Human Interest/Society

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  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

   
   
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  Little Man, Time and the Troubadour

  Netherlands, Belgium | 2019 | 55/104min

  Bypassing political propaganda and combining elements from documentary, fiction and animation, this road movie by Ineke Smits sheds a poetic light on a highly topical question in a world that is on fire: what is home, what makes a country? Read More

   
   
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  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

   
   

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  Mother

  Belgium, Netherlands | 2019 | 52 / 82min

  MOTHER by Kristof Bilsen is a character-driven film that allows us to explore the struggles of motherhood and the frustrations of being unable to care for our loved ones. 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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  Heimat is a Space in Time

  Germany, Austria | 2019 | 218min

  Director Thomas Heise pics up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a country, of a century. Read More

   

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  Memory Games

  Germany, USA, Sweden | 2018 | 85min

  Welcome to the mind palace! Filmmakers Janet Tobias & Claus Wehlisch follow memory athletes from the US, Germany and Sweden on their way to a world championship. Read More

   
   
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  Hamada

  Sweden, Germany, Norway | 2018 | 52/90min

  With vitality and humor, HAMADA by Eloy Domínguez Serén paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of the stony Saharan desert. Read More

   
   
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  I Had A Dream

  Italy, France | 2018 | 52/84min

  From the feminist fights against Berlusconi to the last elections of 2018, the film by Claudia Tosi explores the last ten years of Italy through the political action and the everyday life of the two compelling women. Read More