Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible
Berlin - a shimmering dream for a peculiar, self-ironic married couple in their mid-50s, is shattered by harsh reality, testing their love and identity as they struggle to start from scratch in a foreign country.
Blue Sweater with a Yellow Hole
How to take Ukrainian kids, turn them into Russians, then soldiers, and send them back to fight Ukraine? Taisa and Kyrylo draw memories of six months in a Russian “re-education” camp in this witty, ironic animated story.
Cooperative
A building with 600 garages becomes a microcosm of Ukrainian society, where old traditions meet new realities amid uncertainty, drama, and humor—showing how ordinary people bring light to the darkest times.
Gone Guy
The journey of a young man who braves incredible risks, countless challenges and profound loneliness, on a quest for discovery, introspection and healing. The only thing this adventurer dreads: reaching the endpoint.
The Island of Freedom
A portrait of a place and its politically aware people, whose lives are shaped by personal ties to annexation, in a region where the threat of such an event remains ever-present.
My father, the ICEMAN
Young lawyer Ewa grew up as the daughter of a racist murderer. Her father, Janusz, killed anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani. After freeing him 30 years later, she discovers he’s even more dangerous.
ONE INCH EASTWARD
Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s desire for his country to be respected as a world power collides with his own internal problems and Bill Clinton’s efforts to keep the US as a European power.
Operation Champion
Gvantsa, a 30-year-old wheelchair fencing champion, can fully recover through surgery. If she does a surgery she will lose her career, sports family and a chance to bring her emigrant mother at home.
Parallel Space
When one feels a lack of freedom, there are three possibilities: to adapt, to protest, or to invisibly construct their own reality.
Retrospective
Is art greater than life? As interdisciplinary artists Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas prepare for their career retrospective, their filmmaker daughter reflects on what it means to grow up in a family of artists.