THE TRIAL by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina, Norway, Italy and France| 2023 | 180'
Berlinale, 2023, World Premiere
1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The trial of the Military Juntas of the last dictatorship (1976/83), accused of crimes against humanity. As in Nuremberg after World War II, the trial is entirely recorded in U-matic tapes. For 90 days, the testimonies of the horror were heard and a final sentence: Never Again. The defenders and the political and ideological positions of those who supported the dictatorship. In the voice of the victims, the stories of torture and pain. Life and death in the same room. An archive of the past and a film that raises a starting point.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: for-private-use-only)
Berlinale, 2023, World Premiere
1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The trial of the Military Juntas of the last dictatorship (1976/83), accused of crimes against humanity. As in Nuremberg after World War II, the trial is entirely recorded in U-matic tapes. For 90 days, the testimonies of the horror were heard and a final sentence: Never Again. The defenders and the political and ideological positions of those who supported the dictatorship. In the voice of the victims, the stories of torture and pain. Life and death in the same room. An archive of the past and a film that raises a starting point.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: for-private-use-only)
FELIX, DARE TO DREAM by Morgan Bertacca | Italy | 2023 | 105'
World Premiere Available
Eclectic hobo artist, existentialist, beatnik, hippie and eventually freak, Felix Leu discovered tattooing as a resource to support his traveller life, but then he become an innovator.
Roaming the world, Felix and his wife Loretta (painter and tattooer) gave to their children: Filip (tattooer), Ama (model and fashion designer), Aia (painter), Ajja (musician), a fertile ground to grow up independently as artists. Felix challenged social rules proving that an unconventional alternative lifestyle it is still possible to have. Today he is no longer with us. Anyway, his spirit keep living trough the eccentric family that tells his story.
TRAILER (Password: Felix23)/ Screener (Password: felix)
World Premiere Available
Eclectic hobo artist, existentialist, beatnik, hippie and eventually freak, Felix Leu discovered tattooing as a resource to support his traveller life, but then he become an innovator.
Roaming the world, Felix and his wife Loretta (painter and tattooer) gave to their children: Filip (tattooer), Ama (model and fashion designer), Aia (painter), Ajja (musician), a fertile ground to grow up independently as artists. Felix challenged social rules proving that an unconventional alternative lifestyle it is still possible to have. Today he is no longer with us. Anyway, his spirit keep living trough the eccentric family that tells his story.
TRAILER (Password: Felix23)/ Screener (Password: felix)
CREATING PARADISE by David Baute | Spain | 2023 | 67'
World Premiere Available
`The ultimate goal of an architect is to create a paradise’, Alvar Aalto said.
After a trip to Finland in 1960, Vicente Saavedra (1937-2021) plans the construction of TenBel, a touristic area in the Canary Islands where he applied some of Aalto's principles. Nowadays TenBel is in complete decline.
The film repeats that journey to the Baltic country by the hand of poet Alejandro Krawietz, reflecting on the idea of 'dwelling' and looking for the 'paradise' meeting point between the North and the South of Europe.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Tapiola)
World Premiere Available
`The ultimate goal of an architect is to create a paradise’, Alvar Aalto said.
After a trip to Finland in 1960, Vicente Saavedra (1937-2021) plans the construction of TenBel, a touristic area in the Canary Islands where he applied some of Aalto's principles. Nowadays TenBel is in complete decline.
The film repeats that journey to the Baltic country by the hand of poet Alejandro Krawietz, reflecting on the idea of 'dwelling' and looking for the 'paradise' meeting point between the North and the South of Europe.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Tapiola)
THE ABSOLUTION by Juan Alfredo Amil | Spain | 2023 | 87'
World Premiere Available
When filmmaker Juan Alfredo Amil is told by his doctors that his morbid obesity could put his life at risk; he only finds one way to combat his panic state: Make a film about it.
But the tension he feels arises old personal demons to surface, and what at first seemed to be a fable about the fear of death, will end up becoming the filmed testimony of how his personal life collapses in front of him. Soon, he realizes that he is not the hero of his own story... He might be the villain.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: ABSOLUTION2022)
World Premiere Available
When filmmaker Juan Alfredo Amil is told by his doctors that his morbid obesity could put his life at risk; he only finds one way to combat his panic state: Make a film about it.
But the tension he feels arises old personal demons to surface, and what at first seemed to be a fable about the fear of death, will end up becoming the filmed testimony of how his personal life collapses in front of him. Soon, he realizes that he is not the hero of his own story... He might be the villain.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: ABSOLUTION2022)
MONTGOMERY GLANDS by Amin Pourbarghi | Canada-Iran | 2023 | 60'
World Premiere Available
Mona, a 40-year-old married woman who immigrated to Canada a few years ago, was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have both breasts removed.
While depression is common following cancer treatment, this courageous cancer survivor and painter decides to celebrate every moment of her life by creating a masterpiece, this time on her skin rather than canvas.
This beautiful documentary follows her processes in recovery and creative.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Mona2023)
World Premiere Available
Mona, a 40-year-old married woman who immigrated to Canada a few years ago, was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have both breasts removed.
While depression is common following cancer treatment, this courageous cancer survivor and painter decides to celebrate every moment of her life by creating a masterpiece, this time on her skin rather than canvas.
This beautiful documentary follows her processes in recovery and creative.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Mona2023)
LILI by Sylwia Rosak | POLAND | 2023 | 76'
World Premiere Available
Since her parents’ separation, Lili has been sharing her time between two homes. This is the story about an 8 year old girl bonding with his father whilst globetrotting, hitchhiking and learning to adapt to her new family situation. A father supporting her daughter to grow strong and independent and to show her the world.Their fearless journeys are an opportunity to tighten their bond. With a baby sister on the way Lili’s life is about to get even more exciting.
Screener (Password: lili0423) TRAILER
World Premiere Available
Since her parents’ separation, Lili has been sharing her time between two homes. This is the story about an 8 year old girl bonding with his father whilst globetrotting, hitchhiking and learning to adapt to her new family situation. A father supporting her daughter to grow strong and independent and to show her the world.Their fearless journeys are an opportunity to tighten their bond. With a baby sister on the way Lili’s life is about to get even more exciting.
Screener (Password: lili0423) TRAILER
WITH YOU, WITH YOU AND WITHOUT ME by Amaya Villar | Spain | 2023 | 86'
World Premiere Available
A audiovisual love letter to future children, helps the filmmaker explore in-depth her life decisions. It becomes a powerful resource to heal old wounds, to understand empowerment and the painful learning about what a relationship should be in order to work for every individual.
A poignant and intimate statement, masterfully crafted with a diversity of techniques using animation and personal videos.
