Planet of the Humans (USA, 100 min.) Dir. Jeff Gibbs You’ve got to hand it to Michael Moore. The Oscar winning documentarian has always been provocative, whether he’s exposing the US gun lobby
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Knock Down the House follows four grassroots campaigns, including that of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as they strive to shake up the establishment.
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Keep ReadingOn the Inside of a Military Dictatorship (Denmark/France, 93 min.) Dir. Karen Stokkendal Poulsen Programme: International Spectrum (International Premiere) Aung San Suu Kyi, once an icon for freedom and democracy, has fallen
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