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- DirectorSagi BornsteinUdi NirA documentary composed entirely of YouTube clips.
- DirectorEva MulvadStarsCharlie SiemThe Norwegian-English elite violinist Charlie Siem is also a model working for the biggest fashion houses. After all measurements Siem has more success than most can dream about. He's also a perfectionist down to every little detail.
- DirectorOmar AmiralayStarsOmar AmiralayMohamed MalasOR THE FIRST TIME I HEARD OF ISRAEL. A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard of Israel. Through recorded conversations with filmmaker Mohamed Malas, both Amiralay and Malas share their own unique stories and experiences about Israel and Israeli occupation. In the company of fellow Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas, the ground-breaking director Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed Golan village of Quneytra, occupied by Israel and then abandoned following the 1973 war.
- DirectorMustafa ÜnlüIn October 2015 there were destructive clashes within and at the borders of Turkey; society was being dangerously polarized. In the midst of all this, numerous democratic institutions organized the Peace and Democracy Rally. 2 explosions took place at 10:04 where groups had gathered. 101 people died and more than 500 were injured. ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in the history of Turkey. Ah is a close up to the moment of explosion and after through the feelings, thoughts, senses of 25 survivors who were in the core of that brutal violence action, wounded and lost their relatives.
- DirectorMichal MarczakStarsKrzysztof BaginskiMichal HuszczaEva LebuefA new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city's streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.
- DirectorPia LenzWhen Djaner, 7, sat down next to his new classmates on his first day at a German primary school, he could hardly believe it. Lena, whose birthday it was, was given a candle and a pen as a gift. The whole class sang to her. In Macedonia, Djaner's former homeland, school was all about being afraid of being beaten. As a member of the Roma community, he fled to Hamburg with his brother Mamud and his depressive mother. Here, in a country which wants to deport him and his family, he yearns for home. Ghofran, 11, initially hoped she would be leaving Germany again soon. She listens to Arabic hip hop and still lives in Syria in her dreams while her father, Adal is battling for the right to stay forever. At school Ghofran meets girls who can do anything. But which parts of this does she want to accept and what is she prepared to give up for it?
- DirectorJacqueline ZündStarsRobert PearsonSteve PhillipsGenji YamadaThe story of three men in search for meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives.
- DirectorGeorg Stefan TrollerStarsGreg GibsonChia-Wei LoLin-Lin LoBefore Columbine or Virginia Tech, there was Simon´s Rock. Georg Stefan Troller interviews the first school shooter of the 1990´s and paints a clearer picture of an unspeakable tragedy. Troller looks at the incident from all sides as he talks to the killer Wayne Lo´s parents, his lawer, his former teachers. Troller then speaks to Greg Gibson - the father of a victim. Gibson has written a book about the shootings and this documentary was a direct result of the book.
- DirectorLuc SchaedlerStarsThomas SarbacherLoten NamlingPhil HayesA road-movie and a time-travel in the footsteps of the rebellious Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel - revealing a face of old & present-day Tibet that goes against popular clichés.
- DirectorCamila Rodríguez TrianaATENTAMENTE is a film that, through the sensation of the time passing by and the presence of the death that wanders into a nursing home, allows us to feel the life through the illusion that love brings along. Libardo and Alba, a couple of elders who met each other at the nursing home where they live, they fall for, they become boyfriends and start to struggle in order to find fifty thousand pesos to rent a room for one night at a hotel so they can have a privacy moment, since at the nursing home where they live is not possible to have that. While struggling they must face each other, face their fears, their limitations, their pains, their time as well as their fragility so they can construct that moment in which they meet love. A struggle that seems to be easy, but for them is an odyssey against time, against their limitations and their own ghosts.
- DirectorIlija CvetkovskiStarsDionis PashlakovGrozdanka PashlakovaA simple story, but larger than life portrayal of the universal human saga represented through Dionis, a retiring biology professor, his wife and his fantasy of turning his unusual car collection into a museum in a small uneventful town.
