Portraits
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 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
Hilton! - Here for Life
Finland | 2013 | 75minVirpi 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 | 93minThis 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
Bury My Heart In Dresden
Germany | 2012 | 90minOn 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 | 58/82minThe 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