The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family ́s break-up but also trying to understand.

Portrait of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, where director Aleksey Lapin stages a casting call for a historical feature film set in his home town.

Elitza Gueorguieva films the making of the novel that her Belarusian alter-ego Aliona begins about her father, a maritime adventurer, who disappeared in 1995.

Mini portrait of one place - atmosphere of solitude in the middle of the city - life change of one woman - water as an element. Short film poem flowing like a river with which our main character learns and learned to coexist.

Musical-documentary-tragedy about a member of an elite unit of the Israeli army...

A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers.

Shot on 16mm in national military parks, swamps, forests and the suburban sprawl across the former battlefields, the film follows General Grant’s path liberating the southern United States.

After his mother dies, Adam comes across some letters his parents exchanged years ago. This is an opportunity for him to find out more about his father, who he never knew.

For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year-old Edward from Ghana, a resident of the refugee centre which is the subject of great controversy in the village, asks to carry the statue in the annual procession and to stand next to the locals that bear its cart.

Bill Clinton’s strange legacy as President of the United States and ringmaster of the 1990s is a confounding mess of public amnesia, nostalgia, and scorn.

The epic search of a romantic hero turns out to be a painful discovery of unfulfilled love, unhealed wounds and missed opportunities among three family generations.

The biography of Bibi, a wild caught female elephant from Zimbabwe, who was imported to the Zoo of East Berlin in 1989.

A documentary essay about the construction of the in which the filmmaker – a New Yorker who has made his life in Buenos Aires – wonders how can he give to his daughters that which does not belong to him.

The Huerta of Valencia is a privileged spot of mediterranean agriculture. One of the last farmers is Antonio Ramon. Camagroga follows his work and his daughter´s through a whole year. The film is an elegy of work, land, heritage and resistance.

12-year-old Kwinten loves to play outside. His father is a commander on a Belgian navy ship and is often away at sea for weeks. For Kwinten, his father is his hero and he misses him a lot. But Kwinten has found ways to deal with that.

Middle Ural, winter. A time of silence and hibernation. The bright future is anticipated yet covered with a thick layer of snow, hidden by the blizzard.

A father shares his lifestyle with his young son, who lives an untethered and largely unpatronised life, while helping him prepare for an exam.

The life and death of a cult rock poet who worked as a coal excavator and became “the Bob Dylan of the mine” before becoming the “voice of the East Germans”.

While the first guests are waiting outside in the cold, the Opera House of Kyiv is slowly awaking. The Orchestra is rehearsing and the preparations in the cloakroom are ongoing. All of a sudden the people from the outside are flooding the corridors and halls of the Opera...

A dive into the paradox of the "exemplary behaviour" of murderers currently serving life sentences in Lukiškės Prison in Vilnius. A filmmaker whose own brother was murdered explores those men who do small good deeds in the hopes of returning to society.

Anthony Godby Johnson was a 1990s New York City miracle: a boy who escaped years of horrific abuse only to discover that he was dying of AIDS. A boy who authored his own autobiography. A boy who earned friends and fans worldwide—and who did not exist.

When I got to Rignano, the Ghetto residents told me : "You mustn’t keep any trace of our lives here in these precarious houses. This despair is not yours to display."

The documentary records café conversations of the owners a week before closing the café for good.

Bab Sebta is a series of reconstructed situations observed at Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. This site is the theater of the trafficking of goods manufactured and sold at cut-rate prices. Thousands of people work in it each day.

The Tower was an iconic place in the Ksuisi village. This is where the kids would go when they skipped school, men gathered to have a drink, couples hid to kiss. After the Russo-Georgian war of 2008 the village was occupied by Russia, but the tower remained on the Georgian side. The locals were forced to leave and settle down in a special settlement for displaced people.

Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned back a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family’s life around this unspoken of secret. Talking about the past was forbidden in the family...

Lord of the Toys follows YouTube creator Max “Adlersson” Herzberg and his gang over the course of a summer.

Croatia, January 1992. In the midst of the Yugoslav Wars, Chris, a young Swiss journalist is found dead under mysterious circumstances...

An artist and her whole existence spent away from her homeland. The insight of a son, that forty years later interprets again the work of his mother.

This is the story about a small country that in a certain period of history managed to overshadow all the other news headlines in the world. This is the story about the people who raised their independence with the smiles and songs regardless of the danger of the situation.

Behind the mighty eighteenth-century wall of the oldest enclosed convent in Poland - nuns Anuncjata and Benedykta (40 years in convent) tell us about their lives.

Eri Mizutani in her movie transgresses hard to cross communication barriers between the worlds of adults and children, deaf and hearing.

Following the latest episode of domestic violence, Fiorella - mother of three - decides to leave her husband, their house and life to free herself after 40 years of marriage.

A group of students must care for their first patients during a Medicinal Intern summercamp. The film is inspired by the ideas and tenets of Polish School of Documentary.

On her quest to find out what motherhood means for herself, director Antonia Hungerland encounters all kinds of people, none of whom seem to correspond to our traditional notion of a mother. What is a ‘real mother?

Five veterans talk about their experiences of war and the process of adjusting to civilian life back home

A park in the fog. Crows flap and caw in the sky. Mysterious things are happening. Shots ring out. What is actually going on? Can we humans really trust our own perceptions?

"No obvious signs." The phrase, which Ukrainian soldiers hear in hospitals, where they come with physiological traumas, needing help. But until their bodies have no injuries, not only doctors, but even society doesn’t notice their problems.

A woman is locked in her home with an egg, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the egg, she repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. EGG is a poetic short film based on a small yet significant moment in the director’s own life. It portraits a moment of shame, defeat and yet of victory.

This is the portrait of an industrial city with its collapses, mutations, landscapes and language. A film that features René Magritte, a camp of homeless people, key figures in urban revival, the inventor of the Big Bang, Les Zèbres (Royal Charleroi Sporting Club), socialism, the mute astonishment of childhood…

In 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 on a theatre play about the case. The rehearsals bring out hidden traumas and become collective psychotherapy, and the 12-year old actress Nina feels as if the war had never ended.

Days of Madness is participatory-observational documentary that leads to the hidden and most obscure world of psychic different that society lightly rejects and transforms them into patients...

Rivers may be simple geographical entities. But beyond that they are eloquent micro-milieus where history and stories have accumulated.

Paper Bridge is primarily a voyage through Ruth Beckermann's own family history. Beckerman skilfully intertwines her family history within a wider geographical and political history of the plight of Jewish people of Central Europe...

At centre of this documentary are the two poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who come to know each other in post-war Vienna.

A street theatre of the absurd in one act. The theme is domination and mutual attraction of strength and weakness. Two old sisters sit on a bench and talk. ...

The film is about Uzupis, a part of Vilnius old town. The film depicts the atmosphere of decaying part of the town and reveals the anticipation of something about to happen. May be, a new flight of Icarus.