Human Interest/Society

  • Pavlensky – Man and Might

    Germany | 2016 | 58/99min

    In the course of his performances, the Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky has sewn up his mouth, nailed his scrotum to Red Square, and severed an earlobe. This is how a courageous freethinker is challenging the power of the Russian state. Read More

  • Prison Sisters

    Sweden | 2016 | 58/90min

    Two young women after being released from prison in Afghanistan: risking her life Sara escapes to Sweden to find a brighter future, while Najibeh is forced to stay in the Taliban nest. Read More

     
  • Possessed by Djinn

    Germany, Jordan | 2015 | 52/75min

    The belief in demons, or “djinn”, is a little-known aspect of Islamic culture. In a subjective investigation of this controversial topic the film by Dalia Al Kury follows the true story of Aya, a four-year-old Jordanian girl killed by her father who believed her to be possessed. Read More

     
  • Pepe Mujica – Lessons from the Flowerbed

    Germany | 2014 | 52/90-94min

    A portrait of the eventful life of Pepe Mujica – a former guerrilla fighter and flower grower, and the current president of Uruguay. Read More

     
  • Parts of a Family

    The Netherlands, Mexico | 2012 | 55/83min

    What stays behind when the great passion of being in love has slowly faded away, and the years have been passing by? A bittersweet and universal lovestory by Diego Gutiérrez. Read More

     
  • Pit No. 8

    Estonia, Ukraine | 2011 | 58/95min

    In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal mining region, the film is timely portrait of parents and teenagers trying to earn a living in abandoned coal pits, as poverty overtakes their world. Read More

     
  • Portrait of a Man

    Finland | 2010 | 59/81min

    PORTRAIT OF A MAN is a rough but beautiful documentary film about the crisis of a man in his forties and his desire for a better life. Read More

  • Prirechnyy - The Town That No Longer Exists

    Norway | 2006 | 52min

    The inhabitants of the Russian town of Prirechnyy have received a letter from the county of Murmansk telling them that their town no longer exists. A handful of retired persons refuse to leave their community. Read More

     
  • Pinochet’s Children

    Germany | 2002 | 60/80min

    A sentimental biography on the generation brought up during the three decades of Pinochet´s dictatorship in Chile. Read More