- DirectorFabio PaleariThe figure of the Italian Latin Lover investigated through the eyes, stories and experiences of old and young Lifeguards from the most famous Italian Beaches.
- DirectorDalia ReyesBath of life It's a immersive documentary which guides us for an intimate journey to the inner life of a public bath.
- DirectorGeorg Stefan TrollerStarsGeorg Stefan TrollerMike Brown
- DirectorAlexander KleiderStarsHanil AltunergilAlex BäkeLena ChristofYou hated school when you were young? Your kids refuse to get up in the morning, because they feel the same? Maybe this documentary shows a solution... Hidden in one of Berlin's backyards is one of Germany's most ambitious high schools. What makes it so special? It is entirely organized by its students - without any outside funding. The pupils pay their own teachers and decide what they want to learn. No headmaster, no hierarchy and no pressure. And it works? Watch the film and decide yourself. Tired of the pressure and mobbing in state schools, Alex, Mimy and Hanil registered themselves. They have two years time to prepare for the final test which is hold by the government. Due the absence of the typical enemies, the students have to learn to discipline themselves. They are forced to reflect each other, to motivate each other and last but not least, also to support each other. Will they pass the highest school degree successfully even nonbody force them to learn? BERLIN REBEL HIGH SCHOOL is a film about the true meaning of learning. It's a tribute to curiosity, the joy of life and change. Through the eyes of the protagonists the viewer recognize the key errors of our Education System.
- DirectorAndres VeielStarsJoseph BeuysCaroline TisdallRhea Thönges-StringarisA documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.
- DirectorVincent PouplardRoman and Sifredi have just turned twenty. They are in a shifting state, like their identity.
- DirectorElí Roland SachsI lost my brother to a God named Allah. While Jakob searches for the truth, I search for Jakob. Will we ever find each other?
- DirectorJérôme Le MaireBurning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?
- DirectorHeidi SpecognaStarsSalena GoddenIt all started with a small exercise book. Its page were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them. On their own initiative, they gathered together their testimonies in this book. Swiss-German documentary, which premiered at the 2016 Semaine de la Critique of the Locarno Film Festival, where it received the Zonta Club Award.
- DirectorKirsten JohnsonStarsKirsten JohnsonAisha BukarEric W. DavisExposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
- DirectorOmar AmiralayThrough mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of Sadad. He documents the burdened livelihoods of farmers and the economic policies of the government that encouraged industrial egg productions rather than artisanal trades, a switch that ultimately led to the plight of the Sadad's rural peasant class.
- DirectorMichael PalmStarsLauren AlberqueMargaret BoddeDavid BordwellThe "digital revolution" reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in an era where analog celluloid strips are disappearing, and given the diversity of digital moving picture formats, there is much more at stake: Are the world's film archives on the brink of a dark age? Are we facing the massive loss of collective audiovisual memory? Is film dying, or just changing?
- DirectorRati OneliStarsArchil KhvedelidzeZurab GelashviliMariam PkhaladzeThe lives, dreams, and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold in this impressionist dreamscape amid the ruins of a semi-abandoned mining town.
- DirectorBertram VerhaagA documentary to inspire a different way of thinking and living. Can organic agriculture really feed the world? Or must we continue to poison ourselves and destroy the soil with genetic engineering and artificial chemicals?
- DirectorMaarten de KroonOnly one mysterious painting by the notorious, libertine and prosecuted painter Johannes Torrentius survives. Ik looks like a 17th century photograph. Traces of oil were never found.
- DirectorSteven CantorStarsSergei PoluninGalyna PoluninaGalina IvanovnaSergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.
- DirectorJörg SchnitgerStarsSonnhild BeckmannHans Ruprecht FunkeGerd LemkenA few decades ago the police in Dortmund closed the file on the unsolved 'Schnitger' case. In 2010 - forty years later - the son of the man who died without explanation, started to do his own research.
