The gripping story of how Iranian Hamid Noury was lured to Sweden in an elaborate plan, where he was arrested, tried, and convicted of gross violations of international law and murder. Through court testimonies and historical accountsfrom victims of the regime, the film explores a history of political violence, grief, resistance, and fragile justice.
A sincere and personal story about the world of people who stutter. The film follows the story of an extraordinary therapist, Grażyna Malczyk, who believes she has discovered a new method for combating stuttering.
Of how many of our daily actions do we ask ourselves the real why? Especially if one is male, and if one's appearance is given so much for neutrality that it does not represent a disguise, but a simple inevitability of things. A female gaze invites men to ask themselves these whys.
Hidayet Usta is a shoemaker in his early 80s who has made a living repairing shoes. Having separated from his wife years ago and with a strained relationship with his children, Hidayet lives alone, but contentedly in his own world.
A distance of 769 kilometres is what separates a bakery in Kyiv from New York, an occupied town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. This is where bread baked by people with intellectual disabilities ends up. Although they struggle with their own difficulties, their work saves people in the east of the country, in war-torn areas cut off from supplies. The bakery is a refuge where they can become part of a larger community, which empowers them. In wartime, there is no room for labels or social divisions – only actions matter.
Magda loves horse riding, but unfortunately she can't continue her passion. The increasingly popular in Poland hobby horising comes to her aid. The girl takes part in competitions, where she is overcome with doubts.
Wanting to improve her distant relationship with her depressive father, the adult daughter tries to persuade him to have a deeper conversation and seeks a way to understand him.
Each of us tells a story about ourselves. Sometimes to show something, but sometimes – to hide something. Thousands of lamps, and among them one stubborn collector – fifty-year-old Janusz.
Maciej wants to make a documentary about a certain ghetto fighter and accidentally comes across his descendant, Joseph, who lives in Paris. The guys start a fight for a plaque commemorating his great-grandfather, while also looking for answers about the meaning of rebellion and roots in today's world.
An intimate documentary woven from conversations with today’s teenagers. It explores growing up in the age of social media — the fears, the pressure, the quiet rebellion against adults. While the times keep changing, the emotions stay the same: loneliness, the need for acceptance, feeling lost.
Portrait a girl who has been living in Poland for some time with her blind parents and four-legged friends. Although the family seems to be settling in well in their new country, actively participating in events organized by the Ukrainian community, they still long for their homeland.
"I'm looking for someone who wants to make a film about them" - was the announcement that the director published while searching for a new subject for a documentary. The film is a recording of the casting process that the director conducted with the candidates.
After almost two years of a class full of unique personas and flairs, at last, 12 STEM 1 stars in a limited documentary feature series as they paint the academic year with high flying colors.
Learning to Walk 2 offers a portrait of the legendary animator Borivoj Dovniković Bordo through a long period of the artist's life, witnessing challenging social and political upheavals, focusing on those moments in which the artist himself becomes, in a way, his own main character. Through a combination of Bordo's animated works, comics and caricatures, this film seeks to speak about the freedom of creativity and seeks an answer to the eternal question: is there a systematic environment in which we truly and truly walk or do we walk lamely, as Bordo's universal hero does.
"During Covid, I was contacted online by a woman who lived in Berlin - a French-Caribbean singer and performance artist. She said she was a fan of my work and we started corresponding. These text messages turned into nightly Zoom calls which turned into a desire to meet in person. But travel restrictions in Germany and the US limited our choice to a handful of countries, one of which was England. She had a friend in London with an apartment that was going to be empty at the same time that my ex-wife was taking our kids to Maine for two weeks. So we decided to meet there. She wanted us to make a film together so I suggested we make a film about our relationship." - Caveh Zahedi
2-channel film installation 'Die Last meines Namens', wherein Heydt deals with an unpleasant part of his own family history. Heydt’s great-grandfather was a member of the NSDAP and mayor of the small town of Haselünne in Emsland for almost 10 years during the Third Reich. Based on interviews with his grandfather and research in various archives, Heydt develops a personal perspective on the subject. The film deals with how we construct identity from oral retellings, how we process family histories, and how we can find current and personal points of access to German remembrance culture. At the heart of the work are two conversations with his grandfather Heinrich Heydt, recorded at different points in the research process. In them, the grandfather describes his memories of his father, the time, and the two reflect on the subject and the results of the research.
How to Get on with Everybody follows the remarkable life of Rabbi Gluck, a unique figure within the Haredi community who is crossing divides and building friendships in unlikely places.
Buğçe embarks on a journey through her family’s past—following her grandfather’s escape from Greece in 1974 and her father’s forced migration from Bulgaria in 1989. Through stories of displacement, she explores themes of belonging, identity, and memory. The paths to her grandfathers’ homes reveal that, beyond borders and time, we all meet within the same longing.