TRAILER / Screener
World Premiere Available
A audiovisual love letter to future children, helps the filmmaker explore in-depth her life decisions. It becomes a powerful resource to heal old wounds, to understand empowerment and the painful learning about what a relationship should be in order to work for every individual.
A poignant and intimate statement, masterfully crafted with a diversity of techniques using animation and personal videos.
TRAILER / Screener
HUMMINGBIRDS by Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía Contreras | USA | 2023 | 78'
Berlinale, 2023, International Premiere / Grand Prix award
In Laredo, a city in southern Texas on the Mexican border, best friends Silvia and Beba know that the long summer nights of their youth cannot last forever. Their hang-out spots are so familiar but, stuck in an immigration process over which deportation hangs as a constant possibility, home still seems a fragile concept. Between bars, drive-thrus, friends’ couches and the borderlands, they confront the stresses of survival, the future, and community building. For them, this means protest action for legal abortion and against border control abuses, in a politically divided America. But the dusty half-light is also a time for poetry and dreams. Their laughter and creative expression cement a sense of solidarity and belonging in togetherness.
Screener (Password: hummingbirds!?)
Berlinale, 2023, International Premiere / Grand Prix award
In Laredo, a city in southern Texas on the Mexican border, best friends Silvia and Beba know that the long summer nights of their youth cannot last forever. Their hang-out spots are so familiar but, stuck in an immigration process over which deportation hangs as a constant possibility, home still seems a fragile concept. Between bars, drive-thrus, friends’ couches and the borderlands, they confront the stresses of survival, the future, and community building. For them, this means protest action for legal abortion and against border control abuses, in a politically divided America. But the dusty half-light is also a time for poetry and dreams. Their laughter and creative expression cement a sense of solidarity and belonging in togetherness.
Screener (Password: hummingbirds!?)
ONLOOKERS by Kimi Takesue | USA | 2023 | 72'
Cinema du Reel, 2023, International Premiere
A visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play. Drawn to spectacle, tourists swarm to magnificent Buddhist temples, the ordered rituals of monks, and sites of dazzling natural beauty, then recede like a passing tide, leaving Laotians to continue with their daily lives.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: play2023!)
Cinema du Reel, 2023, International Premiere
A visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play. Drawn to spectacle, tourists swarm to magnificent Buddhist temples, the ordered rituals of monks, and sites of dazzling natural beauty, then recede like a passing tide, leaving Laotians to continue with their daily lives.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: play2023!)
BURDEN by Miguel Eek | Spain | 2023 | 65'
World Premiere Available
Thirteen men retreat to a country house where they undergo a personal and collective transformation in search of new ways of being men.
For three days they will live a tribal and cathartic experience, for which not all of them are prepared, where they confront their trauma and inner wrath, through physical and emotional dynamics that will put them to the test.
Screener (Password: 2320_coraza)
World Premiere Available
Thirteen men retreat to a country house where they undergo a personal and collective transformation in search of new ways of being men.
For three days they will live a tribal and cathartic experience, for which not all of them are prepared, where they confront their trauma and inner wrath, through physical and emotional dynamics that will put them to the test.
Screener (Password: 2320_coraza)
THE PAVILION ON THE WATER by Stefano Croci & Silvia Siberini | ITA, NL, UK | 2023 - 52'-77’
Biografilm, 2023, National Premiere
A cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture. Japan, to him, was an inspirational universe but also the place where he eventually died in 1978, at the height of his career. A nostalgic feeling permeates the whole film. Nostalgia for that rare event which is the birth of an artist. Although he passed away, he left behind a great and beautiful body of work that, still to this day, delights and amuses.
Screener (Password: Kyoto)
Biografilm, 2023, National Premiere
A cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture. Japan, to him, was an inspirational universe but also the place where he eventually died in 1978, at the height of his career. A nostalgic feeling permeates the whole film. Nostalgia for that rare event which is the birth of an artist. Although he passed away, he left behind a great and beautiful body of work that, still to this day, delights and amuses.
Screener (Password: Kyoto)
THE CABINET by Živilė Mičiulytė | Lithuania | 2022 | 61'
World Premiere Available
The two investigative journalists, their closed closet office, and the monotonuous and nervous routine of their work. Politicians are about to gradually and systematically restrict media freedom, and the concept of truth is becoming increasingly complex in these post-truth times.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: zivile123)
World Premiere Available
The two investigative journalists, their closed closet office, and the monotonuous and nervous routine of their work. Politicians are about to gradually and systematically restrict media freedom, and the concept of truth is becoming increasingly complex in these post-truth times.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: zivile123)
LIGHT FALLS VERTICAL by Efthymia Zymvragaki | Spain, Netherlands, Germany | 2022 | 84'
IDFA 2022, World Premiere
When I left the island where I was born, it wasn’t a departure, it was an escape. Years later, I arrive
on another island, a barren place that feels strangely familiar. I have come here for an encounter
with a man. He says he is willing to expose the violence that he carries within. But when I venture to
get closer to the harmful, desperate man, I realize that he also holds the key to my deepest fears,
echoing in the violence of my own past. Now his story will never be separated from mine.
TRAILER / Screener
IDFA 2022, World Premiere
When I left the island where I was born, it wasn’t a departure, it was an escape. Years later, I arrive
on another island, a barren place that feels strangely familiar. I have come here for an encounter
with a man. He says he is willing to expose the violence that he carries within. But when I venture to
get closer to the harmful, desperate man, I realize that he also holds the key to my deepest fears,
echoing in the violence of my own past. Now his story will never be separated from mine.
TRAILER / Screener
LA RICERCA by Giuseppe Petruzzellis | ITA | 2023 - 62'
Visions du Reel, 2023, World Premiere
Luigi Lineri has collected and catalogued countless pebbles with human and animal shapes, reminiscent of mysterious prehistoric sculptures. Stones thus become the instrument to research the deepest human nature, amid primordial memories and omens for the future. Evoking mythological images, his artwork pays homage to the struggles of men and women who lived through the infancy of our species, allowing us to become what we are. A collective existential investigation, a journey through time, across symbols, art, ecology and technological progress.
TRAILER / SCREENER
Visions du Reel, 2023, World Premiere
Luigi Lineri has collected and catalogued countless pebbles with human and animal shapes, reminiscent of mysterious prehistoric sculptures. Stones thus become the instrument to research the deepest human nature, amid primordial memories and omens for the future. Evoking mythological images, his artwork pays homage to the struggles of men and women who lived through the infancy of our species, allowing us to become what we are. A collective existential investigation, a journey through time, across symbols, art, ecology and technological progress.
