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Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea
On the shores of the Gulf of Finland, the ancient Finno-Ugric peoples gave birth to a singing tradition of a mysterious power called the Regilaul. These songs are the roots of Estonia’s renowned singing culture. Based…
Regina
Diana Groós’s poetic documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944), a strong woman who made history by becoming the first properly ordained woman rabbi in the world. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler,…
Regina Jonas
I was found with the story of Regina Jonas. My first feature film was premiered at the Jewish Film Festival in Amsterdam, with opening remarks by Rabbi Eliza Klapechek. Later, she came up to me and asked if I wanted to…
Rehearsals
Without knowing each other in advance, 7 musicians from around the world spend a couple of days together, improvising and rearranging the music of Maria Tănase, a Romanian cultural icon from the 20th century.
The Reindeer People
The Chukchi reindeer breeders are peculiar people. They are nomads. Reindeers are their welfare, the purport of life. The mother-reindeer is the main divine being; it protects the Chukchi from misfortune and troubles.
Relics of Socialist Architecture
The project Relics of Socialist Architecture is a series of short experimental-documentary films featuring the most significant relics of socialist architecture in selected cities of the former Soviet Bloc. The final…
Remapping the Origins
Remapping the origins is an essayistic film about the city of Białystok, a reflection on how to deal with history and memory in a formerly pluralistic and revolutionary place.
The Remembered Film
Reality disappears before our eyes – all that remains is what’s preserved in our memories, the retelling of which allows us to bring it back to life. Camera in hand, the experimental filmmaker explores this abstract…
Remembering
Are Czechs happy? What do they strive for? Are Czechs impassive or do they desire personal and social changes? What is the feeling of a contemporary citizen of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic? In March…
RE-MEMBERING: Meditation on a Triptych
A chance encounter with discovered video footage from 1983 of the Bosnian town Tesanj triggers unexpected emotions as the filmmaker recognizes her grandfather who died in the 90’s during the war. This opens old wounds,…