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  • 30 years and 15 minutes

    Ștefan Mandachi • Romania • 2020 • 95′

    Thirty years after the fall of the communism, Romania is on the last place in Europe in terms of highway kilometers, but on the first place in the number of deaths in road accidents. In this documentary, politicians, journalists and accident victims try to answer a question: Who is to blame for the absence of highways in Romania?

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  • Acasă, My Home

    Radu Ciorniciuc • Romania • 2020 • 85′

    For two decades, the Enache family – nine kids and their parents – lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations in the world. When the authorities decide to claim back this rare urban ecosystem, the Enache family is evicted and forced to resettle in the city – a reality they know nothing about. What will their future bring?
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  • All the Rivers Flow into the Sea and the Sea Never Fills Up

    Claudiu Mitcu • Romania • 2020 • 50′

    An anthropological study on a small community in Sfântu Gheorghe, where choir singing is a tradition. We follow the women’s choir and we see how music becomes a red thread in the life of the community, present in times of happiness or sadness, from weddings and births to times of war.
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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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  • August 23, 1944/2019

    Andra Tarara, David Schwartz, Roland Ibold • Romania • 2020 • 80′

    On August 23rd, 1944, the fascist regime was taken down and Romania changed sides in World War II. 75 years later, inside a Jewish Retirement Home, four of the last survivors of racial persecutions reflect upon the personal and political significance of the event. The different attitudes of the protagonists, their passionate debates and irresolvable conflicts reflect the diversity of the Jewish survivors’ experiences, the cleavages in the community and the Romanian society as a whole, as well as the importance and controversy of the events in 1944.

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  • Battle of Social Networks

    David Fontseca Romanos • Spain • 2020 • 53′

    The Arab Spring, the Iranian protests or the Catalan referendum in October 2017 provide clear examples of the power of social media in today’s society, with thousands of images and videos of police attacks recorded by citizens going viral on various platforms. At the same time, a great deal of disinformation is spreading across the internet. If users don’t verify the source and start sharing misleading content, fake news cannot be distinguished from real news. Furthermore, politicians around the world are taking advantage of this situation and use these fake news to discredit the power of mass media. But how important are social networks for civic mobilization?

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  • Between Realms

    Maria Cinar-Jiga • Romania • 2019 • 26′

    Poienile de sub Munte, Repedea and Ruşcova. These three settlements on the border of Romania with Ukraine have been the home for the largest community of Ukrainian ethnics in Romania, forever caught between two worlds, between two cultures, at one side of the border or another. The animal breeding has always been their main occupation since the earliest times of their presence here. Nowadays, young Motrea and her family struggle to keep alive a century-long tradition, despite various challenges.

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  • Bugan – I Did Not Breathe the Air for Nothing

    Duco Tellegen • Romania • 2019 • 75′

    In March 1983, Ion Bugan left to Bucharest, in the middle of the night from his village in eastern Romania to Bucharest. After the 200 km-drive, he parked his car in the center of the capital. In the trunk he had hidden two placards that he had painted with anti-Ceauşescu messages. Ion mounted the placards on his car and started driving around. But his protest did not last long. As expected, a few meters later Ion was arrested. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and from that momment on, Ion’s wife and children have been placed under the watchful eye of the Securitate.

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  • By boat among windmills

    Saturday, 5 september

    STORY OF FATAT (d. Ibrahim Harb) about a woman who refuses to be defeated by all the hardships life throws at her. Before the screening: Clips from the Conservation International campaign Nature is Speaking (MOTHER NATURE, THE OCEAN)

  • By boat to the future

    Monday, 7 september

    iHUMAN (r. Tonje Hessen Schei), about the effect of AI on our private lives, on society and on our future. Before the screening: Clip from the Conservation International campaign Nature is Speaking (MOTHER NATURE)

  • By boat up the mountain

    Sunday, 6 september

    TRANSALPINA – ROAD OF KINGS (d. Dumitru Budrala), about roads that miraculously keep people connected not matter how hard the times.Before the screening: Clips from the Conservation International campaign Nature is Speaking (FOREST, FLOWER), and a video by Arta pe Scena Nouă – UNTIL I LOVED YOU NOT

