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The Bubble
Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/93min
THE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine. Read More
This Train I Ride
France, Finland | 2019 | 77min
Lured by the call of the rails, 3 women left everything behind to pursue a hobo lifestyle. A quest for identity, freedom and finding one’s place in the world by Arno Bitschy. Read More
Traces
Germany | 2019 | 52/81min
The National Socialist Underground murders in the early 2000s left scars. Not only among the relatives of the victims, but also in the migrant communities and the entire German society. TRACES by Aysun Bademsoy follows these scars and poses the question of whether such injuries can ever heal completely. Read More

The Strange Sound Of Happiness
Italy, Germany | 2017 | 90min
Diego Pascal Panarello’s personal journey from the torrid coasts of Sicily to the frozen flatlands of Yakutia in Siberia reveals the use, myths and legends of the mouth harp, spread throughout the world as a symbolic key that can open our mind and soul. Read More
The Red Soul
The Netherlands | 2017 | 58/90min
Why is it that still so many Russians defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? The film by Jessica Gorter lays bare the Russian psyche of today and shows a world full of contradictions.Read More
Tarzan’s Testicles
Romania, France | 2017 | 107min
The film by Alexandru Solomon looks at a monkey research institute in Sukhumi, the capital of the de facto Republic of Abkhazia. Men and monkeys are caged in a territory ravaged by war and decades of cruelty, both victims of a failed series of experiments. Read More

The Giant is Falling
South Africa | 2016 | 58/77min
THE GIANT IS FALLING by Rehad Desai asks why South Africa, a middle-income country, rich in mineral wealth has failed to address inequality in twenty-two years of democracy and why the gap between rich and poor is growing. Read More
The Perfect Circle
Italy, Slovenia, Netherlands, UK | 2015 | 55/75min
THE PERFECT CIRCLE by Claudia Tosi intertwines two love stories and the urge to find a meaning to life when death is around the corner. Read More
The Queen of Silence
Germany, Poland | 2014 | 56/80min
A deaf girl from an illegal Roma settling escapes the brutal reality of everyday life into the world of rhythm, dance and imagination. Read More

The Bubble