A convent in Poland in the early 1960s. The novice Anna is about to take her vows. At the insistence of the abbess the young woman sets out for the city to visit her only living relative, her deceased mother’s sister. Next to each other the... > more

In biographies I’m always the son of Marcel Łoziński (the son says). One day they’ll write that I was the father of Paweł Łoziński (the father replies). Father and son, both renowned filmmakers, are touring... > more

A convent in Poland in the early 1960s. The novice Anna is about to take her vows. At the insistence of the abbess the young woman sets out for the city to visit her only living relative, her deceased mother’s sister. Next to each other the... > more

A convent in Poland in the early 1960s. The novice Anna is about to take her vows. At the insistence of the abbess the young woman sets out for the city to visit her only living relative, her deceased mother’s sister. Next to each other the... > more

“Fetch your father!” – “He’s away on business.” – “Then fetch your brother!” – “He’s studying in the city.”—“And your mother?” – “She’s... > more

Things are happening so fast in Ukraine that it’s hard to keep up, all that can be said with certainty is that no historical event is conceivable without human agency. This omnibus documentary from the Indie Lab project initiated by Dmytro... > more

IDA / IDA / IDA
OJCIEC I SYN W PODRÓZY / VATER UND SOHN MACHEN EINE REISE / FATHER AND SON ON A JOURNEY
BAUYR / KLEINER BRUDER / LITTLE BROTHER > more

In biographies I’m always the son of Marcel Łoziński (the son says). One day they’ll write that I was the father of Paweł Łoziński (the father replies). Father and son, both renowned filmmakers, are touring... > more

Artist versus man of state – the antagonism is as old as the ages. Except now we’re in Belarus, where many things are different, including the history of official policies relating to images. The head of state is Alexander Lukashenko,... > more

“Fetch your father!” – “He’s away on business.” – “Then fetch your brother!” – “He’s studying in the city.”—“And your mother?” – “She’s... > more

After Luka’s mother gave him away he spent nine years in a children’s home. His father died in a car accident when he was small. He’s 19 now and expected to stand on his own feet. He moves into a tiny flat and finds work in an... > more

Things are happening so fast in Ukraine that it’s hard to keep up, all that can be said with certainty is that no historical event is conceivable without human agency. This omnibus documentary from the Indie Lab project initiated by Dmytro... > more

A rain-swept beach in November. Pebbles hastily lined into the shape of football goals, two bodies come together and find love. Sandro, aged 40, tells Manana he’s never felt so safe in somebody’s arms, and asks her to stay by his side.... > more

“Fetch your father!” – “He’s away on business.” – “Then fetch your brother!” – “He’s studying in the city.”—“And your mother?” – “She’s... > more

ISKUSHENIE / VERSUCHUNG / TEMPTATION
ZAPELJI ME / VERFÜHRE MICH / SEDUCE ME
SHEMTKHVEVITI PAEMNEBI / BLIND DATES / BLIND DATES > more

Transnistria was still part of the Soviet Union when German and Romanian troops invaded in 1941. Along with many Jewish deportees, some 25,000 Roma were transported there from Romania. The prisoners were interred in appalling conditions, for the... > more

In 2008 and 2009 several Roma villages in Hungary were attacked by far-right extremists. Six people died, among them a five-year-old child. The film documents the two-and-a-half-year trial of four suspects against whom a case was brought. Because... > more

After Luka’s mother gave him away he spent nine years in a children’s home. His father died in a car accident when he was small. He’s 19 now and expected to stand on his own feet. He moves into a tiny flat and finds work in an... > more

A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more

Artist versus man of state – the antagonism is as old as the ages. Except now we’re in Belarus, where many things are different, including the history of official policies relating to images. The head of state is Alexander Lukashenko,... > more

A rain-swept beach in November. Pebbles hastily lined into the shape of football goals, two bodies come together and find love. Sandro, aged 40, tells Manana he’s never felt so safe in somebody’s arms, and asks her to stay by his side.... > more

A rain-swept beach in November. Pebbles hastily lined into the shape of football goals, two bodies come together and find love. Sandro, aged 40, tells Manana he’s never felt so safe in somebody’s arms, and asks her to stay by his side.... > more

In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more

After Luka’s mother gave him away he spent nine years in a children’s home. His father died in a car accident when he was small. He’s 19 now and expected to stand on his own feet. He moves into a tiny flat and finds work in an... > more

