The Russian invasion of the Ukrainian territories becomes the reason for a divorced pacifist father to meet his daughter, which eventually escalates into his daughter being kidnapped by the Russians. The father is willing to do anything to find his daughter.
After a brutal battle, two knights wander a field of the dead, searching for the body of a fallen noble. As silence thickens and faith begins to decay, they face not just the weight of death, but the absence of divine order.
A war veteran struggles to readjust to civilian life after participating in fierce battles. He finds it difficult to find his place, even at home. After a fight in a pub, he is imprisoned in a military facility and then sent back home, where memories, physical and emotional trauma, and the sounds of war haunt him.
Through this haunting portrayal of an aid worker’s story, Salar Pashtoonyar sheds light on the troubling realities of a nation in turmoil in his measured and unsettling piece about the repercussions of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan.
Set in the early 1940s, a young Ukrainian woman is taken into custody because her statements about freedom are considered dangerous by a repressive system. Inspired by true events.
Serhii, a young man who fills his days with volunteer work, loses contact with his mother living in occupied territory. When his mother finally decides to evacuate, he learns that a humanitarian convoy from his hometown has been destroyed in a bombing raid.
During the 1944 Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, a Communist-led guerrilla squad and an undercover operative must unite their conflicting missions to rescue a downed Flying Tigers pilot, James, successfully breaking through an intense Japanese siege to secure his escape.
Set in early‑1980s Abadan under siege during the Iran–Iraq war, the film centers on a group striving to keep alive the Metropol Cinema, a beloved local theater now in ruins. Against the backdrop of conflict and nostalgia, characters recall their youth, childhood memories in the cinema, and cling to hope through the survival of this cultural landmark.
Kyiv, before 24 February 2022. A family is trying to make ends meet— though the fridge is permanently empty and the electric meter has sharp teeth. Then bombs hit the building across the street.
During the World War II, a Japanese war major and his soldiers hunt down a woman and her children who are trying to escape Thailand to return home to Malaysia.
After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, filmmaker Sandu reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children—and how healing and change are possible.
Rumbling in the distance. Concentrated harp playing. A barricaded apartment. David does his best to shut out the rest of the world so he can practice in peace. A neighbor knocks his door and wants him to seek safety in the basement, but David is not interested. He believes in art, not war.