Popcorns

Grab the popcorn and instantly take on A Journey round My Room, as recommended by Xavier de Maistre’s novel: for the free time, official or stolen, for the blissful moments with a movie on the screen or a book in hand, for cheerful company we have prepared art for you for watching, listening, reading, having fun and living.

Movies

Check out our collection of movies—inspiring stories about brave people from different times and continents who have fought for the voice, freedom and happiness of each of us. We have selected first-person fiction biographies, case studies and documentaries for you to see that even in the most difficult cause and the biggest storm of life, you are not alone!

Books

Choose an adventure book, an enlightenment book, an entertainment book or a book for courage from our virtual library open 24/7, and you will get answers to the most unsuspected questions such as: How is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time possible to talk about the fact that no matter how different and strange we look sometimes in the eyes of others, the things that divide us become tiny and inconspicuous against the background of those that unite us? Or how did the heroine of Desert Flower manage to turn the ashes of her life into a multicolored fragrant garden?

Social art

In this section you will immerse yourself completely in the world of socially engaged arts—one of the biggest trends in contemporary art. And you will be amazed how art today extends to the point where it wants to interfere in human life, rights, freedoms and prosperity, to create better living conditions for young and old, to give wide spaces for imagination, longing and dreams, to make wishes come true. Michel Foucault stated that over time, art has become something related only to objects and not to people or life; something specialized or performed by expert artists. So now it’s our turn to bring art back to real life, to the people and their diversity and their universal languages of mutual understanding it originally belongs to.

Classics in the genre

This section, in contrast to the previous one, will show you various more classic works of art and artifacts from everyday life, but in an unexpected light—through the history of their appearance and residence in the wide world, as well as sometimes their disappearance from it …, directly related to the topics of human rights, tolerance, freedom, love, solidarity, non-discrimination, multiculturalism, etc. Because even behind the most ordinary things there are unusual stories related to you and us humans!
06.10.2020

A Time to Kill (John Grisham, 1989)

Racial tensions in Clanton, a small town in Mississippi, reach boiling point after a brutal crime. Two drunk white racists ruthlessly assault a ten-year-old black girl, Tonya Hailey. Her father, Carl Lee, avenges his daughter’s shattered life by shooting the …

05.10.2020

The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Attwood, 1985)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood takes us to the dystopian reality of the Republic of Gilead. People are oppressed and segregated, women are no longer allowed to read, environmental catastrophes threaten the existence of mankind, while birthrate declines drastically. …

10.09.2020

Mediterranea

This Italian drama shows the difficult and dangerous life trip of two young men from Burkina Faso that decide to go to Italy to start a new life. After surviving to desert bandits and a threatening sea voyage the protagonists …

09.09.2020

First They Killed My Father

Inspired by a book with the same title, written by activist Loung Ung, the movie tackles the issue of forced displacement, child encampment and Internally Displaced People (IDPs). Realized and directed by Angelina Jolie, UNHCR Special Envoy, the movie is …

04.09.2020

The Express: The Ernie Davis’ story

The Express is the real story of the life of Ernie Davis, one of the best American football players at the university level in the decade of the 1960s. It shows how Ernie Davis, an African American person who comes …

04.09.2020

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker is an American drama web television limited series, based on the biography On Her Own Ground by A’Lelia Bundles. A period tale set in four parts, Self Made is …

04.09.2020

The Blind Side

“The Blind side” is a family sports drama based on the true story of the football player Michael Oher. Michael stayed with different families when he was a child due to his mother’s drug addiction. Every time he stayed with …

04.09.2020

Green Book

When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The …

04.09.2020

Life Above All

Just after the death of her newly-born sister, Chanda, 12 years old, learns of a rumor that spreads like wildfire through her small, dust-ridden village near Johannesburg. It destroys her family and forces her mother to flee. Sensing that the …

04.09.2020

Human Flow

Human Flow is a German documentary film co-produced and directed by Ai Weiwei about the current global refugee crisis. In the film the viewer is taken to over 20 countries to understand both the scale and the personal impact of …

04.09.2020

Carol

The plot of this movie takes place in New York, around 1950. Carol Aird is going through a really difficult time as she is divorcing Harge Aird, a marriage that was all about maintaining the status, as Harge knew that …

04.09.2020

Call me by your name

The plot of the movie is aboutis the story of Elio Perlman and Oliver, who, in 1983, experience a sudden and powerful romance. Elio is only 17-years-old, and Oliver is a summer guest at Elio’s parents’ cliff-side mansion on the …

04.09.2020

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – three brilliant African-American women working at NASA in 1961, so the unit was segregated by race and sex.Following the success of Soviet Union’s launch of …

04.09.2020

Django Unchained

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is …

04.09.2020

INVICTUS

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the …

04.09.2020

Quanto Vale Ou É Por Quilo?

Latin America’s leading purveyor of politically engaged cinema is back: Sérgio Bianchi returns with a caustic, at times humorous, and always highly provocative look at two hot button subjects in his native Brazil: race relations and economic inequality. Bianchi’s film …

04.09.2020

I AM NOJOOM, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED

Ten year old Jemenite girl asks a judge in Sana’a to grant her a divorce from a horrible marriage, after she was married away to prevent a public scandal after a rape of her sister. Imbd link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4313646/?ref_=kw_li_tt

02.09.2020

The Danish Girl (2015)

The movie tells the story of Einar Wegener – an artist and husband whose life changes drastically, once he sets off on a journey of self-rediscovery. It all starts with an innocent request – Einar’s wife Gerda, also an artist, …

01.09.2020

Sonita

After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions. Imbd link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278928/?ref_=kw_li_tt

01.09.2020

The Great Debaters

The movie is based on a true story in which the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at Wiley College, a historically black college related to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to place his team …

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