Human Interest/Society

  • Outside

    Ukraine, The Netherlands, Denmark | 2022 | 79 / 58min

    The 7-year journey of Roma, once a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution, who is released from the orphanage at 18 into the adult world with nothing but a knife and a lighter. Read More

     
  • Oeconomia

    Germany | 2020 | 89min

    What is money? What are debts? What are the consequences of both? And how can images be found for them? In OECONOMIA, director Carmen Losmann undertakes a journey in the strategic heartlands of neoliberal policy. Read More

     
  • Off the Tracks

    Germany | 2016 | 85min

    Workers from the nearby slaughterhouse, the unemployed, the local taxi driver, retirees, a single mom.... meet the locals, their shared reflections on their lives, their frustrations and hopes at Boizenburg's pub kiosk, portrayed by Dieter Schumann. Read More

     
  • 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