- DirectorCharlie PetersmannThe sea...On one shore, Ibrahima, a young Senegalese man living illegally in Tangier is dreading his passage over to Europe. On the other shore, Agostinho, a fisherman for over fourty years, has to depart to join his family in Holland. Two stories of migration, whose similarities reveal the need and difficulty of finding one's place in a world in state of crisis.
- DirectorRomuald KarmakarStarsAtaRoman FlügelSonja MoonearA look at five pioneers of electronic music for whom work is their raison d'etre.
- DirectorCarsten RauHauke WendlerThey come in the night, tear families from their sleep, give them just enough time to pack and put them on a plane: this is the role of the so-called 'transportation commandos' comprising police officers and immigration officials. Last year, over 22,000 failed asylum seekers were deported from Germany. The documentary DEPORTATION CLASS presents a comprehensive view of this state enforcement measure for the first time: from detailed planning in the office to night-time operations at asylum seeker accommodation blocks and the arrival of asylum seekers back in their respective homelands - and the question of what awaits them there. Following extensive research, the film crew led by Carsten Rau and Hauke Wendler were present at a collective deportation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. A project favoured by Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier who was present in person at the deportations. Haunting, moving images unlike anything seen before, repeated week after week as hundreds of asylum seekers are flown out, mostly to the Balkans. Two years ago, Rau and Wendler documented how Germany reacted to these new arrivals in their hit film 'Willkommen auf Deutsch'. With DEPORTATION CLASS, they show where things lead as the mood shifts against the refugees. As more and more countries are declared to be 'safe countries of origin' and basic rights are restricted. The film depicts these 'returnees' as people with dignity and their own opinions.
- DirectorOgnjen GlavonicStarsBosko RadojkovicCaslav GolubovicBozidar ProticIn 2001 a mass grave was discovered in a suburb of Belgrade. Soon there were more to come. "Depth Two" investigates the hidden story behind this horrid discovery and takes us back to 1999 and the NATO bombings in Serbia.
- DirectorKonstantin von zur MühlenAbout the Liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany in the mid 1940's by the Allied Powers. Pictures from the Americans invading Germany via the Rhine. People building up the houses from ruins and much more.
- DirectorChristian WeisenbornAn intimate quest by a son to understand the identity of his father; a look back at the Berlin of the 30s and a special group of friends who loved life and, in the darkest hours of German history, ultimately chose good over evil.
- DirectorNorbert KottmannDennis StaufferA group of senior citizens is trying to find their place in the digital age.
- DirectorAsli ÖzarslanStarsLeyla ImretCihan ImretMerjem ImretShe is the youngest and the first female mayor of Cizre. A town located in the southeast of Turkey, where Kurds form the significant part of the inhabitants.
- DirectorTristan Ferland MilewskiStarsMichael A.AmitMichael AnastasioOnce a year, the Dream Boat sets sail - a cruise only for gay men. Far from their families and political restrictions, we follow five men from five countries on a quest for their dreams. The cruise promises seven days of sunshine, love and freedom - but on board are also their personal stories, their doubts and uncertainties.
- DirectorDavid BorensteinStarsYana YangJimmyDavid BorensteinYana's company uses actors to turn remote Chinese ghost towns into temporary "international booming cities," tricking visitors into buying overpriced property. But when the real estate market starts to collapse, she faces financial ruin. A boom to bust tale set in China's building boom.
- DirectorReiner HolzemerStarsDries Van NotenIris ApfelPamela GolbinDRIES - an intimate Portrait of the Fashion Designer Dries Van Noten. This film offers an insight into the life, mind and creative heart of a Master Fashion Designer who, for more than 25 years, has remained independent in a landscape of fashion consolidation and globalization. Reiner Holzemer follows him for one year and witnesses the creation of four collections.
