Every week, at dusk, a group of people transform an urban space in the heart of Granada into a vibrant scene of life and rhythm. "Plaza Nueva at ten" captures the passion that drives these dancers, showing how music and movement give them new vitality. Through their stories, we witness the joy and connection they find in dance, proving that passion knows no age. This documentary is a tribute to the strength of the human spirit and the ability of art to fill any space with life.
May 1977. Undercover British army Captain Robert Nairac is abducted and killed by the IRA - his body secretly buried. Decades on, a former enemy searches for his remains.
A letter to my grandfather, my great-grandfather's diary, my childhood home, and the recovered images from that time. A search for the beginning of a memory I've inherited.
Running is the easiest way to get to know yourself. The Paris Marathon, the Tallinn Marathon – the list could go on. These competitions challenge professional and amateur athletes alike. In recent years, recreational sports have grown in popularity in Estonia, with many events to participate in and plenty of participants. It has become part of the lifestyle. The documentary “Until the End” introduces four inspiring runners: Liis-Grete Hussar, Karel Hussar, Sandra Ratasepp, and Meelis Kalda. The film binds together professional sports and recreational running, highlighting both passionate moments of competition and personal challenges. Director Andres Luidre showcases the passion and perseverance that motivates people to do sports, even at amateur level. The joy of movement, being healthy, and overcoming oneself are the main priorities, with the medal at the finish line being just a nice bonus.
Shot in Roscoff and Île-de-Batz, Bretagne, Kostrov and his companions move through the unknown landscape, in displacement. Their contours blur under his camera’s gaze – looking not at, but into, with and through. Captured briefly along the way, gestures and textures of the world are given physical presence, where the filmmaker’s antiwar sentiment finds its echo. The title comes from an inscription found on a cottage there — a message from another time, another context: the same plea.
The documentary directed by Natacha Horn explores the creative and emotional journey of British singer songwriter Tanita Tikaram, blending music, intimacy and reflection into something both cinematic and deeply human.
Fighting in the Soviet era, his daughter died in battle and a house he can no longer live in. It sounds like too much for a lifetime, but Viktor Yaroshenko from Ukraine has experienced it all.
Mallorca, a holiday dream. And an island with too many tourists and too little living space. But there is also another story hidden between the colourful beach umbrellas and picturesque hiking trails: a tightly entangled one of military dictatorship and forced labour, of forgetting and concealment, of the struggle for memorial sites… Jaume Serra Cardell, a teacher from Sa Pobla, was shot dead in 1937 in the military fortress of Illetes, on Mallorca. Today, his niece is fighting for a critical examination of the historical past and is collecting evidence.
Director Alexandra Bidian goes to Romania, the home country of her late father. She invites her mother and sister along to the land where they used to spend their summer holidays, but this time in search of memories. It is her attempt to address and voice things, and her means to understand the man who wrote a lot and spoke very little, and about whom much remains in the dark. When her father came to Germany, he already had a life behind him – including decades of political involvement, which was documented not only by him, but also by the Securitate, socialist Romania’s secret police. Bidian combs through old boxes, reads letters, and peruses files. But instead of answers, she is left with more questions. A road trip to the past, and a letter to her father. Using archival material, family pictures, and interviews with friends and associates, Bidian tries to track down who her father was – and how her own story is intertwined with his life and his actions, as well as with his losses.
Ten years ago, young Syrian Alayham fled civil war, and the threat of being drafted, for Germany. There, he became one of the first refugees in Eckernförde – there were six of them at the time, he later remembers. Quickly learning German, he got politically involved in refugee projects, and spoke publicly about his experiences. A move to Jena for university followed: a new everyday life with exam stress, living in a shared flat, a relationship. It was during his studies that he finally felt that he was no longer being reduced to his experience as a refugee: he belonged. Alayham found his feet, as much as possible in a foreign country. But when is “arriving” truly over? Over a period of ten years, documentary filmmaker Fredo Wulf accompanied Alayham on his journey from Schleswig-Holstein via Jena to Heidelberg, where he has lived since getting his medical license.
In Gaspésie in rural Quebec, a quirky Chinese motel owner navigates his quiet routine between fixing rooms and casting lines into the sea — until his filmmaker son visits for a week.
In 2002, Cheng's father murdered his mother. He is both the son of the perpetrator and the beloved son of the victim. That afternoon, he met the children of two other death row inmates. The three of them talked about life, about marriage, and about their greatest fear: their fathers, and the death penalty.
Winter is approaching in the remote Iranian Zagros Mountains, and 16-year-old Sogol lives a fragile life on the edge of childhood and adulthood. Her family's existence, rooted in nature and sustained by tradition, is shaped by patriarchal customs and the pressures of a changing world. Though she lacks a formal education, Sogol dreams of a different future for her younger family member Delaram, believing education can break the cycle of tradition and offer new possibilities. Sogol dares to imagine a future beyond the mountains for Delaram, but delicate dreams can be easily lost in the harsh wilderness.
Once a beloved playmate of her childhood, Markku had withdrawn into solitude, devoting his life to inner freedom and creativity rather than the expectations of society. Now his voice returns – sometimes playful, sometimes wounded, always searching – guiding Karin through his life’s work and opening space for an unusual collaboration between the living and the dead.