Current Affairs/Politics
Angels of Sinjar
Poland, Germany | 2022 | 109minHanna Polak follows Hanifa, a young Yezidi woman, who tries to find her sisters, who were abducted by ISIS, and bring them home – as she had promised her dying father she would. Read More
Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline
The Netherlands | 2008 | 78minThis is Anna Politkovskaya’s life story, told in documentary scenes and in the words of friends and colleagues. Read More
Apology of an Economic Hit Man
Greece | 2008 | 58/90minIn front of an angry audience somewhere in Latin America, a North American discloses the secret network that used the World Bank, payoffs, extortion and sex, military coups and political assassinations to create the American empire. Read More
Bravehearts
Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2012 | 59/118minBRAVEHEARTS by Kari Anne Moe is a documentary depicting the generation of young people in Norway, whose lives will forever be shaped by the terror attack of 22 July 2011. Read More
Café Waldluft
Germany | 2015 | 58/79minOnce a tourist hot spot nestling in the picturesque mountains of Bavaria „Café Waldluft” turned out to be a run-down hotel with a few remaining guests in their late sixties. But there is something very unique about the place: it offers shelter to refugees. Read More
Catching Haider
Austria, Germany | 2015 | 91minHow can it be that, despite the corruption scandals he has been associated with, Austrian right wing populist Joerg Haider is portrayed as a hero after his accidental death? Read More
Everything Must Fall
South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium | 2018 | 58/85minAn unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education. Read More
From My Syrian Room
France / Syria / Germany / Qatar | 2014 | 70minHow can one become a free and responsible person when he's been educated to remain a little soldier of the Assad's Regime? The Syrian painter and filmmaker Hazem Alhamwi tries to understand with some Syrians why they have lived in distress and anxiety. Together, they express the will of freedom of a whole country. Read More