- DirectorFriedemann FrommStarsRossella AmbrosiniCamilla BargelliniLorenza MazzettiIn August 1944, the Wehrmacht is looking in the Toscany for Robert Einstein, the cousin and close friend of Albert Einstein. The Germans execute the wife of Einstein, Nina, and their daughters Luce and Cici. Lorenza and Paola, the grand nieces of Albert Einstein are forced to witness the murder. Lorenza and Paola are the only remaining eyewitnesses of the massacre. After more then seventy years they return to the Einstein villa for the first time and tell their story.
- DirectorJose VillalobosDocumentary film about a mariachi singer called Jaime Garcia Dominguez, he became fascinated by the recklessness and ladies' man lifestyle of the classic Mexican movie characters with one difference: he's got HIV.
- DirectorAndrés LübbertStarsJorge LubbertAndrés LübbertJavier RebolledoDuring the Pinochet-dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert escaped from Chile and left behind a frightening period of his life. But he forgot everything. With his son Andrés he decides to remember what happened and confront his past.
- DirectorTrisha ZiffStarsEnrique MetinidesThe Accident, The Image, The Obsession.
- DirectorJoshua BonnettaJ.P. SniadeckiAn immersive experience of the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezStarsRicardo Chávez AldanaAlejandro Pacheco HernándezCarlos SpectorThis is a story about the families of those that once were our eyes and our voice, but were threatened, and had to leave Mexico and forced to live in exile.
- DirectorCarlotta KittelHE SHE I is a film about the power to tell your own story, and the powerlessness to prevent a second version of it - a conversation that never happened.
- DirectorSylvain CruiziatMila ZhluktenkoStarsNathan CarruthersMona Vojacek KoperPaul OsswaldFind Fix Finish delves into the stories of three US-Drone pilots revealing the clandestine operational strategies practiced by the US Government.
- DirectorJeremy S. LevineLandon Van SoestStarsDaje SheltonA junior high school student sees her chances of a better future jeopardized after she gets in a fight and is expelled.
- DirectorTarquin RamsayJörg AltekruseStarsJacob AppelbaumJulian AssangeDiani BarettoCan we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is Free Speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble.
- DirectorToni SchmidStarsNikolaus BachlerElsa BenoitIvor BoltonFor decades the Bavarian State Opera has been showered in international awards. A declaration of love for an art form that is so often unjustly characterized as elitist and for the people who so passionately practice that art.
- DirectorRaed AndoniStarsRamzi MaqdisiMohammed KhattabWafa MariSome Palestinians who were held in an Israeli detention center are assembled to re-enact their experience in an effort to heal.
- DirectorDavide GrottaForty years after the Khmer rouge regime: Kim Hak, a young and talented Cambodian photographer looks for a new imaginary of his country. His career starts from some family pictures his mother hid underground before the war and retrieved just after the defeat of the Khmer rouge. Hak's images will take us to a new Cambodia, far from stereotypes. Nhem Ein, as photographer enrolled in the Khemr rouge regime, took more than 14.000 mugshots of the Tuol Sleng prison victims. He's trying to establish himself as entrepreneur of the socalled dark tourism. One of his ideas on how to profit from the thousands of genoside pictures will bitterly surprise us. Which image to choose to represent our own country? But, above all, what to do with it?
- DirectorZiga VircStarsSlavoj ZizekJosip Broz TitoJohn F. KennedyExplores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
- DirectorCordelia DvorakStarsJohn BergerSelçuk DemirelKatya Berger AndreadakisArt, politics and motorcycles: on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or The Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art-critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding for over five decades. How paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger. The seeing is his life subject, the "looking eye" his intellectual burning glass. From conviction he lived and worked for decades in a small mountain village in the French Alps. The nearness to nature and the world of the peasants belonged antipodically to him as well as his motorcycle that for him deals so much with presence, and so with drawing and writing. Covering an astonishing range of topics and art-forms, Berger's work is founded also on artistic dialogues. Echoing some of these most unusual and astonishing collaborations birthday John Berger or The Art of Looking introduces Berger's art of looking with theatre wizard Simon McBurney, film-director Michael Dibb, visual artist John Christie, cartoonist Selçuk Demiral, photographer Jean Mohr as well as two of his children, film-critic Katya Berger and the painter Yves Berger. The film's prelude and starting point is Bergers mind-boggling experience of the restored vision after a successful cataract removal surgery. There, in the cusp of the clouding eyesight, Berger re-discovers - already over 80 - the irredeemable wonder of seeing. Realised as a portrait in works and collaborations, this creative documentary takes a different approach to biography, with John Berger leading in his favorite role of the storyteller.
