Portraits

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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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  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

   
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  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

   

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  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

   
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  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

   
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  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