Russia
Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline
The Netherlands | 2008 | 78minThis is Anna Politkovskaya’s life story, told in documentary scenes and in the words of friends and colleagues. Read More
Broadway. Black Sea
Russia / Germany | 2002 | 59/78minBroadway – the boulevard where everything is possible and all dreams can come true. Not only in New York, but also in a holiday resort by the Black Sea. Read More
Bunker - The Last Days
Germany / Switzerland | 2002 | 58/83minWomen and children who survived the Allied bombing and the Russian invasion tell of the horror of the last days of WWII in Berlin's bunker labyrinth. Read More
Gagarin’s Pioneers
Germany / Russia | 2005 | 100minYoung pioneers betrayed their fatherland at the age of 10, fleeing with their parents from the Soviet Union to Israel - or they changed their names, wiped away the traces of their Jewish family history and stayed. Read More
Gorbachev. Heaven
Latvia, Czech Republic | 2020 | 52/100minThe 90-year old Gorbachev currently lives in a modest house outside Moscow, awaiting the moment when he will be called to join the list of the 20th century’s most consequential figures. History will judge Gorbachev, but Gorbachev presents his own, final testimony - captured by Vitaly Mansky. 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
Pavlensky – Man and Might
Germany | 2016 | 58/99minIn the course of his performances, the Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky has sewn up his mouth, nailed his scrotum to Red Square, and severed an earlobe. This is how a courageous freethinker is challenging the power of the Russian state. Read More