Dir. Sophie Bruneau - 63min - 2017 - Language: French - Subtitles available in: English, Italian, Spanish.
Twelve people recount and then interpret their memory of a dream about work. These mistreated souls describe, in a poetic and political way, their subjective suffering at work. Bit by bit, ...
Dir. Annabel Verbeke - 60min - 2018 - Belgium - Subtitles in English
Ever since 1919, daily life in Ypres, capital of Flanders Fields, has been dedicated to commemorating the First World War.
On her journey through this landscape of remembrance, filmmaker Annabel Verbeke, who grew up in Ypres, ...
Dir. Alexandra Pianelli - 78min - 2020 - France - Language: French - Subtitles: English
The Kiosk is a video diary filmed by Alexandra, a young artist who has come to help her mother who runs a newsstand in a chic Paris neighbourhood. While fulfilling her childhood dream of playing at keeping sh...
Dir. Maryam Goormaghtigh - 80min - 2017 - France/Switzerland - Language: French, Persian - Subtitles available in: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese.
After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has struggled to adapt to life in France and has decid...
Dir. Javier Corcuera - 2019 - Peru, Spain
A poet and guerrilla fighter, Javier Heraud was murdered at the age of 21 in the jungle of Peru in 1963. Despite his young age, Heraud left some of the fundamental works of Peruvian poetry.
His grandniece Ariarca sets out to learn more about Heraud thr...
Dir. Enrico Masi - 81min - 2019 - Italy/France - Languages: French, Italian, Arabic, English, Tagalog - Subtitles: English
According to the myth, Jupiter seduced a young girl and led her to an island in the Mediterranean Sea. The name of the girl was Europa. Crossing boundaries, wilderness and u...
Dir. Nebojsa Slijepcevic - 71min - 2018 - Croatia - Language: Croatian - Subtitles: English
In the early 90’s, a 12-year old Serbian girl was brutally murdered in Zagreb. The perpetrators were soon found but never convicted. A quarter-century later, well known director Oliver Frljic is working o...
Dir. Angelos Rallis - Co-Dir. Hans Ulrich Gössl - 2016 - Greece, Belgium - Language: Kurdish - Subtitles: English
Shingal, where are you? weaves together the dramatic tales of a group of Yezidis – a religious minority from Shingal in Northern Iraq – following the attempted genocide by ISIS, the ...
Dir. Rima Yamazaki - 99min - 2018 - USA - Subtitles available in: French
Buffalo, New York is home to several architectural masterpieces, including Louis Sullivan’s Guaranty Building and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House. Architecture has been embraced as a treasure, but it can be a bu...
Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 78min - 2011 - Austria - Subtitles in English
The belief that there are no more white spots on Austria’s map is not quite right: In 1938 the German army established one of Europe’s largest military training grounds in northern Lower Austria. The over 160 square kilomet...
Dir. Aicha Macky - 51min - 2016 - Niger/France - Subtitles: English
As a married but childless woman, Aicha finds herself in a situation that is totally out of the ordinary in her country, Niger, where women are expected to have children. But just like everywhere else in the world today, Niger a...
Dir. Hyung-sook Hong -108min - 2018 - South Korea - Language: Korean - Subtitles: English
Junha is the most difficult child at school. His autism causes him to attack his classmates and sometimes even teachers without warning. Consequently, the invisible curtains grow around him. Each outburst f...
Dir. Miguel Hilari - 60min - 2019 - Bolivia - Languages: Spanish, Aymara, Quechua - Subtitles available in: English, Spanish
A trip, leaving the city.
In a village between the mountains music is played for the dead.
Memories and dreams appear, journeys back and forth.
Urbano is baptized.
"The p...
Dir. Camila Freitas - 110min - 2019 - Brazil - Language: Portuguese - Subtitles available in: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
In the Brazilian state of Goiás, members of the Landless Workers Movement have occupied a small plot of land near a factory. Landless follows them over four years a...
Dir. Alexandra Kandy Longuet - 82min - 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 -...
Dir. Nicole Vögele - 117min - 2018 - Switzerland - Languages: Taiwanese, Chinese - Subtitles available in: English, French
3 am, Zhongzheng Road, Taipei. The traffic of a 24/7-society pulses through the metropolis in constant waves. Bordered by a multi-lane street with a big freeway towering ab...
Dir. Marco Piccarreda - Screenplay. Gaia Formenti - 57min - 2018 - Italy - Languages: Arabic, French, Italian, English - Subtitles available in: English, French, Italian, Spanish.
The “CittàGiardino” centre for immigrants is closing. There are only six teenagers left in the house. They have all ...
Dir. Mostafa Razzaq Karimi - 81min - 2018 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English
"The Grand Lady of Iran (Khadije Saghafi) is part of a small cultural revolution going on in Iranian cinema, where formerly hushed-up topics are being (almost) openly discussed. This curious documentary, dire...
Dir. Michaël Andrianaly - 72min - 2019 - France/Madagascar - Subtitles available in: English, French
When his hairdressing salon is destroyed by the municipality, Romeo finds himself moving from one neighbourhood to another, from one shack to another. He settles in a little makeshift, but dreams...
