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80 Angry Journalists
Newspapers are a living, critical mirror shaped by their editors, yet they also have owners. A film on the clash between journalists and proprietors that, through a major Hungarian case, reflects on the fragile condition
Animals of the East
A poetic documentary about love and unusual friendship between “farm” animals and humans who take care of each other.
Beautiful Stupid Thing
Angela and Carlos, mother and son, reunite when she migrates from Colombia to Estonia, turning a quest for an ancestor, into a journey through the pains of the past to the possibilities of the future.
Berliner
Nana, a Georgian immigrant of 30 years in Berlin, translates for newcomers while moving between memory and exile, revealing how politics have shaped both the past and the present.
Caretakers
Caretakers follows two Hungarian undocumented caregivers. It means an escape for Zsuzsa in Freiburg, adventure for Beata in Brooklyn. Anti-migrant politics questions them where, if anywhere, they truly belong.
Children of the Moon Land
In a devastated Slovak town poisoned by magnesite mining, six Roma children refuse
to accept their harsh reality, finding refuge in imagination, friendship, and their dreams that
become their form of resistance.
Crossing Oxus
Meeting the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan, a Ukrainian filmmaker confronts the burden of a past that cannot be undone.
Dance with Me
My uncle Adam fled our Muslim Lebanese family during the 1970s civil war to become the first male solo belly dancer in LA. Years later, I set out to reconnect with him in a search for identity, belonging, and acceptance.
EL DORADO
In this meditation on civilization’s decline, the guardian matriarchs of a mining town and a lone seeker of ancient treasures navigate memory’s labyrinths, their paths merging in an allegory set on a world’s edge.
The Enchantress
Through the life of Teresa Godlewska - a 95-year-old woman who made herself her greatest work of art - the film explores freedom, femininity, and the radical act of staying curious about life until the very end.