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30 films
Ai Weiwei's Turandot
dir. Maxim Derevianko
dok2025
When a world-renowned artist and activist embarks upon the project of staging a classic opera, there is no doubt that it will be a revolutionary interpretation. By addressing the refugee crisis or the war in Ukraine, Ai Weiwei once again proves to be an artist who believes that art can influence reality.
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Aria di Bravura
dir. Małgorzata Goliszewska
dok
A candid and personal tale about the world of people who stutter. The film follows the story of an extraordinary therapist, Grażyna Malczyk, who believes she has discovered a new method of helping people to overcome stuttering.
Read moreAzza
dir. Stefanie Brockhaus
dok2025
The eponymous character is a driving instructor in a country where, until recently, women were not allowed to drive. At the same time, she is a victim of another Saudi law – after the divorce, it was her husband who took custody of their children. Azza decides to fend for herself and embarks on a journey into the desert.
Read moreA Frown Gone Mad (Fitnat Fi Alhajibayn)
dir. Omar Mismar
dok2024
The closer the war, the busier the business – these are the observations of the head of a Beirut beauty salon specialising in facial injections. The film, without any anaesthesia and operating mainly with close-ups, shows aesthetic medicine procedures which are performed in spite of exploding bombs.
Read moreA Song of Humble Beauty
dir. Anna Konik
dok2025
In the era of mass production of disposable goods, this trip to present-day Karachi resembles a journey back in time. By taking a sneak peek at the work of traditional dyers, potters or embroiderers, we gain more than an ethnographic record – a cinematic meditation.
Read moreBecoming a Film Director (Cheng Wei Dao Yan Zhi Qian)
dir. Rongfei Guo
dok2025
A story of two women for whom directing is more than art. The documentary follows their journey from an idea for a film to its making, asking questions about the meaning of creation and showing the difficulties of combining artistic activity with everyday struggles faced by the women.
Read moreFear (Strach)
dir. Robert Zawadzki
fab2025
Jola lives in Podlasie, close to the border with Belarus. Her son Marek works in the Border Guard combing the forests in search of immigrants illegally crossing the border. Jola is a taxi driver and wants to stay out of it, but one day, when her car breaks down, she is forced to confront her own convictions.
Read moreFission (Spaltung)
dir. João Pedro Prado, Anton Yaremchuk
dok2025
Are nuclear power plants more of a threat or rescue for us? The documentary presents the hot topic of nuclear power, setting it in different places and contexts, both global and local. The film breaks it down into voices – sometimes very serious but on other occasions eccentric and funny.
Read moreFull Support (Tmicha Melea)
dir. Michal Cohen
dok2024
This place offers more than just a bra fitting. Customers who come to the Jaffa shop are young and old, Jewish and Arab, post-mastectomy and post-plastic surgery, cis and trans. For a moment, the bra fitter becomes their friend and confidante.
Read moreIf the Sun Drowned into an Ocean of Clouds (Et si le soleil plongeait dans l’océan des nues)
dir. Wissam Charaf
fab2023
Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet, as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters — mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?
Read moreIn 769 km, New York (Cherez 769 km, New York)
dir. Sofiia Buhrii
dok2025
A distance of 769 kilometres is what separates a bakery in Kyiv from New York, an occupied town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. This is where bread baked by people with intellectual disabilities ends up. Although they struggle with their own difficulties, their work saves people in the east of the country.
Read moreKyiv Soloists (Solistene)
dir. Trond Kvig Andreassen
dok2025
When the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, musicians from the Kyiv Orchestra had just set off on a tour of Italy. They became refugees overnight but did not stop performing. Each of the protagonists must now redefine his or her role as an artist and citizen.
Read moreLovers in the Sky (Amantes en el cielo)
dir. Fermin de la Serna
dok2025
For many years, Cristina and La Bonita have worked as cooks on merchant ships sailing the Peruvian Amazon. However, being transgender still poses a challenge to local customs and beliefs.
Read morePaleontology Lesson
dir. Sergei Loznitsa
dok2025
More than a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war is still going on in the streets, but at Kyiv’s Museum of Natural History children can forget about it for a while. Under Sergei Loznitsa’s watchful eye, they are transported to the world from millions of years ago – free from the reality of war.
Read moreSane Inside Insanity — The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror
dir. Andreas Zerr
dok2025
There are more phenomena than are dreamt of by pop culture scholars, such as the musical ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and in particular, its big screen incarnation. On the 50th anniversary of its premiere, this documentary tells the bravura story of the making of the film and its fan base.
Read moreSilver
dir. Natalia Koniarz
dok2025
Without this metal, there would be no modern technologies today. In the 21st century, there are still murderous working conditions in the Bolivian silver mines of Potosí, from which the profits are reaped by international corporations. The entire lives of people from this area revolve around mines, and the documentary is a raw observation of their daily routine.
