Changes in my home city Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, brought about by the collapse of Soviet Union, were followed by fire at my home. All of my memories were destroyed, leaving me feeling alienated. Taking my camera, I go through the remains of my home, as well as old spaces around my neighbourho...

Zo reken (“shark bone”) is the nickname given in Haiti to the Toyota Land Cruiser, a powerful 4x4 vehicle popular among the humanitarian aid organisations that are omnipresent in the country since the 2010 earthquake.

10 years later, as the country is once more in turmoil and under a strict lock...

Fabiano is haunted by nightmares. They are a reflection of his life as the heir of his father’s small-scale agricultural business, located in an isolated valley of Southern Switzerland. He owns fifty goats and eight cows and is trying his best to produce the special alp cheese that his hippie par...

Desperately building against the inevitability of time, a restless young woman is awaiting another upcoming loss. But maybe more important things never seem to be told. / Soon after the director moves into her 22nd house, she gets a phone call that her Grandma, who lives far away, is in a critica...

When her father becomes suddenly paralised, the filmmaker spends four years in between hospitals finding shelter, behind her camera, away from a family tragedy.

Rehabilitation centres, VR experiments, fervent prayers, voice notes, love making and cemeteries are the record of a filmmaker’s journe...

Under shadows cast by colossal oil refineries, emerging from the desert like chrome cathedrals, SO FOUL A SKY presents a journey through several frontier lands of Venezuela – the world's first petrostate – now shaken by the worst political and humanitarian crisis South America has experienced in ...

Somi and her husband strive to forge a new identity after being involved with the Naxalite movement, a communist guerrilla group that has been waging war on the Indian State since the 60’s. Following a decade of armed struggle for the rights of their tribal communities, the couple deserted the mo...

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 is looking for work. In these trips he reminis...

1984: the year I was born. Ceaușescu ordered the demolition of an architectural monument of the 18th century, the imposing Văcăresti monastery in Bucharest, transformed into a political prison in the 20th century. He wanted to build an artificial lake in its place. After having built five kilomet...

Armenia, a village called Lichk where only women, children and the elderly reside. Men leave for 9 months of the year to work in Russia. In Summer, women cut the grass and store hay for winter. The sun arouses a certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with it’s different shades of red, is...

Russian-born director Aleksey Lapin travels back to his relatives' home village near the Ukrainian border, where the film crew introduce themselves at a specially organised musical event, claiming that they have come to cast a historical film. It is the occasion for an affectionate, semi-fictiona...

Cambodia 1981. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, a woman flees a country in fire and blood. She holds a baby in her arms. Forty years later, confronted with her mother's silence forged by trauma and time, the director decides to embark on a long journey. From the Cambodian jungle, through...

An affectionate portrait of the local communities, rituals and routines of Hawick in the Scottish Borders that is deeply invested in the sometimes absurd ways in which a town’s cultural identities are shaped, intuited and lived.

Dir. Mark Lyken - 90min - 2022 - UK

"Early on, as I was describing...

Leonie Brandt (1901-1978) dreamed of becoming an actress. After realising her dream she took on the role of her life: she became a spy for the Dutch intelligence service in Nazi Germany. After the war a number of prominent Dutchmen feared Leonie for what she knew about their actions during the oc...

When the Filmmaker (Marc Isaacs) is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He begins shooting a film in his home, with people connected to his own life becoming its stars: the two English builders, who Isaacs has empl...

After years of separation, filmmaker Karima Saïdi renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, now suffering from Alzheimer's. From Brussels to Tangiers, the odyssey of a family marked by exile is evoked through discretion and confession, pain, separation, grief, and joy.

Dir. Karima Saïdi - ...

The Grand National, held at the Saint-Hyacinthe agricultural fair, is the biggest truck and tractor pull event in Canada. Over the course of three days, to an audience of 20,000, more than sixty competitors come from all over North America with little to win but the applause of the crowd.

Origi...

Restricted by her lifelong agoraphobia, Kaye has spent most of her life within the four walls of her parents’ house. Finding relief from her fears in the faces and lives of old film stars, she pastes their images alongside those of her deceased family on the walls of her house, creating a kaleido...

COTTON100% follows human rights activist Elena and farmer Mukhabbat, navigating the harsh working practices of Uzbekistan’s cotton industry. Mukhabbat leases land from the state, but water shortages make it difficult for her to meet stringent production quotas. The work is labour intensive, with ...

In a village in West Africa, dreams play a key role. In the evening, on local radio, neighbours call up to recount their oneiric visions. On the other end of the line, the host of the show answers the telephone while a woman, sat next to him, carefully listens to each of the voices criss-crossing...

Alex Anna’s Scars is an intimate portrait of the director’s own personal battles with depression and self harming. Blending documentary and animation, this film brings awareness and stresses the importance of discussing these topics. Scars has had its world premiere at Toronto International Film ...

In the spring of 2018, artist Maria Petschnig befriended Marc Thompson, who had been living in his car in Brooklyn for more than a year. Marc grew up in NYC, is a former convict, and his self-imposed homelessness has both psychological as well as economic reasons. Petschnig started to record his ...

'Endphase' tells the story of one of the last massacres of the Second World War. On the night of May 2, 1945, less than a week before the end of the war, 228 Jewish women, children and old men from Hungary were murdered in the small Austrian community of Hofamt Priel by perpetrators unknown to th...

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 discrimination based on sexual orientation and gend...