Author’s Documentaries

  • Eastern Front

    Latvia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, United States | 2023 | 98min

    Defending their homeland from Russian aggression, the protagonists, along with the whole country, went to the Eastern Front. In 2022 all of Ukraine, from the Donbas to the Carpathians, became the Eastern Front for Europe. Read More

     
  • 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

     
  • 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

     
  • 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

     
  • 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

     
  • 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

     
  • 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

     
  • 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

  • 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