368 ASL

FANTASMA

GREEN IS THE FIRE’S TINT

HOMEFIRE

REBELLION OF MEMORY

SEMICOLON

THE SPACES WE INHABIT

SUGARLAND

BOOKS ARE OUR WEAPONS

DIVIA

HOMEMADE MULBERRY VODKA

THE CASTLE

THE FLIGHT OF THE STORK

THE VIOLENT SKIN

WASTELAND CHRONICLES

368 ASL
Director: Michael Jiřinec
Producer: Matěj Paclík
Genre: Fiction with Documentary Aspects
Country: Czech Republic
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: January 2026

Synopsis: Young parents live in a caravan in a small village on the border of Czechia and Germany. To lift the family out of poverty, the father gets involved with arms smugglers. The bleak, hypnotic microcosm of the landscape in which the action takes place is engulfed in a stupendous darkness in which lost souls move without a way out. The father decides to smuggle the weapons, despite the risk, which he eventually realizes. He's leaving and not coming back. The mother will be left alone with two children.

Production Company: Breathless Films s.r.o.

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FANTASMA
Director: Tomáš Klein
Producer: Tomáš Michálek / Martina Netíková
Genre: Experimental
Country: Czech Republic / Slovakia
Runtime: 65 ’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2025

Synopsis: Max takes us into a world where truth feels like the end of everything. During his Chamber REST (dark therapy), he uncovers that his deepest secrets are just fragments of a larger story, and the biggest deception is the film itself. Yet, even the end of the world doesn't taste as bitter as Max had feared.

Production Company: Cinémotif Films

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GREEN IS THE FIRE’S TINT
Directors: Cristina Hanes / Arya Rothe / Isabella Rinaldi
Producer: Cristina Hanes
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania / India / Italy
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2025

Synopsis: Somi, an indigenous woman, fought for the rights of India's indigenous communities as a Naxalite Maoist rebel. After leaving the movement, she and her family settled on land with other former Naxalites. One day, they received an eviction notice: the land had gained value due to a nearby iron mine, and a presumed owner is seeking real estate investment. In addition to land speculation, mining activities are devastating the jungle surrounding the settlement. GREEN IS THE FIRE'S TINT follows Somi as she leads the fight against eviction, believing the land belongs to the indigenous community.

Production Company: NoCut Film Collective

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HOMEFIRE
Director: Neus Pagès
Producer: Laura Alvarez
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: March 2027

Synopsis: Hidden in the Catalan Pyrenees, the village of Airamunt was abandoned eighty years ago when a dam submerged its lands. Now, Audit (53), Furi (41), their children Mel (9) and Raïu (2), and 5,000 bees live off-grid, pursuing their eco-tourism dream. Sixteen years ago, they left the city to rebuild Airamunt and expand their apiary. Bees symbolize teamwork and resilience—values they hope to pass on to their children. But competition with an industrial beekeeper threatens their organic bees, pushing Mel to finally connect with her family’s project.

Production Company: Nanouk films

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REBELLION OF MEMORY
Director: Joël Jent
Producer: Sophia Rubischung / Charlotte Uzu / Claudia Chávez Lévano
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland / France / Peru
Runtime: 100’
Estimated date of premiere: February 2026

Synopsis: Former child soldier Carlitos wants to reunite his wartime parents, Tania and Shogún, who were enemies during the Peruvian civil war. At 11, Carlitos joined the Guerilla and met Tania, who became his surrogate mother. Later, Shogún, a lieutenant, spared his life and sent him to school, becoming his father. Carlitos fought for both sides—against the Guerillas and his mother. Now, 40 years later, Carlitos brings them together at a former battleground. Over several days, they confront their past and, slowly, find understanding.

Production Company: Aaron Film / Les Films d'Ici / Amazona Producciones

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SEMICOLON
Directors: Ella Ramon Ferrer / Gala Diaz
Producer: Anna Boneta
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: November 2025

Synopsis: Since Èlia experienced the suicide of a close person, she has felt alone with immensely deep pain. When discovering through her psychologist how healing writing can be, she turns a notebook into a space of care for others who need it. Ari and Salva embark on a project that leads them to face the worst moment of their lives using correspondence with a stranger as therapy. They know nothing about each other; they only have a notebook with an address where they send it. The only thing they know is what they have in common: they have both experienced the suicide of a close family member.

Production Company: Benecé Produccions S.L.

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THE SPACES WE INHABIT
Director: Bruno Cerpa Moreno
Producer: Bruno Cerpa Moreno
Genre: Documentary
Country: italy / Spain / Peru
Runtime: 65’
Estimated date of premiere: 2026

Synopsis: We will visit, in different seasons of the year and times of the day, some of the houses I have lived in, without geographical details. We will first explore the streets, then we will slowly get closer to the facades, until we will get to the interior of the houses. No one will knock on the door, no one will open it, we will simply suddenly be inside, guided by my voice-over that will narrate memories that connect me emotionally to time when I lived there. We will not see the people who live there now, but we will hear them talking about their relationship with those spaces.

Production Company: Bruno Cerpa Moreno

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SUGARLAND
Director: Julia Groszek
Producer: Alicja Gancarz
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: October 2026

Synopsis: Coca-Cola is extremely important to the people of Chiapas - it is used ritually during prayers in church, it determines a person's status, and if a local politician wants to win the people's vote, he or she has to serve 180 cases of Coke at a rally. What's more, local healers (curanderos) believe in the healing power of Coca-Cola. There is an epidemic of diabetes and obesity in Chiapas, while at the same time the Coca-Cola plants are depleting the groundwater, leaving residents without access to drinking water. The indigenous community is aware of the problem, but has no means of stopping 'coca colonisation'.

