Portraits

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  John Berger or The Art of Looking

  Germany | 2016 | 55min

  An intimate portrait of the writer and art-critic who’s groundbreaking insights on seeing have shaped us for already five decades. Read More
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  Jiří Menzel - To Make A Comedy Is No Fun

  Switzerland | 2016 | 53/80min

  A film about Czechoslovakian director Jiří Menzel who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS - his first feature film ever. Read More

   
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  Steam on the River

  Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2015 | 83min

  A 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

   
   

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  Catching Haider

  Austria, Germany | 2015 | 91min

  How can it be that, despite the corruption scandals he has been associated with, Austrian right wing populist Joerg Haider is portrayed as a hero after his accidental death? Read More

   
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  Pepe Mujica – Lessons from the Flowerbed

  Germany | 2014 | 52/90-94min

  A portrait of the eventful life of Pepe Mujica – a former guerrilla fighter and flower grower, and the current president of Uruguay. Read More

   
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  Once My Mother

  Australia | 2013 | 57/75min

  Sophia Turkiewicz investigates the reasons why her Polish mother abandoned her in an orphanage and uncovers the truth behind her mother’s wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness. Read More

   

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  A Diary of a Journey

  Poland | 2013 | 52min

  Road movie by Piotr Stasik about a photographic journey taken by a master and a trainee, that is, by eighty-two-year-old Tadeusz Rolke and by fifteen-year-old Michał Gonicki. Read More

   
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  Priests

  Germany | 2014 | 90min

  What happens when two atheist film-makers are given free rein in a religious seminary? Follow directors Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe to find out. Read More

   
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  A Separation

  Sweden | 2013 | 58/72min

  A SEPARATION by Karin Ekberg is a tragicomic documentary that portrays the very last acts of a long marriage. A film about the tentative search for a beginning of what – finally, and unfortunately – is over. Read More