All for the Good of the World and Nosovice
An original portrait of a Czech village that houses a giant car plant built by South Korea's Hyundai. Before the village turned into an industrial zone, many of the landowners had no intention of selling their plots of…
Anthill
Anthill is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men's club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those...
The Art of Selling
Mr. Vain is a legendary sales training instructor in Estonia. He worked with great success in the US for six weeks as a door-to door book peddler. Mark is inviting young active people to a meeting promoting the prospect…
Auto*Mate
"A playful film essay about our automobile-automatic society. A film crossing the border of its media, turning into a social act.Martin Mareček: “I lived in downtown Prague, in the ""heart of Europe"". In Prague, ""the…
Bahrtalo! Good Luck!
How to hit the Jackpot? This question is not a simple one to answer for anybody. But it's even harder to solve for the two friends in this neo-realistic comedy: the "big hat" Gypsy and his Hungarian buddy - both of them…
The Battle with Satan
At the end of the 20th century Pope John Paul II reintroduced the ritual of exorcism into the Roman Catholic Church. In Poland, exorcisms quickly gained popularity.
Berkat and Marsho/Happiness and Freedom
Two courageous Czech women decide to set up an organization called Berkat (Happiness) with the aim of helping war victins, especially children. Jana Hradilkova and Petra Prochazkova discover the Sputnik camp on the…
Beyond the Forest
A historical documentary about two of the last Saxons and Landlers shot in small Carpathian villages. In his garden a old man has spread out an old patched sheet. He wants to die there and be eaten by the animals. Fifty…
Blind Justice
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN to provide justice to victims of war crimes committed during the nineties, and to help the reconciliation process in the region.…
Blue Notebook
A documentary about the famous composer, Witold Lutoslawski, a brilliant musician and a mysterious man whose work and private life become a great challenge for a contemporary composer, Leszek Mozdzer. He travels across…
Bottlemen
An inextinguishable fire is raging below the surface of the biggest Balkan landfill, a workplace of a group of Serbian Roma bottle collectors. We follow the last days of this community before their jobs become obsolete.
Concrete Pharaohs
Welcome to the picturesque world of the Kalderash Roma – a closed community of no more than 1 million people all over the world. "Concrete Pharaohs" take us on a journey into the lifestyle and traditions of the most…
Cooking History
A documentary film about army cooks. It shows how the everyday need of thousands armed stomachs affects the victories and defeats. About the field "kitchen" as a model of a world where food preparation becomes a fight…
Czech Dream
Prague, Czech Republic, 31 May, 2003, a few minutes before 10a.m.; there are more than 3000 people jostling on a remote parking place. Many of them are clutching plastic bags in their hands; some of them are armed with…
Czech Peace
The story of the Star Wars, the Cold War and the War On Terror of one small Czech village. As part of its National Missile Defense Program, the US plan to build a military base in the Czech Republic, a former hiding…
Documentarian
Inta is a brusque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a documentary filmmaker. In his eyes Inta is an outstanding would-be film…
Escaping Riga
A garrulous philosopher and a flamboyant film director trying to survive the extremes of life somewhere between a tsar, a king, Hitler and Stalin.
Family Meals
Do you remember when was the last time you talked to your parents? What did you talk about? Did you go a step beyond weather forecast and daily politics? Can a conversation about buried family secrets help you eat…
Fortress
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. Imagine a space where the time has frozen. The time's stopped and life's been stuck in a shape resembling the era of Soviet Union. Somehow, people got used to the reign of the secret…
The Gold Spinners
The Gold Spinners tells the story of the birth, glory and downfall of a peculiar, invisible and mighty business empire. It’s a story of the film studio Eesti Reklaamfilm – the only enterprise producing commercials in…
The Good Driver Smetana
Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda’s feature-length documentary about Olomouc bus driver Roman Smetana, who took on injustice, corruption, and Czech politics’ bad taste armed with a permanent marker. On election posters,…
Honeymoon
The documentary film entitled Honeymoon was shot in Tokyo, Japan. It explores behind the scenes of a truly crazy 24-hour sex driven pay-tv channel called Paradise TV. Paradise TV is unlike many others similar TV…
Industrial Elegy
A visually poetic documentary about people living in the mining colonies in Ostrava that are gradually being shut down. As this world slowly disappears, we also lose the local traditional values, unique experiences and…
The Inner Light
In an observational form THE INNER LIGHT explores the everyday life of people with dementia in a nursing home and offers a poetic interpretation of this special state of being.
I Will Marry the Whole Village
Peca, an accordion player, has decided to marry all the unmarried men in his village. His motto is „I’m going to marry the whole village, even if I regret it“. He is naive, he is a modern Don Quixote. Doccomedy – a…
Katka
Helena Třeštíková's film is a remarkable documentary tracing fourteen years in the life of a young junkie and her futile battle with drug addiction. Why did she start taking drugs? She claims she wanted to be different.…
Lampedusa in Winter
The Italian "refugee island" of Lampedusa is in the firm grip of winter tristesse. The Tourists have left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the mainland.
Latvian Coyote
An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European Union border.
Listen to the Silence
A small deaf boy with a big dream makes the impossible possible and finds a way to dance on stage forthe world to see.
