Human Interest/Society

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  Stand Up My Beauty

  Switzerland, Germany | 2021 | 110min

  Nardos is a young singer from Addis Ababa who wants to fulfill herself as an artist, undeterred by everyday problems and strict tradition. Director Heidi Specogna tells the story of the conception of her first own, original song, through the stylistic means of a documentary musical. Read More

   
   
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  Brotherhood

  Czech Republic, Italy | 2021 | 97 / 54min

  BROTHERHOOD by Francesco Montagner is an intimate coming of age story following three young brothers in Bosnia, growing up under the shadow of their father’s influence, who must each decide: which man do you want to be? Read More

   
   
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  Bellum - The Daemon of War

  Sweden, Denmark | 2021 | 58/88min

  A triptych of stories by David Herdies and Georg Götmark about the ways in which Western nations choose to cope with war, write the narratives of war, the different ways they find to profit from it, and how they film it. Read More

   
   

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  The Bubble

  Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/93min

  THE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine. Read More

   
   
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  Les Enfants terribles

  France, Turkey, Germany | 2021 | 52/93min

  Set in a close-Arab community, in a village situated in the south of Turkey, this film by Ahmet Necdet Cupur unfolds a familial story, where children must face their imposed fate and pressure from the community, to emancipate and follow aspirations. Read More

   
   
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  Anamnesis

  Germany | 2021 | 111min

  How do you picture a man who has murdered? A film by Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe about the story of Stefan S. and the limits of our imagination. Read More

   
   

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  Molecules

  Italy | 2020 | 54/68min

  Between February and April of 2020, Andrea Segre, who lives in Rome for several years, got stuck in Venice during the lockdown: Venice, hometown of his father and just partially his own. Read More

   
   
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  Everything Will Not Be Fine

  Romania, Ukraine | 2020 | 82min

  After ending a long-term relationship, Adrian Pîrvu, a half-blind filmmaker born in 1986 and whose mother blames his illness on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, leaves behind his life in Romania and travels to find other people who might have been affected by it. Read More

   
   
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  Monobloc

  Germany | 2021 | 52 / 65 / 90min

  The monobloc plastic chair is the best-selling piece of furniture that ever existed. MONOBLOC by Hauke Wendler tells the story of how this unsightly chair took the world by storm – and why. Read More