ZagrebDox 2023
ZagrebDox is an international documentary film festival taking place in Zagreb, capitol of Croatia.
ZagrebDox is one of European Film Awards-qualifying festivals for documentary films.
ZagrebDox is one of European Film Awards-qualifying festivals for documentary films.
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- DirectorMartín BenchimolConversations with Argentinian slaughterhouse workers turn into an exploration of fatherhood, blood ties and masculinity.
- DirectorNicolas van HemelryckClare WeiskopfTen young women reside in a home for girls from the streets of Bogotá. They talk about their roommate, Alis. She is a collective invention and at the same time a protected space that makes it possible to express painful truths.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
- DirectorTheo MontoyaStarsAlejandro HincapiéCamilo MachadoAlejandro MendiganaA funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.
- DirectorLea GlobStarsApolonia SokolLea GlobOksana ShachkoThe talented Apolonia grows up seeking her place in the art world while grappling with the agonies and joys of womanhood and relationships in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism, and war.
- DirectorDaniel Asadi FaeziMila ZhluktenkoStarsKallibek NagmetovUralbay UtegenovAralkum is a cinematic kaleidoscope of a desert landscape that used to be a lake. The surreal flickering of the Aral desert transforms into the waves of the former Aral Sea. The sand becomes water. An old man becomes a fisherman again.
- DirectorWelket BunguéStarsWelket BunguéJoãozinho da CostaAliu Santy'Calling Cabral' is shaped by Guinean mysticism, the poetics of simultaneity, and the voice of resistance and reflection in Amílcar Cabral. Between the hustle and bustle of a New Year's Eve spent in the Bijagó Islands, and the discovery of a feeling that is renewed with the reunion of people and places, 'Calling Cabral' penetrates the layers of language and behaviour, to celebrate the historical and intergenerational complexity that inhabits Guinea-Bissau.
- DirectorNegin AhmadiDream's Gate is an observational documentary where Iranian female director Negin Ahmadi starts a personal journey into the combat zone of North Syria to question what it means to be a woman. Alone with her camera, she decides to look for an answer for her questions by encountering the women who embody the strongest contemporary myth of female strength and freedom: Kurdish female fighters. The personal search and internal struggles turn into an intimate women diary written in the first person. Following, sharing, witnessing the life of this other Kurdish women put into question the image that the director has of herself and of the cost of equality and freedom in this difficult region.
- DirectorJoana PimentaAdirley QueirósStarsDébora AlencarLéa Alves da SilvaGleide FirminoIn 2013 the military police of the Brazilian Federal District initiated a large operation against drug traffic in the peripheral city of Ceilândia, dismantling a series of illegal networks and arresting sixteen men.
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyYevhen TitarenkoOn February 24, 2022, Yevhen, together with his friends, volunteered to join the first aid squad on the front line. They provided life-saving support and evacuation of the wounded. This film reveals the experiences of these young men for six months full of drama, despair, fear, hatred, bitterness, love, and, most importantly, faith in victory.
- DirectorMaxim ArbugaevEvgenia ArbugaevaStarsMaxim ChakilevFollows a man waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.
- DirectorViolet Du FengQing ZhaoStarsXin HuSimu WuHe YanxinThe story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them.
- DirectorKirill NenashevMasha and Ilya, young Russians who were born around the time Vladimir Putin came to power and who have become protesters and freedom fighters.
- DirectorAngie VinchitoFifteen years from its inception, YouTube retains the power to shock and disorient - particularly when wielded by children who have lived their whole lives in its era. A found-footage documentary composed entirely of social media videos by teenagers weathering hostile education and a climate of terror in contemporary Russia, "Manifesto" contains one vignette after another to make viewers wince with discomfort and even outright horror. One's first impulse might be to ask whether any documentary should show such material at all - yet of course, it has been freely available for public viewing all along. As such, "Manifesto" invites uneasy consideration of the differing responsibilities of creating, consuming and externally curating candid video, and provides no guidance. In selecting and assembling several years' worth of amateur video into a constructed, collective life-in-a-day feature, the presumably pseudonymous filmmaker Angie Vinchito takes considerable risks of decontextualization. There's no narration to bind or editorialize these disparate but symphonically despairing mini-narratives of physical abuse and psychological oppression, and "Manifesto" counts on viewers' knowledge of recent Russian politics and social norms to determine which videos present uncompromised reality, which may be documenting pranks or performance, and which have been alarmingly coerced.
