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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wolli in Paradise
The place: the outskirts of Hamburg, a flat, 2 rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom. The time: one day and the passing night. Wolfgang "Wolli" Köhler, former porn-cinema and brothel founder turned poet and illustrator, lives…
Gagarin's Pioneers
What is home? And what is more important - life or home? Director Vitalij Manskij searches for an answer to this question among his former class-mates with whom he was admitted to the pioneer organisation 'Vladimir…