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- We all live in one story but different realities. Or perhaps, we all live in one reality but different stories. And in between, there is just a mask.
- Botanical and film archives weave together in the art of overcoming time, attempting to preserve what will become memory.
- Shot in the Dark is a documentary on three blind photographers: Pete Eckert, Sonia Soberats and Bruce Hall. A documentary on three blind people who devote their lives to creating images. What do they see in their mind's eyes? Do they sense that which we sighted miss, overlook, or don't take into consideration? Their images, as we sighted can see, are extraordinary. "Even with no input the brain keeps creating images," says Pete Eckert. Sonia Soberats states, "I only understood how powerful light is after I went blind." Shot in the Dark is a journey into an unfamiliar yet fascinating realm. "My camera is like a bridge," claims Bruce Hall. All these photographers embrace fantasy, chance, and contingency at a fundamental level. Shot in the Dark enriches our understanding of perception and creation. We all close our eyes in sleep, the sighted and blind alike, and in our dreams - we see.
- Ex-American G.I returns to Germany after 20 years to make a film and oddly enough winds up homeless on the streets of Berlin. While there, he ends up discovering secrets about himself and his past family history.
- The Hotel Lunik is a refuge for a group of radical utopists. In the center of it all, are the Siblings Franz and Babette, who through their anti-capitalist guerrilla campaigns call into question the basis for a money-based society. On the other side Franz's cousin Toni, is setting up a nightclub on the ground floor of the hotel with an entrepreneurial spirit in diametric opposition to it's surroundings. Guests are to be lured with a high-class lounge act along with a quiz show developed by Franz's own father, Alfons. Toni and his loyal bartender Viktor have their hands full contending with the difficulties of an unmotivated workforce. Among Lunik's odd population are Tom, the bellman with a screw loose, Nora, the pretty cook peeling potatoes and dreaming of a world in show business, and Emilia, the chronically sick photographer who wants to spend her last weeks singing in the company of friends. The criminal campaigns of Franz and Babette, reveal themselves to the undercover agent Max, as he gets closer to Babette. The two are in love. The romantic entanglements further complicate themselves as Franz falls for the filmmaker, Josephine. She arrived to make a documentary about the Luniks, upon hearing about the cause of Franz and his Christian communist enclave. Beyond that, the love-hate relationship between Alfons and Emilia thickens, as does Tom's adoration for the fed-up Nora, who's being snatched up by Toni for his nightclub pursuits. When Franz and Babette hold up a supermarket, the ground falls out from beneath them, and results in a chain of events from which no one remains unharmed.
- An atmospheric psycho thriller told from the perspective of a young woman who is the apparent victim of a conspiracy, and who later becomes herself a perpetrator.
- What does peace mean to you? And justice? Following 12 years of military rule (1973-1985) and the accompanying silence, it couldn't be taken for granted that people in Uruguay at the end of the 1980s would discuss such questions in such lively fashion in public. Two women take to public spaces across the country a U-matic camera and ask these questions of countless passers-by. The reason is a controversial amnesty law passed in 1986 that grants impunity for human rights violations and crimes committed by the police and the military under the dictatorship. Enthusiastically conducted conversations on the street are at the heart of this stirring film, which documents the mobilisation of civil society from collecting signatures for a referendum to the day of the actual vote. TV ads and campaign spots from the time supplement the smartly edited video footage, which has never been used previously. One can hear a plurality of opinions, experience a society in upheaval and recognise the importance of the public sphere as a stage for political debate. An example of democracy in action, of the kind that once again needs defending in many places in the world today.
- In Cape Town's informal settlements, the government never built a sewage system, hence the absence of flush toilets. Each resident must therefore devise an individualized solution to dispose of their excrement.
- Through the stories of three prominent Ukrainian politicians, from 2013 to the present day, we witness the country's struggle for democracy, autonomy and geopolitical stability. We follow our protagonists as they evolve from activists to politicians in a fragile democratic system, to defenders of their country against the Russian invasion.
- In the beginning there are human beings. Human beings lived together in harmony with few quarrels. When they did argue it didn't result in an abyss that ended up separating everyone into groups with different ethnicity. But the war declares human beings as enemies, those who have previously always regarded each other as neighbors and friends. After the filmmaker Kristof Gerega's Grandmother dies, more questions come up. Questions that won't let go of him. Gerega discovers an alarming and contemporary (hi)story which comes from his own roots but not based on any underlying truth.
- Based on rare archives, the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura - an agricultural cooperative founded in Mali in 1977 by West African immigrant workers living in workers' accommodation in France - sheds light on the violence of colonial agriculture and the ecological challenges in Africa today.
- A poetic incursion in the memory of Aromanians, who have roamed throughout the history of Europe, finding places to live and prosper in the entire Balkan Peninsula. A Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, Romance language speakers living south of the Danube, saw themselves persecuted and threatened with death in bloody territorial battles at the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the ensuing formation of nations. Without a territory and a written language, they get banished from history and are in constant wandering. An invitation to explore a history full of atmosphere and layered echoes, a world seen from an ultra-personal perspective, a complex essay, conveyed through multiple meaningful layers of image, spoken word, song, and emotion, staging archives that passionately interpret this perpetual tragic wandering that is also full of courage.
- Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas remain as deep as ever.
- For a quarter of a century, Frank Castorf has created a microcosm in the Volksbühne that many considered to be an identity-forming fortress and a renegade island in the increasingly chic and monotonous centre of the capital. The marathon productions for which he was responsible were true orgies of association that demanded everything from the audience. The film accompanies Castorf's final season and is there when the theatre people get together once more to start a last fireworks display in the face of an uncertain future.
- THE PLACE WE LEFT is a film about six people, all born in Sarajevo, who left the city mostly due to war. They talk about their experiences fleeing their city, settling down somewhere else, or being caught in the middle.
- At a holiday resort, in the elegance of bygone days, the camera follows its only guest, an actress, through a day's schedule filled with idle time that is determined by others: a casting session for a film project; a grotesque screen test. Even the instructions given by the female director don't seem to reveal any comprehensible aim. A film in a delightfully uncertain state of expectancy - like a wanderer: forever searching, yet never quite arriving.
- Zoli earns his livelihood abroad by skinning chinchillas in a Danish fur factory. The film begins with the story of Zoli's return to the periphery, to the small Hungarian village of Jaba. Zoli's family, settled Romas, struggle to earn their living by hiring themselves out as day-laborers. For Zoli, Jaba has no work and no prospects, so he kills time and waits. Standstill. "Jaba" tells the story of survival in one of Europe's poorest regions.