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Browse 21 movies from Hikari
An examination of the United States’ involvement in war, focusing on its impact on political decisions, national identity, and the lives of its people.
Feb 2025
A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, in an attempt to profile a contradictory dictator who seems to rule his nation with both disturbing benevolence and cold cruelty while being worshipped as a living god by his subjects in exalted displays of ridiculous fanaticism.
Sep 2015
Since Russia was brought to its knees in the 1990s by crippling debt and the grip of the oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin has made it his mission to return superpower status to Russia. While not partisan to Putin's wrongs, this insightful doc examines the logic and motivations of Putin's vilified regime, and why he is so loved in his homeland.
Nov 2016
Documentary on Christiane Lecocq, a central figure to the naturist movement in France.
Jul 2022
Two french friends go on a sex tourism trip in North Korea to celebrate its 70th anniversary.
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A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.
May 2019
Beijing, China, 2020. Empty streets, mandatory masks, checkpoints, the entire state apparatus used to impose severe restrictions on population movements. An entire country quarantined to fight a fierce epidemic…
Feb 2020
Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pierre Haski paints an unprecedented portrait of the little sister of Kim Jong-un, whose influence in Pyongyang is growing stronger day by day.
Apr 2022
May 2017
May 2010
Brazil enters a great political turmoil after president Dilma Rousseff has been ousted through an impeachment process.
Jan 2016
Feb 2022
Oct 2024
Four centuries of various forms of subordination have given the people of Taiwan a strong taste for freedom, which has endured despite Chinese appetites. Journalist Pierre Haski takes a look back at the history and specific features of the "beautiful island".
Mar 2023
Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their clandestine journey and chronicling a migration combining fantasy and stark reality, setbacks and achievements, in the midst of the dangers of such trips.
Jan 2015
May 2023
Nov 2020
Sep 2025
Dec 2023