History
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Heimat is a Space in Time
Germany, Austria | 2019 | 218minDirector 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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SPK Complex
Germany | 2018 | 111minGerd Kroske tells the story of the anti-psychiatric “Socialist Patient’s Collective” (SPK) in Heidelberg. The allegation of having supported the RAF, and thus of being complicit in their terrorism, still clings to the SPK and overlies what the movement was originally about: the rights of psychiatric patients, resistance, and self-empowerment. Read More
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The Ugliest Car
Poland | 2017 | 47minJoin Bogdan, his mother Kazimiera and Wartburg, the "ugliest car", on a road trip from the concentration camp of Majdanek in Poland to a former Nazi labor factory in Germany. A portrayal of a unique relationship between mother and son by Grzegorz Szczepaniak. Read More
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The Red Soul
The Netherlands | 2017 | 58/90minWhy is it that still so many Russians defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? The film by Jessica Gorter lays bare the Russian psyche of today and shows a world full of contradictions. Read More
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The Other Jerusalem
Sweden, Finland, Norway | 2017 | 58minPeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian portray the daily struggle of those moving into and those fighting to stay in East Jerusalem, 50 years after the Israeli occupation. Read More
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Those Who Said No
Sweden, Germany | 2014 | 55/89minFor the first time an International People’s Tribunal convenes in The Hague court of justice to investigate the mass executions of political prisoners in Iran during the 1980s. The survivors testify against a crime that has been kept secret from the world for over 25 years. Read More
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Drawing A Line.
Germany | 2014 | 96minIn 1986, five former GDR citizens with roots in the GDR punk and underground scene started to paint a white line all around the wall from the West Berlin side. The event ended in an arrest by GDR border guards. Only years later the group finds out that one of them was a STASI collaborator... Read More
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Once My Mother
Australia | 2013 | 57/75minSophia 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
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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