Read moreSurfing Einstein
dir. Meritxell Campos Olivé
dok2024
One hundred years divide Albert Einstein’s prediction of the existence of gravitational waves and the experimental confirmation of these wrinkles of space-time. Scientists from research teams, together with Meritxell Campos Olivé, a director and choreographer, use dance to communicate frustrations and delights as well as failures and successes related to research work.
Read moreSweden (Schweden)
dir. Nik Azad
fab2024
A man walks into an office where bored clerks are poring over piles of paperwork. Unfortunately, he may need to have to stay there longer, because his documents lack the necessary identification number. A short film that could have been made by Wes Anderson based on a screenplay by Franz Kafka.
Read moreTata
dir. Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc
dok2024
In this film, the global problem of invisible slavery meets a family story of violence. When a Moldovan journalist learns that her father, who works in Italy, is being abused and beaten by his employer, she arrives on the scene and tries to record the abuse using a hidden camera.
Read moreThe Big Chef (Wielki szef)
dir. Tomasz Wolski
dok2025
He worked for the Soviet intelligence, faked his collaboration with the Gestapo and had to explain himself for it for the rest of his life. In Poland, in 1968, he was put under house arrest as a victim of the anti-Semitic campaign. Employing archival footage in a creative way, the film reveals the remarkable biography of Leopold Trepper.
Read moreThe Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy
dir. Håvard Bustnes
dok2025
Tycoons producing carcinogenic asbestos with impunity, activists fighting the global web of illicit connections and a man who was a double or perhaps even a triple agent – here is an investigative documentary whose protagonist continually eludes us.
Read moreThe last people (Die letzten Menschen)
dir. Nicolas Pindeus
fab2025
A sleepy town in the Austrian countryside. Lenz works in a kitchen and Carina is a waitress. Lenz likes Carina, but she is dating Fabian, who has a car and a hot temper. The young people kill the small-town boredom by going out to a local bar on Fridays. One such outing will have serious consequences.
Read moreThe Passenger Andrzej Munk (Pasażer Andrzej Munk)
dir. Michał Bielawski
dok2025
This documentary is dedicated to Andrzej Munk, a leading figure of the Polish Film School. Based on unique archival materials, it tells the story of a man immersed in history, his artistic evolution and the emotions that accompanied it.
Read moreThe Passion of Agnieszka (Pasja według Agnieszki)
dir. Wojciech Staroń
dok2025
A record of the most recent collaboration between legendary film editors, Agnieszka Bojanowska and Bogdan Dziworski – a duo that created some of the most important films in the history of Polish documentary cinema. Wojciech Staroń’s camera captures the behind-the-scenes of their difficult but extremely creative relationship.
Read moreThe Propagandist (De propagandist)
dir. Luuk Bouwman
dok2024
Why did Jan Teunissen, a distinguished Dutch filmmaker, become the ‘tsar of Nazi propaganda’ during World War II? Composed exclusively of archival footage, including many materials unknown so far, the film tells a story of the man who, ‘for the love of cinema’, began collaborating with the occupier.
Read moreThe Queen and the Smokehouse (Bałtyk)
dir. Iga Lis
dok2025
Miecia is called the Queen of Łeba. She runs an iconic fish smokehouse, which is more than just a business for her. Influenced by her family and co-workers, she will have to take care of herself, too. This warm portrayal of a woman bursting with energy does not shy away from bitter undertones, and its backdrop is made of Baltic folklore.
Read moreThe Town That Drove Away (Miasto, które wyjechało)
dir. Natalia Pietsch, Grzegorz Piekarski
dok2025
The Turkish town of Hasankeyf lies on the Tigris River and has an ancient history. The construction of a huge dam, which began in 2006, has led to its submersion and the displacement of thousands of people. Following the two protagonists, we watch the destruction of the city and the accompanying socioeconomic transformation process.
Read moreThe Whale Song (Pieśń wieloryba)
dir. Michał Hytroś
dok2025
The film is an impressionistic portrait of Krzysztof Globisz, a famous Polish actor. His post-stroke speech recovery becomes self-therapy and a creative process at the same time. Through his ‘whale haiku’, the protagonist communicates anew with his surroundings, while the viewers are provided with an opportunity to immerse themselves in his inner world.
Read moreTrains (Pociągi)
dir. Maciej J. Drygas
dok2024
Can a train serve as a metaphor for human destiny? The documentary by Maciej J. Drygas is a historical railway journey through 20th-century Europe composed exclusively of the footage found in archives around the world.
Read moreUrban Duo (Lóngchāng gōngyù)
dir. HongYu Yue
anim2024
A father and son, residents of bustling Shanghai, represent different approaches to everyday life in a city. The split-screen animation juxtaposes two worlds: digital, metropolitan modernity and traditional life in harmony with nature. The film poses the question whether progress always means a better life.
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