Human Interest/Society

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sergej in the Urn

    Germany | 2009 | 104min

    SERGEJ 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

     
  • Skydancer

    USA / Germany | 2011 | 44/55/72min

    SKYDANCER is a documentary that takes a provocative look at Indian life in the 21st Century. Read More

     
  • 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

     
  • Solar System

    Germany | 2011 | 100min

    SOLAR SYSTEM tells the story of the day-to-day disappearance of an indigenous group. Dies irae. Read More

     
  • Song from the Forest

    Germany | 2013 | 52/97min

    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

     
  • Sons

    Germany | 2007 | 107min

    A story about five sons and their lives. A German-Polish family story stretching from the post-war period to the present day. Read More

     
  • 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