Human Interest/Society
Samuel in the Clouds
Belgium, Netherlands | 2016 | 55/70minHigh 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
Sergej in the Urn
Germany | 2009 | 104minSERGEJ IN THE URN tells the story of charismatic, erratic, egocentric, almost forgotten Sergej Tschachotin, a scientist of international repute, friend to Pavlov and Einstein, revolutionary and pacifist, through the memories of four of his sons. Read More
Solar System
Germany | 2011 | 100minSOLAR SYSTEM tells the story of the day-to-day disappearance of an indigenous group. Dies irae. Read More
Song from the Forest
Germany | 2013 | 52/97minThe 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
Stand Up My Beauty
Switzerland, Germany | 2021 | 110minNardos 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