Production Company: Autograf

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BOOKS ARE OUR WEAPONS
Director: Maté Konkol
Producer: Maté Konkol / Balász Zachar
Genre: Hybrid Documentary
Country: Hungary
Runtime: 75’
Estimated date of premiere: April 2025

Synopsis: Noémi and Péter are new members of FÉSZEK, a community of university students who are committed to studying critical social theory and also changing the world as activists. They participate in debates, reading circles, forums, choir and social life – and in the meantime realise how difficult it is to fit in, both for the first generation college student girl coming from a working class background, and the hedonistic, try-hard middle class boy. With its long takes and a stream of cultural references, our film levels form with meaning, while also depicting how the personal is political.

Production Company: -

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DIVIA
Director: Dmytro Hreshko
Producer: Polina Herman / Glib Lukianets / Richard Valk
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ukraine / Poland / Netherlands
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2024

Synopsis: Divia documentary reveals Ukraine's journey through unprecedented Russian aggression and its aftermath: forests reduced to ash, fields damaged by explosions, and the haunting presence of abandoned military wreckage amidst treacherous minefields. Amidst this desolation, nature stands as a silent witness, absorbing and beginning to heal from the scars of conflict. The meditative narrative without any dialogues follows deminers, body searchers, environmentalists, and animal activists who navigate the wreckage, striving to quantify the tragedy's impact and restore Ukraine's fragile ecosystems

Production Company: UP UA STUDIO / Gogol Film / Valk Productions

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HOMEMADE MULBERRY VODKA
Director: Anzhela Frangyan
Producer: Anzhela Frangyan / Stephane Jourdain / Mirjam Gelhorn
Genre: Documentary
Country: Armenia / France / Sweden
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: 2026

Synopsis: Everytime I travelled out of the region I was afraid that soon the road would be closed. People kept asking; ‘’Why are you shooting so much?” I knew the answer to this question from the start. And the reason was the persistent feeling of the end, a premonition that soon this place, these faces, these mountains, houses, trees, everything might disappear and all of these people may never come together again. Unconsciously, I recorded long shots of the landscape, without any words or dialogues, as if I was trying to capture and preserve this world like it was in those moments.

Production Company: Dokino / La Huit / Mantaray

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THE CASTLE
Director: Danny Biancardi / Virginia Nardelli / Stefano La Rosa
Producer: Giulia Campagna / Nadeje Labe
Genre: Hybrid Documentary
Country: Italy / France
Runtime: 75’
Estimated date of premiere: February 2025

Synopsis: Angelo, Mery and Rosy are three 11-year-olds living in Danisinni, an isolated neighborhood in Palermo. Their expeditions lead them to an abandoned kindergarten in the middle of the main square. Driven by a desire for adventure, the group decides to explore it. Amidst the rubble, they discover a safe place where they can escape the gaze of others. A secret place where they can let their imaginations run wild without feeling judged. However, this island of freedom is in danger: after fifteen years of waiting, the kindergarten will soon be renovated by the city of Palermo.

Production Company: Zalab Film / La Societe du Sensible

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THE FLIGHT OF THE STORK
Director: Berta Salas / Soumaya Djahdou
Producer: Matheus Mello
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain / Algeria
Runtime: 77’
Estimated date of premiere: February 2025

Synopsis: Soumaya, a young woman of Algerian descent, explores her relationship with her mother, Malika, as she prepares for a trip to Algeria during the month of Ramadan, with her childhood friend Berta, who films the journey. What begins as a nostalgic exchange reveals family tensions and a conflict of identity. Between memories and expectations, Soumaya seeks to reconcile her path with the heritage her mother expects her to honor and what she wishes for herself. Through love and memory, the two find common ground in their relationship.

Production Company: Migranta Films

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THE VIOLENT SKIN
Director: André Robert
Producer: Ashley J. Smith / Mario Adamson
Genre: Hybrid Documentary
Country: Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, Costa Rica
Runtime: 93’
Estimated date of premiere: Summer 2025

Synopsis: In "The Violent Skin," I invoke the ghost of my father to have the conversation I could never have with him in life. I return to my family's rustic cabin in the coastal town of Cuajiniquil, ten years after scattering his ashes in the same sea that now, due to climate change, threatens to erase our home and family history. How do I tell him about the intergenerational violence that has afflicted the men in our family with a deadly silence that killed him and led me to repress my homosexuality for so many decades? The only thing I can tell him is a story about how a few months after he passed away, my Uncle Sergio, a hunter who lives isolated in the northern mountains of Costa Rica, invited me to the untamed wilderness to hunt a jaguar.

Production Company: Sisyfos Film Production

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WASTELAND CHRONICLES
Director: Viera Čákanyová / Barbora Sliepková / Lucia Kašová
Producer: Anna Mach Rumanová / Martina Netíková
Genre: Hybrid Documentary
Country: Slovakia / Czech Republic
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: May 2025

Synopsis: The ‘Triangle of Death’ lies in eastern Slovakia, well beyond the horizon of interest of politicians and the wider public. The three chemical plants are responsible for the largest PCB contamination in Europe. Over the years, the tar pits in central Slovakia have morphed into a living mass. Every time it rains more than usual, the toxic water threatens to overtop the bank and inundate the residential part of the village. The contamination originating in the dump site of Bratislava chemical plant Istrochem has spread through the groundwater towards Žitný ostrov, the largest drinking water supply in Central Europe.

Production Company: filmsomnia / Cinémotif Films

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600 RAIDS

ARTIFACTS OF WAR

MINDSCAPES

ONE INCH EASTWARD

THE FERRYMAN

WOMEN WALK HOME

YOU NEVER JUST WALK AWAY

GODSTERMINAL

IF PIGEONS TURNED GOLD

LOST PARADISE

MARATHON

RIDING WITH GHOSTS

SOCIETY

STILL NIA

600 RAIDS
Director: Kristina Leidenfrostova
Producers: Jürgen Karasek, Alice Karasek, Matej Sotník
Genre: Documentary
Countries: Austria, Slovakia
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: October 2025

Synopsis: Slovak Roma, who represent the largest ethnic minority in Slovakia, are most affected by social
exclusion and escalating racism. The trauma resulting from police raids, which even years after these brutal events, still shapes their present lives. As do the nightmares and images of the violence they suffered. 600 Raids enters the life of three protagonists showing their desperate longing for a better life. But is such a dream possible in a place where the perpetrators have not been justly punished, still wear a police uniform and enjoy unwavering authority among the white majority population?

