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  • As long as you still have arms

    Luisa Bäde • Germany • 2020 • 93′

    In a studio room filled with puppets, we meet Frank Karbstein. He remembers the 1980s in the German Democratic Republic, when Frank’s puppeteer group is arrested for distributing pacifist leaflets. After being sentenced to imprisonment, the defendants are offered the opportunity to go to the West through a secret buy-out of political prisoners. Frank remains. As does the question of who betrayed them? And why?

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  • Forget Me Not

    Sun Hee Engelstoft • Denmark • 2019 • 86′

    What makes a mother give away her baby? This is the big question in Sun Hee Engelstoft’s heartbreaking film about three Korean women who have become pregnant outside of marriage and are now hiding from the outside world until they give birth. They live in a shelter for unwed mothers on a South Korean island, where beautiful landscapes are in sharp contrast to the fierce dilemma that women go through: should they keep their children or give them up for adoption?
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  • Garage People

    Natalija Yefimkina • Germany • 2020 • 93′

    In post-Soviet Russia there is a phenomenon beyond ice fishing, matryoshkas and vodka: the garage settlement. Seemingly inhospitable tin sheds from the outside, they offer a refuge to a large number of Russians – most of them men. Here they create alternative living spaces within a few square metres… Behind the Arctic Circle, in a rough area dominated by the local mining company as the only employer, the garage remains the last chance for self-fulfillment.

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  • Half Elf

    Jón Bjarki Magnússon • Iceland • 2020 • 62′

    A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Now, as his one hundredth birthday nears and Trausti senses the hand of death upon him he is on a quest to find the coffin that can carry this elf back to the mysteries beyond…. Meanwhile, Hulda retreats into a world of poetry with the help of an electric magnifying glass. Half Elf is a modern Icelandic fairy-tale, where life is celebrated – despite everything, despite ourselves and despite the reality that awaits us all in the end.

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  • Holy Father

    Andrei Dăscălescu • Romania • 2020 • 85′

    The filmmaker, Andrei, and his girlfriend, Paula, face the news of becoming parents. While the future mother is struggling with no worthy role models in her broken family, the soon-to-be father must come to terms with his own, long-lost father, now a monk on Mount Athos. Andrei’s visits to the monastery seek to solve the mystery of his father’s leaving the family when Andrei was only six. Could this be the key to learning how to become the father he never had?

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    Q&A Live with the film crew!
    Sunday, 25th of octomber, 19:30, you can participate in an online discussion with the director Andrei Dascalescu and protagonist Paula Niculescu.
    Link Zoom: https://bit.ly/3kdq34J
    Link Google Meet: https://bit.ly/3m6EnMN
    The discussion will be live on the film’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HolyFatherFilm/

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  • It Takes A Family

    Susanne Kovács • Denmark • 2019 • 60′

    Susanne Kovács is the grandchild of Jewish Holocaust survivors. Susanne’s German mother and her Danish Jewish father got married believing that the war was a closed chapter and that their different backgrounds would not affect their future together. But they were wrong. When Susanne is born, in the eyes of her Jewish grandparents she is a child of the enemy – a constant reminder of a painful past never reconciled within the family. Now, Susanne wants to break the silence. Is she at all allowed to dig into a family history that holds so many ghosts from the past? And maybe there is more than one truth?

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  • Long Live Love

    Sine Skibsholt • Denmark • 2020 • 75′

    Young Rosemarie has been diagnosed with cancer, and although the doctors say she will survive, the long treatment leaves a mark on her young life. Not least with regards to her relationship with her mother, whose affection and attention suffocates her. The film follows Rosemarie’s struggle to move forward with her life – with school and friends – but also to get the rest of her family to move on with theirs.

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  • Oeconomia

    Carmen Losmann • Germany • 2020 • 89′

    Our economic system has made itself invisible and eludes understanding. In recent years, we have often had little more than a diffuse and unsatisfactory feeling that something is going wrong. But what? The documentary reveals the rules of the game of capitalism and shows that paradoxically the economy only grows when we are in debt, that profits are only possible when we are in debt. But what if this a dangerous game that is played to the point of total exhaustion? What if the game is actually nearing its end?

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  • On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here

    Emma Charles, Ben Evans James • United Kingdom, Kazakhstan • 2020 • 64′

    An expansive journey through the Kazakh steppe, the documentary excavates layers of myth, history and geology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus Kazakhstan’s search for a post-Soviet identity and a state-sponsored programme of cultural production that on the one hand connects back to the ancient folklore and belief systems of the Silk Road, while on the other, seeks to embrace the values of Western capitalism.

