Author’s Documentaries

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  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

   
   
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  Molecules

  Italy | 2020 | 54/68min

  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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  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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  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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  Selfie

  France, Italy | 2019 | 78min

  Italian teenagers Alessandro and Pietro accepted director Agostino Ferrente’s proposal to shoot themselves with an iPhone, commenting on their own daily life, their close friendship, their neighbourhood in Naples. Read More

   
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  Heimat is a Space in Time

  Germany, Austria | 2019 | 218min

  Director Thomas Heise pics up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a country, of a century. Read More

   

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  Hamada

  Sweden, Germany, Norway | 2018 | 52/90min

  With vitality and humor, HAMADA by Eloy Domínguez Serén paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of the stony Saharan desert. Read More

   
   
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  Nine Month War

  Hungary, Qatar | 2018 | 54/73min

  Jani has left his family to serve in the Ukrainian Army for nine months. His mother wants her son back. Jani just wants independence. Combining visuals of cinema verité and mobile footage of war, László Csuja chronicles Jani’s fight for adulthood during his military service and after his discharge. Read More

   
   
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  Putin's Witnesses

  Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republik | 2018 | 95/102min

  With this film, Vitaly Mansky gives a strictly documentary testimony of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the President who still rules the country today: Vladimir Putin. Read More