TRAILER / SCREENER
ROWDY GIRL by Jason Goldman | USA | 2023 | 72'
HOT DOCS, 2023, World Premiere
A former Texas cattle rancher, has a change of heart and decides to rescue her husband's herd from slaughter. Since then, she's made it her life's work to help farmers transition from animal ag to a plant-based model. Her activism is unlike any other; she knows both sides of the story. She sees herself as part of the herd, but it's not just about saving animals, it's about the planet. This observational documentary bears witness her extraordinary way of building emotional connections, from a couple who surrender their animal to the sanctuary, to a rancher who has grown feelings to a baby calf, she fights for a compassionate world from one heart to the next.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: impronta_films)
HOT DOCS, 2023, World Premiere
A former Texas cattle rancher, has a change of heart and decides to rescue her husband's herd from slaughter. Since then, she's made it her life's work to help farmers transition from animal ag to a plant-based model. Her activism is unlike any other; she knows both sides of the story. She sees herself as part of the herd, but it's not just about saving animals, it's about the planet. This observational documentary bears witness her extraordinary way of building emotional connections, from a couple who surrender their animal to the sanctuary, to a rancher who has grown feelings to a baby calf, she fights for a compassionate world from one heart to the next.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: impronta_films)
REMEMBER MY NAME by Elena Molina | SPAIN | 2023 | 76'
Malaga International Film Festival, 2023, National Premiere
After crossing the Melilla fence from Morocco, Ihsane enters the “Divina Infantita” nuns’ reception centre for girls, where Assia, Mounia and Nuhaila also live. Hamza turns 18 and has to leave La Purísima, the reception centre for unaccompanied boys. They all arrived alone in Melilla but have found a new family: the NANA dance company. After months of hard work, they are selected to participate in a famous TV talent show, where they experience a mirage that seems to take them away from their reality for a few days and that vanishes in a flash when the spotlight goes out. Back to Melilla, when they turn 18, they have to leave the children’s centre and start a new life. Once again, alone.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: r3m3mb3r0608! )
Malaga International Film Festival, 2023, National Premiere
After crossing the Melilla fence from Morocco, Ihsane enters the “Divina Infantita” nuns’ reception centre for girls, where Assia, Mounia and Nuhaila also live. Hamza turns 18 and has to leave La Purísima, the reception centre for unaccompanied boys. They all arrived alone in Melilla but have found a new family: the NANA dance company. After months of hard work, they are selected to participate in a famous TV talent show, where they experience a mirage that seems to take them away from their reality for a few days and that vanishes in a flash when the spotlight goes out. Back to Melilla, when they turn 18, they have to leave the children’s centre and start a new life. Once again, alone.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: r3m3mb3r0608! )
CADÊ HELENY? by Esther Vital | BRA, SP| 2022 - 29'
E Tudo Verdade, 2022, World Premiere
Stitch by stitch, frame by frame and memory by memory, this multi-awarded stop motion animated documentary unveils Heleny Guariba's life history.
Heleny was a philosopher, professor and theatre director who disappeared in 1971 under the Brazilian dictatorship.
It is inspired by the arpilleras, a unique form of protest emerged from the horrors of Pinochet regime in Chile.
Tapestries made with leftovers of fabric and simple stitches able to denounce what could not have been told in words.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:Heleny2022)
E Tudo Verdade, 2022, World Premiere
Stitch by stitch, frame by frame and memory by memory, this multi-awarded stop motion animated documentary unveils Heleny Guariba's life history.
Heleny was a philosopher, professor and theatre director who disappeared in 1971 under the Brazilian dictatorship.
It is inspired by the arpilleras, a unique form of protest emerged from the horrors of Pinochet regime in Chile.
Tapestries made with leftovers of fabric and simple stitches able to denounce what could not have been told in words.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:Heleny2022)
NATURE MUSIC by Lucas Weglinski | Brazil | 2022 | 100'
In Edit International Film Festival, 2022, World Premiere
Masculine nicknames haunt Léa Freire, "The contemporary Villa-Lobos", "The new Tom Jobim", "Hermeto in skirts".
An exceptional woman, an instrumentalist, a jazz improviser, arranger and symphonic composer, universes that are still very much dominted by male artists. Léa crosses prejudice and breaks the barriers between classical and popular, creating a unique, Brazilian but also universal music. In Nature Music, iconic figures of Brazilian Music, legends of Jazz and the New Female Generation tell us about the influence of Léa and her Music, the delights, difficulties and challenges of being a woman musician. Even today.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: lea123)
In Edit International Film Festival, 2022, World Premiere
Masculine nicknames haunt Léa Freire, "The contemporary Villa-Lobos", "The new Tom Jobim", "Hermeto in skirts".
An exceptional woman, an instrumentalist, a jazz improviser, arranger and symphonic composer, universes that are still very much dominted by male artists. Léa crosses prejudice and breaks the barriers between classical and popular, creating a unique, Brazilian but also universal music. In Nature Music, iconic figures of Brazilian Music, legends of Jazz and the New Female Generation tell us about the influence of Léa and her Music, the delights, difficulties and challenges of being a woman musician. Even today.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: lea123)
EDUCATION AND NATIONALISM by Hisayo Saika | Japan | 2022 | 78'
BAFICI International Film Festival, 2023, World Premiere
An impactful documentary about the rewriting of history in Japan's classrooms. This film documents how the government’s destruction of Japanese textbooks, academics, and education has progressed, based on testimonies by politicians, textbook writers, textbook company employees and teachers. In 1997, military comfort women were written about in all middle school history textbooks, but right-wing politicians heavily rallied against this.
One long-established publisher was attacked, and it eventually went bankrupt for writing about the lawsuit of a former Korean comfort woman named Hak-sun Kim and explaining the damages inflicted by the Japanese army in detail. As political pressure grows, there are even plans to rewrite the terminology of history based on the Japanese government’s point of view.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:mbs)
BAFICI International Film Festival, 2023, World Premiere
An impactful documentary about the rewriting of history in Japan's classrooms. This film documents how the government’s destruction of Japanese textbooks, academics, and education has progressed, based on testimonies by politicians, textbook writers, textbook company employees and teachers. In 1997, military comfort women were written about in all middle school history textbooks, but right-wing politicians heavily rallied against this.
One long-established publisher was attacked, and it eventually went bankrupt for writing about the lawsuit of a former Korean comfort woman named Hak-sun Kim and explaining the damages inflicted by the Japanese army in detail. As political pressure grows, there are even plans to rewrite the terminology of history based on the Japanese government’s point of view.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:mbs)
PORT DESIRE by Juan M. Bugarín | Argentina | 2022 | 75'
IDFA International Film Festival, 2022, World Premiere
A veteran of Malvinas' War intends to repair a small boat to return to the islands without a passport in order to plant Argentina’s flag forty years after. During the preparations for the sailing, family bonds emerge as well as memories from the past that allow a question to raise: How long does a war remains? How does this affect those around you?