Production Company: Soleil Film, guča films

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ARTIFACTS OF WAR
Director: Jorge Caballero
Producer: Anna Giralt Gris
Co-producer: Maria Bogliolo
Genre: Documentary
Country: Colombia, Uruguay, Spain
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: 2025

Synopsis: Hundreds of people championing national security parade through the world's most important arms fairs: Milipol, Feinde, Shot Show... A man explains the advantages of "non-lethal" weapons. Boom! Unaware pedestrians walk on a street. The explosion forms a musical rhythm. Silence...In a clandestine workshop, a voice is heard, as hands turn a blank-firing weapon into a deadly "homemade" weapon. Behind each technology lies a political and social reason. Artifacts of War is a film essay that examines the market of "non-lethal" weapons, revealing the reasons that justify their use.

Production Company: Gusano Films- Artefacto Films

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MINDSCAPES
Director: Lina Zacher
Producer: Delphine Bishop
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
Runtime: 30’
Estimated date of premiere: January 2025

Synopsis: What does a feeling look like, what does it sound like? Mindscapes is about the multifaceted emotional worlds of people with mental illness. Feelings such as panic, emptiness, despair, mania, euphoria, tension, and sorrow are explored, as four protagonists with diverse diagnoses share their experiences. On the basis of the images and sounds associated with the feelings of those affected, a sound designer and a motion designer create a sonic and visual level immersing the viewer deeply in the inner worlds of the protagonists and bringing them vividly closer to what is difficult to explain.

Production Company: Pylon Studio UG / Delphine Bishop

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ONE INCH EASTWARD
Directors: Brendan Culleton, Irina Maldea
Producer: Brendan Culleton
Co-producer: Ralitsa Golemanova
Genre: Documentary
Countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Ireland
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: May 2025

Synopsis: The story takes us from the first meeting of George H Bush and Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, still part of the USSR, to Yeltsin’s close relationship with Bill Clinton, and his final humiliation and resignation on December 31st 1999, to be replaced by Vladimir Putin. At the same time, war in Europe, once thought impossible, was back with a vengeance. For over half of the decade the continent was the scene of brutal conflict and genocide, from Croatia to Chechnya, Bosnia to Kosovo, Belgrade to Tbilisi.

Production Company: akajavafilms

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THE FERRYMAN
Director: Pavlo Dorohoi
Producer: Olha Symonenko
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ukraine
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2025

Synopsis: Danylo Bakhmutskiy lives in the riverside town of Staryi Saltiv, Northeast Ukraine. He was running an improvised ferry service when filming began, shuttling people and goods across the Siverskiy Donets river. His dreams of continuing studies at a sports academy to become a competitive kayaking athlete were dashed, by the need to earn money for the survival of his family. He labours alongside adult men, responsibility resting on his fragile shoulders. This observational documentary follows Danylo after occupation, as he navigates the uncertain world of a teenage boy in a country at war.

Production Company: eidos.productions LLC

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WOMEN WALK HOME
Director: Stephanie Andreou
Producer: Adrián Gutiérrez
Genre: Documentary
Country: Cyprus
Runtime: 85’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2024

Synopsis: In 1974, after a failed coup, Turkey invaded Cyprus and occupied the northern part of the island. Displacing two hundred thousand people and killing thousands. Disillusioned by political inaction, a group of women took matters into their own hands. Thousands of women from across the world and members of the filmmaker’s family faced the occupying Turkish army in an attempt to return the refugee’s home. Marking fifty years since and using a vast historical and personal archive, the film turns back the clock to look at what we are made to forget and how memory is dictated by the state.

Production Company: CARETTA FILMS (CPN) LTD

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YOU NEVER JUST WALK AWAY
Director: Rozálie Kohoutová
Producer: Martina Knoblochová
Genre: Fiction with Documentary Aspects
Countries: Czech Republic
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: October 2026

Synopsis: After being raped and chopped by her husband, Pavla calls a domestic violence hotline. Recognizing the emergency, they offer her and her two kids a place in a shelter which houses women from diverse backgrounds. Their ironic laughter and banter might seem out of place, but it's their way of finding strength. Pavla tells her new friends about a dream of hers, and they take it upon themselves to make it come true. But Pavla hears husband's apologies and the pull towards him grows. She's neither the first nor the last to struggle with the simple desire to keep going to her Pilates class.

Production Company: Punk Film

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GODSTERMINAL
Director: Georg Tiller
Producers: Maéva Ranaïvojaona
Genre: Fiction with Documentary Aspects
Countries: Austria, Sweden
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: February 2024

Synopsis: A film resembling a sensitization therapy, inviting you to breathe deeply and taste the essence of stones. Light reflections guide the transition into a world of dreams and fantasy. Meet Edward Weki, a 75-year-old Sudanese man with Parkinson's disease, whose face mirrors a landscape, his graying beard reminiscent of the fur of a Gotland sheep. Bergmanesque ghosts materialize by Weki's bedside, featuring Alma, a revenant of the nurse of the same name from Ingmar Bergman's film Persona, and a female incarnation of Death from Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), aiding him in rediscovering his lost memories.

Production Company: Subobscura Films

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IF PIGEONS TURNED GOLD
Director: Pepa Lubojacki
Producer: Wanda Kaprálová, Klára Mamojková
Co-producer: Matej Sotník
Genre: Documentary
Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: October 2024

Synopsis: The film follows three years of lives of four family members, whose shared past has grown into a present fundamentally at odds. While Pepa, the film's author and narrator studies at university and is sober, their brother and two cousins have been unhoused for over a decade, each facing their own substance dependency. Mosaic-structured documentary navigates its way through shared trauma, codependency and the core meaning of family. It's a story of a cycle-breaking and acceptance. Story of how to let live (and die) in order to respect not only our loved ones and their journeys but life itself.