- DirectorAnna ZameckaStarsNikodem KaczanowskiOla KaczanowskiMarek Kaczorowski'Communion' reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.
- DirectorAicha MackyThe director, a married woman without children, deals with the issue of infertility in the country of Niger, by sharing stories of stigmatized wives, husbands who refuse to be tested (or who abandon the women and take up with other wives.) The project was inspired by the death of the director's own mother in childbirth.
- DirectorLucija StojevicStarsLa ChanaFélix Comas ItchartAntonio CanalesThe film brings us under the skin and into the mind of La Chana, a talented Gypsy flamenco dancer as she returns to the stage to give a final seated performance after a 30-year break. Along the way, La Chana reveals the secret behind her disappearance when she was at the peak of her career.
- DirectorOmar Al Abdul Razzak MartínezThey were frightened. Suddenly the sea became calm.
- DirectorFeras FayyadSteen JohannessenStarsKhaled Umar HarahBatulMahmoudKhaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.
- DirectorThomas RiedelsheimerStarsAndy GoldsworthyHolly GoldsworthyLeaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.
- DirectorJörg AdolphRalf BüchelerLife - from birth to death - as a cinematic puzzle, assembled from trainings, tests, exercises, therapies and role-play.
- DirectorSabine KrayenbühlZeva OelbaumStarsTilda SwintonMichael HiggsEric LoscheiderGertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
- DirectorUgis OlteMorten TraavikStarsLaibachBoris BenkoTomaz CubejALL ART IS PROPAGANDA. George Orwell ...AND ALL PROPAGANDA IS ART. Laibach
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsRita GuzmánAndrés MartínezAna RodriguezA group of friends with Down Syndrome have been attending the same school for 40 years, they have passed all the courses, all the teachers and, even their parents who were with them, are now gone. They must now fight to get a better job, to make money like any other person, to learn to take care of themselves and to make it to their 50's. No one looks at them as children. They will do everything to prevent anyone from interfering with their adult dreams.
- DirectorAlma Har'elStarsAbraham BoydAngel BoydHarmony BoydThree complicated real-life relationships unfold in distinct corners of the country. Alaskans Blake and Joel pursue a promising romance, in spite of physical limitations and her stripping career. In Hawaii, free spirit Coconut Willie discovers another side of true love after realizing his son is not biologically his own. And singer/songwriter Victory philosophizes on faith and faithfulness as she and her siblings perform in the streets of New York City accompanied by their father John, who was abruptly separated from his wife. The three revelatory stories provide a deeper definition of love.
- DirectorJonas ScheuFor generations, the Dockers and their families have lived and worked along the Irrawaddy riverbank in Mandalay, the ancient royal capital of Myanmar. In a time of great political and social transition, their traditional lifestyle is suddenly declared 'illegal' leading to a permanent transformation of purpose and place. The authorities intend to dislocate the squatters into newly built concrete buildings. Ma Yan Chan - Waves of Transition is an immersion into a unique and disappearing universe.
- DirectorJero YunPortrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China and South Korea. With the money she gets, she plans to reunite with her two North Korean sons after years of separation.
- DirectorPeter LatasterPetra Lataster-CzischStarsKiet EngelHaya KhleifBranche JovanovskiImmigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
- DirectorNuno EscudeiroAs winter takes over the European Arctic, it turns into an unrecognizable place, cold and dark. Throughout the polar night, the north feels removed from all human life, uninhabitable, just like the moon. And yet, it is home to people born in faraway lands. What has brought them here? What keeps them here, immersed in darkness?
