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Once My Mother
Australia | 2013 | 57/75min
Sophia Turkiewicz investigates the reasons why her Polish mother abandoned her in an orphanage and uncovers the truth behind her mother’s wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness. Read More
Staedtebewohner
Germany | 2014 | 82min
In quiet observations, STAEDTEBEWOHNER portrays the life of the residents of the „Comunidad San Fernando“, a prison in Mexico City. Read More
Velvet Terrorists
Slovakia / Czech Republic / Croatia | 2013 | 83min
A 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

Song from the Forest
Germany | 2013 | 52/97min
The US citizen Louis Sarno has been living with the Bayaka pygmies in the Central African jungle for 25 years. Now he’s taking his pygmy son to see the United States for the first time. Read More
Priests
Germany | 2014 | 90min
What happens when two atheist film-makers are given free rein in a religious seminary? Follow directors Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe to find out. Read More
The Last Limousine
Russia / Germany | 2014 | 52/75min
Moscow's legendary ZIL automobile plant receives an order for three new government limousines for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union... Read More

A Separation
Sweden | 2013 | 58/72min
A 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
Hilton! - Here for Life
Finland | 2013 | 75min
Virpi Suutari's film showcases five youths from east Helsinki who for some reason or other live on the outskirts of society. Read More
Pipeline
Russia / Czech Republic / Germany | 2013 | 116min
Life along the pipeline, through which flows half of the budget of Russia. Read More

Once My Mother