Author’s Documentaries

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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

   
   
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  Dark Eden

  Germany | 2018 | 80min

  Directors Jasmin Herold & Michael Beamish explore Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil reserve on the planet, searching for an answer to the question, "How high is the price for a better life?". Read More

   
   

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  Exit

  Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2018 | 52/80min

  What makes a person join an extremist movement - and what exactly makes a person leave it again? Director Karen Winther puts on a personal journey, reflecting on her very own extremist past and the stories of the people she meets along her travels in Norway, Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. Read More

   
   
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  The Strange Sound Of Happiness

  Italy, Germany | 2017 | 90min

  Diego Pascal Panarello’s personal journey from the torrid coasts of Sicily to the frozen flatlands of Yakutia in Siberia reveals the use, myths and legends of the mouth harp, spread throughout the world as a symbolic key that can open our mind and soul. Read More

   
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  Tarzan’s Testicles

  Romania, France | 2017 | 107min

  The film by Alexandru Solomon looks at a monkey research institute in Sukhumi, the capital of the de facto Republic of Abkhazia. Men and monkeys are caged in a territory ravaged by war and decades of cruelty, both victims of a failed series of experiments. Read More