When his two daughters were born, the filmmaker felt an urgent need to return to the valley. The valley of his childhood, of happy summers spent in the mountain pastures, but also the valley of a rupture: the downfall of his alcoholic father.
Entertaining portrait of Erlend Štaub - a self-made professional photographer working at the president's annual reception, theatrical premieres, and film festivals like Black Nights and Cannes, and talking about life and everything in it.
Aleksandr, a defense officer and mission veteran from a Russian family, decides to leave the service after a successful 15-year career to provide a better life for his children. Having led dozens of men in a dangerous war, Aleksandr quickly discovers that ordinary life is harder for him than the battlefield. To become the best, he must start from scratch. Aleksandr tries his hand at private business several times, but all his ventures – various catering companies in Tapa and Tallinn, a flower shop and a sports club – fail. After several failures and introspection, Aleksandr finally finds a way to apply the valuable knowledge he gained on the battlefield to the civilian sector. He starts offering team and leadership training to Estonian companies, applying the skills and knowledge he gained from the war.
The events related to the death of Giulio Regeni, kidnapped, tortured and killed in Egypt, with the reconstruction of his family and lawyer Alessandra Ballerini, showing the stages of the kidnapping, the torture and killing.
A mysterious Being in a near future investigates a world devoid of human life and determines to unravel what led to the elimination of almost all lifeforms by using voice recordings they retrieved from the past – interviews made by filmmaker Susanne Brandstätter with prominent international experts and scientists before the elimination events. Each interview discloses new clues indicating what led to the deterioration of the environment, to the biosphere, to crops and finally to the extinction of humankind. Yet though Hungry’s visuals show a possible and grim future, the interviews deliver a positive argument for action: this vicious cycle can be broken before it’s too late.
An affectionate portrait of the forgotten town of Tapoleng, where church once served as a sanctuary for its residents during the old apartheid order. Here, a new religion emerges – one tethered to a new spiritual practice, community and self-determination.
X, a young man navigating the intensity of life in Luanda — a city that mirrors the energy and contradictions of many African megacities. Alongside his siblings, Lele and Maria, he takes refuge in art, wrestles with faith, and draws strength from the bond of brotherhood. Together, they find release in the underground — from poetry slams to clandestine clubs — where words become weapons of resilience.
On a quiet night with no audience but each other, four dancers pass a slow night revealing the quiet, messy, and surprisingly tender reality of life behind the glitter.
When France relinquished the colonial outpost of Pondicherry after India’s independence in 1947, it gave its subjects the option between French and Indian citizenships. Inadequately publicised, this voluntary path to enfranchisement failed to reach the vast majority of Pondicherry’s population, who became Indian citizens by default. A fraction of those left behind continue to fight for what they perceive to be their birthright.