Brasslands
A tiny Serbian village explodes with brass cacophony and riotous celebration as more than half a million music fans descend upon Guča, the world's largest trumpet competition. Amidst a cast of defending Serbian…
Chasing Evil - Hunting Terror On The Web
Featuring exclusive interviews with world-leading counter-terrorism experts, this gripping, compulsive documentary finds a glimmer of hope from deep under the floods of information swamping counter-terrorist activity.
Children 404
In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin passed a bill forbidding the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors.” LGBT youth, now defenseless against insults and intimidation under this “gay propaganda”…
Chuck Norris vs. Communism
Communist Romania, 1980s, culturally isolated, ideologically censored; all images of life outside the Iron Curtain are cut off and TV is reduced to a couple of hours of propaganda each day.
Confidential
Confidential is a story of those for who the Cold War still remains; a story about life after life of a former double spy František V. František was part of the Czechoslovak military intelligence trained in Moscow and…
Courage
An inspiring and encouraging documentary about the peaceful uprising of a nation against injustice and the brutal oppression of their democracy movements.
Drawing Against Oblivion
A mixture of an art film, portrait and period drama. It’s about children, the most innocent in society and war. The director wants to shed light on countless children, who were murdered by Nazis and disappeared in...
Everyday Rebellion
What does the Occupy movement have in common with the Spanish Indignados or the Arab Spring? Is there a connection between the Iranian democracy movement and the Syrian struggle? And what is the link between the…
Every Face Has A Name
What is it like to be captured during war and mistaken for being a spy? How is it to live six years in hiding dressed like a girl, when you are a young boy? What happens when you have experienced such gruesome...
FEVER - Africa Starts Rollin'
Over a two-year period ending with the Confederations Cup in Summer 2009, the film follows protagonists from three generations of South Africans who introduce their today's society. They are awaiting the biggest…
Forest
Asia and Marek created their own paradise in the forest, a place where their children were going to grow up safely, far away from the problems of today’s world. Yet, one day, big politics came knocking on their door.
Gangster of Love
A documentary comedy which points out some serious social issues. The story takes place in the mountainous Balkan region and follows matchmaker Nedjeljko Babic aka Gangster. His life is devoted to helping young people…
Genesis 2.0
The hunt for white gold at the remotest edge of Siberia reveals a scenario of the future that may well turn our world upside down.
Girls Don't Fly
An airstrip, a hangar and a classroom somewhere in rural Ghana: This is the place where 18-year-old Lydia and 20-year-old Esther hope to achieve their dream: learning how to fly.
Holy Cow
How a cow from Europe almost started a revolt in Azerbaijan
I Didn’t Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Me
When Russia started building barbed wire fences on the border to Georgia after the Ossetian war, they cut right through some villages. Malchaz and Gotcha suddenly find themselves on opposite sides. A story of friendship
K2 - Touching the Sky
In the summer of 1986, several dozen alpinists from all over the world met to climb K2, second highest mountain on the planet.
The Last Black Sea Pirates
The Last Black Sea Pirates swim in testosterone and rugged tenderness in a land of wilderness and legends, far from civilization. For 20 years, Captain Jack The Whale and his crew have been drinking, dreaming and…
Life in Stills
At the age of 96, Miriam Weissenstein never imagined that she would be facing a new chapter in her life. But when "The Photo House" - her late husband Rudi’s life’s work - was destined for demolition, even this…
Mark Lombardi - Death-defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy
A few weeks after the 9/11, an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi. Just months earlier, the artist was found dead in his…
Men with Balls
Imagine a poor Hungarian village, population 146 (124, Roma). They’ve only ever seen tennis on TV. One day, they win EU funding to build a tennis court, and in autumn, 2011, the Besence Open tennis tournament will take…
Of Caravan and the Dogs
Shot during one decisive year, before and after the invasion in Ukraine, the film portrays the last defenders of democracy in Russia and shows their difficult moral choices in a desperate attempt to stop the war.
Oma Export
Retiring thousands of kilometers away from Germany, Petra is challenged by a new culture without knowing neither people nor language. A humorous documentary that proves age is no obstacle.
The Other Chelsea – A Story from Donetsk
Donetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter which side of the social divide you are on, coming from Donetsk you will…
Peak
The search for paradise is as old as human history. An entire industry has developed in order to allow people the possibility to reach their utopia of untouched nature. Even in the raw field of the Alps, mass tourism…
Pre-Crime - A Predictive Policing Simulator
To gain a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of predictive policing, we will simulate its techniques through a game in several major virtual cities and present the outcomes with far fetching consequences.
The Russian Job
Swedish manager Bo Inge Andersson comes to the Russian city Tolyatti to save the struggling automaker factory. He is asked for a revolution, but what he doesn't know is that nothing should change.
Storkman
An ideal lifetime relationship is embodied in a love story of two storks in a small village in Croatia. They teach us how to really connect, but also how to let go.
Street Art - The Ephemeral Rebellion
"Reclaim the Streets!" is one of the strongest motives of Street Art: the regaining of the street, to mix up its uniformed ordered face. "Street Art – the Ephemeral Rebellion" is a character driven documentary with a…
Ticket to the Moon
The film searches for dreams and hopes people put into space explorations in the times of cosmic spring. What were they imagining to find? What drives the relentless ambition of human mind to escape to outer space today?
Tomorrow
This is a story about the most striking phenomenon in Russia's contemporary art - the art collective Voina (War). Its founders Vor (Thief) and Koza (Goat) lead an underground existence as they raise their one-year-old…
Too Close
After a traumatic event in her daughter’s life, a mother fights to heal the scars of the past, in a small community that doesn’t want to comprehend what happened.
The Trial - The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov
A documentary about Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, arrested by the Russian FSB in Crimea and sentenced to 20 years in prison on contrived charges.
Utopia Revisited
A cinematic expedition to the pioneers of a new society.
Walking Under Water
Alexan, the last compressor diver on Mabul Island near Borneo, teaches 10-year-old Sari everything he knows, from dangerous fishing techniques and the temptations of the tourist economy to wisdom about the...
Winter Go Away
“Winter Go Away” was filmed by the graduates of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s Documentary Filmmaking and Theater School, on the initiative of Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper. Ten young…