Akka Films Movies

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.

In April 1978, members of the Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire (GAR) rob a bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties...

Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by...

Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee...

A set-up for an experiment in an empty room. Former inmates reconstruct an Israeli secret service interrogation centre. These Palestinian men use...

Living in the West Bank of Palestine, a filmmaker suffering from chronic headaches consults a psychologist in pursuit of a cure. After being treated,...

Ten years ago, activists wanting to experience a collective way of life besieged a wooded countryside near Nantes in order to block the construction...

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents...

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves...

Filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff profiles Yvan Sorel, who runs a mixed martial arts club in Marseille's Quartier nord, a district of the city mainly known...

In 2013, a 2,000-year-old statue of Apollo was found near Gaza, only to disappear all of a sudden. Apollo, god of art, beauty and divinations,...

On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show.

On a road trip, Ahmed a train conductor is torn between his loyalty to the old Tunisian railway company and his personal aspirations, while Fitati,...

Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are...

Look into the heart & soul of the Alinghi campaign during the Americas Cup competition. This film documents slices of everyday life of the team &...

The fascinating story behind the Geneva Initiative, a peace plan for the Middle East. Set up by a group of seven very different individuals –...

Samir hardly knows his father. Hoping to become closer with him, he decides to accompany a hunter on a expedition in the mountains.

A documentary about black women denouncing racism in Switzerland.

Twenty-year-old Rosa leaves her two children in Cape Verde and relocates to Lisbon in the hope of giving them a better life. Caught between the...

An examination of a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem that is slowly being enclosed by the Israeli apartheid wall.