Letras explícitas cuenta la historia de cómo cinco jóvenes rebeldes – armados únicamente con sus letras, su fanfarronería, su valentía y su talento natural – se enfrentaron a las autoridades que pretendían oprimirlos y formaron al grupo más poderoso del mundo: N.W.A. Cuando expresaron la verdad que nadie había dicho y expusieron la vida en el barrio, su voz encendió una revolución social que sigue sonando hasta el día de hoy.
En 1984, en Berlín Oriental, un agente de la policía secreta, que vigilaba a un escritor y a su amante, se encuentra cada vez más absorto por sus vidas.
Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.
Historia del artista chino Ai Weiwei, perseguido en su país por su gran actividad política y la dureza de sus críticas contra el gobierno de China. En sus obras de arte, los límites entre arte y crítica política se difuminan.
La película está ambientada en 1521 en Amberes, en una Europa devastada por guerras religiosas y durante los primeros años de la Reforma. Cuenta la historia de Falko Voeten, de doce años. Cuando el padre de Falko, Klaas Voeten, un impresor de literatura prohibida, es capturado por la Inquisición para imprimir una carta escrita por Maarten Luther; Falko es impulsado involuntariamente a ayudar a su padre y a buscar la carta. Amenazado por la Inquisición pero ayudada por Marieke, una niña huérfana católica de las alcantarillas subterráneas, Falko se enfrenta a una carrera contra el tiempo si quiere salvar a su padre de la ejecución por herejía.
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Unamuno dies at his home in Salamanca, capital of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco, and main center of dissemination of its propaganda apparatus.
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.
La historia de The Satanic Temple, un movimiento controvertido que combina religión y activismo con el aparente propósito de cuestionar los fundamentos básicos de la sociedad estadounidense.
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.
The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, through his weekly magazine La Traca, connected with the common people while maintaining a dangerous pulse with the powerful.
Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. For these young detainees, few rights are guaranteed, even on paper. After release, the experience of detention continues to shape and mark former child prisoners’ path forward.
Ajit Singh, Jujhar Singh, Zorawar Singh, and Fateh Singh, the four sons of Sikh Guru Gobind Singh Ji, sacrifice their lives in an important battle against the Mughals.
“Silenced” is a film about the state of free speech in America.
Doaa el-Adl, the first woman to be awarded the esteemed Journalistic Distinction in Caricature, serves as a catalyst for transformation within the predominantly male-dominated realm of Egyptian political cartoonists. Challenging patriarchal norms, she routinely confronts censorship, harassment, and even threats to her life. In a remarkable fusion of documentary, cartoons, and animation, Egyptian director Nada Riyadh breathes life into el-Adl's most renowned works. This dynamic and fearless presentation delves into the issue of violence against women, stretching the boundaries of freedom of speech in a society often characterized by restrictions. Through her exceptional talent, el-Adl not only champions women's rights but also serves as an inspiration for societal change.
This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.
Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.