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20 Days in Mariupol
94' 2023 Ukraine
dir.: Mstyslav Chernov
A shocking indictment of Russia; a record of Mariupol’s extermination shot by the only correspondent who remained in the besieged city to the end and risked his life to do so. The film won the crew...
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20 Days in Mariupol - screening of the winning film - Main Competition
A shocking indictment of Russia; a record of Mariupol’s extermination shot by the only correspondent who remained in the besieged city to the end and risked his life to do so. The film...
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
70/30
98' 2021 Denmark
dir.: Phie Ambo
A picture of the uneasy cooperation among Danish activists and politicians who, during street protests and cabinet negotiations, create a climate law that would become an example for the world....
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Black Sheep
27' 2018 UK
dir.: Ed Perkins
A young black man befriends his teenage persecutors for his own survival.
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Chornobyl 22
20' 2023 Ukraine
dir.: Oleksiy Radynski
A fascinating close-up of one of the most mysterious episodes of the war in Ukraine. What did the Russians want to achieve by occupying Chornobyl – and how did the Ukrainians manage to thwart their...
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
Crotch Stories
35' 2021 Belgium, France
dir.: Myleine Guiard-Schmid
An experimental and sensual animated film. Just possibly, with the right attitude, childbirth can be completely different than we imagine.
CINEMA
Dalton's Dream
90' 2023 UK
dir.: Kim Longinotto, Franky Murray Brown
Dalton’s Dream narrates the steep cost of authenticity. In 2018, Dalton Harris, a Jamaican singer, made history on the X-Factor UK as the first black, non-British victor. His candid revelation...
CINEMA
Danger Zone
93' 2023 Poland, UK
dir.: Vita Maria Drygas
The phenomenon of war tourism; who are the people willing to pay a lot of money to taste the "real masculine adventure" on the front lines?
CINEMA
Deep Rising
85' 2023 USA
dir.: Matthieu Rytz
Can the dream of energy transformation threaten the future of ocean ecosystems? A visually stunning documentary essay on the price of treasures from the abyss of the sea, with a voice-over by Jason...
CINEMA
The Dmitriev Affair
95' 2023 Netherlands
dir.: Jessica Gorter
Memorial targeted by the KGB. A Russian human rights defender fighting for the memory of Stalin's victims goes to prison on a trumped-up and extremely serious charge.
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
The Filmmaker's House
76' 2020 United Kingdom
dir.: Marc Isaacs
The situation gets out of hand when a Colombian housekeeper, British laborers, a Slovak homeless man and Pakistani neighbor meet at the director's house.
CINEMA + ONLINE
Following Valeria
33' 2022 Germany
dir.: Nicola Fegg
Millions watch the funny videos shot by an influencer in anti-aircraft shelters. As Valeria unexpectedly becomes the face of an entire generation of young Ukrainians, she tries to put it to good use....
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
From Shock to Awe
87' 2018 USA
dir.: Luc Côté
Millions of veterans of American wars pay an extremely high price for their duty on a daily basis. As a rule, their deep psychological wounds can’t be healed by pharmaceuticals or even traditional...
CINEMA
The Gleaners and I
82' 1999 France
dir.: Agnès Varda
A funny and poignant film by the icon of French cinema. Starting from the theme of collecting, Varda creates a holistic metaphor of modernity, combining aesthetics, counterculture, and ecology.
CINEMA + ONLINE
Good News
11' 2023 Polska
dir.: Zuzanna Solakiewicz, Zvika Gregory Portnoy
Sometimes good news can bring hope for survival.
CINEMA + ONLINE
Grasshopper Republic
94' 2023 USA
dir.: Daniel McCabe
Cricket hunting in Uganda – instant fortunes, deadly working conditions and the unearthly beauty of insects, which may one day form the basis of our diet.
CINEMA
Hong Kong Mixtape
87' 2023 UK
dir.: San San F Young
The dramatic fall of the last bastion of freedom in China. The history of protests in Hong Kong – this time in the context of an unusual explosion of street art in the revolutionary megalopolis....
CINEMA + ONLINE
How to please
28' 2023 Finland
dir.: Elina Talvensaari
An Iraqi refugee faces the Kafkaesque Euro-bureaucratic labyrinth.
CINEMA
In the Rearview
84' 2023 Poland, France, Ukraine
dir.: Maciek Hamela
From Ukraine to Poland, Maciek Hamela extracts people fleeing the conflict zone and immortalizes their stories along the way. The most important Polish film about this war, touted by viewers of the...
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
Influence
90' 2020 South Africa, Canada
dir.: Diana Neille, Richard Poplak
The rise and fall of a famed political marketing agency specializing in mending the image of compromised regimes.
