66 Seasons
A film about the Košice swimming pool, the place where, according to the filmmaker's slogan, "history came to swim." Set between 1936 and 2002, the story reflects historical events that took place in Central and Eastern…
Angels of Sinjar
Surviors of the 21st century genocide, Hanifa and her 2 sisters' biggest challenge is to free their 3 sisters, remaining in ISIS captivity and to find strength in clawing their way back to life, despite their trauma.
Artel
A classic of Russian documentary film he also stamps his typical hallmark on his latest film. Long shots fragmented with fade-outs, a sophisticated composition and the effective use of 35 mm black-and-white film.…
Bad Weather
Bad Weather tells the story of Banishanta Island. It is made up of a community of sex workers. Living on a tiny sliver of land 100 meters long and only ten meters wide in the Bay of Bengal, south Bangladesh, this…
Bakhmaro
A journey into a lively, yet desolate building in a provincial Georgian town. It once used to be a hotel called ‘Bakhmaro’. At the center of the building there is a restaurant with its walls covered in bright green and…
The Block
"The Block". One year, 2005. A small town, somewhere in Germany - Gräfenhainichen. A street in the town - Poetenweg. 85 identical one-room flats. Four doors open to us. Inside, two women and two men. Four generations;…
Blockade
The siege of Leningrad has become one of the legends of the 2nd World War. It lasted for 900 days, and it was not until the 1st of March 1944 that the enemy stranglehold on the city with its several million inhabitants…
Blood
A mobile blood donation center drives around small towns like a touring circus. Russia has no shortage of donors: the old, the young, the unemployed and the retirees all queue to be treated by the arduous but motherly…
The Bridge
A bridge that has been destroyed during the Second World War is being rebuilt. The bridge over the Tisa river was built during the Austrian-Hungarian empire and linked two towns: Sighet and Solotvina. Now, one town is…
Brotherhood
What will be the future of the new generation of Balkan young Muslims?
Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons
1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year – which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?
Cain's Children
Three men, they all committed murder as children. They passed their entire youth in communist Hungary’s most brutal prison, where they were first filmed. Disturbing archive footage shows them confessing details of their…
Catching Haider
Haider was no doubt the most successful of the European far right populists. But who was the man who made Europe tremble when his party won 27% at the national elections in 1999 and entered the Austrian government?...
Children. As Time Flies
What became of bus driver Jeanette's dream? How are her children Tommy and Paul? Is life under control now?
What does Jeanette's little brother Tino mean by "mixing everything"? The snowman has no mouth. Life as it…
Close to Heaven
Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches of the Transylvanian Carpathian…
Dancing with Time
Ballet dancers normally end their careers in their mid-thirties. But four former professionals, two women and two men, nearing their eighties have taken up the challenge to return to the stage and dance again. "Dancing…
Factory
This film depicts one day of an operating fabric. It consists of two parts: the first one is called Steel, the second Plaster. This film is about a human being as a part of human world. Metal produced by people enslaves…
Gogita’s New Life
The film is about a middle-aged man, who returns to a normal life, after 14 years in prison and meets a girl by the internet - Maka, who lives with her mother in their farm.
Headwind Hall
The world renowned Estonian conductor Tonu Kaljuste, the favourite of composer Arvo Pärt, wants to build an opera house called Nargen Opera on Naissaar, an island, which not long ago was a closed Soviet military base,…
How Mankind Lives - Men and Women
How Mankind Lives - Men and Women uses the camera to document and uncover the state of marriage, sexuality and love. It lets us see what is the status quo in everyday life and the housework in relationships around the…
Jaruzelski - A General's Purgatory
"I was not able to sleep during several days and nights", says the former communist leader of Poland Wojciech Jaruzelski when he tells about his decision to proclaim martial law in Poland 1981. Martti Puukko's…
Kalinovski Square
A docu-comedy about life in Belarus before and after the President elections where Lukashenko created his victory with almost 83% of the votes. With his astonishing material Belarus' most celebrated film director…
La Chana
“I was born to dance. I would lay awake all night long, repeating the rhythms in my head until they became a part of me.” -La Chana
The Last Limousine
Faced with the relentless demise of the factory they work at, Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Luda - bosses, foremen, engineers and workers of the giant Moscow automobile plant ZIL - cling to established…
Leninland
In the USSR, the cult of Lenin had replaced the Orthodox religion that Communists wanted to eliminate. At the end of Soviet era, in the village Gorky, 20 kilometers from Moscow, the last and the most ambitious Museum of…
Lucky (Niggers)
A film from Berlin, 1999 to 2005. These are children that have just come of age. Vulnerable. Sven, Lena, Thomas, Stephan and Daniela. This is about their lives. The closeness is as intense as the loneliness. We see…
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
Georgia 2011. A film director announces a casting for 15-23 year old youth. This search brings her to different locations: villages and cities. Here are many people who answer the call: some are interested in becoming…
Merry Christmas, Yiwu
An intimate film about everyday lives of Chinese workers stuck in between Chinese communist tradition and newly discovered Chinese dreams that takes place in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories.
