French specialist in World War II correspondence, has followed in the footsteps of an American officer in Europe, using his 250 letters written at the front. Interviewing historians, witnesses and veterans, exploring often-forgotten battlefields and sharing previously unpublished documents, he captured the reality of war in a two-hour documentary that makes…

The Hun

award winner 2024, films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

The Hun is a short film drama set in the trenches during the late stages of the First World War. It follows a young American soldier, Private MacDonald, who has just become his company's new message runner. Facing imminent German advances, MacDonald and his brothers in arms mentally prepare for the onslaught. The Hun portrays…

The First Code

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

The story of the creation of the Ukrainian IT industry, which rose from the ruins of the Cold War to become part of the global future and a guarantee of Ukraine's cyber security in wartime. Director Biography - Arthur Lerman Artur Lerman is a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He was born in the north of…

Stork of Hope

award winner 2024, films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

In the early days of World War II, two Jewish brothers lost their parents during the Nazi invasion of Belarus. The boys were imprisoned in a German hospital and found many of their peers there. They were kept in inhuman conditions - hunger, cold, lack of sleep and rest. The only thing the boys had,…

Red narco

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Hungary could only have been the happiest barracks under socialism because it smuggled tons of drugs into the United States every year with the involvement of the Colombian drug cartel. The Hungarian mafia in Los Angeles was also actively involved in the distribution of the drug, methaqualone, produced in Újpest. Since the psychotropic drug, also…

Mustafa Pasha Yamulki a struggler for justice

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Mustafa Pasha Yamulki An interesting character who raises many questions. Although he was not a Turk, he reached highest ranks in the Ottoman Empire. During the Istanbul tribunals, 1919-1920 he was a judge and later the presiding judge of the court. He sentenced to death the main perpetrators of the Armenian genocide, He did not…

Malcolm X, Justice by any means

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Based on recently declassified FBI documents and accounts from people close to Malcolm X, this historical investigation takes viewers through the life of an icon. It is high time for this radical leader’s exceptional path to be revealed and the chain of events leading to his certain death deciphered. investigation takes viewers through the last…

Zé

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Brazil 1970. Zé walks away from his upper-middle-class life and joins the resistance against the military regime. Together with his partner Bete, both abandon public life to fight the system meanwhile raise two kids. Based on the life of José Carlos Novais da Mata-Machado who dies under torture at the age of 27, falsely accused…

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Atatürk, father of the modern Turkey

Paradise Valley

An Intermission

Woiwode – Of Hope and Pain: The Memories of a Survivor

Till the Job is Done

The Hun

The First Code

Stork of Hope

Red narco

Mustafa Pasha Yamulki a struggler for justice

Malcolm X, Justice by any means

Zé

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