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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
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
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

Hilton! - Here for Life
Finland | 2013 | 75min
Virpi Suutari's film showcases five youths from east Helsinki who for some reason or other live on the outskirts of society. Read More
The Shark's Eye
Spain, Argentina, Costa Rica | 2012 | 93min
This is a film by Alejo Hoijman about two inseparable friends in the forgotten Greytown, on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, a village isolated from the rest of the country by a dense jungle and a dangerous sea. Read More
Father's Garden – The Love of My Parents
Switzerland | 2013 | 93min
Using puppets, the director Peter Liechti consolidates the portrait of his parents into a fictional family tribunal. Read More

Bury My Heart In Dresden
Germany | 2012 | 90min
On the trail of the Sioux Indian Edward Two Two, who was buried at his own request in a Catholic cemetery in Dresden. Read More
Bad Weather
Germany / UK | 2011 | 58/82min
The film by Giovanni Giommi tells the story of a community of female sex workers living on Banishanta Island and their struggle to survive at the frontline of climate change. Read More
Russian Girls
Germany | 2011 | 58/70min
How can I 'hunt down' the man of my dreams? Or any man at all? Read More

Once My Mother