Human Interest/Society
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
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
Swing Game
Finland | 2015 | 55/88minDocumentary 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
Steam on the River
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2015 | 83minA 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
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
Solar System
Germany | 2011 | 100minSOLAR SYSTEM tells the story of the day-to-day disappearance of an indigenous group. Dies irae. Read More