  • Caught in the Net

    Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová • Czech Rep, Slovak Rep • 2020 • 100′

    Three actresses, ten days and 2,458 sexual predators. An experiment that shines an urgent light on the taboo subject of online child abuse. Three over-18 actresses with very young appearances pretend they are 12 on fake social media accounts. They chat with men of all ages who have contacted them online. The vast majority of these men demand video sex and send photos of their penises or links to porn. Some even attempt blackmail. And what will happen if they meet their victims face to face?
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  • Caught in the Net (short version)

    Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová • Czech Rep, Slovak Rep • 2020 • 63′

    Three actresses, ten days and 2,458 sexual predators. An experiment that shines an urgent light on the taboo subject of online child abuse. Three over-18 actresses with very young appearances pretend they are 12 on fake social media accounts. They chat with men of all ages who have contacted them online. The vast majority of these men demand video sex and send photos of their penises or links to porn. Some even attempt blackmail. And what will happen if they meet their victims face to face?


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  • Come Find Me

    Diana Nicolae, Noriflorentina Vito • Romania • 2019 • 80′

    After the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989, the world discovered more than 100,000 children living in Romanian orphanages. Many were not orphans, but the result of the country’s ban on abortion and contraceptives. These children often became victims of child trafficking or were neglected and abused in orphanages. Come Find Me tells the story of one of those children, Nori, as she travels from her adopted American home to find the family she lost almost 30 years prior.

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  • Crulic – The Path to Beyond

    Anca Damian • Poland, Romania • 2011 • 73′

    This animated documentary tells the real story of Claudiu Crulic, a 33-year-old Romanian who was arrested in Poland for an alleged theft and was sent to prison although it was later proved that he wasn’t even in Warsaw at the time of the theft. Abandoned by everyone, Crulic died following an extreme hunger strike, the prison doctor failing to acknowledge the severity of his medical condition

  • Death… full stop or comma?

    Călin Terțan, Corina Terțan • Romania • 2020 • 70′

    10 testimonies from people who have experienced the phenomenon of clinical death or the so-called NDE (near death experience). 10 stories about death and the return to life, analyzed by specialists in thanatology and neuroscience.

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  • Eggs for Later

    Marieke Schellart • Netherlands • 2011 • 50′

    In this intimate documentary director Marieke Schellart reveals how she struggles with the biological clock. She would like to have children, but the right guy has not arrived yet. To give herself a bit more time she wants to extend fertility by freezing her eggs. However in the Netherlands this is not allowed. She talks frankly with her friends and parents about her plans and doubts, meeting support and resistance along the way. For Marieke a long journey has started which even takes her abroad, trying to find a solution to a problem that concerns many women today.

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  • Eu Geniu Cioclea

    Gorgos Violeta • Moldavia • 2020 • 70′

    Without him, Romanian poetry would be like a piano missing some keys, this is how Eugen Cioclea was introduced at some point. The son of country teachers, he managed, in fortunate circumstances, to study mathematics at the prestigious Mikhail Lomonosov University in Moscow. Marrying the daughter of a senior secretary of the Communist Party will open many doors for him, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union he decides to return to Kishinev, where he becomes the most colorful name of the local community of writers. Here is his story.

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  • Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears

    Simon Chambers • UK • 2006 • 62′

    Migration is usually analysed from the point of view of immediate material problems. The issue of the immigrants’ children is the object of recent discussions. What culture do children of the 1950-1970 immigrants belong to? Do they fit into the Western European culture, or are they still part of the culture of their parents? The film makes a statement about what we call “culture clash” in the contemporary world.

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  • Everything Will Not Be Fine

    Adrian Pirvu, Helena Maksyom • Romania, Ukraine • 2020 • 97′

    *Unavailable on AFF Online* After ending a long-term relationship, a half-blind filmmaker born in 1986 and whose mother blames his illness on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, leaves behind his life in Romania and travels to find other people who might have been affected by it. He falls in love with a young Ukrainian woman and his life takes an unforeseen turn.

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