Author’s Documentaries

  • 5 Seasons of Revolution

    Germany, Syria, Norway, The Netherlands, Qatar | 2023 | 95min

    Born in Damascus, Lina starts to report on the events around her but is compelled to become a war reporter and later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny. Read More

     
  • 66 Seasons

    Slovakia | 2003 | 58/66/86min

    A documentary film about the Košice swimming pool where history came to bathe. Set between 1936 and 2002, the story reflects historical events that took place in Central and Eastern Europe during that period. Read More

  • A Holy Family

    Taiwan, France | 2022 | 88min

    After 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

     
  • A Separation

    Sweden | 2013 | 58/72min

    A SEPARATION by Karin Ekberg is a tragicomic documentary that portrays the very last acts of a long marriage. A film about the tentative search for a beginning of what – finally, and unfortunately – is over. Read More

     
  • American Vagabond

    Finland, Denmark | 2013 | 85min

    AMERICAN VAGABOND by Susanna Helke is a coming of age story of a gay boy growing up in small town America. It’s a story about a family coming to grips with what it fears the most. Read More

     
  • At the Datcha

    Poland | 2006 | 26min

    Holiday at the datcha as last big challenge of civilization. With hammer, pliers and slapstick. Read More

     
  • Bad Weather

    Germany / UK | 2011 | 58/82min

    The film by Giovanni Giommi tells the story of a community of female sex workers living on Banishanta Island and their struggle to survive at the frontline of climate change. Read More

     
  • Bakhmaro

    Germany / Georgia | 2011 | 58min

    A journey into a lively but rotting building – a microcosm intruded by the constant anticipation of change. A three-story brick building in a provincial Georgian town. Read More

  • Bellum - The Daemon of War

    Sweden, Denmark | 2021 | 58/88min

    A 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