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.
Screener
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.
Screener
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)
ROWDY GIRL by Jason Goldman | USA | 2023 | 72'
*HOT DOCS 2023 - TBC
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 - TBC
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)
THE PAVILION ON THE WATER by Stefano Croci & Silvia Siberini | ITA, NL, UK | 2023 - 52'-77’
*World Premiere Available
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)
*World Premiere Available
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 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)
MULBERRY by Almira Saifullina | Kazakhstan | 2023 | 65'
*World Premiere Available
An intimate look into the inner world of the ancient town of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, through the life of a young man, coming of age in the patriarchal society.
The film explores the interwoven layers of past and present, where the centuries-old traditions, Islamic canon and the patriarchal relationships between men and women find their place in the landscape of today's Central Asia.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: tut2022)
*World Premiere Available
An intimate look into the inner world of the ancient town of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, through the life of a young man, coming of age in the patriarchal society.
The film explores the interwoven layers of past and present, where the centuries-old traditions, Islamic canon and the patriarchal relationships between men and women find their place in the landscape of today's Central Asia.
TRAILER / Screener (Password: tut2022)
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)
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
EDUCATION AND NATIONALISM by Hisayo Saika | Japan | 2022 | 78'
Busan International Film Festival, 2022, 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)
Busan International Film Festival, 2022, 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)
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, United Kingdom | 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.
* Walks to follow the film screenings across the UK as part of a national outreach campaign and would be part of any further festival selection the film will have around the world, organising walks to promote conscience around Climate Change.
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.
* Walks to follow the film screenings across the UK as part of a national outreach campaign and would be part of any further festival selection the film will have around the world, organising walks to promote conscience around Climate Change.
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'
9° 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)
9° 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)
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.
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.
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)
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 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
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)
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)
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)