Travels
19 films
Azza
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.
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Being Related to John Malkovich (Biti u rodu s Johnom Malkovichem)
dir. Luka Mavretić
dok
Father and son journey through family myths and memories in pursuit of a rumoured connection to a Hollywood star. As they explore their bond and their future, uncovering the past could bring them closer - or drive them apart.
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Child of Dust (Dziecko z pyłu)
dir. Weronika Mliczewska
dok2025
Sang was one of hundreds of thousands of children sired by American soldiers during the Vietnam War. Today, he would like to meet his biological father. The trip to the US means a lot to him, but when he meets his new family, nothing is as he expected.
Read moreAwards:Golden Hobby-Horse / Golden Horn / Special Award
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Cosmic Balance
dir. Andrea Johnsen
dok2025
Reak is an Indonesian trance ritual. Its participants wish to connect with ancestral spirits and the energy of the Cosmos through music and ecstatic dance. The Javanese band Juarta Putra is currently preparing for its first overseas tour, which will begin at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.
Read moreDear Leo Sokolosky (Drogi Leo Sokolosky)
dir. Weronika Szyma
anim2024
A young girl writes a letter to Leo Sokolosky, a man who was in the Ansbach labour camp together with her great-grandfather. In the film, the past is mixed with the present and animated images are juxtaposed with photographs from the family archives creating a record of an intimate conversation, no longer with the addressee of the letter but with her great-grandfather.
Read moreD is for Distance
dir. Christopher Petit, Emma Matthews
dok2025
What do memory loss, William S. Burroughs, post-war CIA espionage operations and today’s struggles with a heartless healthcare system have in common? All of them come together in a creative and deeply personal essay. Following Louis, who suffers from epilepsy, we embark on a journey into the world full of paradoxes and emotions.
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Gucia
dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
dok1985
Seven-year-old Tom, disappointed by the behaviour of Gucia, a girl his age, offers to turn her into a boy, Peter, with whom he will get along better. The story told by Dorota Kędzierzawska forty years ago shows that expectations and ideas about sexuality and one’s role in society emerge very early in our lives.
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In 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 moreIn the Veins (We krwi)
dir. Maciej Tyburski
dok2025
It was intended as a film about Józef Lewartowski – a Jew, communist and an organiser of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Unexpectedly, it turns into a portrait of his great-grandson Joseph, a Parisian who, in an attempt to understand the history of the resistance movement in his family, begins to co-create it.
Read moreI Dream in Photos
dir. Gary Lennon
dok
Pulitzer Prize winner and photojournalist Cathal McNaughton decides to leave his dream profession at the peak of his career. Returning from war zones to live in a cottage in the Irish countryside is not easy for him. He finally has time to rebuild the relationship with his adolescent son and take care of his parents, but the memories of his past still haunt him.
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Kyiv 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 moreLast snows (Les dernières neiges)
dir. Sarah Henochsberg
fab2024
The holidays in the Alps were expected to be carefree, but there is palpable tension between the parents, while the younger sister is whining and saying things she should not. Ten-year-old Sacha knows that this is their last trip together, and she tries to take care of the atmosphere and the entire family.
Read moreMama Micra
dir. Rebecca Blöcher
dok2024
Before she got married, the director’s mother had lived an unconventional life on the road. After returning to Germany and starting a family, she set off again. For 10 years she lived in her car, which meant she hardly ever saw her daughter. Freedom was everything to her, but it came at a high price.
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My Lost Russian Mother
dir. Sam Jones
dok2023
The Irish director tells a story of siblings who have been adopted by an American family. Gabe decides to travel to Russia, where he hopes to find his biological mother. Meeting her turns out to be a painful experience. The story of the man and his disillusionment with his Russian family has also a dark, unexpected finale.
Read moreNew Beginnings (Les Recommencements)
dir. Vivianne Perelmuter, Isabelle Ingold
dok2025
Al, a resident of California’s Yurok reserve, decides to embark on a long journey. Due to an environmental catastrophe, it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to engage in fishing and the demons of war are still swirling in his head. Will a reunion with his former brothers-in-arms enable him to regain his equilibrium?
Read moreQaher
dir. Nada Khalifa
fab2025
‘Where is better? Here or there?’, are asking the people Jason meets when after many years he goes back to Palestine as a Canadian citizen. He tries to get to his native village, but the last mile will turn out to be most difficult part of the journey. It will make the protagonist aware of the power of eponymous quaher.
Read moreStill Moving
dir. Rui Ting-JI
anim2025
A moving animation about a mother and daughter who travel in a removal van and try to make a fresh start after the divorce. However, the journey becomes more and more difficult: the rain becomes more intense, the windscreen wipers stop working, the windows steam up and the tension rises, not just on the road but also between the protagonists.
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 moreAwards:Silver Horn
Trains (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.
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