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Inventing Truth - The Relotius Affair
93' 2023 Germany
dir.: Daniel Andreas Sager
The strange rise and fall of Germany's biggest journalist showing just how thin the line between truth and fiction has become.
CINEMA
Juvenile Liaison
97' 1975 UK
dir.: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
CINEMA
Katka
90' 2010 Czech Republic
dir.: Helena Třeštíková
A breakthrough film by the master of insightful observational documentary; 14 years in the life of the eponymous Katka, trying unsuccessfully to break free from the vicious circle of addiction.
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Land of Silence and Darkness
85' 1971 West Germany
dir.: Werner Herzog
An undisputable milestone in the history of documentary filmmaking. A magical film in which Herzog does the impossible by portraying the world of people who communicate with the world only by touch....
CINEMA
The Last of the Unjust
219' 2013 France, Austria
dir.: Claude Lanzmann
This continuation and complementation of the monumental Shoah is also one of the most important Holocaust documentaries with Lanzmann once again plunging into the heart of darkness to understand the...
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Libertate
109' 2023 Romania, Hungary
dir.: Tudor Giurgiu
Far from simplification, the feature-length reconstruction of the fall of the Ceausescu regime in December 1989. Was the Romanian revolution a popular uprising or was it provoked by the country's...
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Lonely Oaks
102' 2023 Germany
dir.: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Muehlhoff
Young activists work to save a forest, blocking an energy corporation's expansion plans. A shocking film where facing the death of the filmmaker tests the limits of sacrifice in defence of nature....
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Lonely Oaks. Screening of the winning film - Green Dog Competition
Young activists work to save a forest, blocking an energy corporation's expansion plans. A shocking film where facing the death of the filmmaker tests the limits of sacrifice in defence of...
CINEMA + ONLINE
Magic Mountain
74' 2023 Georgia, Poland
dir.: Mariam Chachia, Nik Voigt
A tuberculosis hospital among the Caucasian wilderness. In a monumental, crumbling building, the surreal atmosphere of a place beyond time has patients unaware of their very location.
CINEMA
Matter Out of Place
106' 2022 Austria
dir.: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
The Austrian master's camera follows the people who do our dirty work – from sterile alpine peaks to monstrous landfills that have taken on lives of their own, through underground cave corridors...
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot
84' 2017 Irlandia, Wielka Brytania
dir.: Sinéad O'Shea
CINEMA
Motherland
92' 2023 Sweden, Ukraine, Norway
dir.: Alexander Mihalkovich, Hanna Badziaka
A visual masterpiece that exposes the darkest secrets of the Belarusian army; mothers of dead soldiers in a David-and-Goliath struggle against a corrupt system and young recruits' final moments of...
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Mourning in Lod
93' 2023 Israel
dir.: Hilla Medalia
Hilla Medalia brings us closer to the story revealing the intricacies of the conflict, the latest installment of which is captivating the world. The families of two accidental victims of the conflict,...
CINEMA + ONLINE
My Worst Enemy
82' 2023 France, Switzerland
dir.: Mehran Tamadon
Acclaimed for Holy Spider, Zar Amir Ebrahimi in a controversial project to reconstruct an interrogation in an Iranian prison. An emotionally charged psychodrama.
CINEMA
The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution
102' 2023 USA
dir.: Ondi Timoner
This gripping film, rich in detail, encapsulates the chaotic essence of a new, virtual Eldorado. It's a landscape dominated by fleeting cryptocurrencies, rapid financial gains and losses, and a...
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On the Edge
103' 2023 France
dir.: Nicolas Peduzzi
A dynamic, poignant portrait of an idealist showing the French health care system in crisis. A psychiatrist faces impossible odds but works alone to save the patients of a large Paris hospital....
CINEMA
Our Daily Bread
92' 2005 Austria
dir.: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Where does our daily bread come from in the 21st century? From underwater salmon farms to endless olive groves – a spectacular and mercilessly precise vivisection of the modern agricultural...
CINEMA + ONLINE
Patrick and the Whale
72' 2022 Austria
dir.: Mark Fletcher
Patrick Dykstra, leaving behind his legal profession, dedicates himself to whale photography. His long-term observations of these oceanic giants ignite a desire to communicate with them. The...
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Periodical
93' 2023 USA
dir.: Lina Plioplyte
A multidimensional look at menstruation, which, contrary to cultural stereotypes, does not have to be a shameful problem.
CINEMA
Planet B
74' 2023 Belgium, Netherlands
dir.: Pieter Van Eecke
A portrait of a generation steeped in the fight against global warming. Protests, police harassment and climate depression should teenagers bear the burden of responsibility for the fate of the...