Production Company: CLAW

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LOST PARADISE
Directora: Nicola von Leffern, Jakob Carl Sauer
Producers: Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber, Peter Drössler
Co-producers: Jakob Carl Sauer, Nicola von Leffern
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria
Runtime: 96’
Estimated date of premiere: February 2024

Synopsis: Beirut's inhabitants are furious about needing to play the role of the phoenix. Clean, rebuild and move on, an all too familiar feeling. Even the big explosion of the city in 2020 did not bring about the desired change during the crisis of a century. What more needs to happen? While a Syrian refugee family living in an underground parking is plotting to pay smugglers to escape, a dancer and a painter are coping through their artistic ways and a Lebanese family is questioning their faith, after the loss of their brother. Lost Paradise is a poetic mosaic about the vacuum in life after tragedy.

Production Company: Golden Girls Film

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MARATHON
Director: Peter Kerekes
Producers: Peter Kerekes, Tereza Tokárová
Genre: Documentary
Countries: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary
Runtime: 127’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2024

Synopsis: ​Through the history of the Marathon, held for a hundred years in Košice, a small city in central Europe, we learn stories woven across the world. Stories of people running for freedom, running to be ahead of time, running to run. The history of the town and the history of the marathon are blurring into one. From the first marathon, Košice was part of four different governments. The regime changed, but the marathon stayed. This track and blue lines on the road marking the way to the past. Behind the bend is the present which disappears in the fog of autumn morning in the memory of the runners.

Production Company: kerekesfilm

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RIDING WITH GHOSTS
Directors: Piotr Malecki, Maciej Nabrdalik
Producers: Joanna Tatko, Piotr Malecki
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland
Runtime: 72’
Estimated date of premiere: May 2025

Synopsis: Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan. Time magazine photojournalist Christopher Morris has
witnessed many wars. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In a seemingly perfect American suburb where he lives, he finds symbols that trigger his memory. Only the presence of his wife and daughters saves him from madness. When he returned from the wars, he barricaded the door to his archives. He's afraid of the demons hidden there. Will he open it to confront his past?

Production Company: Short Docs Media

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SOCIETY
Director: Thomas Østbye
Producer: Ellen Ugelstad
Genre: Documentary
Countries: Norway, Indonesia
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: August 2025

Synopsis: Society delves into the complexities of human society and the structures that shape it. Set in both Norway and Indonesia, the film artfully juxtaposes two vastly different cultures to explore themes of inclusion and oppression, isolation and safety. The film poses two thought-provoking questions: What do you truly value in society, and are willing to fight to preserve and what can you let go of, even if it causes pain. The interview subjects are chosen from different positions in society in Norway, with a parallel with similar positions in Indonesia. Same questions and observations of similar social spaces. Same idiom and logic, but wildly different starting points.

Production Company: Twentyone Pictures

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STILL NIA
Director: Paula Onet
Producers: Ada Solomon, Diana Caravia
Genre: Documentary, Hybrid
Countries: Romania, France
Runtime: 70’
Estimated date of premiere: June 2024

Synopsis: Due to a misdiagnosis, Ștefania spent most of her childhood in Romanian hospitals. 15 years later, her buried memories rise to the surface. Despite the promise of a healthy body, today she feels detached from it. She takes dance classes with a group of people, engaged in a quest for their identity through the body. Through imagination and dance she tries to rewrite her autobiographical memory and, thus, to confront her present. On the verge of the imaginary, the film speaks about the search of the self and opens a dialogue with the camera about the limits of one’s intimacy and vulnerability.

Production Company: microFILM

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1+1+1

A FAREWELL TO SNOW – A FILM TRILOGY

BASEMENT 341

CLICK THE LINK BELOW

FOREST

HOLDING MAWDA

HUN TUN

SUBTERRANEA

DABRUNEBA

IF I EVER LOSE MY EYES

IN THE END OF THE WORLD. DARKNESS: REDEMPTION

METRO 2022

PREEMPTIVE LISTENING

RED SKIES

SINNERMEN

THE GREAT NOTHING

1+1+1
Director: Ondřej Vavrečka
Producer: Vít Janeček
Country: Czech Republic
Runtime: 75’
Estimated date of premiere: 2023

Synopsis: The playful film 1+1+1, shot on classical (old fashioned?) 16mm medium, deals with the idea of progress. Progress is an issue that is becoming more and more pressing in the times of crisis evolving towards crisis evolving towards crisis – maybe a progress of crisis? With a leap in the technologisation of life, inequalities and various tensions are also growing. We love progress, improvements, advancement, and growth. Is there a space for more love? The film combines situational acting with the joyful elements of a musical and meetings of writers and intellectuals in their daily environment.

Production Company: D1film

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A FAREWELL TO SNOW – A FILM TRILOGY
Director: Sanni Priha
Producer: Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo
Country: Finland
Runtime: 29’
Estimated date of premiere: 2024

Synopsis: As the snow line has retreated further and further north, the increasing internal migration in Finland is southward. Thus, a new generation has been born in a short period of time, for whom identifying animals from snow tracks or playing in the snow are inaccessible – a kind of ethnography and exoticism of the North. The snow trilogy preserves for future generations the affects, knowledge, customs and plays that are disappearing as the snow melts. In parallel, new ways of relating to our nonhuman companions are emerging.

Production Company: Poike Productio

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BASEMENT 341
Director: Roman Blazhan
Producer: Roman Blazhan
Country: Ukraine
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2023

Synopsis: On the 3rd of March, Russian troops entered the village of Yahidne. All 341 residents of Yahidne, including 77 children, were locked in a 160 square meters school basement, where they spent 26 days. They had less than half a square meter per person. One of the villagers kept a diary during these days. Now the village is coming back to life, with an unspoken question: what do we do with this experience, how do we live with this memory? And what if memory is wrong. The diary is a key to this collective puzzle of trauma.

