New Films

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  Gorbachev. Heaven

  Latvia, Czech Republic | 2020 | 100min

  The 90-year old Gorbachev currently lives in a modest house outside Moscow, awaiting the moment when he will be called to join the list of the 20th century’s most consequential figures. History will judge Gorbachev, but Gorbachev presents his own, final testimony - captured by Vitaly Mansky. Read More

   
   
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  To the Moon

  Ireland | 2020 | 76min

  TO THE MOON by Tadhg O'Sullivan steps lightly through the ages and ideas that people have drawn from the moon to meditate on the fragile and fleeting nature of humanity. Read More

   
   
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  Molecules

  Italy | 2020 | 68min

  Between February and April of 2020, Andrea Segre, who lives in Rome for several years, got stuck in Venice during the lockdown: Venice, hometown of his father and just partially his own. Read More

   
   

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  The Bubble

  Switzerland, Austria | | 90min

  121.000 retirees, 50 golf courses, 3000 activities. THE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl depicts everyday life in and around the world’s biggest retirement community in Florida. Read More

   
   
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  Everything Will Not Be Fine

  Romania, Ukraine | 2020 | 82min

  After ending a long-term relationship, Adrian Pîrvu, a half-blind filmmaker born in 1986 and whose mother blames his illness on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, leaves behind his life in Romania and travels to find other people who might have been affected by it. Read More

   
   
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  Monobloc

  Germany | | 52 / 65 / 90min

  The monobloc plastic chair is the best-selling piece of furniture that ever existed. MONOBLOC by Hauke Wendler tells the story of how this unsightly chair took the world by storm – and why. Read More

   
   

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  Cuban Dancer

  Italy, Canada, Chile | 2020 | 52 / 90min

  Director Roberto Salinas portrays Alexis, a talented and proud student of the National Ballet School of Cuba, who spends his life practicing chassé and entrechats with his girlfriend and dance partner Yelenia. When his family moves to Florida, he must adjust his expectations and dreams to a radically new environment. Read More

   
   
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  Oeconomia

  Germany | 2020 | 89min

  What is money? What are debts? What are the consequences of both? And how can images be found for them? In OECONOMIA, director Carmen Losmann undertakes a journey in the strategic heartlands of neoliberal policy. Read More

   
   
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  Honeyland

  Macedonia | 2019 | 85min

  When a nomadic family moves in and breaks Honeyland’s basic rule, the last female wild beekeeper in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance. Read More

   
   

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  Walchensee Forever

  Germany | 2020 | 110min

  In her documentary family saga, director Janna Ji Wonders embarks on a voyage of discovery spanning a century: she takes us from the family café at the Bavarian Walchensee to San Francisco to the infamous "Summer of Love“. Read More

   
   
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  Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Sweden / Serbia, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar | 2020 | 54 / 94min

  An intimate film by Mladen Kovačević about everyday lives of Chinese workers stuck in between Chinese communist tradition and newly discovered Chinese dream that takes place in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories which produce Christmas for the entire world. Read More

   
   
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  How to Steal a Country

  South Africa | 2019 | 58/93min

  A rags-to-riches story by Rehad Desai, involving political influence, corruptible politicians and a host of well-known multinationals prepared to benefit from state capture in South Africa. Read More