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Angels of Sinjar wins Prix Gilda Vieira de Mello 2022
17.03.2022ANGELS OF SINJAR by Hanna Polak received the Prix Gilda Vieira de Mello at FIFDH 2022 in Geneva! Read More
Welcome to the team, Patrizia!
09.02.2022We are happy to announce that a new member has joined Deckert Distribution's team. Read More
Deckert Distribution names Liselot Verbrugge as CEO
11.01.2022Deckert Distribution Names Liselot Verbrugge as CEO, Heino Deckert Shifts Gears to Production. Deckert has also further expanded with the hire of sales and acquisitions executive Patrizia Mancini. Read More
New Films
Kristos, the Last Child
Italy, France, Greece | 2022 | 88 / 52minThere are one-thousand goats and thirty-one people living on the island of Arki. No mayor. No police. No doctor nor hospital. There is a school though. A school with just one teacher and one child, Kristos. Read More
Time of Pandemics
South Africa | 2021 | 87 / 52minAn eye-opening documentary about the need for a fairer global distribution of medicines and health care. Documentary makers Rehad Desai and Tricia Hlongwe followed the clinical trial for an HIV vaccine in South Africa, when Covid-19 hit. Read More
A Holy Family
Taiwan, France | 2022 | 88minAfter 24 years of absence, director Elvis A-Liang Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan. A HOLY FAMILY is an intimate journey of home-coming, a portrait of rekindled family bonding despite differences in religious beliefs, and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking. Read More
Angels of Sinjar
Poland, Germany | 2022 | 109minHanna Polak follows Hanifa, a young Yezidi woman, who tries to find her sisters, who were abducted by ISIS, and bring them home – as she had promised her dying father she would. Read More
Eat Your Catfish
United States, Spain, Turkey | 2021 | 74minKathryn's ALS has left her paralyzed and her family's relations in tatters, but she holds on to see her daughter's wedding. With dark humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film by Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand & Senem Tüzen probes the breakdown of a family's bonds and of a woman's will to live. Read More
Caveman - The Hidden Giant
Italy, Switzerland | 2021 | 91minFor almost thirty years, the Italian sculptor Filippo Dobrilla has secretly been sculpting a naked man, a 4 meters marble giant, at the bottom of one of the deepest caves in Europe. Director Tommaso Landucci discovers the secret behind the most inaccessible piece of art in the world. Read More
Stand Up My Beauty
Switzerland, Germany | 2021 | 110minNardos is a young singer from Addis Ababa who wants to fulfill herself as an artist, undeterred by everyday problems and strict tradition. Director Heidi Specogna tells the story of the conception of her first own, original song, through the stylistic means of a documentary musical. Read More
Brotherhood
Czech Republic, Italy | 2021 | 97 / 54minBROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner is an intimate coming of age story following three young brothers in Bosnia, growing up under the shadow of their father’s influence, who must each decide: which man do you want to be? Read More
Bellum - The Daemon of War
Sweden, Denmark | 2021 | 58/88minA triptych of stories by David Herdies and Georg Götmark about the ways in which Western nations choose to cope with war, write the narratives of war, the different ways they find to profit from it, and how they film it. Read More
The Bubble
Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/93minTHE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine. Read More
Les Enfants terribles
France, Turkey, Germany | 2021 | 52/93minSet in a close-Arab community, in a village situated in the south of Turkey, this film by Ahmet Necdet Cupur unfolds a familial story, where children must face their imposed fate and pressure from the community, to emancipate and follow aspirations. Read More