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With unrestricted access to Taiwan's current president, we follow the tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the country's first female head of state, during a time of great political tension between East and West. A competent and charismatic defender of democracy.

A run-down Belfast housing estate becomes a haunted inner landscape in a dark, cinematic film where the echoes of the conflict in Northern Ireland still reverberate in the corridors. An aging man on his final, existential mission confronts the ghosts of the past.

A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.

The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.

A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.

A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.

Four artistic Danish short films screened together.

A young man struggles to break free from the demons of his past that still haunt him years after the sexual abuse he survived as a child.

The Natural History Museum in Vienna is a vast, labyrinthine archive of meticulously archived records, rare animals and curious stories. A picturesque and wryly humorous film from a veritable Noah's Ark headed for an uncertain future.

A gentle, personal story about a filmmaker who has lost his older brother and decides to explore the culture of grief with a group of experts in psychology.

A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.

A black and white (self-)portrait of a fascinating, liberated artist and the memory of her wild youthful journey from Czechoslovakia to freedom in the last decades of the Soviet Union.

Charli, Nya, Chris, Alia and Milo are children. They tell their own stories in their own voices about being between genders - surrounded by family and love.

The Search for a lost film from the 70s takes a young man from one of South America's largest indigenous communities on an existential journey in a post-colonial film about the right to one's own image.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

The alliance between a young Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank and an Israeli journalist provides a unique and human insight into a decades-old conflict, as the two fight against the forced expulsion of the Masafer Yatta community. A film created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective.

From a meteoric career to tabloid tragedy. Get the untold details of the lip-synch scandal of them all in thr stranger-than-fiction account of the pop duo behind the mega-hit 'Girl You Know It's True'.

A seven-year odyssey through Mongolia's underworld with nationalist gang leader, hardcore feminist and single mum Gerel, who wears a black balaclava and fights for a racially pure Mongolia and to look after her son Temuulen.

A visual tour of the pastel-coloured holiday destination of Gran Canaria, a haven for millions of tourists - and for people fleeing more than just rain and cold. The paradoxes of tourism meet the harsh realities of those who live in paradise all year round.

A feminist who sneaks out of the house dressed as a man and a filmmaker who uses his camera as a weapon. Milo and Khalili are two young Iraqis who risk their lives for freedom and the future in an unusual and cinematic film about life in Baghdad.

A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.

A Canadian-Palestinian doctor's mission of tolerance and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when he loses his three daughters. Meet a Nobel-nominated bestselling author from Gaza whose greatest adversary is hate itself.

How can a digital artwork that anyone can download for free be sold for 69 million dollars? Get the answer - and lots of new questions to ponder - in a critical and entertaining film about culture and capital in the 21st century.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

A charming tour of Macedonian folk music and a fascinating insight into the creative process of the Danish band Efterklang.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

A quiet romance between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese biologist unfolds on the enchanted outskirts of a European city in Bas Devos' breathtaking feature film, where nature and the environment play the third lead role.

Hummingbirds are the fairies of nature's grand fairy tale. But for a woman who has dedicated her life to saving them from her Los Angeles mansion, the magical creatures are more than just cute.

Democracy is crumbling in the Philippines, where presidential candidate Leni Robredo is running for power in a toxic and brutal battle against one of the most extreme figures of the populist right, by celebrating freedom and solidarity.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

The story of the icon behind the monster hit 'Old Town Road' and his exhilerating journey as he defies musical boundaries and redefines what it means to be a superstar in the 21st century.

An upbeat tribute to the Brazilian ballroom scene, where LGBTQ+ and non-white people create the creative space they are not allowed in a repressive society.

The director of 'Honeyland' returns with a contemporary fairytale made with sensitivity and poetry as a giant puppet travels from Syria up through Europe to tell the story of migration from a child's perspective.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

Welcome to a party so wild that the British state had to rewrite the law to ban it, and that the electronic sound waves of the raging Free Party movement of the 1990s still resonate today.

The party-loving British glam rockers in The Darkness are trying to reclaim stadiums around the world. But not everything goes according to plan in an unpretentious, funny and touching story of brotherhood and rock n' roll.

An eye-opening film about numbness in the age of social media. The diagnosis is alarming, but it is made with understated humour and energy by director David Borenstein, himself a screen zombie in digital rehab.

With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.

A love sonata to ballet and to 'Swan Lake' with all that it entails of hard training, low self-esteem, dreams, racism, redemption and stubborn traditions that might be in a process of change.

A cinematic trip across time and space, shot with a 360-degree camera in an inventive gesture unlike any other in contemporary cinema. Eduardo Willams breaks every conceivable rule of what the cinema experience can be.

It was a different time! The female contestants on an Irish TV show with an iconic gentleman host look back on a beige-coloured chapter in TV history. More than entertaining kitsch, and with some delightfully quick-witted ladies in the winning role.

A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.

Talking crows, red velour and black Lamborghinis. Get a rare glimpse into the life of a Satanist in a stylish and suitably mischievous film that challenges our expectations of the alternative philosophy.

Join us as we celebrate the opening of this year's SOCIETY:CINEMA with DJ Taralillah, DJ ADEXIA and DJ FLEXUAL + VJ SIGNE DIGE