- DirectorValentina ShasivariThe summer idyll is disturbed by recurring noises while a mountain village loses its foundations.
- DirectorDouwe DijkstraStarsAbdiwahab AliHamza SunailaSadaq AliHow can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker Douwe. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.
- DirectorZayne AkyolA camera aboard a drone flies over a territory. The aerial images show barren landscapes, dotted with shabby houses, animals and a few human figures. We scarcely have time to wonder where we are when a text appears on the screen directly addressing the viewer: we are in Syrian Kurdistan, liberated from the occupation of the Islamic State, whose jihadist members are currently in prison. The woman who speaks has been given permission to question them; about their ideas, their past and the future. The Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol, who made a great impression on the Visions du Réel audience in 2016 with GULÎSTAN, LAND OF ROSES, shows towards them dialectic behaviour typical of those who want to understand before they pass sentence. Their stories thus take shape, framed by a mise en scène that shifts between words, faces and aerial views of the landscape. An unexpected look at a far-reaching current political issue and a film whose subject matter and rhythm create an impressive cinematographic object.
- DirectorMohammadreza FarzadIt follows an accounting never being applied to one's life's products.
- DirectorElwira NiewieraPiotr RosolowskiStarsSlavik GavianetsKatia KotliarovaRoman KrivdikA group of young Ukrainians is preparing a modern stage version of Hamlet. Their goal is to use their own wartime experiences and traumas to relate to Shakespeare's play.
- DirectorJakob Pagel AndersenWhen Jakob becomes a father, he is overcome by fierce anxiety attacks, which threatens his new little family, and forces him to figure out why he reacts so strongly to his new life.
- DirectorGorana JovanovicDecades after being at war with each other, the armies of six former Yugoslav republics are getting together to play ball.
- DirectorVlad PetriStarsIlinca HarnutVictoria StoiciuTwo women separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.
- DirectorGuido ZanghiStarsTrevor MurphyOliver AsanteSonny Mihajlovic-DrakeIn WW1, two deserters clash over the fate of their German captive.
- DirectorJasmina BesirevicDalija DozetTonci GacinaStarsDunja BovanTila GiovanelliTina GrgicOmnibus documentary of eight decades of life by eight female characters, starting from the age of five to 85; from a little girl, a teenager, a woman, a mother, a non-mother and a grandmother.
- DirectorJosipa KrcelicAn underage member of the Bad Blue Boys football fan group makes a dangerous and impulse decision which, despite the consequences, he never regretted.
- DirectorBojan StojcicEchoes of the Hope Hotel, where the negotiators of the Dayton Peace Accords stayed in 1995. The Agreement ended the violent war in Bosnia and Herzegovina but also trapped the country in an unchangeable quasi-democratic state.
- DirectorBoris PoljakIn this very timely observational meditation on the growing militarization of today's society, we are watching what is really happening aboard a US aircraft carrier, as well as behind the scenes of a military parade. With his trademark long-take sequences, using a free-associative editing style, acclaimed experimental documentarist Boris Poljak creates an atmosphere of anxiety and loneliness, perfectly in tune with the fear of the uncertain future that we all feel.
- DirectorMelita VrsaljkoStarsZvonko VrsaljkoIn Melita Vrsaljko's debut film Knin - Zadar we follow the daily routine of the director's father, a railroad shunter at the Benkovac railway station, where time seems to have stopped sometime in the last decades of the 20th century. The basis of this film's dramaturgy is a subtle counterpoint between serenity and expectation achieved by minimalist and static shots of a space in decay, against the backdrop of a quiet and multifaceted soundscape.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterA film about our garbage that is found in the most remote areas and about the people who try to dispose of it.
- DirectorIsaac Knights-WashbournStarsDragica SkokicPredrag SkokicAfter the recent death of her mother, Dragica is now the only person working on her small family farm in western Serbia. Over one hot summer day, she battles with the burden of legacy and the responsibility of being a provider to many.
- DirectorMila TurajlicStarsStevan LabudovicJovana KesicRuzica LabudovicExplores the never-before-seen footage of Tito's cameraman documenting his trips to Africa and Asia to promote a third way amidst the Cold War.
- DirectorMatyas KalmanStarsAnikó AndraschekLászló AndraschekAnikó and Laci, a middle-aged couple living in deep poverty in a small town of Hungary, hit the 2 million euro jackpot in the lottery. Diving into a life of which they feel is luxury and realizing material happiness, their relationship changes.
