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Nostalgia of the Dictatorship
Marius Barna • Romania • 2020 • 90′
A documentary that explores the contemporary perspective on communism. Some Romanians regret the regime and all its perks (a stable job, everybody owned a house, a good pension, frequent holidays). The others don’t regret it, as they remember very well the lack of freedom of speech, the special services interferences in their lives and the overall terror. However, they have the opportunity to reflect upon communism in a critical manner and in relation to the present, where politics mostly did not meet the expectations of the people.AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE – VOTE !
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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?ROMANIAN PREMIEREWatch Online
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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.ROMANIAN PREMIEREWatch Online
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On The Road
Dumitru Budrala • Romania • 1997 • 43′
Every autumn, shepards from Transylavania set off with their flocks in search of green grass. They follow an ancient route wich takes them hundreds of miles away from home. During his journey, the master of the flock is murdered in a forest. His youngest son mist take over one thousand sheep, five donkeys, seven dogs and four hired sheperds. sleeping in the open, marching through villages and fields, fighiting bad wheater and truck drivers’prejudice, he learns to be a master.Watch Online
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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?ROMANIAN PREMIEREWatch Online
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Please hold the line
Pavel Cuzuioc • Austria • 2020 • 86′
An audiovisual allegory on communication, this film follows cable technicians in different countries, as they visit their customers. Each client they call on provides a glimpse into their own individual universe. With so many tools for communication, we still inhabit a modern-day Tower of Babel, an ordered discordance of personalities and perspectives.Watch Online
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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.ROMANIAN PREMIEREWatch Online
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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”.ROMANIAN PREMIEREWatch Online
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Reflexions in the East
Andreea Cristina Borţun • Romania • 2020 • 15′
More than 40 interviews with women help us understand who are those who leave their native Romanian villages for a better life. These women are without doubt fierce fighters. In their daily struggle for survival, either “here” or”there”, happiness is an almost impossible ideal and they seldomly have the luxury to put themselves first. In a world where the idea of plenty or even enough is almost non-existent, what we would easily call destiny – but is actually the government and the state – seems to always be an obstacle in their path.WORLD PREMIEREAUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE – VOTE !
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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.ROMANIAN PREMIEREWatch Online
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Self-Portrait
Margreth Olin • Norway • 2020 • 80′
Lene (33) suffers from severe anorexia. Since the age of ten she has been hiding from the Norwegian Health Care System. Then she taught herself the art of photography. The film is a portrait of an artist and a portrait of a deadly disease. During the last years, Lene became recognized as a world-class photographer. She had a unique photo-project, expose the shame, and confront the disease.ROMANIAN PREMIERE
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Song From The Forest
Michael Obert • Germany • 2013 • 96′
As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. He followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rainforest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies. He never left. Today, twenty-five years later, Louis is a fully accepted member of the Bayaka society and has a 13-year-old son, Samedi. And now he comes back to New York with his son to show him the metropolis, a different kind of jungle…
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Songs from the Nickel
Alina Skrzeszewska • USA, Germany • 2010 • 83′
Sirens, screams, laughter, singing, bartering: these are the sounds sweeping into the rooms of Downtown Los Angeles’ old forgotten hotels. Their inhabitants’ stories tell of lives lived on the margins. Some residents stay for a few months. Others have lived there for as long as 40 years. According to Charlie, the desk clerk at the King Edward Hotel, “you can be anything you want; you can do anything you want – and nobody gives a damn!” After all, we’re on America’s most notorious skid row, also known to old-timers as the Nickel. Director Alina Skrzeszewska also lived in one of the hotels for a year and a half, while shooting SONGS FROM THE NICKEL. The result is a strikingly intimate portrait of people living in this largely invisible community.Watch Online
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Songs of Repression
Marianne Hougen-Moraga, Estephan Wagner • Denmark • 2020 • 90′
At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony. However, the beauty of the place is hiding a grim past. In 1961, the German preacher Paul Schaefer and his congregation moved to Chile with the stated aim of helping the poor. They established Colonia Dignidad (Colony of Dignity), which transformed into a closed sect. This film explores how the remaining residents of the colony deal with 45 years of child abuse, collective beatings and slave-like living conditions…ROMANIAN PREMIERE
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Stigmatized-1968
Ágota Varga • Hungary • 2019 • 55′
What could happen to a 14-year-old rebellious teenager back in 1968? A group of boys including László rebelled against the system, the Communist State Security made an example of them, and the loyal servants of the system followed through for 25 years. Why did the all-powerful government feel so threatened by a bunch of teens playing a little game? After László’s release from prison, the machine of communism kept on trying to break his spirit, humiliating him at every turn as he grew up and struggled to make a life for himself as an adult. Here is his story…AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE – VOTE !
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Story of Fatat
Ibrahim Harb • Lebanon • 2016 • 23′
Fatat spends her days and nights caring for her bed-confined husband. Then he dies, and she must struggle for her and her son’s survival. After living for a while in extreme poverty and deprived of any help from her family, she decides to leave Lebanon for Europe. The story of Fatat is just as much the story of the terrible war, which takes place exclusively offscreen. Thus the extreme narrow shots in which we see Fatat after her husband’s death serve not only as a means to express her suffocating despair, they also draw attention to the horrors of war happening around her, which we can not see but only hear. As the shots get wider, we see the protagonist and her son embarking on a boat with the destination Europe, in a last attempt to escape a disastruous situation and find happiness against all odds.
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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.ROMANIAN PREMIEREWatch Online
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Tamás Barta – Hurry, mom’s waiting at home
Eszter Hajdu • Hungary, Portugal • 2020 • 85′
In 1974, Tamás Barta was at the peak of his career as the bassist of Hungarian rock band Locomotiv GT, but he decided to defect while on tour in the United States. He left his band mates and, most of all, his widow mother, Edit, waiting for him in communist Hungary. After her death, Tamás’ adopted sister Judit found 12 audio cassettes. They were the tapes he and Edit used as correspondence during the eight years Barta spent in America. The tapes contain shockingly intimate, frank and dramatic “conversations” showing how different were the worlds the son and the mother lived in…WORLD PREMIEREAUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE – VOTE !
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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?INTERNATIONAL PREMIEREWatch Online
