If you can’t make it to Stockholm next week, visiting The Hague might be a good alternative. The Movies That Matter Festival has also planned some promising premieres (and I’m relying more on the trailers than on the film festival’s site descriptions). Three films I hope to see there are. First up, Surprising Europe, a “documentary about a disappointed immigrant, who wants to show his fellow-countrymen the true face of Europe.” More on the film’s website.

The Mobile Cinema “ . . .  follows the mobile cinema crew members as they travel through inhospitable areas of Congo, to screen their much-awarded Fighting the Silence and change people’s attitude towards rape.”

And a documentary about rapper Sister Fa:

Sarabah

Subjected to female genital mutilation as a child, the Queen of Hip Hop now campaigns to protect Senegalese girls from a similar fate. In the film, she returns to her native village to try to put an end to this centuries-old tradition through music and education.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPPX4cnEIUQ

A full list of the featuring films can be found here.

—Tom Devriendt