- DirectorBiserka SuranStarsBiserka SuranVinko SuranLino SuranJourney through family history while interrogating the construct of Europe.
- DirectorAlessandro ComodinStarsPier Luigi MecchiaUlisse BuosiTomaso CecottoA policeman in a small village in northern Italy whose boring days barely conceal a growing melancholy in the town a world whose contours are just barely discernible.
- DirectorViktor PortelVladimír Dzuro is the first Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He collected evidence against war criminals and hunted perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. The two biggest cases include the Ovcara massacre related to Vukovar's mayor Slavko Dokmanovic, and the ethnic cleansing committed by the warlord Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan. We join Vladimír Dzuro on his metaphorical and real journey across the places of investigation in the former Yugoslavia and meet some survivors of these cases. What is the landscape of the Balkans, which saw a fratricidal conflict twenty-five years ago, like today? What happened to the people who still live there and to their memory? What is the significance and meaning of justice brought from the outside? The film is inspired by Vladimir Dzuro's bestselling book The Investigator - Demons of the Balkan War (Grada, 2017, and Potomac Books, 2019).
- DirectorSuzana DinevskiA social portrait of two families as it looks into the intimate world of conjugal visits at North Macedonia's most notorious prison Idrizovo, and the effects it has on family and their surrounding world.
- DirectorEneos CarkaStarsMária KöszegiA father finds refuge in memories created together with his daughter, who has been stricken with an illness. She has decided to keep her distance from him and they have not spoken for years. The film encourages her to reconsider her decision.
- DirectorDavid GasoA short talk on having sex in the woods. A portrait of an anonymous exhibitionist who guides the director through a public sex forest located in the middle of a city park.
- DirectorJudith AuffrayStarsJean PoinsignonMana FéronJean lives as a hermit in a forest. From his cabin, he listens to and records the sounds of the animals that inhabit the surrounding area. One night, he hears the cry of an unknown animal. Along with Mana, a young girl who sings with the birds, he goes in search of the mysterious creature.
- DirectorAhsen NadeemAfter decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation.
- DirectorJason LoftusStarsHenry GuoShi JianYu FengFalun Gong practitioners were persecuted in China, they tried to tell the truth but they were kidnapped, some Falun Gong practitioners died.
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyStarsDarya AstafievaIhor LutsenkoYevhen NyshchukThis film plays out in Ukraine on a single day: March 14, 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian War. In the last few weeks, intense warfare has surreally mixed places and people and created a post-apocalyptic dimension revealing new qualities and roles. Thousands of Kyivans have moved to live in subway stations. The capital city's previously calm suburbs have been transformed into battle zones of destruction and looting by Russian occupiers. People no longer live according to "workdays" or "weekends," counting instead the number of days since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine... The film presents this day in the lives of a pop music star, video engineer, historian, art restorer, polar researcher, and pensioner, who were all forced to radically change their lives.
- DirectorReed HarknessStarsDoris HarknessJared HarknessJois HarknessSam Harkness and his half-brother Reed go on a road trip to find their missing mom. But solving the mystery of her disappearance is only the beginning of their story.
- DirectorDenis DobrovodaStarsJusto Gallego MartínezFor 60 years, with no help or architectural expertise, one man builds a gigantic cathedral using waste and recycled materials. He works mostly alone, without ever drawing a single sketch, while his community labels him a madman.
- DirectorShuli HuangAs a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
- DirectorSaeed KeshavarzWhen Reza is jailed on drug charges under mysterious circumstances, his wife is forced to uproot the lives of their four children. They find themselves at the mercy of actions taken far out of their control.
- DirectorRichard MisekA study of property, profit, and power, made out of archive footage sourced from Getty's online catalogue.
