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Rutabaga
The silent, stop-motion animation breathes life into a turnip, which resembles Švankmajer's Little Otík, an octopus, or a pole dancer, its green limbs groping the surrounding world. The nostalgic journey of root…
Ruthless Times – Songs of Care
Filmmaker Susanna Helke examines the real impact of the Finnish healthcare crisis on the care of the elderly. In the form of a documentary musical, the filmmaker presents a testimony about poorly paid staff and the…
Ruvja and Morena
This intimate portrait of a girl's friendship for the ages stretches the interval between childhood and adulthood, play and seriousness, reality and fiction. In this edited documentary, photographs from domestic…
RYTMUS: A Dream from the Block
This documentary reveals the complexity of relationships within family, where each of their members has a different surname, where one has to use adjectives like “step”, “blood” or “biological”, but foremost a family…
Sabat
Over 40 years ago, Batkhorol "Sabat" Sagdkhorol—film student and diplomat—vanished. Was he an agent, dissident, or victim of the GDR? The director’s search probes Cold War shadows, but Sabat’s mystery remains.
Sabbath Queen
a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and…
Sable Trapper – Killing for a Living
How and why the fragile rodents has to die, in the glory of the fancy and well organized fashion shows? The story leads us to the gorgeous forests of Kamchatka, in the Siberian taiga, where Yurij makes his living…
Saddling the Dragon
Saddling the Dragon tells the story of Mr. Ivan Efremov. He was a writer, scientist, geologist and paleontologist. He took part in 31 expeditions headed 26 of them. In the early postwar years professor Efremov…
Safari
The traveller shoots a film in faraway lands, so that on his return he can present the "wild ones" to the aristocratic public in the cinema. The film was shot on one single day. Before that, however, the traveller had…
Sailing in the Dark
Crossing the sea the blind manager of shanty band discovers the real obstacles that his dream cannot make true.