They Live

A short love story about birth, life and death of video rental stores in Belgrade, Serbia.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Marko Kon, Milan Krunić, Dimitrije Vojnov, Aleksandar S. Janković, Miroslav "Miša" Aleksić, Goran Nikolić

Polyland

Polyland gives a voice to three strong female characters from different minorities in Poland and explores the nuances of how it feels to be black, Muslim or LGBTQ+ in the most homogenous country in an ever more right-leaning Europe

Genre: Dokumentalny

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I Won't Die

Gabor is a successful, life-loving gallery owner, part of the artistic high society of Budapest. He is always busy, surrounded by many people, constantly marching towards higher and higher goals. One day his seemingly perfect life is shaken by a hurtful breakup and the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Persona non grata - Soran Ismail

Comedian Soran Ismail was accused of several cases of sexual harassment in the fall of 2017. The charges were dropped due to lacking evidence. The documentary checks in with Soran over three years later - three years without work, about someone who has not been found guilty but where the accusations remain.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Vado Verso Dove Vengo

Vado verso dove vengo offers a complex meditation on emigration, immigration, and belonging. From New York City to Aliano, from London to Castelmezzano, the voices of emigrants and of their descendants narrate tales filled with emotions of leaving and of remaining, of desertions and returns to small towns on Italy’s fringes, where emigration and depopulation have left enduring scars and where economic and geographical health are emergencies desperately requiring attention. Governmental inattention is to blame, and it still runs rampant in Italy. Is it possible, after more than 100 years of emigration, to forge a new balance between local communities and global flows? Can small towns hold the key to innovative projects and sensibilities that will inform the future?

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Hope Dies Last

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Factorial Juggling

The story of the lowest point on Earth, a wild beach in Israel. It is there, on the border with Palestine, in a country where there is a constant conflict of war, that an oasis of peace has been created. A place where people come to lay their heavy bodies on the thick suspension of the Dead Sea. One day a new resident disturbs the harmony of the place.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Silent Trees

The main character of the documentary is a 16-year-old Kurdish girl who, after the tragic death of her mother on the Polish-Belarusian border, has to become a mother to her 4 younger brothers.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Animacja

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Altered States of Consciousness

A film about the possibilities of our brain. A poetic journey deep into the world of thoughts of people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. Where do the boundaries of our minds lie, and how much does culture confine or even extinguish our creativity in everyday life and even in love? In the film, we meet people of various ages who experience autism to differing degrees on the spectrum of the illness. With some, there is practically no contact at all, whereas others at first glance give the appearance of being “healthy.” Each of our subjects is a separate world and a unique means of seeking his or her own path in life.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Third End of the Stick

Otherness in otherness. What does it mean to be different in a community that is itself excluded from society? The documentary follows the fate of Roma who have become a minority in a minority society. Roma gays and transvestite search for their living space and dream of working abroad. A legless father of five longs for a wheelchair. A Roma grandmother sacrifices her life for the health of her beloved grandson. Will Emil, a Roma man who has found faith in God, be able to save his son from alcohol? Four stories from the poorest Roma settlements in Slovakia aim to break down prejudices between the Roma community and the white majority.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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To My Brother

A young woman celebrates the connection she has with her brother through the art of photography.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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We Will Talk Again

Two brothers on the threshold of adulthood still live with their mother and grandmother. In an apartment, they fight for even the smallest bit of autonomy, and each of them has a different strategy for moving around this difficult terrain. However, the family portrait is not complete - it lacks the father, whose significant absence returns with a dull tone in the telephone receiver.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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More Alive Than Dead

Was Sigmund Freud a revolutionary genius who changed our thought and sought to release humanity from shackles of oppression, religion and hypocrisy? Or was he a greedy and devious charlatan who swindled theories from others? Was he the generator of the present sense of individuality or did he contaminate humanity’s moral values with selfcenteredness? With debate from world-renowned Freud experts and philosophers, and animation, humour, art and music, More Alive than Dead explores the multifaceted Freudian influence on our culture and society.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Amexica: Life in the Borderlands

A road trip, over ten years, across the so-called Amexican border, a mythical abyss, both physical and cultural, that separates the United States of America from the United Mexican States; a journey in search of the multiple stories of those who inhabit it or are passing through; the conquest of the Rio Grande and the infamous Wall: an audacious expedition that aims to paint a colorful fresco where politics, violence, visual poetry and frustrated ambitions cruelly coexist.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Holy Water

There are 36 days left before Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. On another Baptism of Christ holiday an ice hole was made in a pond in a bedroom suburb of Kyiv. Church bells are heard on the shore, people are undressing, standing in line... In this short observational film, closeups of people of different ages, lines of naked bodies and short conversations tell us about the fragility of life, the contradictions of human faith and the joy of existence.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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When Flowers Are Not Silent

Another rigging of the presidential election in Belarus in 2020 led to massive civil resistance which the country had never experienced before. Brutal suppression of the peaceful protests resulted in more massive marches. Yet, the peaceful protests, having lasted for several months, did not achieve Alexander Lukashenko’s resignation from the president’s post he’s been holding for 27 years. Instead, political repressions in Belarus increased dramatically and became the largest in the history of Europe since the 1970s. The documentary focuses on the lives of Belarusian families who try to continue living and carry on despite being traumatised. Looking at their lives, we can see the pain and hope, feel the fear and determination of these people. An extraordinarily moving film from a Belarusian director living in Poland.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Artist & the Pervert

Composer Georg Friedrich Haas and African-American kink educator Mollena Lee Williams enter into a complicated relationship.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Mollena Williams

Entre les autres

Adèle, aged 12, doesn't want to go back to school. She prefers to skateboard and watch the others from a distance. But this isolation leads her to question the kind of woman she wants to be when she grows up.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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In My Hands

A young, determined man, despite missing a left arm, strives to be a hero as a firefighter and father.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Forever Prisoner

The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Abu Zubaydah, Ali Soufan, Stephen Gaudin, James Mitchell, John Rizzo, Hesham Abu Zubaidah, Joseph Margulies, Chantell Higgins, Steven Kleinman

Phantoms of the Sierra Madre

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that fervently seeks to remain in obscurity.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Pius Garcia, Lars K. Andersen, Håvard Bustnes

Yarik the Rascal

The movie is about Yarik "Rascal" Godunok, the commander of a volunteer squad in the Russo-Ukrainian War. His small unit held the defense of one of the villages in Kyiv region against Russian troops for almost a month. During this time, he survived many shellings, got wounded several times, and had to overcome the distrust of military officials.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion

Hiding behind the shiny Instagram façade of Brandy Melville, the go-to clothing brand for young women, is a shockingly toxic culture that lies within the global fast fashion industry.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Slovo House

Chain-smoking artists, poets and playwrights were among the colourful array of intellectuals living in the ‘Slovo House’ in 1920s Ukraine. The communist paradise was built under Stalin's approval, but it quickly became a prison. The brutal Soviet regime spied on the inhabitants, destroying their eccentric way of life and sealing their fate. This fascinating film explores the extraordinary story of the building and its residents.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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