Motherland or Death
What does a person imagine when they hear about Cuba? Especially those who have never been to this sea-locked state in the Caribbean basin. They probably think of cabriolets driven by glowing fair-haired men in colorful…
My America
Filmmaker Peter Hegedus grew up in socialist Hungary and overdosed on American movies and the values he thought they promoted: truth, justice, and hope for a safer world.
But twenty years later, he wonders whether the…
Oeconomia
Director Carmen Losmann’s film looks for answers to some of the crucial questions of today: Why is economic inequality on the rise? Why are both individuals and states increasingly indebted? Why is it that it is the…
Off the Tracks
Boizenburg is a small town in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, in the northeast of Germany. The small kiosk close to the local railway station runs from 5:00am until 10:00pm and hosts all sorts of guests: workers from the…
Osadne
Osadne is a film about an encounter between current top European leaders and the local politicians from the last village on the edge of the European Union. The small village of Osadné welcomes a delegation from the…
Outside
The turbulent youth of young Roma from a 13-year-old hero of the Maidan revolution to the 18-year-old adult trying to survive in a small criminal provincial town.
PAVLENSKY - MAN AND MIGHT
In the course of his performances, the Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky has sewn up his mouth, nailed his scrotum to Red Square, and set fire to the door of the headquarters of the Russian secret service, to…
Pipeline
Pipeline is a film about modern Europe, about two of its edges, or to put it more precisely – two of its extremes. This is a film about Europe, which spans from the barren land of eternal winters of Siberia to the…
Pit No. 8
In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal-mining region everybody digs – retirees, unemployed miners and even the children. Years ago, the town's desperate residents decided to start mining illegally; they excavate…
Possessed by Djinn
The belief in demons, or djinn, is a little-known aspect of Islamic culture. In a subjective investigation of this controversial topic the film follows the story of Aya, a four-year-old Jordanian girl killed by her...
Pure Unknown
A person who dies without a name is like a story without an ending.
Putin's Witnesses
The events of the film begin on 31 December, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new President. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation…
Rabbit a la Berlin
The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safe home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but…
Revision
On June 29th, 1992 a farmer discovers two bodies in a corn field in the North East of Germany. Police enquiries lead to the fact that the dead men are Romanian citizens shot by hunters during their attempt to cross the…
Revue
Revue is based on archive propaganda newsreels produced in the USSR in the 50's and 60's. The film shows the almost forgotten side of the Soviet times and the way of thinking at that period. It explores the life of…
Robinsons of Mantsinsaari
Up to 1940-s the island Mantsinsari belonged to Finland, in 1944 it joined Karelia. At that time all the Finns and Karelians went to Finland. And the island was settled by special people who didn‘t fulfil their work…
Space Dogs
How a Moscow street dog was sent into space and returned as a ghost.
Steam on the River
La vie de bohème the documentary way and a story of three extraordinary jazzmen. They are members of the same generation, influenced by the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Sugartown: The Bridegrooms
In the Greek village of Sugar Town, men have a serious problem. Women are fleeing the area in search of work or marriage in the big cities, leaving them behind and lonely. Their cunning mayor promises the men to find…
Sweep it up, again
Directly after the elections in March 1990 Gerd Kroske filmed in the streets of Leipzig for the second time. His road sweepers swept away what wasn't needed any longer: posters, flags, cigarette butt. The film Sweep it…
Tarzan’s Testicles
A film about utopias & a metaphoric drama that threads the similar destinies of monkeys & men.
Tenders' Heat: Wild, Wild Beach
Every morning during the last 25 years hereditary photographer Eugeniy and his camel are on their way to their habitual working place - a beach at the Black Sea shore, a world of NUDE people in all meanings of this word…
Themerson & Themerson
The film is retracing the love story of an unusual and unique creative union. It is a well-hidden treasure in the culture and art of the 20th century. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost…
Uku Ukai
"Sorrow does not come merely from contemplating death, which forces us to look into Eternity, but also from life, which compels us to confront Time", wrote Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyayev. Renowned Lithuanian…
Under the Sun
Based on unprecedented access, this film shows life in North Korea more extensively than ever. Director Vitaly Mansky received an official permission for this first Russian-North Korean documentary collaboration. The…
Velvet Terrorists
Three men longing to become heroes. During the 80s, they decided to fight the communistic regime in Czechoslovakia. Three stories about the thin line between defence and offence, courage and chance, presence and past...…
Vika!
Wika is the oldest DJ in Poland and probably in the world. This 80-year-old grandma of four is ruling the Warsaw clubs for young people and despite increasing health problems believes that “80 is the new 40”.
Virginity
Three young women, who each have a sought-after commodity - their virginity. Kristina, Karina and Katya each try to make their way in a world ruled by fame, popularity and money. Kristina auditions for a reality TV show…
Yaptik-Hasse
Yaptik-Hasse is one of the younger members of the very large Yaptik family. He is also their good spirit and therefore privileged to ride on a holy slide. As it is the end of August the Nenets people commence their…