Ed Ward
2021Rosewater
Jon Stewart
Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Rosewater
Thank You for Bombing
Barbara Eder
Manon Kahle, Raphael von Bargen
Thank you for Bombing accompanies three correspondents to their working place in conflict areas and gives an insight into their daily routine aside from cameras and satellite phones - somewhere between bombing alarm, laundry and Bach flower therapy.
Thank You for Bombing
45 Minuten bis Ramallah
Ali Samadi Ahadi
Jackie Sawiris, Karim Saleh
Turbulent comedy about two Palestinian brothers who smuggle the dead body of their father from Jerusalem to Ramallah with the Israeli Police, a bunch of terrorists and the Russian Mafia breathing down their necks.
45 Minutes to Ramallah