Production Company: Minimal Movie

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CLICK THE LINK BELOW
Director: Audun Amundsen
Producer: Audun Amundsen
Countries: Germany, Norway, United Kingdom
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: December 2023

Synopsis: Click The Link Below is about the murky world of online money-making gurus. Some people are living extravagant lives in luxury while others are lost in broken dreams and fear of missing out on the next big thing. Norwegian filmmaker Audun Amundsen had been living for years in the Indonesian Jungle. Back in Norway, he returns to homelessness and the economic crisis. He is tired of being poor in a rich country, and starts looking for solutions online. His desperate pursuit for economic freedom turns into a deep dive behind the façade of a peculiar world.

Production Company: GonzoDocs AS

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FOREST
Director: Lidia Duda
Producer: Adrianna Rędzia
Country: Poland
Runtime: 72’
Estimated date of premiere: 2024

Synopsis: Right after college, Joanna and Marek left the city and escaped to their own paradise – they bought an old house in Bialowieza Primeval Forest. Since then, three children came into the world. They have a happy childhood, a loving mother and a caring father. But one day the forest as they knew it changed. Strangers appeared in it, people they have not known before. Cold, often sick, hungry, lost... The children's home became a storeroom of gifts for the migrants. During a child's conversation the word WAR appears.

Production Company: Aura Films

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HOLDING MAWDA
Director: Robin Vanbesien
Producer: Robin Vanbesien
Country: Belgium
Runtime: 90’
Estimated date of premiere: 2024

Synopsis: In 2018, two-year-old Mawda Shawri was shot dead by a police officer during amigration border control intervention in Belgium. We listen to an off-screen gathering of citizens on a collective quest for social justice, while the forensic site of the lethal crime – a major highway near the Belgium-France border – is visually and acoustically reimagined. Searching for a sound-image with haptic and dissonant qualities, the film explores the space supportive of the attention such a case demands.

Production Company: timely

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HUN TUN
Director: Magdalena Hejzlarová
Producer: Karolína Davidová
Countries: Czech Republic, France, Hungary
Runtime: 15’
Estimated date of premiere: 2023

Synopsis: Hun Tun was an ancient emperor of chaos. He was both admirable and scary. Life with him was beautifully unbearable. In Chinese mythology, the world is born out of Hun Tun's dying body. Magdalena is an ordinary millennial. Her life is full of little twists and adventures: work, friends and love. But now she has only one mission – to get her sleep back. The harder she tries, the more she gets stuck. It is only when she sees the chaos in her life clearly that things change. And suddenly, there are other people with their own “chaos”. Hun Tun starts losing power over Magdalena.

Production Company: 13ka

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SUBTERRANEA
Director: Valeria Mazzucchi
Producer: Irene Muñoz Martin
Country: Switzerland
Runtime: 40’
Estimated date of premiere: 2024

Synopsis: Subterranea questions our relationship to our surroundings via a poetic journey that connects emotions with subterranean spaces. Its starting point is the experience of a group of people who participate in the “work that reconnects” workshops, a practice of eco-psychology intended to cope with what is defined by the media as the psychic evil of the century: eco-anxiety. Subterranea proposes an immersive cathartic journey, searching for a reconnection between ourselves and “nature”.

Production Company: Futur Proche

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DABRUNEBA
Director: Mar Garro Lleonart
Producers: Alba Sotorra Clua, Paloma Bercovich
Country: Spain
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: 2023

Synopsis: Sofiko's life is about to turn upside down. At the age of 24 and after getting engaged to her boyfriend Akaki, she is thinking of returning to her home country, Georgia. But first, she decides to retrace the migration path that brought her from Tbilisi to Barcelona 18 years ago. The people, landscapes and borders she crosses on this journey, both physical and emotional, reflect the invisible consequences of a war that forced her parents to leave a place she still considers home.

Production Company: Alba Sotorra SL

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IF I EVER LOSE MY EYES
Director: Lea Petříková
Producer: Tomáš Pertold
Country: Czech Republic
Runtime: 70’
Estimated date of premiere: January 2023

Synopsis: A film journey through places near and far, real and dreamy, on the border between reality and fiction, where it is possible to learn how close the realm of the invisible lies and to contemplate whether it is possible to approach the invisible through film. Guides on this journey are various explorers who present their elusive experiences with researching and capturing imprints of the invisible – former filmmakers, a forgotten film movement, a local history expert, a mountaineer, a professor, and the director, Lea Petříková, herself. But the more they reveal, the more complicated it gets.

Production Company: Perfilm

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IN THE END OF THE WORLD. DARKNESS: REDEMPTION
Director: Abraham Escobedo-Salas
Producer: Abraham Escobedo-Salas
Countries: Mexico, Portugal
Runtime: 70’
Estimated date of premiere: 2023

Synopsis: Cecilio is a crack addict surviving on the fringes of society in Lisbon. He lives in the skeleton of the neighborhood Barrio 6 de Maio that has been pulverized. Displaced in a system that has little use for human frailty, Cecilio has no place to go, and so he finds himself in a permanent state of melancholy. While doing small drug deals, he tries to get out of the darkness, find a job, quit drugs, and reconnect with his family. With the help of friends, he tries to hold onto the positive side and steer away from self-destruction. Even the most desolate life has a touch of beauty, dignity, and solidarity.

Production Company: Flama Films

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METRO 2022
Director: Pavlo Dorohoi
Producer: Artem Pribylnov
Country: Ukraine
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: 2023

Synopsis: ​From the first days of the war, the subway turned into a bomb shelter for many residents of Kharkiv. For three months, people are forced to stay underground 24 hours a day because of the daily shelling. The subway becomes their second home. Through the daily life of the station’s inhabitants, we show how people get used to living in an environment unsuitable for life, but safer than life on the surface. However, local authorities and the subway management want to vacate the subway and restart it as a transport network despite the daily shelling.