Love Is Not an Orange
Caught in a long distance relationship, a mother and a daughter exchanged gifts to express their love. After sixteen years of separation, they finally reunite but are unable to share their feelings.
Mechanical Figures
Inspired by Nikola Tesla, this visually intriguing animated/interactive documentary guides the viewer through the creative process. Twirling around the world, from Zagreb, through London, Paris, Budapest, New York,…
My Name is Janez Jansa
“A proper name is a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about but not of telling anything about it”. - John Stuart Mill. Individuals, artists and academics share their thoughts…
My Own Private War
‘Mama, what is the difference between good and bad?’ What happens when collective trauma enters a family? A story told from the personal experience of the filmmaker.
Normal Autistic Film
What is it to be normal? Instead of looking at autism as a diagnosis, the film shows it as a magic and mysterious way of thinking
Olga - To My Friends
In the Russian part of Lapland, some 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) north of Moscow, winter temperatures dip down to the negative double digits. It’s as white as the eye can see here, and there’s hardly a human being to…
Ostrov - Lost Island
On the island of Ostrov in the Caspian Sea the inhabitants, left alone by the Russian state after the collapse of the Soviet Union, survive through poaching. Ivan regularly goes out to sea risking his life and freedom.
The Others
The Others recaps the history of the Armenian genocide in the Eastern-Anatolian province Van from a recent perspective.
Our Newspaper
It’s the region of Uljanovsk, birthplace of Lenin. A prosperous district before, a remote countryside now. After losing his job at the offcial paper The Leninist, journalist Andrey Schkolni decides to make his own…
Paradise Hotel
The young Demir dreams of a wedding. But his Roma tower block at the outskirts of a provincial town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. 25 years ago it had all it takes for panel socialist heaven: from parquet floors…
People, Gods and other Creatures
In this world, there are people, gods and humans like me.
Pythagoras, 5th Century B.C.
Ramin
Ramin Lomsadze, a 75-year-old Georgian wrestler who once won seven matches in 55 seconds, is getting ready for the fight with his last and most formidable opponent - loneliness. He gets on the train and sets off for a…
René
This raw authentic documentary film tells the story of René whose life was being captured on camera since he was seventeen. The camera followed his hopeless journey between prison and brief periods outside the prison…
Romale
Rudnany Roma settlement is segregated on an extremely dangerous mining site, which is contaminated by the toxic element mercury. The filmmaker follows several characters from the East Slovakian settlement as they…
Seeing Voices
The deaf protagonists of Seeing Voices employ different techniques to master their lives, walking the line between the hearing of the world – and refusing to be silent.
Shadow Flowers
Ryun-hee is eager to return to her native North Korea, which she left in 2011 to seek medical treatment. Little did she know that crossing the border with South Korea would make her an enemy of the state and that she…
Siberian Love
What does a woman need to be happy and fulfilled? After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga goes back to her roots in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with traditional views of relationships.
Soul Food Stories
Satovcha is a small Bulgarian village with 2021 residents of different religious and ethnical groups (Orthodox Bulgarians, Muslim Turks, Pomacs and Evangelist Gypsies). People were divided by their past full of…
Stream of Love
Love and desire fill the minds of villagers in a Hungarian-speaking village in Transylvania, Romania, even in their old age. Time has stood still here, and although most of the inhabitants of the village are elderly,…
Sugar Blues
The director, who is currently suffering from pregnancy diabetes, is suddenly forced to give up refined sugar. Suffering from the withdrawal symptoms, she realises how difficult it really is.
The Third Option
In his complex essay film, Thomas Fürhapter elaborates on these questions. The film peels away the various thematic layers to reveal essential questions regarding birth, normalisation and life optimisation.
Trains of Thoughts
Trains of Thoughts is an audiovisual essay which reflects upon and compares metro systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as feelings, fascination, obsession, fear and themes -…
Tzvetanka
Born in a wealthy family little Tzvetanka dreamed to become an actress, but life completely changed her destiny. "Tzvetanka" is the story of a woman who has outlived the three epochs in modern Bulgarian history:…
Ukrainian Sheriffs
The advent of Euromaidan, and draft-dodgers abound. Town folks are dipping
in icy water and laughing, but are they divided in their loyalty? These sheriffs are taking you along for the ride.
Up in the Air
Youg Ukrainian circus acrobats develop their skills and performance while fighting local government.
The Venice Syndrome
Venice is pure romance; that which all Europeans yearn for, the dream of all Americans. But the world's most beautiful city is becoming uninhabitable. The film shows what remains of Venetian life: a subculture of…
The Visitors
How does it feel to have nowhere to go?
We Have to Survive
The full-length documentary WE HAVE TO SURVIVE is colourful collage of human stories from areas that have been hit by a climate change where the life of people is subject to extremely difficult conditions.
When The Earth Seems To Be Light
This is a story of skaters, artists, musicians, in a post- Soviet country. A country in a distracted condition, where one can be crashed by the power of church and politics.
Where Are We Headed
A year-long study of Russia’s capital conducted in the Moscow Metro.
WHERE ARE WE HEADED captures the day-to-day of ordinary city dwellers as well as momentous national occasions.