François Reichenbach follows a group of young men from the day they enlist in the US Marine Corps, all the way through basic training. Filmed around the time of the Ribbon Creek incident, which saw the drowning death of six Parris Island recruits on a night-time forced march, this original version of the film was suppressed by the US military, which demanded changes to Reichenbach’s anti-militarist commentary.

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A slice-of-life film shot in a provincial cafe and hotel in the city of Bethune in the department of Pas-de-Calais, in Northern France. Older men smoke, drink beer and read the paper, young lovers gaze into each other’s eyes, and regulars play cards, while the owner blusters on the phone with potential banquet customers. Meanwhile, from behind the counter, the quiet woman who does the work of ensuring the place runs smoothly keeps watch—and occasionally sneaks a glance at the newspaper herself.

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IN MEMORY OF ROCK captures the power, promise, and fear generated by the early days of rock n’roll. It is also a fascinating study in the juxtaposition of image and music. Outside an arena, a crowd of young people gather for a concert, the camera lingering on them as we hear a Boccherini minuet. Inside, rising French rock stars Eddy Mitchell, Vince Taylor and Johnny Hallyday gyrate in leather jackets and cowboy boots to pounding drumbeats. Meanwhile, the floor in front of the stage turns into a proto-mosh pit (complete with injury), while the police perpetrate violence of their own.

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A filmmaker seeks to document his father’s life in Nigeria. A secret about his father is uncovered by chance: a second family kept hidden for thirty years. This revelation sends the filmmaker on a new quest, now focusing on his retired Danish mother and his newly acquainted younger Nigerian half-brother. Part of the Berlinale’s 2021 Perspektive Deutsches Kino section, the film is a generation-spanning love story that sensitively works its way through the conflicts of an African-European marriage.

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In a culture long enamored with days of glory, the darker side of American history has often been dismissed, if not outright denied. Throughout the South, vast numbers of African-American gravesites and burial grounds for enslaved persons have been lost to neglect. Those with personal connections to these sites have recently begun to unravel these untold stories of the past.

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The incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who fell in love with a Cuban captain and followed him to the Caribbean, eventually becoming Fidel Castro’s Sexual Education Minister. Twenty years later, Krause set the Cuban sexual revolution in motion: in favor of a woman’s right to sexual fulfillment and legal abortion, and against the exclusion of the LGBTQ population.

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Bringing us to Tbilisi, Georgia, GLORY TO THE QUEEN reveals the interwoven biographies of four legendary female chess players: Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani. It offers rare insight into their present lives, while exploring their lasting legacy as icons of female emancipation.

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An ode to the rivalry between men and nature, Salomé Jashi’s striking environmental tale captures a century-old tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination is a privately owned garden by billionaire, former prime minister, and founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

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