Production Company: Eden Production

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PREEMPTIVE LISTENING
Director: Aura Satz
Producer: Luke W Moody
Countries: United Kingdom, Finland
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: October 2023

Synopsis: Nuclear accidents, tsunamis, tornados, floods, fires, melting ice caps, a global pandemic, the rise of populism and right wing demagogues. Twenty years of a new millennium has witnessed escalating political, man-made and ecological disasters – did we hear them coming? Were we warned of the crisis? Preemptive Listening is an audial centered essay film proposing a timely speculative re-imagining of sirens, alarms and emergency signals. In a series of thought-provoking, atmospheric and sensorially captivating vignettes, it will blend documentary, sonic and visual poetry into non-narrative seque.

Production Company: LONO Studio

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RED SKIES
Director: Marina Thomé
Producer: Marcia Mansur
Country: Portugal
Runtime: 70’
Estimated date of premiere: 2025

Synopsis: While diving into the archives in search of human coexistence with unpredictability, Marina reshapes her life after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The film explores the audiovisual archives of natural disasters that occurred in the Azores, such as the eruption of the Capelinhos volcano in 1957 and the earthquake in 1980. In 2022, the archipelago experienced a seismic crisis and is in the imminence of volcanic eruptions. Through letters sent to her friend Elena in Brazil, she recounts her volcanic experience in a sensory narrative about death and beauty.

Production Company: Estúdio CRUA

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SINNERMEN
Director: Aleš Suk
Producer: Aleš Suk
Country: Croatia
Runtime: 80’
Estimated date of premiere: 2024

Synopsis: Each island is a world in itself. Susak is a geographical anomaly and a cultural anthropological phenomenon. The island has always been exposed to the wild sea, conquest, plunder and the trampling of fundamental rights, freedom and human dignity. After the end of WWII the militia took over the administration of the island, and with it came a tide of political pressure and atheism. The film is a testimony to an island whose fate was subject to temptation. Even today, fellow Sansigots walk quietly in slippers and are afraid of the dark..

Production Company: UKUS

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THE GREAT NOTHING
Directors: Vít Klusák, Marika Pecháčková
Producers: Pavla Klimešová, Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda
Country: Czech Republic
Runtime: 105’
Estimated date of premiere: March 2023

Synopsis: An essay about the Covid-19 pandemic: The crew filmed the empty city of Prague in March 2020 and continued to capture the events and the society’s behaviour for 2 years. Instead of "reporting" on the events, the film focuses on human stories, poetics of the time, bizarre images or important moments in society. It follows doctors in hospitals, anti-vaccine protesters or a mezzo-soprano who started working in a market. Due to the length, there was time to reflect on the pandemic and human behaviour itself. A time that has changed the pace of the world, and from which we will take a long time to recover. The question is: will we learn?

Production Company: Hypermarket Film

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AGAINST THE WIND

BEAUTIFUL VOID

INTRUDERS

IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT

KAFILA

LISTENING CENTRE

NISTRU. THE IRREVERSIBLE FLOW OF LIFE

ONE OF US

THE SOIL OF THE NAMIB

I CROSSED THE DESERT WITH A GUN IN HAND

YOUTH

GUEST WORKER

HARD EXIT

HYPERION HAS ESCAPED

MARA

MODERN FLAT

NECROPOLIS

TAUROPHILIA

THE CABINET

THE VISIT AND A SECRET GARDEN

WHO IS MISSING TODAY?

AGAINST THE WIND
Director: Tatyana Soboleva
Producer: Tatyana Soboleva
Runtime: 75’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Russia
Estimated date of premiere: 6. 9. 2023

Synopsis: The Nogai people are descendants of the Golden Horde who are living in the Southern Caucasus of Russia. They experience issues of language loss, identity loss, and lately, an ecological disaster. Formerly lush and green, today the Nogai steppe is turning into a desert. In the autumn, the team led by a simple woman named Gulfira goes deep into the new desert for several months. Every day they walk for many kilometres under the icy, sandy wind and plant branches of Juzgun – a shrub with long roots that can stop the sand. Will Gulfira survive in this battle for the homeland, or will the Nogai land disappear along with its people?

Production Company: Dostoevsky Dok

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BEAUTIFUL VOID
Director: Andris Gauja
Producer: Andris Gauja, Elza Gauja
Runtime: 60’
Genre: Documentary, Experimental, Cinema expanded
Country: Latvia, Estonia
Estimated date of premiere: Spring 2024

Synopsis: Several very different characters – a pioneering physicist, an acclaimed minimalist composer, an intensive care doctor and a crematorium director – each in their own way f ind a strikingly similar answer to the cliché question: what is the universe made of? According to them, the ultimate source of reality is essentially empty space, which spontaneously manifests what we call matter in a magical display.

Production Company: Riverbed

INTRUDERS
Director: David Krøyer
Producer: Thor Hampus Bank
Runtime: 85’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark
Estimated date of premiere: 1. 11. 2022

Synopsis: By following the battles of five different people, all battling different invasive species in their own local environments, we get to know them, the unwelcome species, and the landscape that they want to protect from uncontrolled evolution. Nature is an open battlefield, and these people know it. They will do whatever it takes to protect the landscape from the intruders. This film is a documentation of different hunts for different invasive species, a study of what it means to be invasive, and a modern perspective on nature in the Anthropocene era.

Production Company: GotFat Productions

IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT
Director: Paula Ďurinová
Producer: Matej Sotník
Runtime: 80’
Genre: Documentary, Hybrid
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany
Estimated date of premiere: 11. 11. 2023

Synopsis: An essay on collective anxiety and the problems triggered by life in a fast and performance-oriented society. Through young Eliana, the director’s alter ego, we follow the story of burnout, work retraining and healing of a human soul using radical forms of therapeutic strategies. Everyday life blends into the reality of dream spaces – “emotional incubators”, where the individual becomes collective. And the film becomes a part of the personal journey of the author as well as a hero of the story. We are situated in Berlin, representing the generic and business area of metropolitan cities in Europe.