TRAILER / Screener (Password: PD2022)
IDFA International Film Festival, 2022, World Premiere
A veteran of Malvinas' War intends to repair a small boat to return to the islands without a passport in order to plant Argentina’s flag forty years after. During the preparations for the sailing, family bonds emerge as well as memories from the past that allow a question to raise: How long does a war remains? How does this affect those around you?
TRAILER / Screener (Password: PD2022)
PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER by Juan Ignacio Fernandez Hoppe | Uruguay | 2022 | 99'
IDFA International Film Festival, 2022, World Premiere
Juan Ignacio was eight years old when his father’s body was found on a beach. His mother, a psychiatrist, decided an autopsy was unnecessary, even though his father had been depressed and had psychiatric medication among his belongings. Thirty years later, the filmmaker tries to find out what happened, who his father was and how his mother arrived at her decision.
The filmmaker seizes on every possible lead to add detail to the picture of his father, including trying to find the police report from the moment when his father died. It’s a film about a mystery and a yearning, lost, depression and love, as well as an exploration of what a person’s tangible legacy can be, and how difficult that is to capture.
TRAILER / Screener
IDFA International Film Festival, 2022, World Premiere
Juan Ignacio was eight years old when his father’s body was found on a beach. His mother, a psychiatrist, decided an autopsy was unnecessary, even though his father had been depressed and had psychiatric medication among his belongings. Thirty years later, the filmmaker tries to find out what happened, who his father was and how his mother arrived at her decision.
The filmmaker seizes on every possible lead to add detail to the picture of his father, including trying to find the police report from the moment when his father died. It’s a film about a mystery and a yearning, lost, depression and love, as well as an exploration of what a person’s tangible legacy can be, and how difficult that is to capture.
TRAILER / Screener
CHILDREN OF LAS BRISAS by Marianela Maldonado | USA, France, United Kingdom | 2022 | 84'
Sheffield DocFest, 2022, World Premiere
A story of resistance, resilience and perseverance that explores the power of discipline and classical music as tools for survival. The documentary follows three Venezuelan children from the impoverished Las Brisas neighborhood, in their quest to become professional musicians within the ranks of “El Sistema” music program.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:LasBrisas)
Sheffield DocFest, 2022, World Premiere
A story of resistance, resilience and perseverance that explores the power of discipline and classical music as tools for survival. The documentary follows three Venezuelan children from the impoverished Las Brisas neighborhood, in their quest to become professional musicians within the ranks of “El Sistema” music program.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:LasBrisas)
RISING SUN BLUES by Renata Ferraz & Maria Roxo | Portugal | 2022 | 83'
In it, they share and witness personal stories while exchanging certain techniques of their respective crafts: sex work and filmmaking. In this scenario, both simultaneously become filmmakers and characters.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: imagination2021)
- Ann Arbor Film Festival - Film Feature Competition - Eileen Maitland Award, 2022, Wold Premiere
In it, they share and witness personal stories while exchanging certain techniques of their respective crafts: sex work and filmmaking. In this scenario, both simultaneously become filmmakers and characters.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: imagination2021)
PONGO CALLING by Tomás Kratochvíl | Czech Republic, Slovakia, UK | 2022 | 78'
Sheffield DocFest, 2022, World Premiere
When the president of the Czech Republic makes a remark that Romani people are ‘socially unadaptable’ and refuse job opportunities, truck driver Stefan Pongo initiates a social media campaign for the Romani in the country to post selfies from their workplaces. His activism through online posts and live broadcasts brings him huge audiences across Europe and eventually results in the establishment of the Czechoslovak Romani Union. But as the campaign evolves, the crisis affects Pongo’s family life. Tomáš Kratochvíl’s film captures the spirit of one determined campaigner and the challenges faced by grassroots activism.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:Kaidzas_Roma)
Sheffield DocFest, 2022, World Premiere
When the president of the Czech Republic makes a remark that Romani people are ‘socially unadaptable’ and refuse job opportunities, truck driver Stefan Pongo initiates a social media campaign for the Romani in the country to post selfies from their workplaces. His activism through online posts and live broadcasts brings him huge audiences across Europe and eventually results in the establishment of the Czechoslovak Romani Union. But as the campaign evolves, the crisis affects Pongo’s family life. Tomáš Kratochvíl’s film captures the spirit of one determined campaigner and the challenges faced by grassroots activism.
TRAILER / Screener (Password:Kaidzas_Roma)
SERGIO LARRAIN, THE ETERNAL MOMENT by Sebastian Moreno | Chile | 2022 | 83'
CineLatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, 2022, World Premiere
An in-depth film exploring the life of Sergio Larraín, the only Chilean photographer to have become a staff member of the prestigious photo agency Magnum., who developed a unique and enigmatic way of constructing images, became a photographic legend. He captured the edges of reality and ended up inhabiting them. Some of his work has been bought by MoMa. Yet, having arrived at the peak of success in his career, he unexpectedly decided to retreat to hermithood in northern Chile. Sergio Larrain, The eternal moment shows us the mind and artistic genius of a creator whose own sadness shone through the eyes of his subjects.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: sl)
CineLatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, 2022, World Premiere
An in-depth film exploring the life of Sergio Larraín, the only Chilean photographer to have become a staff member of the prestigious photo agency Magnum., who developed a unique and enigmatic way of constructing images, became a photographic legend. He captured the edges of reality and ended up inhabiting them. Some of his work has been bought by MoMa. Yet, having arrived at the peak of success in his career, he unexpectedly decided to retreat to hermithood in northern Chile. Sergio Larrain, The eternal moment shows us the mind and artistic genius of a creator whose own sadness shone through the eyes of his subjects.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: sl)
VICENTE RUIZ: IN REAL TIME by Julio Jorquera | Chile | 2022 | 63'
The film follows Vicente Ruiz, an inquisitive performer who started his career in Chile, during Pinochet´s dictatorship, using rare archive material.
It´s an exploration of what it means to have a social role in art, from a past of censorship to a present where art has become complacent and institutionalized.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Invercine)
The film follows Vicente Ruiz, an inquisitive performer who started his career in Chile, during Pinochet´s dictatorship, using rare archive material.
It´s an exploration of what it means to have a social role in art, from a past of censorship to a present where art has become complacent and institutionalized.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Invercine)
ONE DAY AT A TIME by Paul Chambers | UK | 2022 | 63'
Sheffield DocFest, 2022, National Premiere
The film follows Sam as he makes an autobiographical spoken word film about his battles with addiction, whilst living in an abstinence based recovery centre in Liverpool (Damian John Kelly House).
