Dir. Ivalo Frank - 73min - 2022 - Greenland, Denmark, Germany

Life on Earth begins and ends with Greenland. Researcher Minik Rosing’s landmark discovery of the first life contrasts with the melting ice masses in Ivalo Frank’s tribute to her beautiful homeland.

Our most basic understanding of t...

-- Dir. Markus Zizenbacher - 82min - 2024 - Austria --

A blazingly colourful and exuberantly transgressive personality who dazzled Los Angeles' underground musical and artistic scenes in the late-1990s and 2000s, Sean DeLear (1964-2017) suddenly emerged as a genuinely seminal cultural figure via...

-- Dir. Clémence Davigo - 106min - 2023 - France --

Just above Albertville in the Savoie region, sits the “correctional” facility of La Belle Étoile run by the abbot Garin. Wards of the Nation, orphans and children of the DDASS (the former French social services), Dédé, Michel and Daniel lived t...

Dir. Atieh Attarzadeh Firozabad & Hesam Eslami - 2019 - Iran, France, Qatar

The Ehsan House mental health hospital in South Tehran encourages patients to form relationships with each other, get married and live as a family. For the past 20 years its 480 patients have lived in separate male and f...

-- Dir. Christian Einshoj - 89min - 2023 - Denmark --

Two decades after the tragic death of his brother, the director Christians Einshøj's family is falling apart. But when his overworked CEO dad is unexpectedly let go from his job, and decides to sell the family home, Christian goes back home i...

Dir. Marion Neumann - 89min - 2021 - Switzerland

The Mushroom Speaks unfolds the healing qualities of fungi and their ability to regenerate. This personal journey takes us on a walk alongside parasites, symbionts and decomposers offering ideas of both interconnectedness and collaboration. Driven...

Dir. Lukasz Kowalski - 81min - 2022 - Poland

Jola and Wiesiek, a couple of extraordinary entrepreneurs, run the biggest pawnshop in south Poland. However, it's best days are behind it, and with the closure of nearby mines and growing unemployment in the city, the inhabitants of "Polish Detroit" ...

Dir. Aline Lata, Helena Wolfenson - 72 min - 2021 - Brazil

The film is a portrait of Marlon, a young man whose life turned upside down after a great socio-environmental tragedy: his city was buried by the collapse of a dam in Brazil. ‘The safest place in the world’ is how he refers to his origin...

Dir. Cyril Aris - 2018 - Lebanon - Language: Arabic, French, Italian - Subtitles: English

An assured, emotionally rich film about the lies a family tells to keep their patriarch happy. After sixty years of marriage, Antoine and Vivi have lost their most beloved daughter; but no one has dared to ...

Dir. Mariano Luque - 61min - 2017 - Argentina - Language: Spanish - Subtitles available in: English, French

Macias had 17 children and created a forest in a mountain. It was his wish that the urn with his remains was buried under a little cedar tree, so that when it grows, the roots would embrac...

A film about truth and lies or “alternative facts”. About individual and collective consciousness.

“Waldheim no, Waldheim no” shouts a crowd in the centre of Vienna in 1986. Ruth Beckermann was one of the activists trying to prevent the election of Kurt Waldheim and documented the political eve...

-- Dir. Gianluca Matarrese - 104min - 2023 - France, Italy --

Anne is a theatre director. She has separated from her husband and is moving house. She is dull, without desires. She meets Ben, a helpful neighbour and jobless actor. He looks at her with passionate eyes; she never wants to tie herse...

Dir. Anam Abbas - 89min - 2021 - Pakistan

Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right, and negotiating a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of a revolution. A philosophical work, This Staine...

Dir. Ruth Beckermann - 75min - 2013 - Austria

Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories – leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. ...

Dir. Maksym Melnyk - 75min - 2022 - Germany, Ukraine

Somewhere in the Carpathians between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland lies the village of Stuzhytsia. In Ukrainian the name of the village means something like 'cold place'. The film tells the stories of three women: the farmer Hanna, the postwoma...

Dir. Maksym Melnyk - 75min - 2022 - Germany, Ukraine

Somewhere in the Carpathians between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland lies the village of Stuzhytsia. In Ukrainian the name of the village means something like 'cold place'. The film tells the stories of three women: the farmer Hanna, the postwoma...

Dir. Laura Sisteró - 70min - 2022 - Spain, France

Tolyatti, once the symbol of socialist pride is today the Russian Detroit, a limbo city where there is no future for the youth. In this hopeless environment, Boyevaya Klassika arises, a movement that rescues iconic old Lada cars from the local fa...

Dir. Ruth Beckermann - 1990 - Austria

What became of the dream of the Jewish homeland? A still relevant documentary road movie shot along the highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Trucks, gas stations, construction workers, soldiers, Russian immigrants, taxi drivers, security guards: encounter...

Dir. Pedro Pinho, Luísa Homem - 2014 - Portugal - Language: Creole - Subtitles available in: English, French, Portuguese

In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde was frozen. The building of many hotels and resorts by foreigner companies had to be stopped due to a shortage of sand. Th...

Dir. Claudia Priscilla, Kiko Goifman - 2018 - Brazil

"Bixa Travesty" (Tranny Fag) is a feature-length documentary picturing a Brazilian transsexual singer called Linn da Quebrada. Coming from a very poor region of São Paulo, she faces many prejudices, also for being black. Her funk music sounds ...

-- Dir. Guillaume Brac - 96min - 2018 - France --

It’s summer on a leisure park in the Paris suburbs. A land of adventures, flirting and transgression for some, a place to hide out or take a break for
others. With its beach and its hidden nooks and crannies, it’s like a childhood kingdom waiting...

Dir. XIAO XIAO - 2017 - China - Language: Chinese - Subtitles: English

The film evolves around the daily life of three generations in a tiny mountain village. 80-years-old grandma still labours hard for the family. She burns incense and prays day by day in fear of upcoming death, and asks her so...

DIR. HARALD HUTTER - 63MIN -2023 - FRANCE

Standing in front of the open window, a soft breeze playing through the curtains, an elderly man strangely sways to and fro. It is, for the most part, a puzzling behaviour, but one that still suggests some basic pleasure of the senses: feeling the stroke...

Dir. Alexandra Kandy Longuet - 2018 - Belgium/USA - Language: English - Subtitles available: French

Last refuge for the forgotten of the American dream, in the USA the motel is home to a whole population of left behind, drifting humans who, from crisis to crisis - economic and personal - have be...