Produkční společnost: GUČA

KAFILA
Director: Isaac Stillwell
Producer: Isaac Stillwell
Runtime: 80’
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Morocco
Estimated date of premiere: 1. 9. 2023

Synopsis: Kafila is an expedition: a journey from the edges of the desert to the Atlas Mountains. With the Library of Naciria a collective of artists and scientists discover an entry point into a network of interconnecting stories present in the landscape. Journeying through the remains of former civilisations, the experience of the film connects a voyage on foot over the course of several months, and encounters in the present moment, with the stories of the library. We are following the paths of travellers in time: an investigation into seeing how societies change, transform and adapt.

Production Company: Kolophon

LISTENING CENTRE
Director: Carlotta Berti
Producer: Michelangelo Ferrara
Runtime: 90’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy
Estimated date of premiere: 1. 6. 2023

Synopsis: Never leaving the ex-convent in which the Listening Centre is based, the camera follows listening sessions, internal meetings, and the training in listening of new volunteers. The film focuses on the power of listening as a social, spiritual and artistic act – an antidote to the current pandemic of loneliness. The Centre’s visitors, who want to feel seen, welcome the camera as a way to reinforce the acceptance they seek. The listening sessions reveal a shocking and yet relatable social picture, made of voices that are not easily accessed, and that would otherwise remain unheard.

Production Company: R For REAL

NISTRU. THE IRREVERSIBLE FLOW OF LIFE
Director: Iurie Tocmas
Producer: Ieva Ūbele
Runtime: 90’/52’
Genre: Documentary, VR+AR+Live documentaries
Country: Latvia, Moldova
Estimated date of premiere: 10. 1. 2024

Synopsis: T he river Nistru has been the unifying element of nations residing on its banks for thousands of years. Yet recently it has also become a border within a frozen conflict between Moldova and an unrecognised breakaway state – Transnistria. The future of an entire nation depends on whether the people residing on the riverbanks will learn to see how the state of the river reflects their lives. In the f ilm, the river Nistru serves as a metaphor for both time and fate, the mirror of human life and self-reflection and f inally as a magic talisman, which is an indispensable part of mythical journeys.

Production Company: Baltic Balkan Productions

ONE OF US
Director: Rachel Close
Producer: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Elena Martin
Runtime: 90’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Romania
Estimated date of premiere: 15. 1. 2024

Synopsis: 30 years on, having been adopted by a Canadian couple, Mihaela returns to Romania in search of her birth family. We come to learn that Mihaela’s story is connected in some way to the filmmaker, Rachel. In this participatory documentary, psychological transference between subject and filmmaker is explored and utilised as a storytelling device. Where does one woman’s narrative end and the other’s begin? The line is not always clear. The film will dance between subjective and objective realities and illuminate the cathartic potential of self-authorship.

Production Company: Manifest Film

THE SOIL OF THE NAMIB
Director: Christian Zipfel
Producer: Alina Schäfers
Runtime: 25’
Genre: VR + AR + live dokument
Country: Germany
Estimated date of premiere: 20. 8. 2022

Synopsis: Narrowness with no way to escape. Predominant darkness. Only a few small lights cast shadows and slightly enlighten the surroundings. Shattering noises of machines and tools in use. Dust is in the thin air, and rocks keep coming loose. T he atmosphere is menacing, suspenseful and at the same time fascinating. Like moles, the small miners are digging ever deeper into the mountains. The soil of the Namib is an essayistic 360° documentary in three chapters about illegal mining in Namibia, contextualized with historic colonialism and contemporary economic globalization.

Production Company: TIME PRINTS

I CROSSED THE DESERT WITH A GUN IN HAND
Director: Laurence Garret
Producer: Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira, Christophe Gougeon
Runtime: 85’
Genre: Documentary, Hybrid
Country: France, Italy, Mexico
Estimated date of premiere: 4. 3. 2023

Synopsis: This is the story of a man who, in his late 30s, has already lived several lives. Rock band singer in Salt Lake City. Dealer. Former Marine in Iraq. Discharged from the Army before leaving for Afghanistan. Terrorism suspect. Hitman for the Tijuana cartels. On the verge of suicide. He is now f inishing law school at San Diego University. Daniel Torres shares his adventures with his friend Erasmo in a road movie from Utah National Park to the Mexican frontier. An intimate story, funny and sensitive, far from the clichés of virility. A documentary epic shot like a fiction film.

Production Company: so-cle, Acqua alta

YOUTH
Director: Mariana Gaivão
Producer: Pedro Fernandes Duarte
Runtime: 80’
Genre: Fiction with documentary aspects, Hybrid
Country: Portugal, Germany, France, Czech Republic
Estimated date of premiere: 1. 7. 2023

Synopsis: Matias is a Portuguese teenager growing up in Lisbon, with no connection to the German nationality of his father. In the summer of his 16th birthday, Matias finds the memories of his grandfather Gerald, in the form of an old photo album titled “Jugend” (“Youth”). In one of the most striking photos, Gerald, then also 16, wears a Nazi uniform, and looks disturbingly like Matias. Over the 80 years that separate them, a bridge emerges, triggering a long journey across Europe, itself haunted by the amnesiac resurgence of nationalism, echoing the too recent history of EMERGING PRODUCERS the old continent.

Production Company: Primeira Idade

GUEST WORKER
Director: Matej Bobrik
Producer: Agnieszka Skalska
Runtime: 75’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland
Estimated date of premiere: 11. 11. 2023

Synopsis: Nikesh is 13 years old and came to Poland with his parents, Shiv and Shushila, a few years ago in search of work and a better life. Nikesh is already building his life in Warsaw – here, he has friends and lives like a young European. His dad wants to raise his son as a Nepalese and does everything he can to provide for the family. As a result, Shiv’s life comes down to working several jobs and constant confrontations with his son. Shiv is torn between his wife, who cannot imagine growing old in Poland, and his son, who cannot imagine growing up in Nepal.

