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The Player
A documentary about Jaan Ehlvest, the gifted Estonian chess grandmaster. Playing chess is his only income but, above all, it is his calling. In the Soviet Union, Jaan belonged to the chess elite, in New York he has to…
Players
Rustem, 23, plays poker. Born and raised in Russia, he lives in Berlin. A.k.a. Puma23 xxxx, Rustem has already won more than 100,000 dollars. He starts travelling to poker tournaments across Europe. The computer…
Play Girl
Play Girl is about breaking conventions and norms in a relationship and going against patriarchal rules of how a girl "should" behave. The film deals with gender specific rules, gender subvertion, taboos and how to be…
Playing the Fool
Redzo is frustrated. Being the only sane one in a group of 22 psychiatric patients, he’s been waiting for 17 years to be repatriated to Bosnia from a Hungarian refugee camp. He joined the group back in ’92 as they were…
Play Me Allegro
The film follows Julia, a Russian Immigrant, and her five year old daughter, who live on the border between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, 4 km from Gaza city, in Kibbutz Nir-Am. Due to its close proximity to the…
The Play of Everyman
In 2016, two environmental organizations sued the Norwegian state on suspicion that it was violating the constitution by continuing to license oil drilling in the Barents Sea – specifically, the guaranteed right to a…
Play the fiddle
Nocost documentary about violin workshop inside small Czech prison.
PLAYTOPIA
Eight children from different countries enter an otherworldly white space and, through play and negotiation, reveal how they understand the world. What becomes visible when adults step back?
Please Hold the Line
Cable technicians in Eastern Europe navigating the modern-day Tower of Babel.
Please Hold the Line
Fablers of nowadays TV time. For some of them mourning and moating is the same word. Others worship puppies by their weird songs. And there are also those who speak on screen with their wombs. Popular fortune-tellers…