DJK House helps its residents find purpose by introducing art, sport, culture and community back into their lives.
The residents and Sam make a film about addiction whilst also exploring their own recovery and growing as individuals, a film about love, hope and kindness, new beginnings and a different approach to viewing the world, One day at a Time.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: oneday)
Sheffield DocFest, 2022, National Premiere
The film follows Sam as he makes an autobiographical spoken word film about his battles with addiction, whilst living in an abstinence based recovery centre in Liverpool (Damian John Kelly House).
DJK House helps its residents find purpose by introducing art, sport, culture and community back into their lives.
The residents and Sam make a film about addiction whilst also exploring their own recovery and growing as individuals, a film about love, hope and kindness, new beginnings and a different approach to viewing the world, One day at a Time.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: oneday)
AS I WAS LOOKING ABOVE, I COULD SEE MYSELF UNDERNEATH by Ilir Hasanaj | Kosovo | 2022 | 62'
DokuFest Prizren, 2022, National Premiere
Home is a feeling, they say, but where is home, when you are not allowed to feel at home even within your own body and mind? What is self when it is constantly displaced and rejected?
In societies generously cultivating and maintaining spaces for heteronormative selves to be performed and almost inherently unaccepting to those different from the widely accepted normal - the weight of being is almost unbearable.
Regardless, the fight to break through is fierce!
As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath unveils intimate stories of LGBTQ persons from Kosovo, going through their unceasing search for a safe place that allows them to be.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: AIWLA4892)
DokuFest Prizren, 2022, National Premiere
Home is a feeling, they say, but where is home, when you are not allowed to feel at home even within your own body and mind? What is self when it is constantly displaced and rejected?
In societies generously cultivating and maintaining spaces for heteronormative selves to be performed and almost inherently unaccepting to those different from the widely accepted normal - the weight of being is almost unbearable.
Regardless, the fight to break through is fierce!
As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath unveils intimate stories of LGBTQ persons from Kosovo, going through their unceasing search for a safe place that allows them to be.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: AIWLA4892)
BI ARNAS by Jon Mikel Fernandez Elorz | Basque Country (Spain) | 2022 | 58'
San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2022, National Premiere
This documentary tells the story of two breaths: on the one hand Iratxe Sorzabal's breath; on the other, her mother's, Mari Nieves Diaz. Both, each on their own way, have been suffocated by torture. The former has lived in person how her breath left her body. The latter has felt it through the body of the daughter who was once part of her. This story wants to narrate those two invisible breaths, their suffocation, their double suffering. This is the story of Iratxe's agony, heard mainly through the mother's voice and memories, and supported by her daughter's own voice when possible.
TRAILER / Screener
San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2022, National Premiere
This documentary tells the story of two breaths: on the one hand Iratxe Sorzabal's breath; on the other, her mother's, Mari Nieves Diaz. Both, each on their own way, have been suffocated by torture. The former has lived in person how her breath left her body. The latter has felt it through the body of the daughter who was once part of her. This story wants to narrate those two invisible breaths, their suffocation, their double suffering. This is the story of Iratxe's agony, heard mainly through the mother's voice and memories, and supported by her daughter's own voice when possible.
TRAILER / Screener
REXHEP - WHAT KILLED THE ARCHITECT by Mathieu Jouffre | Kosovo | 2022 | 83'
DokuFest, 2022, National Premiere
The filmmaker follows the life and work of architect and urbanist Rexhep Luci, and the story of Prishtina, the city he loved and where his murder is still unsolved for over 20 years. The documentary follows his personal and professional relationship with the city, from his dedication to urban growth during the Yugoslav period to his determination to prevent illegal construction in the post-war period. His niece, Besa, leads us through his life and Prishtina’s development through intimate conversations with family and Rexhep’s former colleagues, while following an architectural intervention on the street that bears his name. The documentary explores what puts a halt to an architect.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: rexhep2022)
DokuFest, 2022, National Premiere
The filmmaker follows the life and work of architect and urbanist Rexhep Luci, and the story of Prishtina, the city he loved and where his murder is still unsolved for over 20 years. The documentary follows his personal and professional relationship with the city, from his dedication to urban growth during the Yugoslav period to his determination to prevent illegal construction in the post-war period. His niece, Besa, leads us through his life and Prishtina’s development through intimate conversations with family and Rexhep’s former colleagues, while following an architectural intervention on the street that bears his name. The documentary explores what puts a halt to an architect.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: rexhep2022)
THE BUILDING by Goran Dević | Croatia | 2022 | 68'
ZagrebDox, 2022 National Premiere
The Sisak Iron Mill, one of the largest industrial plants in former Yugoslavia, built an "ideal" settlement for their workers who had thus far lived in huts around the factory.
A town was erected around the plant. Sixty years later, The film follows a week in the everyday life of inhabitants on a particular building. A subtle clash between past and present around culture, ideology, lifestyle and values.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Art15)
ZagrebDox, 2022 National Premiere
The Sisak Iron Mill, one of the largest industrial plants in former Yugoslavia, built an "ideal" settlement for their workers who had thus far lived in huts around the factory.
A town was erected around the plant. Sixty years later, The film follows a week in the everyday life of inhabitants on a particular building. A subtle clash between past and present around culture, ideology, lifestyle and values.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Art15)
CAMINO TO COP26 - OF WALKING ON THIN ICE by Benjamin Wigley | UK | 2022 | 53'
Encounters Film Festival, UK, 2022 National Premiere
An impressionistic documentary film that questions 'Can one footprint imprint on our collective consciousness and create change? A walk; a pilgrimage, an odyssey…for the planet. Five hundred miles from London to Glasgow: Eight weeks, 56 days and more than 56 host organizations, over a thousand walkers and thirty rolls of 16mm celluloid film.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: CAMINO)
Encounters Film Festival, UK, 2022 National Premiere
An impressionistic documentary film that questions 'Can one footprint imprint on our collective consciousness and create change? A walk; a pilgrimage, an odyssey…for the planet. Five hundred miles from London to Glasgow: Eight weeks, 56 days and more than 56 host organizations, over a thousand walkers and thirty rolls of 16mm celluloid film.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: CAMINO)
HART OF THE WOOD by Benjamin Wigley | UK | 2022 | 62'
A climate-fiction; film-dream. Inspired by literature, folklore, science and arboriculture. We are projected through portals to deep past; distant future; and an eerie series of mysterious interventions, invocations, and experiments, that enables us to reflect on humanity’s deep relationship with the woods.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: HART)
A climate-fiction; film-dream. Inspired by literature, folklore, science and arboriculture. We are projected through portals to deep past; distant future; and an eerie series of mysterious interventions, invocations, and experiments, that enables us to reflect on humanity’s deep relationship with the woods.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: HART)
8 STORIES ABOUT MY HEARING LOSS by Charo Mato | Argentina Uruguay | 2022 | 86'
Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, National Premiere
The film addresses the issue of deafness based on the testimonies from the personal experience of the director, the Argentine Charo Mato, who was diagnosed with progressive hearing loss at a very young age, until she became completely deaf at the age of 23 .
