To sell or not to sell? That is the question – and it splits the farmers of Nošovice down the middle. One camp says go for the money and say goodbye and good riddance to fallow land. The other side is reluctant to see good agricultural land... > more

Talking heads dissecting their lives in post-communist Moscow; off-the-wall sketches; computer-animated insects in a futuristic scenario – Silvestrov’s film deftly eludes categorization while fathoming the very depths of the collective... > more

The Skull and Crossbones flutters in the breeze on Karadere beach on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria. Jack and his men are hunting for a legendary buried 19th-century treasure. But cracks soon appear in the picturesque façade of this offbeat... > more

A prologue in which two French men meditate on art, on Marx’s Capital, on bygone revolutionary times. A Georgian eking out a precarious existence in Berlin is about to hang Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square on his kitchen wall when the... > more

Double Feature:
“I don’t eat bananas. And I’ve stopped drinking Coca-Cola, of course!” Petra Mgoza-Zeckay sits in front of a bouquet of red carnations. Up to 1990 she taught Marxism-Leninism at the... > more

Double Feature:
Crowds attending the International Labour Day parade – a relay race run on The Day of Youth – Tito’s state funeral – Milošević’s first political rallies in Belgrade –... > more

The short-film programme “(Post)Socialism Revisited” surveys film and video work of the past five years dealing with the (post-)socialist space and living conditions. Curated by Greg DeCuir.
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What’s the best course of action when your country’s in crisis and you’re not only stuck in a two-bit town but out of a job? Karel, Tomaś, Vinco and Milan decide to buy a delivery van and strike down the path of... > more

A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main... > more

A prologue in which two French men meditate on art, on Marx’s Capital, on bygone revolutionary times. A Georgian eking out a precarious existence in Berlin is about to hang Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square on his kitchen wall when the... > more

The dream of home ownership suddenly seems less remote when banks are willing and eager to furnish a loan. For some 120,000 Croats, however, the sweet and simple deal turned out to be misleading if not to say deceptive. Encouraged by politicians and... > more

The dream of home ownership suddenly seems less remote when banks are willing and eager to furnish a loan. For some 120,000 Croats, however, the sweet and simple deal turned out to be misleading if not to say deceptive. Encouraged by politicians and... > more

The first man planned a bomb attack on the speakers’ platform at a Communist Party conference, the second intended to assassinate the state president, the third blew up placards and hoardings and distributed his protest leaflets to all and... > more

A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main... > more