Human Interest/Society

  • Eat Your Catfish

    United States, Spain, Turkey | 2021 | 74min

    Kathryn's ALS has left her paralyzed and her family's relations in tatters, but she holds on to see her daughter's wedding. With dark humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film by Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand & Senem Tüzen probes the breakdown of a family's bonds and of a woman's will to live. Read More

     
  • 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

     
  • Everything Must Fall

    South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium | 2018 | 58/85min

    An 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

  • Exit

    Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2018 | 52/80min

    What makes a person join an extremist movement - and what exactly makes a person leave it again? Director Karen Winther goes on a personal journey, reflecting on her very own extremist past and the stories of the people she meets along her travels in Norway, Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. Read More

  • Ehre (Honour)

    Germany | 2011 | 87min

    In her documentary film, Aysun Bademsoy tries to approach the term “honour” by searching for distinctions and similarities of the term in different sociocultural contexts. Read More

     
  • Estonia Mon Amour

    Germany | 2004 | 94min

    A moving film about the encounter with a mysterious corner of the earth called Estonia, about the search for a meaning in life, about taking farewell – and the smile of a new beginning. Read More