Mato traces her history as a person with hearing loss from the time she was diagnosed until she underwent her first cochlear implant, dialoguing with the memory of her mother, who died just a short time later.
TRAILER Active English Subtitle and Spanish Close Caption / Screener (Password: 8Cuentos)
Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, National Premiere
The film addresses the issue of deafness based on the testimonies from the personal experience of the director, the Argentine Charo Mato, who was diagnosed with progressive hearing loss at a very young age, until she became completely deaf at the age of 23 .
Mato traces her history as a person with hearing loss from the time she was diagnosed until she underwent her first cochlear implant, dialoguing with the memory of her mother, who died just a short time later.
TRAILER Active English Subtitle and Spanish Close Caption / Screener (Password: 8Cuentos)
LINES by Barbora Sliepková | Slovakia| 2021 | 80'
Jihlava IDFF, 2021, World Premiere - Winner of Ji.hlava 2021/ Opus Bonum
Bratislava is an exemplary post-socialist city. Its massive construction replaces the old with the new. The changing features of the city speak to us not only through the silhouettes of new buildings but also through its inhabitants. Blanka fights with loneliness on the balcony of her Petržalka apartment.
The city is dotted with billboards as municipal elections await. Matúš wants to become a municipal councilor. Real estate agent Michal shows his clients images of a happy life through Bratislava apartments and two road workers paint traffic markings that guide passersby.
After work, they drink beer in their boarding house and muse about life. A timid Danko observes the city, which is changing too fast for his taste. He listens to it and wishes to capture the rhythm of normalcy, the flow of the days. Where does public space cease and where does intimacy begin? This is what everyday sociology comprises.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: CITYontheMOON)
Jihlava IDFF, 2021, World Premiere - Winner of Ji.hlava 2021/ Opus Bonum
Bratislava is an exemplary post-socialist city. Its massive construction replaces the old with the new. The changing features of the city speak to us not only through the silhouettes of new buildings but also through its inhabitants. Blanka fights with loneliness on the balcony of her Petržalka apartment.
The city is dotted with billboards as municipal elections await. Matúš wants to become a municipal councilor. Real estate agent Michal shows his clients images of a happy life through Bratislava apartments and two road workers paint traffic markings that guide passersby.
After work, they drink beer in their boarding house and muse about life. A timid Danko observes the city, which is changing too fast for his taste. He listens to it and wishes to capture the rhythm of normalcy, the flow of the days. Where does public space cease and where does intimacy begin? This is what everyday sociology comprises.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: CITYontheMOON)
THE SWEET TASTE OF SUCCESS by Emanuele Giusto & Carlos Tejeda | Spain | 2021 | 75'
Impact DOCS Awards, USA, Award of Merit for his “cinematographic, artistic and impactful component”
This documentary is a journey in everyday reality that reflects on the concept of success. Internationally renowned figures, like Placido Domingo or Rossy de Palma and the film main character 80year old María Teresa – an delightful retired singer – and the neighborhood of Lavapiés, in Madrid, serve the purpose of reflecting on success and on all those ingredients that are part of the existence. With a style that follows the spirit of the “enfants terrible” of the Nouvelle Vague, but with the Madrid feel, the film leaves space for spontaneity.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Kantfish101)
Impact DOCS Awards, USA, Award of Merit for his “cinematographic, artistic and impactful component”
This documentary is a journey in everyday reality that reflects on the concept of success. Internationally renowned figures, like Placido Domingo or Rossy de Palma and the film main character 80year old María Teresa – an delightful retired singer – and the neighborhood of Lavapiés, in Madrid, serve the purpose of reflecting on success and on all those ingredients that are part of the existence. With a style that follows the spirit of the “enfants terrible” of the Nouvelle Vague, but with the Madrid feel, the film leaves space for spontaneity.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: Kantfish101)
NOSTROMO by Fisnik Maxville | Switzerland | 2021 | 82'
Visions du Réel - Festival International de Cinéma, 2021, National Premiere
A raw and visually engaging film about the dream of living alone in the wild. Through its characters, Nostromo explores the complex relationship of humans with Nature, and the thin line between the struggle for survival and the desire to find happiness and bonding in an often unforgiving world.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: CANADA_2021)
Visions du Réel - Festival International de Cinéma, 2021, National Premiere
A raw and visually engaging film about the dream of living alone in the wild. Through its characters, Nostromo explores the complex relationship of humans with Nature, and the thin line between the struggle for survival and the desire to find happiness and bonding in an often unforgiving world.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: CANADA_2021)
VILCA
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2020 | 96'
Ricardo Vilca was one of the most influential artists of the Argentine Northwest in the last decades. However, for years, his talent and musical works were hidden from the general public, remaining where they belong, protected in the Quebrada de Humahuaca mountain valley. By a twist of fate, his songs reached the country’s capital in recent years (sung by famous musicians like León Gieco, Divididos and Skay Beilinson) as well as other remote corners of the planet such as Kosovo and Madagascar. Including unreleased and exclusive material, “Vilca, the Magic of Silence” explores his history while paying homage to the musician in an attempt to understand the harmonious convergence of Andean beats, classical music and nature, which he developed in his work.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: 3910VLMDS)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2020 | 96'
Ricardo Vilca was one of the most influential artists of the Argentine Northwest in the last decades. However, for years, his talent and musical works were hidden from the general public, remaining where they belong, protected in the Quebrada de Humahuaca mountain valley. By a twist of fate, his songs reached the country’s capital in recent years (sung by famous musicians like León Gieco, Divididos and Skay Beilinson) as well as other remote corners of the planet such as Kosovo and Madagascar. Including unreleased and exclusive material, “Vilca, the Magic of Silence” explores his history while paying homage to the musician in an attempt to understand the harmonious convergence of Andean beats, classical music and nature, which he developed in his work.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: 3910VLMDS)
WIND AND TIDE
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2020 | 69'
Filmed during a school year at the experimental school “Los Biguá” on the Banks of the Carapachay River, in the Argentine Delta. A school for parents. Another way of viewing education in a permanent state of caution: does the State allow this school to exist? How do we keep it running? The southeastern wind blows and the tide rises. A self-sustaining educational project based on developing children’s autonomy from an early age, run by teachers and parents.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: wind&tideforusa)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2020 | 69'
Filmed during a school year at the experimental school “Los Biguá” on the Banks of the Carapachay River, in the Argentine Delta. A school for parents. Another way of viewing education in a permanent state of caution: does the State allow this school to exist? How do we keep it running? The southeastern wind blows and the tide rises. A self-sustaining educational project based on developing children’s autonomy from an early age, run by teachers and parents.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: wind&tideforusa)
THE COMMUNE by Jakub Julény | Slovakia| 2020 | 80'
Dok. Fest Munchen, 2021, World Premiere
The desire for freedom in Communist Czechoslovakia led to the formation of a group of individuals who professed an inclination towards the principles of the underground movement. They became outsiders by their own choice, so that they could live freely. Today, they live predominantly in the past, unable to overcome suspicions of betrayal in the form of cooperation with the secret police. Throughout their story drifts the spirit of their tragically departed guru.
