Dictatorship Movies

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

A young dictator awakens in purgatory, where he encounters a mysterious, nearly blind old man who also turns out to be a dictator. Trapped in a...

On Christmas Eve, Dejair, a former resistance fighter against the military dictatorship, gathers with his family in the backyard. During a Secret...

The recent democratic revolutions throughout Eastern Europe—Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, and the Ukraine in 2004—all seemed to follow...

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One,...

Documentary short film covering two survivors of the argentinian military dictatorship.

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry produces this short film that tries to explain the causes of the coup, anchoring them in debt...

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that...

Symbolic story about a person with a congenital disability who immersed himself in a paper world of ideas

A film about dreams and ambitions in the Belarus through the eyes of the younger generation. An insight into the recent history of Belarus and the...

In 1977, Silvia Suppo was kidnapped and raped under the last Argentine civil-military dictatorship. As a consequence, she became pregnant, and the...

In the early ‘70s, in Argentina, a group of homosexuals decided to confront the status quo. With testimonies from its survivors as its...

Leticia was 17 years old when she was kidnapped from school. She had arrived in Cipolletti a year earlier from the Vicente López National...

"Chicha, Hope and Pain" addresses the emblematic figure of Chicha Mariani, founder of the "Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo." It is structured in...