CINEMA
Plan C
99' 2022 USA
dir.: Tracy Droz Tragos
This 2014 Sundance winner examines determined American activists who, irrespective of the legal consequences, provide safe abortion access to women. Sound familiar?
CINEMA
Pray for Our Sinners
81' 2022 Ireland
dir.: Sinéad O'Shea
An Irish journalist reveals the sinister reality of a Catholic centre for single mothers and pays tribute to the women who, despite the small-town pressure, speak out against the omnipotence of the...
CINEMA
Pripyat
100' 1999 Austria
dir.: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 12 years after the great catastrophe. Abandoned towns, lunar landscapes of contaminated areas, endless cemeteries of irradiated machines -...
CINEMA
Pripyat + Chornobyl 22
A sophisticated collective portrait of the residents of Chernobyl and the surrounding area 12 years after the disaster - and a contemporary epilogue: a documentary investigation of the Russian...
CINEMA + ONLINE
Pure Unknown
93' 2023 Italy, Switzerland, Sweden
dir.: Mattia Colombo. Valentina Cicogna
Do the deceased have human rights? A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at efforts to restore identity to the nameless victims of the migration crisis and attendant mafia skirmishes.
CINEMA + ONLINE
Russia vs Lawyers
90' 2023 Germany, Netherlands
dir.: Masha Novikova
The last of the righteous; Russian lawyers face dire personal consequences for defending prisoners of conscience in court.
CINEMA + ONLINE
Silence of Reason
63' 2023 North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
dir.: Kumjana Novakova
Shocking testimony on the weaponization of sexual violence during the Balkan conflicts. An experimental film edited exclusively from evidence of the Tribunal in The Hague.
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Sister of Mine
30' 2023 Poland
dir.: Mariusz Rusiński
What to do when the person closest to you is running from reality? An intimate and painfully real film about addiction, family and emotional patterns that block true intimacy.
CINEMA
The Standstill
137' 2023 Austria
dir.: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
A truly grand film and a comprehensive and unexpected portrait of a world that stood still as monumentally captured by the master of cinematic aesthetics.
CINEMA
The Swedes. The Only Fate We Have
50' 2023 Poland
dir.: Robert Kowalski
The eponymous "Swedes" are the 130th platoon fighting as part of the Donbas Kyiv Territorial Defence Battalion. They move just before sunrise. The group is led by White, deputy platoon commander,...
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This Is Our Everything
81' 2023 Germany
dir.: Frederik Subei
The indigenous people of the Amazon defend their territory from illegal logging, while protecting the last community untainted by contact with the white man's civilization.
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Tokyo Uber Blues
93' 2022 Japan
dir.: Taku Aoyagi
Who delivers food to your door? The filmmaker takes a job as a bicycle courier delivering fast food in Tokyo gripped by pandemic fever.
CINEMA
Transition
89' 2023 Australia, Iran, Afghanistan
dir.: Jordan Bryon
Monica Villamizar
In this electrifying documentary thriller, an Australian war correspondent in Afghanistan wins the trust of the Taliban, who are unaware of his true gender identity.
CINEMA
Walls
107' 2023 Italy
dir.: Kasia Smutniak
Polish actor Kasia Smutniak undertakes a risky journey from Italy to the heart of darkness, accompanying activists rescuing migrants in a restricted zone on the Polish-Belarusian border.
ONLINE FROM DECEMBER 2
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WATCH SHORTS 1 (CINEMA)
Two short, insightful portraits of young women. Olive tries to find her way in the thicket of difficult family relationships, while Valeria fights on tiktok for a just cause
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WATCH SHORTS 2 (CINEMA)
Three short films that are united by the concept of the border: a documentary investigation of the Russian occupation of Chernobyl in 2022, the story of a migrant lost in a bureaucratic maze - and a...
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What If The War Ends Tomorrow
60' 2023 Polska
dir.: Martyna Wojciechowska, Hanna Jewsiewicka
Martyna Wojciechowska and Hanna Jewsiewicka offer a moving glimpse into the lives of women during the Ukraine war. This documentary explores the essence of sisterhood amid adversity, the profound...
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The World is Family
96' 2023 India
dir.: Anand Patwardhan
Legendary Indian documentarian Anand Patwardhan examines members of his immediate family who left their indelible marks on the history of India and the world.
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You Have to Be Here to Believe
50' 2022 Hungary, Germany
dir.: Polina Georgescu
A street campaign by Hungarian activists facing the impossible odds of convincing a society manipulated by government propaganda to invalidate a homophobic referendum.
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