Dir. Nadia Parfan - 64min - 2019 - Ukraine - Language: Ukrainian - Subtitles: English
For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repa...
Dir. Ekta Mittal - 80min - 2018 - India - Languages: Hindi, Punjabi - Subtitles: English
In a faraway village called birha, missing people, mothers and tired lovers yearn to see beyond the mist. They meet each other with impenetrable silences and endless mourning. They curse the moon for witness...
Dir. Panahbarkhoda Rezaee - 54min - 2019 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English
Maryam lost her arms and a foot in a railway accident, and against her family's wishes eloped with Mohammad who is blind. Deeply in love and perfectly matched, living in rural Iran, the isolated couple overcom...
Dir. Eugene Golovanevsky - 47min - 2018 - Ukraine - Subtitles in English
In the Ukrainian South a bunch of men wander in search of scrap metal. This time they have found an exceptionally large prey. Armed with a rope, a ladder and a torch-cutter they dive into the fight.
""Heavy Metal" to a ...
Dir. Stéphanie Barbey, Luc Peter - 75min - 2014 - Switzerland/USA - Languages: English
Out in desert-like nature, living in the shadows of the immense fence that is erected to control Mexican immigration, seven Americans tell how the border transforms their lives. They observe the haunting trac...
Dir. Jumana Manna - 63min - 2018 - Lebanon/Norway/Germany - Subtitles available in: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
Deep in the earth beneath Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. Wil...
Dir. Samuel Bollendorff - 52min - 2019 - France - Languages: Croatian, French, Italian, Romanian - Subtitles: English
Toni, Nebojsa, George and Andrea come from Croatia, Serbia and Romania. Workers seconded, or ‘posted’, to the shipyards of Saint-Nazaire to build luxury cruise ships, they often ...
Dir. Marie Voignier - 82min - 2017 - France - Language: Bakwele, Bangando, Baka, French - Subtitles: English
Deep in South-East Cameroon, the great tropical forest shelters a territory for which colonial powers fought, exploiting through forced labor the prodigious resources of nature. At the he...
Dir. Egil Håskjold Larsen - 2017 - Norway - Language: Arabic - Subtitles available in: English, French, Spanish
From an unfamiliar Greek port to the quiet streets of Uppsala, Sweden, a brave three-year-old Syrian refugee makes the long journey through Europe with her family to find comfort and a...
Dir. Juliana Antunes - 70min - 2017 - Brazil - Spoken language: Portuguese - Subtitles: English
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 traffi...
Dir. Cláudia Varejão - 112min - 2016 - Portugal - In Japanese - Subtitles available in: English, German, Italian, Spanish.
A dive, the noon sunlight cuts through the water. The air in both lungs will have to be enough to rip the abalone from the rocks on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With n...
Dir. Aldemar Matias - 63min - 2019 - France, Cuba, Brazil - Language: Spanish - Subtitles: English, French
Jenniffer is a young sportswoman questioning her career as a national athlete in Cuba. Her mother, Marbelis, is the tough boss of a public fumigation center in downtown Havana. As her broth...
Dir. Frederik Sølberg - 66min - 2018 - Denmark/Belgium - Subtitles available in: English, French, Danish
26 people are living in Doel - and they will not be moving anywhere. Not even though everyone else is telling them how hopeless their beloved ghost town is. Vandalised, dilapidated and an iro...
Dir. Peter Entell - 93min - 2018 - Switzerland/Australia - Language: English
A story of abandonment and discovery, of silence and of sharing, of how fate has shaped the lives of three women.
One day, six-year-old Shelly followed her classmate Sian home from school. They grew up like sisters. Th...
Dir. Marc Singer - 82min - 2000 - USA - Language: English
For years, a homeless community took root in a train tunnel beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual night. 'Dark Days' explores this surprisingly domestic subterranean world, unearthing a way of life unimaginable...
Dir. Azade Mousavi, Korosh Ataei - 87min - 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 gent...
Dir. Andrei Kutsila - 50min - 2019 - Poland/Belarus - Subtitles available in: Belarusian, English, Polish
A young Belarusian artist leaves her husband behind in Minsk to visit her friend, the elderly painter Andrzej Strumiłło, in his idyllic manor house in Poland. For her, the trip offers a welc...
Dir. Anne Frances Ewert - 56min - 2018 - Ireland/Germany
This heartwarming, invigorating debut from Anna Frances Ewert transports us to a Cistercian monastery in the Irish countryside where seven ageing monks struggle to keep their devout community running. We watch as they pray, exercise, tend ...
Dir. Donal Foreman - 73min - 2018 - Ireland / USA / France - Spoken language: English - Subtitles available in: English, French, Spanish
Drawing on 30 years of never-before-seen footage of the conflict in Northern Ireland, 'The Image You Missed' weaves together a history of the ‘Troubles’ with t...
Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 94min - 2016 - Austria - No dialogue
Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we’re gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities incre...
Dir. Rosine Mbakam - 70min - 2018 - Belgium - Language: French - Subtitles: English
Sabine arrived illegally in Belgium. Her migration journey started in West Africa, where she was recruited by a Lebanese maid agency. After many years of suffering in Lebanon where she was reduced to slavery, she...