In an effort to come to terms with the past, an old companion organizes a revival concert.
Will these freethinkers reach a truce?
TRAILER / Screener (Password: UnderOurGround)
Dok. Fest Munchen, 2021, World Premiere
The desire for freedom in Communist Czechoslovakia led to the formation of a group of individuals who professed an inclination towards the principles of the underground movement. They became outsiders by their own choice, so that they could live freely. Today, they live predominantly in the past, unable to overcome suspicions of betrayal in the form of cooperation with the secret police. Throughout their story drifts the spirit of their tragically departed guru.
In an effort to come to terms with the past, an old companion organizes a revival concert.
Will these freethinkers reach a truce?
TRAILER / Screener (Password: UnderOurGround)
THE GOLDEN LAND by Dominik Jursa | Slovakia | 2019 | 65'
The earth is full of treasures, yet everyone sees values in something else. For the locals, true wealth lies in simple cohabitation with the earth, for investors it lies hundreds of meters below it. The locals are bound by the desire to protect their sanctuary, the investors want to drill for oil. What will the outcome of this clash be and who will reap what?
TRAILER / Screener (Password: HatatitlA)
- Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, 2021, World Premiere
The earth is full of treasures, yet everyone sees values in something else. For the locals, true wealth lies in simple cohabitation with the earth, for investors it lies hundreds of meters below it. The locals are bound by the desire to protect their sanctuary, the investors want to drill for oil. What will the outcome of this clash be and who will reap what?
TRAILER / Screener (Password: HatatitlA)
MATTER OF MIND
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2019 | 77'
A universal story showing the circuit of garbage processing, from production to consumption. With its containers, packaging and wrappings: bulk that is discarded as soon as it’s bought. The waste. A journey through the metropolis until its final disposal. Throughout that trajectory, there are people, pollutants, margins and more. We notice garbage when it can be smelled. Is that why we try to get it as far away as possible from our homes? Is that why we bury it, burn it or toss it into the sea? What solutions could we come up with? It’s time to commit to reducing, recycling and reusing, seeing the value in used materials as potential sources of wealth that could create honest work for urban recyclers, the true environmental defenders of our society.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: NMcopynumber4591)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2019 | 77'
A universal story showing the circuit of garbage processing, from production to consumption. With its containers, packaging and wrappings: bulk that is discarded as soon as it’s bought. The waste. A journey through the metropolis until its final disposal. Throughout that trajectory, there are people, pollutants, margins and more. We notice garbage when it can be smelled. Is that why we try to get it as far away as possible from our homes? Is that why we bury it, burn it or toss it into the sea? What solutions could we come up with? It’s time to commit to reducing, recycling and reusing, seeing the value in used materials as potential sources of wealth that could create honest work for urban recyclers, the true environmental defenders of our society.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: NMcopynumber4591)
THE SUN RISES FROM THE GROUND
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2019 | 79'
The sun rises from the ground– Lihuntun Inchin Mapu documents the case of the Intercultural Neighborhood (“Barrio Intercultural”). A joint collaboration between Neighbors For a Home Association “Vecinos Sin Techo”, and the indigenous organization Lof Mapuche Curruhuinca, a national law was passed allowing for the recovery of lands that were previously under the administration of the Armed Forces. The community was given 400 hectares of joint property on which 250 homes are being built, reaching new levels of organization and dignity. The event transpires in San Martín de los Andes, a city that’s highly prized by tourism infrastructure development companies due to the beauty of its landscapes and its mountain sports, where public use of natural resources like streams, forest land, the lake and snowy areas is increasingly restricted.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: xsemanadeadn)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2019 | 79'
The sun rises from the ground– Lihuntun Inchin Mapu documents the case of the Intercultural Neighborhood (“Barrio Intercultural”). A joint collaboration between Neighbors For a Home Association “Vecinos Sin Techo”, and the indigenous organization Lof Mapuche Curruhuinca, a national law was passed allowing for the recovery of lands that were previously under the administration of the Armed Forces. The community was given 400 hectares of joint property on which 250 homes are being built, reaching new levels of organization and dignity. The event transpires in San Martín de los Andes, a city that’s highly prized by tourism infrastructure development companies due to the beauty of its landscapes and its mountain sports, where public use of natural resources like streams, forest land, the lake and snowy areas is increasingly restricted.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: xsemanadeadn)
MY NAME IS HUNGRY BUFFALO
by Pavel Jurda | Slovakia | 2017 | 90'
Jan calls himself Hungry Buffalo, loves westerns, is blind and is in danger of losing his hearing too. He and his wife, Zuzana, have a common bond - a longing for adventure. That is why they undertake a trip to America to meet a medicine man from the Navajo tribe who, through a ritual, is supposed to improve his hearing. Will Hungry Buffalo´s romantic notions about the lives of Indians survive a confrontation with reality? The charismatic Jan amongst the Indians gives the impression of Wild West´s Don Quixote - a naive adventurer in a world that is much more ordinary than his imagination.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: PAVEL)
by Pavel Jurda | Slovakia | 2017 | 90'
Jan calls himself Hungry Buffalo, loves westerns, is blind and is in danger of losing his hearing too. He and his wife, Zuzana, have a common bond - a longing for adventure. That is why they undertake a trip to America to meet a medicine man from the Navajo tribe who, through a ritual, is supposed to improve his hearing. Will Hungry Buffalo´s romantic notions about the lives of Indians survive a confrontation with reality? The charismatic Jan amongst the Indians gives the impression of Wild West´s Don Quixote - a naive adventurer in a world that is much more ordinary than his imagination.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: PAVEL)
KOUDELKA, SHOOTING HOLY LAND by Gilad Baram | Germany | 2019 Revised | 72'
four-year project in the region which will confront him once again with the harsh reality of violence and conflict.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: GILAD)
- Jihlava IDFF, 2015 National Premiere
four-year project in the region which will confront him once again with the harsh reality of violence and conflict.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: GILAD)
A HOLE IN THE HEAD by Robert Kirchhoff | Slovakia | 2017 | 90'
Little is known about the tragedy of the Roma and Sinti during the Second World War. They were murdered by the tens, hundreds and thousands; in concentration camps, by the edges of mass graves and roadsides, by rifl e butts, hammers or gas. Silence surrounds them. For years they existed and still exist on the edge of society. They survived and keep their memory and scars as proof. In a world where fascism is once again prevalent, they are one of the last living witnesses to the Holocaust. They exist with a hole in their head, an imprint from the past.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: iamspartakus)
