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…

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 Interviewing historians, witnesses and veterans, exploring often-forgotten battlefields and sharing previously unpublished documents, he captured the reality of war in a two-hour documentary that makes…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 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. Watch this film here from July 9th to 15th 2024 https://vimeo.com/960346340 Director Biography - Arthur Lerman Artur Lerman is a Ukrainian film…

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 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…

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…

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…

The residents of Eleusis, a city that was once the largest industrial centre of Greece, share their memories. The film is part of the ethnographic and archival research program OPENELEUSIS Watch this film here from July 9th to 15th 2024 https://vimeo.com/941912335 Io Chaviara Director Feeling of a Home Michalis Kastanidis Director Feeling of a Home …

Set in the First World War, the film tells the story of two enemy soldiers who are full of hope, dreams, desires and love, but also full of fear and sadness. When they suddenly face each other on the battlefield while experiencing hell on earth, the core of being human comes to the surface and…