Naima, a 46-year-old Venezuelan, lives in precarious conditions in Basel and, after many years in the low-wage sector, she secures a traineeship in nursing. However, her happiness collides with a harsh reality: patients love her compassionate humour, but her colleagues perceive her as lacking pro...

In 1974 communist authorities built the so-called ‘Memorial Home for WWII Resistance Fighters and Youth of Yugoslavia’ in Kumrovec, a tiny rural hometown of the legendary president Marshal Tito. In 1991, when Yugoslavia collapsed 11 years after Tito’s death and the Croatian War of Independence st...

In Ways to Traverse a Territory, a Tsotsil family herds sheep in the misty mountains, preserving their cultural identity. The filmmaker’s personal connection to the land sparks a reflection on belonging, memory, and transformation. Blending archival imagery and intimate conversations, the film ex...

A cinéma vérité examination of the most vulnerable people on the front lines of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the brave volunteers risking everything to evacuate them to safety. The film weaves together two parallel narratives: one follows a volunteer evacuation team in Eastern Ukraine, led by the ...

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 glimpse of the Chinese-Costa Rican community, and she finds ...

Do plants have a consciousness? Not if you look at it from a human scale. But maybe it is about time we stopped always doing just that. LIGHT NEEDS is a generous, thought- provoking and artistically inventive film that literally expands one’s consciousness and creates a space for empathy with oth...

Colonialism wiped out many Central and South American cultures, but not the Gunadule, the indigenous people of northern Panama. In 1925 they successfully resisted the repression of their culture by the Panamanian government. In three days of fighting, they won their autonomy and thus saved their ...

In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish explorer, arrives in Palestine to explore the Jordan River. In the summer of 2011, Effi and Amir, Israelis who have been living in Europe for the past decade, set out to retrace McGregor’s steps, from the river source to the Sea of Galilee. Against the backdrop ...

The buildings in the Brunaupark district of Zurich are about to be demolished. Their owner, the Crédit Suisse pension company, plans to knock down more than 200 still functional apartments, some of which have been renovated, in order to build a new complex. The suspected reason: greed and propert...

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 in a final desperate attempt to assemble the family and ...

From Executive Producer Fred Armisen, this New York Times Critic's Pick is a cinéma vérité portrait of an eccentric New York family navigating the chaos that divides them. The announcement of a polyamorous wedding threatens to sever what's left of a family bond.

-- Nira Burstein - 79min - 2021 -...

Since 2014, the terrorist organisation Boko Haram has led strikes against the villages and people of the Far North Region of Cameroon. Today, this constant threat of violence has woven itself into daily existence.

In her profoundly affecting debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of chi...

The film is based on online communication between Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly, his friends, and family in Gaza.
Living in exile wasn't a choice, since 2014, I've been in a distance from family. A choice that I didn't make, but I ended up living it, surrounded by challenges. The ongoing s...

After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Imam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonisation.

The courtyard becomes the theater where the future ...

Le Film de Mon Père is my first film. The one my father always dreamt I would make. And perhaps, that’s the issue.

One day he bought a video camera and started filming himself daily. His goal: to offer me this autobiographical footage in order for me to make my first film. The diary of a lonely ...

A family of three generations lives in a 120-square-meter home. The division of the space articulates five people’s daily lives, which also throws them into different worlds. They talked about the past and probed for a future. Yet, a crack keeps growing with a repeated pattern full of happiness a...

My father immortalised the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom.

Dir. Faustin...

Suddenly, a woman needs to write about her youth.

In a curt way, far away from moral, Ardenza is the testimony of sexual liberation and political commitment, during the 90’s in Italy. The young woman moves, bangs, suffers and comes. Her story is made of meetings, short and heady moments. She tel...

A short voyage across the thirty-year marriage of a Kosovar-Albanian couple, told through archival footage of Kosovo on the edge of war, London at the end of the 20th Century, and their life in present day Walthamstow.

Dir. Ardin Klimenti - 12min - 2023 - UK

"Archival video footage strings toge...

As a Mexican Tzotzil I grew up between the sacrality both of Guadalupe Virgin and Mother Earth. As a son, I grew up among the derision of not having a father and blaming my mother for it. ‘Mom’ is a dialogue between mother and son exploring their contradictions, knowing and recognizing each other...

CALVINIA follows a 40-year-old man who returns to his hometown in rural South Africa to visit his elderly father. His journey oscillates between memories of his childhood on a sheep farm in the 1980s and present-day images of people and places from his past, still familiar but weathered by the pa...

Andreia wants to move out. Leid is waiting for her husband, who is in prison. They are neighbours in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, trying to escape the daily dangers of a drug traffic war happening on the outside and avoid the tragedy that comes with the rain. First time directo...

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 original home, today surrounded by cameras and security.

"We went...

The lives, dreams and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold amidst the ruins of a semi- abandoned mining town. Music teacher keeps demolishing the city to build a new life for himself and his family; miner-turned-actor lives in a limbo unable to make a decision between his passion (theater...