Little is known about the tragedy of the Roma and Sinti during the Second World War. They were murdered by the tens, hundreds and thousands; in concentration camps, by the edges of mass graves and roadsides, by rifl e butts, hammers or gas. Silence surrounds them. For years they existed and still exist on the edge of society. They survived and keep their memory and scars as proof. In a world where fascism is once again prevalent, they are one of the last living witnesses to the Holocaust. They exist with a hole in their head, an imprint from the past.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: iamspartakus)
CHACO
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2017 | 80'
When the Carob tree was our livelihood, it was normal to see rabbits, armadillos, and other species around. The day the white man arrived, the black eagle warned us: Danger. Five men of different indigenous communities of the Greater Chaco region keep their people’s history of struggle alive, since the arrival of the first white men to the present day. Filmed in the Argentine provinces of Formosa, Chaco, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Buenos Aires, as well as in Bolivia and Paraguay. Spoken in Qom, Wichí, Pilagá and Spanish.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: chacofilm23)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2017 | 80'
When the Carob tree was our livelihood, it was normal to see rabbits, armadillos, and other species around. The day the white man arrived, the black eagle warned us: Danger. Five men of different indigenous communities of the Greater Chaco region keep their people’s history of struggle alive, since the arrival of the first white men to the present day. Filmed in the Argentine provinces of Formosa, Chaco, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Buenos Aires, as well as in Bolivia and Paraguay. Spoken in Qom, Wichí, Pilagá and Spanish.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: chacofilm23)
DRUMS OF RESISTANCE by Mathieu Jouffre | Kosovo | 2016 | 52' & 65'
DokuFest, 2016 National Premiere
When ex-Yugoslavia began to fall apart, the Serbian regime banned Kosovar Albanians from participating in public life. Albanian employees across public institutions were fired. Albanian media outlets were closed down. Many elementary and high schools were closed to Albanian students and the entire university system was shut down. During the 1990's in Kosovo, teaching resumed in private apartments, houses and basements stores. This documentary shows how a parallel society and reality was organized. It shows how segregation and apartheid became the norm. Besa Luci and Mathieu Jouffre wrote the script for this challenging film together. In it people are in a relaxed atmosphere: eating, drinking, chatting and revisiting vividly one of the most exciting as well as tragic periods in the history of Kosovo.
TRAILER / Screener 65’ (Password: drums2022) - Screener 52’ (Password: drums52)
DokuFest, 2016 National Premiere
When ex-Yugoslavia began to fall apart, the Serbian regime banned Kosovar Albanians from participating in public life. Albanian employees across public institutions were fired. Albanian media outlets were closed down. Many elementary and high schools were closed to Albanian students and the entire university system was shut down. During the 1990's in Kosovo, teaching resumed in private apartments, houses and basements stores. This documentary shows how a parallel society and reality was organized. It shows how segregation and apartheid became the norm. Besa Luci and Mathieu Jouffre wrote the script for this challenging film together. In it people are in a relaxed atmosphere: eating, drinking, chatting and revisiting vividly one of the most exciting as well as tragic periods in the history of Kosovo.
TRAILER / Screener 65’ (Password: drums2022) - Screener 52’ (Password: drums52)
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2015 | 68'
Over the past decade, Argentina has become a country of origin, transit and destination of trafficking. The pimps and the State’s corrupt officials make human trafficking a lucrative business. On the other side, there are the victims. But permeating this whole web are the clients, who are always safe from any sentence. It is on them, the men, that Human Trafficking sets its gaze.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: diciembre21)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2015 | 68'
Over the past decade, Argentina has become a country of origin, transit and destination of trafficking. The pimps and the State’s corrupt officials make human trafficking a lucrative business. On the other side, there are the victims. But permeating this whole web are the clients, who are always safe from any sentence. It is on them, the men, that Human Trafficking sets its gaze.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: diciembre21)
GREEN DESERT
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2013 | 87'
Green Desert is a feature-length documentary about the production of food that reveals current processes in the farming industry, posing the need to shine a spotlight on the problems associated with this business, like deforestation, the desertification of soils and pollution from herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, commonly known as “agrotoxics”.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: FNArtes2022)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2013 | 87'
Green Desert is a feature-length documentary about the production of food that reveals current processes in the farming industry, posing the need to shine a spotlight on the problems associated with this business, like deforestation, the desertification of soils and pollution from herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, commonly known as “agrotoxics”.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: FNArtes2022)
INLAND
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2011 | 103'
Inland captures various voices to tell the story of the struggle to extend the southern border of the Argentine and Chilean states during the 19th Century. And its repercussions and continuity in the present day. The film claims that the conquest of the desert (and the pacification of the Araucanian people on the Chilean side) was a crime against humanity which has still not seen justice. In a story that seeks to cover a great diversity of voices, encompassing different positions on the issue, Inland provides a different perspective on Argentine history.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: copianumero587)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2011 | 103'
Inland captures various voices to tell the story of the struggle to extend the southern border of the Argentine and Chilean states during the 19th Century. And its repercussions and continuity in the present day. The film claims that the conquest of the desert (and the pacification of the Araucanian people on the Chilean side) was a crime against humanity which has still not seen justice. In a story that seeks to cover a great diversity of voices, encompassing different positions on the issue, Inland provides a different perspective on Argentine history.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: copianumero587)
UPSTREAM
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2006 | 74'
A journey by train, hitchhiking, on foot and on mule-back from the city into the depths of the Andes… A personal journey for the film’s director, who explores everything from his family history – including an ancestor that blew up a sugar mill – to the consequences that the sugar industry had on the Kolla indigenous communities of the Iruya region.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: rioarribacopy376)
by Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | 2006 | 74'
A journey by train, hitchhiking, on foot and on mule-back from the city into the depths of the Andes… A personal journey for the film’s director, who explores everything from his family history – including an ancestor that blew up a sugar mill – to the consequences that the sugar industry had on the Kolla indigenous communities of the Iruya region.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: rioarribacopy376)