Portraits
John Berger or The Art of Looking
Germany | 2016 | 55minAn intimate portrait of the writer and art-critic who’s groundbreaking insights on seeing have shaped us for already five decades. Read More
Jiří Menzel - To Make A Comedy Is No Fun
Switzerland | 2016 | 53/80minA 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
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
Catching Haider
Austria, Germany | 2015 | 91minHow 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
Pepe Mujica – Lessons from the Flowerbed
Germany | 2014 | 52/90-94minA portrait of the eventful life of Pepe Mujica – a former guerrilla fighter and flower grower, and the current president of Uruguay. Read More
Once My Mother
Australia | 2013 | 57/75minSophia 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
A Diary of a Journey
Poland | 2013 | 52minRoad 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
A Separation
Sweden | 2013 | 58/72minA 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