- DirectorGeorg Stefan TrollerStarsBubi ScholzIngrid van Bergen
- DirectorRamona S. DiazTaking us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital's stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it's absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.
- DirectorZosya RodkevichStarsAlexei NavalnyBoris NemtsovIlya YashinAn intimate documentary portrait of one of Russia's most influential opposition politicians, shot dead near the Kremlin in February 2015.
- DirectorNiki PadidarStarsNinnoc WoutersNinnoc doesn't just want to adapt to other kids simply to fit in, but she's also afraid of being excluded.
- DirectorReyan TuviThis is a journey of solidarity, life and death starting from a small border village (Maheser/ Turkey), in anticipation for the war to end with victory and continuing to a city (Kobane) devastated by war. While the village is hoping for the liberation of the city, their children, relatives and friends are fighting for their land, independance and identity. The possibility of the liberation of this city, with the hope of a resurrection and a better world makes this expectation and struggle more significant.
- DirectorMiroslav JanekThrough unique artistic approach, the director reveals the world of autism - bringing the audience closer to the main characters - talented and creative children with a fascinating way of thinking.
- DirectorZaradasht AhmedStarsAbu FallahHans HusumMudhafar"Nowhere to Hide" follows a man - the medic and father Nori Sharif - through 5 years of dramatic change in the war-torn Diyala-province; one of the most dangerous provinces in the middle of Iraq. From the time of the American retreat to the fall of Nori's home town, we follow him filming stories of survivors. In a world trapped between ISIS and the different Iraqi Militias, his integrity and humanitarian vision is the only thing that drives him to continue against all odds. Even when, as last man standing, he is forced to turn the camera towards himself. We are given a unique insight into one of the worlds most dangerous and inaccessible areas - the "triangle of death" in central Iraq. We get to know and hear the stories of the people who live there; survivors of this 'new war" that has become the norm - where the enemy is invisible, and there is nowhere to hide.
- DirectorWil MathijsAfter Bulgaria became a new European Member State in 2007, it is possible for Bulgarians to travel and work freely in Europe since 2014. For several years the two colleagues Stefan and Niki, together with their families, have attempted to find a dignified life and a bit of happiness in Ghent, Belgium. In the industrial periphery of the city, they take shelter in a rotten, collapsed barrack on the immense domain of the public transport company De Lijn, hoping for a job, social support or a home that will never come. On The Edge Of Happiness is a social surreal, observational, existential film that penetrates and respectfully portrays the life in the barracks. It's a story about friendship, dreams, perseverance, social justice, poverty, inter-European migration, human rights, tolerance, loyalty and ultimately fate. A contemporary Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' in our fragmented European backyard, in the shadow of the current migration & homeless crisis.
- DirectorShuchang XieFive friends - Sloth, Pomeranian, Shark, Yoyo and Shrek - while away their nights in the big city. They talk about their past fortunes, finding parallels. Each of them claims to have the biggest problem, but how can one measure the magnitude of one problem in relation to another?
- DirectorJuan Carlos NúñezStarsVictoriano ChuroCirildo ChacaritoThe story of Victoriano Churo and Cirildo Chacarito two of Mexico's most elite long-distance Raramuri runners that nowadays have been forgotten without any glory.
- DirectorOvidieStarsAlissiyaLeyla BenthoGrégory DorcelThe wonders of internet has made the shady industry of pornography rich, but is now in death cramps due to the piracy ruining the market, and forcing the participants to perform more extreme sex.
- DirectorBalázs SimonyiStarsBéla SzabóJudit TáncsicsAnnett BahlckeA unique drama about everyday athletes who join an extreme running race. Their dream and burden is to test their personal limits, heal their souls and release their demons.