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  • Order and Soul

    Zsuzsanna Bak • Hungary • 2019 • 50′

    Regina Mundi is the only surviving Cistercian community whose inextinguishable faith became even more powerful under communism and through the problems their religious order faced. Whilst members of other denominations were taken in for questioning and other individuals from apostolic groups were imprisoned, the sorors at Regina Mundi were still leading monastic lives when the authorities finally began to note their suspicions in 1967. How did the sisters react when they were finally confronted by the police?

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  • Promoting Success

    Aleksey Sukhovey • Russia • 2019 • 61′

    Several dozens of soldiers in the military echelon are transporting an exhibition with captured weapons from Syria across entire Russia. Musicians of military ensembles accompany this celebration. In each city, thousands of spectators meet them. People dance, take pictures. Children swear allegiance to their Motherland.

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  • Pure art

    Maksim Shved • Poland, Belarus • 2019 • 52′

    A mysterious artist appears in different districts of Minsk. He spreads his canvass and begins to paint. Curious passers-by spontaneously approach the painter and ask him questions about his work. The man never reveals what he is actually painting – he just replies with a question. He asks them what they see on the canvas. Art becomes an excuse to talk about life, the every-day reality, the state, social issues and human stories. Together, they reveal the secret of the “last dictatorship of Europe”.

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  • Return to Epipo

    Judit Oláh • Hungary • 2020 • 94′

    Back in the late 1980s, many Hungarian youngsters dreamed of a holiday at a unique summer camp, to a realm of role-playing and magic. The charismatic leader of Epipo cast a spell over the children, yet behind their innocent games lurked the shadow of humiliation and concealed abuse. Director Judit Oláh reunites with her former companions in an attempt to understand how Epipo’s insular and mysterious world of dark secrets is still a part of them all.

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  • Talking About Adultery

    Bára Jíchová Tyson • USA, Czech Rep • 2019 • 72′

    An eye-opening documentary about the challenges of monogamy and what it takes to create a trusting relationship. Hidden subjects reveal their most intimate stories of sex, love, lies, marriage, and adultery sharing frank truths about trust and human desire. The filmmaker’s quest to explore our shared human desire to build relationships, feel wanted, and be sexually satisfied frames her own self-discovery. Looking deeper and confronting her past leads her to her own partner and lover.

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  • The Corncrake Paradox

    Goerg Oberlechner • Austria • 2020 • 51′

    Austria celebrates its national holiday with a gigantic military parade on Vienna’s Hero’s Square. The documentary follows the production of a narrative which significantly contributes to a hegemonic understanding of state sovereignty, power and masculinity. Thousands of images of the parade are produced and distributed every year by state and private media outlets, spectators and the military itself. But what if we look at these images from a different perspective?

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  • The Diviners

    Roman Bordun • Ukraine • 2019 • 60′

    The main characters of the film are the inhabitants of the contemporary Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Their reality is multi-layered, unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous interpretations of good and evil, humanity and cruelty, charity and indifference. This story is a kaleidoscope, which features all of us: the righteous, the merciless, the funny, the naïve and the honest.

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  • The Free University

    Jonathan Hunter • Hungary • 2019 • 54′

    Imagine waking up as an “enemy of the people.” This was the reality waiting for students and staff of Central European University (CEU) as a coordinated legal and media apparatus began to demonise and eventually criminalise the Hungarian-American institution. The film follows students of CEU as they struggle against their exile by an increasingly authoritarian government. We follow their stories in a backsliding democracy and the consequences of democratic “red lines” being crossed with impunity.

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  • The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater

    Goran Radovanovic • Serbia • 2019 • 73′

    In 1971, director Dušan Makavejev became a festival darling after his docu-fiction WR: Mysteries of the Organism screened at the Berlinale and in Cannes. But this wild and explicit film was met with outrage in Tito’s Yugoslavia. A „public court trial” was staged in a Novi Sad cinema, where the screening of the film was followed by a debate between film professionals and low-level Communist Party members. Here is the story of this outrageous „trial”.

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  • There Will Be No More Night

    Eléonore Weber • France • 2020 • 75′

    A documentary based on video recordings from the American and the French armed forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria… The director finds this recordings on the Internet, where some soldiers proudly share the work they accomplished, and reminds as that their “surgical strikes” are as deadly as they come. With the help of these propaganda images, the film shows how far the desire to see can lead to, when it is used without limitations.

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  • Village of Women

    Tamara Stepanyan • Armenia, France • 2019 • 81′

    Armenia, a village called Lichk where only women, children and the elderly reside. Men leave nine months of the year to Russia to work. How do these women endure waiting, loneliness, and the absence of their husbands? I film their life and intimacy, become a confidante, hear and share their frustrations, joys and desires. (Tamara Stepanyan)

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