Three men emigrated to Poland in search of better life from Ingushetia, which is the smallest region of Russia, located in the northern Caucasus. What unites them is their nationality, but their ambitions differ. Movlat teaches Caucasian dancing, Ismail is a successful boxer, and Ali is a dancer. Over the course of 10 years, we follow their ups and downs in their new homeland.
DJ Edee Dee, or Edward Gil-Deskur, is a cult figure in the Krakow club world. Edward was born with congenital glaucoma and soon lost his sight completely. Artificial intelligence helps him adapt to the new reality, with which he begins to establish an increasingly deeper relationship.
In the 1970s, Don Lewis, an electronics engineer and musician, constructed a synthesizer that generated and mixed sounds on an unprecedented scale. However, trade unions protested against the invention, fearing that it would take away musicians' jobs.
When greedy property developers attempt to force the feisty 67-year-old Natalia off her small plot of land – a garden oasis in the midst of an apartment complex in Kyiv – she fights back, refusing to be defeated. When her entire country is subsequently invaded by ruthless land-grabbing individuals, her rebellious fight only grows stronger in spirit.
A trip to the creating of the theatrical costume, starting from the first idea in the costume designer's mind, until the final construction by the dressmaker's hand. The film follows the set up of the exhibition "Traces of ephemeral", coordinated by Ioulia Stavridou for the National Theater of Northern Greece. By her students to her memory.
A music documentary that invades and highlights the queer music community in Thessaloniki. Through conversations with the artists capétte and Demetria, concerns, personal searches and dreams are expressed, which go beyond the geographical space of Thessaloniki, and build a more rounded image around the representation of the LGBTI+ community in the music industry and in art.
The settlement of Dendropotamos, the gypsy settlement, is located to the west of Thessaloniki, on the outskirts of the city. It is surrounded by expressways, flyovers, the train tracks, the KTEL station, the abandoned camps. All "invisible" and degraded, the city's largest river underground, the lives of the residents and the environment together. Every day, thousands of cars pass over the torrent ignoring it. Despite the adversities, in the ghetto of Dendropotamos, the Lighthouse of the World (Minor Protection Center), the Second Chance School, the Women's Association of Dendropotamos, proud people resist and hope for a better future.
Magda and Michał, actors of the famous Teatr 21, created by people with Down syndrome, fall in love with each other. After the enthusiastically received proposal, the couple begins planning a wedding, which is met with mixed reactions from their loved ones.
Dimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world. In two tiny venues in Athens lies his renowned by the Guinness World Records collection. Now, 90 years old, Dimitris recounts his past, hidden in his machines, hoping that his memories are not going to be lost forever.
Activists of the LGBTQ+ association Rain Arcigay Caserta come back living in a property given to them in concession, confiscated from the Camorra in Castel Volturno. The goal is to reconnect with the local inhabitants and propose a new idea of sharing and regenerating the park.
Ornithologist Seán Ronayne from Cobh, Co. Cork, is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland – that’s nearly 200 birds. Often joined by his partner Alba, he travels to some of the country’s most beautiful and remote locations to capture its most elusive species and soundscapes: the busy seabird colony of Skellig Michael; a native woodland free from road noise in the Burren; the corncrake stronghold of Tory Island; a solitary nest in the Donegal uplands. Along the way we get to know Seán, whose hypersensitivity to sound has proven both a struggle and a strength. At once inspiring and cautionary, Seán’s journey illustrates the beauty and importance of sound, and what listening can tell us about the state of our natural world.
“For a very long time, I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was a dream,” she said. But even they, enjoying the beautiful park, hardly notice the planes roaring overhead from a nearby military base.
In the winter of early 1943, 12 Norwegian resistance members crossed the Hardangervidda to put a stop to the creation of an atomic bomb, in what has become one of history’s most astounding and beloved adventure tales. Now, exactly 80 years after the event, an international expeditionary team retrace their footsteps.
Teodor Kovač, Ivan Ivanji and Marta Flato survived the 1942 pogrom known as the Novi Sad raid, when Hungarian fascists killed more than a thousand people from Novi Sad and dumped their bodies under the ice of the Danube river. Sociology professor Marija Vasić fights against forgetting and teaches students about the Novi Sad raid, while the local authorities erect a controversial monument to innocent victims, and on that list are the names of war criminals who participated in the Novi Sad raid.
Bonnie Greer looks back on the extraordinary life of one of literature’s most significant and inspirational figures, Maya Angelou, through an exploration of the BBC archives.
Ali has become an important part of the sleepy little village Lillpite. His car workshop is a second living room for the residents. But what happens when Ali's application for permanent residence gets rejected, and he decides to leave?