- DirectorSusan FroemkeJohn HoffmanBeth AalaStarsTom BrokawDusty CraryJustin KnopfOut on America's vast working landscapes - the ranches of the Mountain west, the farmlands of the Great Plains, the waterways of the Mississippi Delta - a huge, largely hidden, and entirely unexpected movement is being born. Tens of thousands of heartland conservationists are leading some of the most consequential work in the nation to restore America's forests, grasslands, wildlife, soil and fisheries: the vast, rich bounty that shaped our national character and sustains our way of life.
- DirectorGeorg Stefan TrollerStarsGeorg Stefan TrollerRon Kovic
- DirectorCatherine BainbridgeAlfonso MaioranaStarsGeorge ClintonRobbie RobertsonGary GiddinsA documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history.
- DirectorNeasa Ní ChianáinDavid RaneStarsDermot DixAmanda LeydenJohn LeydenLong careers are drawing to a close for John and Amanda, who teach Latin, English, and guitar at a stately home-turned-school, where they are legends with a mantra: "Reading. 'Rithmetic. Rock 'n' roll!" But leaving is the hardest lesson.
- DirectorAnna KochAt the age of 12, Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle leave their home for a sports school in the East German province to become wrestlers. A documentary about coming-of-age between boarding school corridors, wrestling gyms and boyband posters.
- DirectorDariusz KowalskiThe protagonists of Seeing Voices may not be able to hear, but that doesn't leave them without words. They don't lament their inability to hear music or birds singing. But they are denied the right to their mother tongue. They employ different techniques to master their lives, walking the line between the hearing of the world - and refusing to be silent.
- DirectorStefanie BrockhausSome Things Are Hard To Talk About is a personal documentary about the secrets of abortions in my family over three generations. After I had an abortion I find out that both my mother and my grandmother secretly had abortions. An intricate story of family history, choices and resulting effects uncovers.
- DirectorJana Sabina ReißmannFelix KrisaiTunis in the summer of 2015. A young democracy four years after the uprise. Eight young Tunisians finding their way in a society torn between tradition, change and failed hopes. A search for freedom, fulfillment and self-determination.
- DirectorGuido HendrikxStarsValentijn DhaenensIn a classroom newly arrived refugees learn a lesson about multifarious Europe. Operating at the intersection of fiction and documentary, Stranger in Paradise reflects on the power relations between Europeans and refugees in a candid fashion.
- DirectorMaya McKechneay
- DirectorBaby Ruth VillaramaStarsJu-chen ChenLeo SelomonioRudelie AcostaSunday Beauty Queen is a real-life Cinderella tale of a Filipina house helper who dreams of being a Beauty Queen in Hong Kong.
- DirectorOlivier BabinetStarsAïssatou DiaMariyama DialloAbou FofanaA teen-movie documentary, Swagger carries us in the midst of the astonishing minds of eleven teenagers growing up in one of the most underprivileged neighborhood in France. Despite their life difficulties, Aulnay's and Sevran's kids have dreams and ambitions. And no one will take that from them!
- DirectorYulia LokshinaThe Russian island Sakhalin lies 8000 km to the east of Moscow. Every summer, with state support, it hosts a military-patriotic camp for kids from the region. The children are being trained in patriotism and armed combat, backed by lessons of Russian orthodox tradition. In Summer 2015, due to the 70th anniversary of the victory of the soviet army in WWII, the camp takes part in reconstruction of a historic battle, where the kids take on the roles of soldiers. The documentary follows the children in their daily training until the final performance - their experiences, their dreams and hopes.
- DirectorLaurens SamsomTeam Gaza records the lives of four young football players daring to dream in Gaza, a land strip sealed off from the outside world. Stuck between walls these four Gazans try to build their lives.
- DirectorSamantha BiffotStarsLuc BendzaIt all started with a Kung Fu movie.
- DirectorYuri AncaraniFocused on the world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry, 'The Challenge' combines cinematic beauty with rare access and trailblazing form. Here, the opulence of Qatar is on full display, as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetah out for desert spins in their souped-up Lamborghini.