Human Interest/Society
Everything Must Fall
South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium | 2018 | 58/85minAn unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education. Read More
Nine Month War
Hungary, Qatar | 2018 | 54/73minJani has left his family to serve in the Ukrainian Army for nine months. His mother wants her son back. Jani just wants independence. Combining visuals of cinema verité and mobile footage of war, László Csuja chronicles Jani’s fight for adulthood during his military service and after his discharge. Read More
Putin's Witnesses
Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republik | 2018 | 95/102minWith this film, Vitaly Mansky gives a strictly documentary testimony of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the President who still rules the country today: Vladimir Putin. Read More
Dark Eden
Germany | 2018 | 80minDirectors Jasmin Herold & Michael Beamish explore Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil reserve on the planet, searching for an answer to the question, "How high is the price for a better life?". Read More
My Home, in Libya
Italy | 2018 | 66minMartina Melilli questions her grandparents' life in Tripoli, Libya, before being expelled in 1970. To search their traces she contacts a young Libyan. As their relation grows, the images and thoughts they exchange online bring us into a world the media has no access to anymore. Read More
Exit
Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2018 | 52/80minWhat makes a person join an extremist movement - and what exactly makes a person leave it again? Director Karen Winther goes on a personal journey, reflecting on her very own extremist past and the stories of the people she meets along her travels in Norway, Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. Read More
A Family Quartet
Netherlands | 2018 | 58/73minMeet 16 year old Dutch violin talent Noa Wildschut and her family during the three years leading up to her debut album and international breakthrough. When Noa's talent reaches a new high, this affects the family as a whole. Read More
The Ugliest Car
Poland | 2017 | 47minJoin Bogdan, his mother Kazimiera and Wartburg, the "ugliest car", on a road trip from the concentration camp of Majdanek in Poland to a former Nazi labor factory in Germany. A portrayal of a unique relationship between mother and son by Grzegorz Szczepaniak. Read More
The Strange Sound Of Happiness
Italy, Germany | 2017 | 90minDiego 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