Tells the extraordinary story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, played and created music amidst the terrors of the Holocaust.
Pale Alison is a youth band from Narva. When the communist regime collapsed, these young people were left in families in Narva, where the euphoria of a great home republic disappeared and the confusion between the new and old world order created daily tensions. How to live if your father is a Putinist, but your mother loves Europe and a free Estonia?
The young Portuguese artist Rafa. is facing a turning point in his career, composing, recording and balancing roots and ambitions as he prepares to leave for Leeds and finalize his first EP.
Charlotta Björck leaves a stable career in healthcare to fully commit to her dream of becoming a comedian. But just as her big break seems within reach, her personal life begins to falter - her relationship is tested, motherhood demands her full attention, and her career takes unexpected turns. At the same time, the challenges of everyday life become a source of inspiration for her creativity. Director Ellen Fiske (Scheme Birds, 2019; Leaving Jesus, GFF 2024) crafts an intimate and moving portrayal, brought to life by Pia Lehto’s sensitive cinematography, of one of Sweden’s most talked-about comedians in recent years.
A light kept on to deter makes it hard to see past your reflection. In Fear Fokol, we take a nightly ride into the fears and anxieties of Johannesburg’s wealthy inhabitants by following the work of the private security guards hired to protect them. The illusion of security slowly dissolves as we dig into a fragile climate of inequality, paranoia and masculinity in crisis.
Ultras – the heart and soul of football stadiums around the globe. The supporters that will do anything for the team and yields that extra power into the game to help their team win. ULTRAS is not your regular sports film. Through epic images and a cinematic mosaic of football supporters and their societal contexts around the world, we portray a subculture that is widely known but yet mysterious and inaccessible for most of us.
The mafia-like structures in the Calabrian Mesoraca were built up in the 1990s, mainly thanks to weapons from Switzerland. The hub of the illegal trade was Ticino. An investigation into how the ‘Ndrangheta infiltrated a small Swiss town.
The camera accompanies Lukas Bärfuss for five years to various theatre productions, readings and research trips. On the road and at his home, it becomes clear who is behind the often sharp and pointed texts.
Tarasp Castle in the Lower Engadine sits enthroned on a rock and is visible from afar. The castle was managed by the director's family for three generations; she grew up there. Using documentary and animated film elements, she tells the eventful story of the centuries-old castle.
Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi's one-woman show tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for equality, challenging audiences with uncomfortable truths when her pursuit of coexistence starts sounding absurd.
Filmmaker Tadashi explores his father Robert A. Nakamura's life as an influential Asian American artist and activist, while grappling with Robert's Parkinson's diagnosis, navigating themes of art, grief, and their father-son relationship.
Selena Quintanilla's journey from performing at local events to becoming the "Queen of Tejano Music" with her family band Selena y Los Dinos, culminating in sold-out stadium tours, is chronicled through personal archive footage.