VALEA PLÂNGERII / TAL DER TRÄNEN / VALLEY OF SIGHS
JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY / URTEIL IN UNGARN / JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY
CÂND SE LASA SEARA PESTE BUCURETI SAU METABOLISM / WENN ES NACHT WIRD IN BUKAREST ODER METABOLISMUS / WHEN... > more

A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more

“Actually, I want to forget these things,” says Zelim at the start of the film. But then the young man begins to talk. For a Chechen refugee in Ingushetia, waiting at a bus-stop proved to be a bad idea: he was spotted by a passing police... > more

In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more

As the title suggests, the drama QUOD ERAT DEMOSTRANDUM displays a certain affinity with academia and advanced mathematics. As such, the film goes against the grain of the Romanian New Wave. The old-school patina, moreover, is deepened by the plain... > more

In 2008 and 2009 several Roma villages in Hungary were attacked by far-right extremists. Six people died, among them a five-year-old child. The film documents the two-and-a-half-year trial of four suspects against whom a case was brought. Because... > more

In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more

Transnistria was still part of the Soviet Union when German and Romanian troops invaded in 1941. Along with many Jewish deportees, some 25,000 Roma were transported there from Romania. The prisoners were interred in appalling conditions, for the... > more

Fred, a film critic, finds himself out of a job: the editor-in-chief was not impressed by his hatchet job, richly punctuated with expletives, on Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE. Fred’s not overly worried: he needs time for his own... > more

“Actually, I want to forget these things,” says Zelim at the start of the film. But then the young man begins to talk. For a Chechen refugee in Ingushetia, waiting at a bus-stop proved to be a bad idea: he was spotted by a passing police... > more

A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more

ZELIM’S CONFESSION / ZELIMS BEKENNTNIS / ZELIM’S CONFESSION
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM / QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM / QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM
FREE RANGE – BALLAAD MAIILMA HEAKSIITMISEST / FREE RANGE – BALLADE VON DER... > more

As the title suggests, the drama QUOD ERAT DEMOSTRANDUM displays a certain affinity with academia and advanced mathematics. As such, the film goes against the grain of the Romanian New Wave. The old-school patina, moreover, is deepened by the plain... > more

Global revolution is coming – sooner than we think if Sergey and his assistant get their way. The two men are members of a small party, based in St. Petersburg, that broke away from the old Communist Party. The new splinter party might be... > more

Betty and her friend V have a major project: the open-air Sziget festival held every summer on Óbudai, one of the Danube islands in Budapest. Instead of money the teenagers have a stash of grass waiting for a buyer. Food? Nothing wrong with the... > more

Fred, a film critic, finds himself out of a job: the editor-in-chief was not impressed by his hatchet job, richly punctuated with expletives, on Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE. Fred’s not overly worried: he needs time for his own... > more

A harsh Arctic wind blows in the industrial centre of Norilsk in the far north of Russia. The greyish air is chemically contaminated and the outlook anything but bright for the young generation. Local kids often take refuge in what’s left of... > more

Global revolution is coming – sooner than we think if Sergey and his assistant get their way. The two men are members of a small party, based in St. Petersburg, that broke away from the old Communist Party. The new splinter party might be... > more

As the title suggests, the drama QUOD ERAT DEMOSTRANDUM displays a certain affinity with academia and advanced mathematics. As such, the film goes against the grain of the Romanian New Wave. The old-school patina, moreover, is deepened by the plain... > more

Fred, a film critic, finds himself out of a job: the editor-in-chief was not impressed by his hatchet job, richly punctuated with expletives, on Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE. Fred’s not overly worried: he needs time for his own... > more

Betty and her friend V have a major project: the open-air Sziget festival held every summer on Óbudai, one of the Danube islands in Budapest. Instead of money the teenagers have a stash of grass waiting for a buyer. Food? Nothing wrong with the... > more

A harsh Arctic wind blows in the industrial centre of Norilsk in the far north of Russia. The greyish air is chemically contaminated and the outlook anything but bright for the young generation. Local kids often take refuge in what’s left of... > more

Betty and her friend V have a major project: the open-air Sziget festival held every summer on Óbudai, one of the Danube islands in Budapest. Instead of money the teenagers have a stash of grass waiting for a buyer. Food? Nothing wrong with the... > more

A harsh Arctic wind blows in the industrial centre of Norilsk in the far north of Russia. The greyish air is chemically contaminated and the outlook anything but bright for the young generation. Local kids often take refuge in what’s left of... > more