Author’s Documentaries
5 Seasons of Revolution
Germany, Syria, Norway, The Netherlands, Qatar | 2023 | 95minBorn 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 | 58/66/86minA 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 | 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
A Separation
Sweden | 2013 | 58/72minA 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 | 85minAMERICAN 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 | 26minHoliday at the datcha as last big challenge of civilization. With hammer, pliers and slapstick. Read More
Bad Weather
Germany / UK | 2011 | 58/82minThe 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
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