History

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  Space Dogs

  Austria, Germany | 2019 | 91min

  Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, SPACE DOGS by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter accompanies the adventures of her descendants: two street dogs living in today’s Moscow. 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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  SPK Complex

  Germany | 2018 | 111min

  Gerd 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 | 47min

  Join 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 | 58/90min

  Why 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 | 58min

  PeÅ 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 | 55/89min

  For 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 | 96min

  In 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 | 57/75min

  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