Author’s Documentaries
The Strange Sound Of Happiness
Italy, Germany | 2017 | 90minDiego 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
Under the Sun
Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, Latvia, North Korea | 2015 | 58/106minA film by Vitaly Mansky about the ideal life in an ideal country. We can see how much effort the North Korean people have to undertake to make this ideal world work. Read More
Velvet Terrorists
Slovakia / Czech Republic / Croatia | 2013 | 83minA documentary by Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes about three romantic heroes, who had a go at armed resistance against the communistic regime in Czechoslovakia. Read More
Vivan las Antipodas!
Germany / Netherlands / Argentina / Chile | 2011 | 104minHaven’t we all wondered at some point what was happening just at this moment beneath our very feet at the other side of the planet? Read More
Walchensee Forever
Germany | 2020 | 110minIn 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
Weightless
Norway | 2002 | 52/82minA film about having the courage to live, when life seems meaningless. Read More
Wild, Wild Beach
Russia / Germany | 2006 | 85/125min“…A brave, unflinching and willingly unpopular and unsavory film showing the most brutal face, and the muscle, of Putin-era Russia, cavorting on a summer beach. …” VPRO Joris Ivens jury, IDFA 2006 Read More