A biographical documentary about the challenging life and tumultuous career of poet Ana Blandiana, who was banned by the communist dictatorship before being officially recognized as a writer.
Filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi documents fragments of her private life and collects amateur footage of unknown filmmakers as a personal manifesto against the repression of the Iranian Islamic regime.
A sophisticated documentary with impeccable aesthetics about the life of the Sorbs in Lusatia. It explores how they manage to preserve the culture of an ancient Slavic people in the midst of the German landscape.
Map collecting meets a profound journey into legacy and self-discovery, brought to life through stunning visuals and intimate storytelling.
Offering a journey into the wealth of China’s traditional architecture while exploring the hinterlands of self and other in their encounter, the film addresses the process of 'harmonising' rural China, due to the country’s Great Uprooting. It seeks to engage the viewer further by asking: What exactly is disappearing? And how?
What is life really like for workers in Eastern Europe who, in the hope of a better life, are forced to leave their families to work in the West?
Based on a dialog between the director, Maka Gogaladze, and her mother about the pressures from the former’s childhood, perfectionism, and conditioning affection based on performance, the film formulates an ideological critique of Georgian education.
What is it like to wake up one day and be declared dead by the state? Despite being alive, Constantin Reliu becomes invisible to the administrative system, and the director becomes witness to a lonely and agonizing battle against a Kafkaesque system.
A subtle political critique of the consequences of systemic failures in Congo and geopolitical interests in Africa on the daily struggle for survival and dignity of the inhabitants of Kinshasa, formulated as a hypnotic foray into the collective mind.