Database
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.
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.
Grandpa was a genius
Pancho Vladigerov is one of the iconic European composers of the 20th century, but how popular is his work today? What challenges do his descendants, also musicians, face with a grandfather considered a genius?
Hijacked Life
In 1970, a teenager and his father hijack a Soviet airplane in search of freedom, igniting a 50-year odyssey across three continents - until, in 2002 in California, the son kills his dad.
Home is a Dollhouse
A filmmaker uses personal archives and imagined home videos to reconnect with her estranged mother, who left for the United States in the 1990s to pursue and acting career in Hollywood, while leaving her family behind.
House in a Bottle
A confession of five people who had to be adults as children, and remain children as adults.
I had a Dream about an Elephant
When an aging Eastern European oligarch dies mid-comeback, his partner inherits his absurd "state within a state." She sells it off for scrap metal while keeping his populist myth alive.
I was told to save the world
Vesna lives in a shelter with 300 rescued animals and alpha granny who raised her. Facing the weight of hard work and a broken system she is caught between the need to save the world and the desire to save herself.