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 tell the bedridden nonagenarian Antoine, lest his heart crack. A simple solution, though ev...
Dir. Sergei Loznitsa - 128min - 2018 - Netherlands - Language: Russian - Subtitles: English
Moscow, USSR. 1930. The Pillar Hall of the State House of the Unions. A group of top rank economists and engineers is put on trial accused of plotting a coup d'etat against the Soviet government. It's all...
In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment centre and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts.
A deeply personal perspective on the gl...
Dir. Jeremy Workman - Prod. Jesse Eisenberg - 95min- 2018 - USA
For over six years, Matt Green, 37, has been pursuing an unusual personal quest. He's walking every block of every street in New York City – a journey of more than 8,000 miles that takes him through hundreds of neighbourhoods.
In ...
Dir. Yuki Kawamura - 81min - 2019 - Luxembourg/France - Subtitles in English
After he receives an unexpected letter from an old friend of his mother, Yuki Kawamura flies back to Japan with his camera, and takes his father on a roadtrip to meet all the people who knew Norie - Yuki‘s mother, who d...
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environ...
Dir. Maíra Bühler - 85min - 2019 - Brazil - Language: Portuguese - Subtitles available in: English, French, Spanish
Downtown São Paulo, Brazil. An Apartment Building: 7 floors, 28 rooms, 107 residents who all have in common the addiction to crack. Over the course of several months, life in a ...
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...
Dir. Bahman Kiarostami - 76min - 2018 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English
Iran is home to some 2.5 million Afghan refugees, approximately half of whom are undocumented. With renewed US sanctions in 2018, the low paid jobs on which they depend are the first to be cut, so many Afghans se...
A wild and enchanting journey in the footsteps of cult singer Karen Dalton, friend of Bob Dylan and forgotten muse of the'60s, with a breathtaking voice. The director, accompanied by two other women for camera and sound, crosses the United States to pay homage to this exceptional musician, unfair...
What's after basketball? Away from the NBA, the national team and the trophies, Fabricio Oberto has not played for six years. He still misses high competition and looks for ways to reinvent himself. The meeting with his former colleagues from the Golden Generation illuminates the different paths ...
Set against the backdrop of one of Russia’s most industrially brutal and polluted cities, Harmony explores social and gender dynamics of Russian youth through the paradigms and preconceptions of the country’s most prominent sports: ice hockey and rhythmic gymnastics.
The two respectively embody...
Dir. Juliana Antunes - 70min - 2017 - Brazil - Spoken language: Portuguese - Subtitles: English
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 traffi...
Dir. Lee Anne Schmitt - 83min - 2017 - USA
In 1917, after the national guard allowed rioting white to kill over 100 black citizens and burn down black neighborhoods, Marcus Garvey gave a speech in which he said, “With all the service that the Negro gave he is still a despised creature in the eye...
A documentary about populism and its absurd consequences. Brenner Pass, Alpine border, spring 2016: the Austrian government announces the construction of a border fence, expecting a shift of the refugee routes to Italy after the Balkan route is closed. The residents fear the fence just as much as...
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. Laura Coppens - 80min - 2019 - Switzerland/Germany - Language: French - Subtitles available in: English, German
In 2010, Unilever announced the closing of the profitable Fralib tea processing and packaging plant in the South of France. After 1336 days of resistance, the workers celebrated t...
Dir. Beniamino Barrese - 93min - 2018 - Italy - Subtitles in English
Benedetta wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of ...
Dir. Sebastian Brameshuber - 85min - 2019 - Austria/France - Languages: Igbo, German, English - Subtitles: English
In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pu...
A voiceless narrator rehashes details about his mother’s affair as he crosses America by train. “Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about immigration on her Obama phone. For that we use the other number with no data plan.” The linear train ride moving from Los Angeles to New York diverges...
"When my brother joined the Legionaries of Christ after finishing school, he disappeared from our lives. We can only visit him once a year. His superiors are even allowed to read the letters we send him. I hate them. When we were kids, we went to the summer camps of the order. It was the best wee...
Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat sets out to explore Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs. But he doesn't count on running into 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart – a travelling balladeer who upturns Moffat's folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are ripe for upd...
Amid the ruins of an abandoned California mercury-mining town, Quicksilver Chronicles follows the daily lives of the outspoken and gifted writer Kate Woods, her brother Kemp, and their close friend Tommy. The three garrulous companions navigate rural isolation on quad-runners, talk astrophysics a...
Nicu, a young homeless boy, is adopted by Bruce Lee, the notorious “King of the Underworld” and goes to live with him in the tunnels underneath Bucharest.
As Nicu grows up, he starts to realise that perhaps the King of the Underworld is not the perfect father, and has to make a choice between st...
Dir. Aïda Maigre-Touchet - 72min - 2018 - Canada/France/Haiti - Subtitles in English
According to Haitian poet, art critic and actor, Dominique Batraville, it’s a matchbox, but it contains entire worlds. There are the collected works of Magloire-Saint-Aude and Jacques Stephen Alexis. All of Carl...
