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Dir. Srđan Kovačević - 106min - 2021 - Croatia

“Here, the cleaning lady and the director are both workers”

Croatia, 2005. A machine tools plant is taken over by its workers. It turns into the only successful example of a factory occupation in post-socialist ...

Dir. Maude Plante-Husaruk, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis - 84min - 2021 - Canada

In a remote Himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth more than gold. Lalita, a young mother, had to let go of her dreams after getting ma...

Dir. Azade Mousavi, Korosh Ataei - 2018 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English.

Adopted from Iran by a Dutch couple when she was 16 months old Farideh, now 40 and living in Amsterdam, sets out to find her biological parents and travel to Iran for the first time.

"Shot with a gentle, sens...

Dir. Beata Bubenec - 80min - 2017 - Russia/Latvia - Language: Russia - Subtitles: English

"Beata Bubenec’s single-take documentary opens on a blown-out bridge in Ukraine’s heavily contested Donbass region. A local man—taking exception to being filmed—is bundled into a car by armed forces and dri...

Dir. Annabel Verbeke - 2021 - Belgium, Norway, Croatia, Lithuania

Each day, the Carlingford ferry transports people over the border between Northern-Ireland and Ireland, whilst the debate over Brexit rages. Staying or remaining, both options prompt big question marks about the future. The short ...

Dir. Igor Ivanko - 85min - 2022 - Ukraine, Slovakia

Soviet cinematographer Leonid Burlaka worked at Odessa Film Studio in the 60s on dozens of films that have travelled the world. Today he’s in his 80s and diagnosed with Alzheimer's. As his memory fades away, his grandson, filmmaker Igor Ivanko...

Dir. Ilya Povolotsky - 2019 - Russia, Qatar

From the Barents Sea, a chill wind seems to blow constantly across a semi-deserted town at the edge of the world. Nevertheless, a little community holds out here. In a flawlessly filmed portrait of this extraordinary place, the theme linking the reside...

Dir. Jeanie Finlay - 75min - 2008 - UK

Goth Cruise follows 150 pale, ‘people in black’ on a boat, taking part in the absolute antithesis of Goth – a cruise in the blazing sunshine, as they sail around Bermuda for five days on the 4th Annual Goth Cruise.

A feature ‘gothumentary’ about the enduri...

Dir. Sofia Paoli Thorne - 71min - 2022 - Paraguay, Argentina

Celsa covers her skin with roots and leaves from her jungle-like garden. She wants to heal. She still feels prison and torture endured 45 years ago in a concentration camp in Paraguay. However, the past echoes; the country is ruled by ...

-- Dir. Nicole Chi Amén - 75min - 2023 - Costa Rica --

As a consequence of Guián passing away, Nicole starts meeting up with people that had known her grandma: her best friend, her younger brother and her grandma from her dad's side. This traveling to different parts of Costa Rica provide a glim...

Dir. Ruth Beckermann - 84min - 2001 - Austria

Marc-Aurel-Street in Vienna: here you’ll find the few remaining Jewish merchants in the former textile quarter, the Iranian hotel keeper, and Café Salzgries with its regulars. Ruth Beckermann spent a year undertaking a series of small journeys in fro...

Dir. Marusya Syroechkovskaya - 104min - 2022 - Sweden, Norway. France, Germany

Muzzled by the increasingly autocratic regime of the “depression Federation”, 16-year- old Marusya decides to join her generations’ suicide statistics by year’s end. Then she meets Kimi and an unexpected love story be...

Dir. Angie Chen - 90min - 2017 - Hong Kong

Hong Kong director Angie Chen offers a lively portrait about the artist Yank Wong. A complex man who resists definition, Wong is a painter, art director, set designer, writer, musician, and photographer, a true renaissance man who expresses his creativi...

Dir. Claudia Marschal - 2019 - France

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Indira dreams of elsewhere. In France, Mehdina strives to find her place. Whilst the adults seem to be fighting windmills, the kids grow up in a world of their own with ten-year-old Hasan blissfully wandering on the path of Armstrong a...

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Dir. Oleksiy Radynski - 70min - 2022 - Ukraine

90-year-old architect Florian Yuriev always lived according to his own artistic vision. While in a Siberian concentration camp as a child, he created a
universal language of colour and music that has informed h...

Dir. Juan Palacios - 2019 - Spain, Denmark

Somewhere in inland Spain, a shepherd dreams of visiting Lake Titicaca, a retired musical duo recall their golden age, two young sisters search for Pokémons without any luck and an old man counts the empty houses of the village in order to fall asleep a...

Dir. Yana Ugrekhelidze - 72min - Germany - 2021

Alexander is a transgender person who has lived with his girlfriend Marie for more than seven years. Because of the mark “female” in his passport and his trans identity, Alexander cannot find a job and has to lead a secret life. The violence and di...

Dir. Phillip Warnell - 2020 - UK, USA

On a street corner in Queens, New York, an elderly, white-haired woman hovers, apparently waiting or looking for something – then starts approaching passers by. Miked up close, but viewed from distant rooftops, she asks them philosophical questions about tur...

Dir. Stéphane Goël - 92min - 2018 - Switzerland

Robinson Crusoe is a small island hundreds of kilometers away from the Chilean coast where in 1704 the Scottish sailor Alexandre Selkirk lived the incredible experience that inspired Daniel Defoe's novel of the same name. In 1877 the island became ...

Dir. Susana Nobre - 70min - 2021 - Portugal

At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he will never return to active life, he must go from company to company asking for stamps to attest that he i...

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Dir. Susana Nobre - 70min - 2021 - Portugal

At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he will never return to active life, he must go from company to company ...

Dir. Helena Třeštíková - 82min - 2013 - Czech Republic

This longitudinal documentary film was shot for over 23 years, observing the life of theatrical director Jakub Špalek. The First days of the shooting were during autumn 1989 when Jakub became one of the initiators of the Velvet Revolutio...

Dir. Gisela Delgadillo, 88, 2022, Mexico

Trans women face extreme violence on the streets of Mexico City. After witnessing the murder of her friend, trans sex worker Kenya sets out to find justice. In a long struggle full of fear and pain, Kenya cannot help but to see her own life reflected in h...

Dir. Gabriel Tejedor - 2020 - Russia

Magnitogorsk, an industrial town in the heart of Russia, lives in the backdrop of its gigantic Kombinat’s rusty smokestacks. Lena teaches salsa, one of the many activities organized by the Kombinat. Sasha, a steel worker, finds in dancing an escape from the d...