Production Company: Koi Studio

HARD EXIT
Director: Carmen Torres
Producer: Marta Andreu
Runtime: 79’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain
Estimated date of premiere: 10. 2. 2022

Synopsis: Tota has fallen in love with Mana, a younger woman who believes in and practices open relationships, which is a new world for Tota, challenging to handle. They are at the height of their romance when, suddenly, Mana leaves her. In the film Tota is going through her mourning process. In the meantime, the filmmaker-character relationship unveils a deep, loving long-lasting friendship between us. Hard Exit is about lesbianism and feminism, transforming relationships, love, broken hearts and remaining friendships. It is about the idea that life goes on and, in the end, somehow everything is overcome.

Production Company: Walden

HYPERION HAS ESCAPED
Director: Arnaud Gerber
Producer: Arnaud Gerber
Runtime: 110’
Genre: Fiction with documentary aspects, Hybrid
Country: Germany
Estimated date of premiere: 3. 2. 2022

Synopsis: Based on Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, the Hermit in Greece, this is a filmic variation about our times, their battles, disillusions and remaining hopes. Mixing fiction, web footage of demos around the world and documentary, Hyperion Has Escaped reinterprets a mythical figure (Hyperion) and launches him into our reality in order to confront him with its madness and violence. Beginning as an elegy, making many detours in the absurd and ending almost as a child’s joke about eternity, it is also an invitation to build a new alliance with nature.

Production Company: Arnaud Gerber

MARA
Director: Sasha Kulak
Producer: Louis Beaudemont, Ksenia Gorenstein
Runtime: 62’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belarus, France, UK
Estimated date of premiere: leden 2021

Synopsis: Mara is a hybrid documentary essay that takes us on a journey into the fear that took over Belarus. The narrative invites the viewer to join Mara while she watches the story unfold. Haunted by the scenes on the street, she is caught between facing her reality and escaping into her dreams. Mara guides us through the events that changed the life of thousands of women like her. To impersonate this never-ending nightmare, Ira, a young woman, dresses as Mara - a female spirit in Slavic culture who comes to people in their sleep to bring them dreams or nightmares.

Production Company: Les Steppes Productions

MODERN FLAT
Director: Dainius Liškevičius
Producer: Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
Runtime: 86’
Žánr: Documentary, cinema expanded
Country: Lithuania
Estimated date of premiere: 28. 2. 2022

Synopsis: The story of the film is based on the artist’s home videos Production Company and documentary material covering a decade of his creative work. The author presents his apartment as a living space and the main character of the film. By engaging his entire family in the project, he creates a new micro-social model of his home, where they all act according to self-imposed rules. Events that take place are both casual and creative: the living space becomes a stage, routine becomes performance and the other way round, art projects become family entertainment, as well as a radical transformation of the home.

Production Company: Just a moment

NECROPOLIS
Director: Keren Alexander
Producers: Kobi Mizrahi, Niklas Kullström
Runtime: 75’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel, Finland
Estimated date of premiere: 2. 2. 2023

Synopsis: Necropolis follows the construction of massive underground burial tunnels excavated deep under the biggest Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. This ambitious construction site will serve as background to our cinematic journey; we’ll observe sorrowful mourners, Palestinian builders, and Ultra-Orthodox morticians roaming around the spectacular monument. The lively collage they create together shows the eternal struggle of Jerusalem between the high and the low, progress and tradition, manual labour, and sacred work. This is a film about a city of contrasts, about death and the life surrounding it.

Production Company: KM Productions, Hillstream Pictures

TAUROPHILIA
Director: Francesco Montagner
Producer: Veronika Kührová
Runtime: 15’
Genre: Fiction with documentary aspects, Experimental, Shorts
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Estimated date of premiere: 1. 9. 2022

Synopsis: Through rhythmic re-composition of fragmented images, semi-surreal situations are explored in a documentary style of observation of a man’s obsession with a powerful animal, the black horned bull, and the Spanish process of taxidermy through which he attempts to embody its beauty and strength, turning into a Minotaur. The subdued basement space in which the man meticulously studies the motionless flesh of the animal is preceded by a sunlit, empty arena in Spain, the stage in which the bull is presented in its full glory before facing man.

Production Company: Analog Vision

THE CABINET
Director: Živilė Mičiulytė
Producer: Stasys Baltakis
Runtime: 60’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Lithuania
Estimated date of premiere: 1. 12. 2021

Synopsis: In Lithuania, two investigative journalists work segregated from others in an isolated office as if in a cabinet. This cabinet is the only location in the film. It seems that they are in the cabinet, like they are closed, separated from others, even from the other journalists. It’s a slow and minimalistic film. It’s not a film about one specific journalistic research; this film presents a monotonous and nervous atmosphere in this cabinet. The boundaries between truth and falsehood begin to overlap, journalists experience the betrayal of a colleague, the office becomes sweltering and unpleasant.

Production Company: Film Jam

THE VISIT AND A SECRET GARDEN
Director: Irene M. Borrego
Producers: Irene M. Borrego, Renata Sancho, Mariangela Mondolo-Burghard
Runtime: 65’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain, Portugal
Estimated date of premiere: February 2022

Synopsis: Little is known about the mysterious figure of Isabel Santaló, an old artist, today fallen into oblivion. But occasionally some visitors come to her flat. Through them and the voice of Antonio López (Dream of Light, Víctor Erice), the only painter who remembers her, we shape a multifaceted f ilm. This is a cinematic portrait, which well into the film takes a surprising turn. A film that reflects on memory and oblivion, art and the creative process; posing the question of what it means to be an artist and a woman.

Production Company: 59 en Conserva, Cedro Plátano, Lda.

WHO IS MISSING TODAY?
Director: Květa Přibylová
Producer: Jitka Kotrlová
Runtime: 70’
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czech Republic
Estimated date of premiere: 30. 9. 2023

Synopsis: Lively situations, concentrated observations, authentic diaries from scientific expeditions and animations create a distinctive feature-length documentary about the fragile and vital links between man, birds, and the landscape. T hrough the renowned ornithologist Luboš Peške, we observe the changes in these links that affect the life and death of birds - on the level of individuals, populations, and species. Tension emerges between human capability to have a relationship only with one particular individual and the fact that for survival of the species, the individual means nothing.

Production Company: Frame films