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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  Selfie

  France, Italy | 2019 | 78min

  Italian teenagers Alessandro and Pietro accepted director Agostino Ferrente’s proposal to shoot themselves with an iPhone, commenting on their own daily life, their close friendship, their neighbourhood in Naples. Read More
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  Samuel in the Clouds

  Belgium, Netherlands | 2016 | 55/70min

  High in the Bolivian Andes, the old ski lift operator Samuel remains hopeful that the snow will return, even though climate change has caused the glacier to vanish for good. Read More

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  Swing Game

  Finland | 2015 | 55/88min

  Documentary film by Mikko Peltonen and Pasi Riiali about the fast-growing digital game business. The filmmakers decide to found a mobile games company and create a hit game. There's only one problem: they don’t know anything about game development. Read More

   
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  Steam on the River

  Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2015 | 83min

  A film by Filip Remunda and Robert Kirchhoff about the transience of fame which is fleeting, just like the steam that silently appears and disappears over a flowing river. Read More

   
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  smoKings

  Italy, Switzerland | 2014 | 96min

  Two millionaire brothers declare war on Big Tabacco and against the Italian State. A war without good or evil. Who’s going to win? Read More

   

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  Staedtebewohner

  Germany | 2014 | 82min

  In quiet observations, STAEDTEBEWOHNER portrays the life of the residents of the „Comunidad San Fernando“, a prison in Mexico City. Read More

   
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  Song from the Forest

  Germany | 2013 | 52/97min

  The US citizen Louis Sarno has been living with the Bayaka pygmies in the Central African jungle for 25 years. Now he’s taking his pygmy son to see the United States for the first time. Read More

   
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  Silvio, One of Us

  Italy | 2011 | 30/52min

  How is it possible for Berlusconi to remain in power in Italy. Against the background of the upcoming regional elections, the film is a snapshot of the mood in the country of pizza and pasta using the examples of five different main characters. Read More