- DirectorAxel DanielsonMaximilien Van AertryckStarsChris AndersonFelix BergssonUlrika BergstenFrom the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
- DirectorGuy DavidiMaking a war is a storyteller's job. A good story is crucial to legitimize the use of military force. That's why militaries need strong promotion and Israel is a model country in promoting its military ventures. We've successfully colonized, occupied and overgrown, and only got stronger and more accepted amongst the nations. Our history as persecuted Jews, our enlightened democracy are both in use in our solid PR kit. But before pitching our story to the world, we need to pitch it to our children. As moral corruption linked with apartheid thrives, avoiding service becomes a threat. For some children we'll offer benefits, for most we'll sell fictitious promises. Every child is screened to serve with bearable pressure and an adjusted amount of exposure to violence. 'Innocence' tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
- DirectorOtilia BabaraIn the early 90's, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became a ritual among thousands of families. Video cameras and presents allowed these mothers and children to share glimpses of their realities while being apart. As time passed, it became clear that the mothers' return was an increasingly distant prospect. Children turned into teenagers and, disillusioned, they stopped recording. Through these intimate private archives, Otilia Babara, a Moldovan filmmaker living in Brussels, depicts the fragility of family bonds through the eyes of a generation of mothers and daughters who were forced to live apart in order to survive. While doing so, she portrays a post-soviet country caught in a crossroads of history. A country whose women were unwittingly put in charge of making the transition from communism to capitalism.
- DirectorSusanna HelkeStarsTiina MollbergMarja VaaramaJaana PilvinenDocumentary-material based choir couplet portraying the privatization of the elderly care sector in Finland. Quotes from the news media, real life political debacles, and the rhetoric with the Promises of Privatization are celebrated and which have taken over the public airspace of society and as well as real life experiences of the care workers are turned into the lyrics of serious but playful choir pieces composed by Anna-Mari Kähärä. Women working as carers in the elderly care sector sing these songs in various settings of their workplaces. Retirees, elderly citizens and dementia patients, those who have been pushed in the shadows of society and who have been coined as the "sustainability gap" sing impudent songs playing with the newspeak of the economical lingo of our era. These absurd singing tableau vivant images, elevated flash mob scenes, are juxtaposed with the documentary episodes in which the film captures, through several perspectives, testimonies and documentary characters, the crisis of the Finnish elderly care sector. By combining songs and documentary elements, the film portrays the collision between the ethics of care and the logic of profit and austerity. We have all accepted the view that we cannot afford providing decent care of the ever growing population of elderly citizens. Meanwhile, the elderly care sector has been taken over by multinational corporations.
- DirectorMarek KozakiewiczAt the death of her mother, Aga decides to leave her life in Germany with her partner Maja to look after her younger brother in Poland. To do this, she has to hide her love for another woman from the authorities.
- DirectorRodrigo Ribeiro-AndradeIn a dreamlike Afro-Diasporic odyssey, landscapes and alleys meet at the crossroads of time, carrying out a mystical journey that rescue memories and discover possible futures.
- DirectorMark CousinsStarsAlba RohrwacherDonald TrumpMark CousinsDepicts the ascent of fascism in Italy, and its fallout across 1930s Europe.
- DirectorBoris BakalStarsBoris BakalAlan BraunNenad FabijanicThe story of an apartment building renovation that becomes a metaphor for the society, uncovering the purpose and the futility of giving yourself for the greater good.
- DirectorMarcus LenzMila TeshaievaLocals emerge from their shelters, corpses are lying in the streets of Bucha. The trauma is clear to see. But life needs to go on. At first, all is despair-But these Ukrainians reveal their resilience.
- DirectorGiulia GiapponesiStarsIlkay AkkayaStefano BellottiCesare BermaniFrom the hymn of the partisans to the fight song of the new generations around the world, hit of the most famous international artists and soundtrack of the Netflix series La Casa de Papel. Almost a century after its birth, the power of Bella Ciao does not stop. The film recounts the mysteries, genesis and history of the Resistance song, which reappears wherever somebody fights against injustice. An unstoppable song, today a patrimony of humanity in the struggle for freedom.
- DirectorMarkus SchmidtA Berlin big band sets out on a road trip to explore the infamous brass sections of the seventies together with legendary musicians from Mali.
- DirectorLuke McManusStarsGemma DunleavyJohn Francis FlynnJohnny FlynnA Musical Trip Through Dublin's North Inner City
- DirectorKathryn FergusonStarsSinéad O'ConnorGay ByrneJohn O'ConnorFollowing the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
- DirectorRita BaghdadiStarsAlaa AlnawaShery BecharaTatyana BoughabaLilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
- DirectorKim HopkinsStarsColin EgglestoneHarry NichollsJoe OgdenBradford Movie Makers is one of the oldest amateur filmmaking clubs in the world. Once a thriving community, these days the membership is dwindling and the group struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
- DirectorSanne ThisStarsSanne ThisAlbert Wieck DavidsenA touching and humorous tale of gender roles and two people's struggle to fulfill their dream of having a child - with the director herself in the female lead.
- DirectorDuncan CowlesStarsDuncan Cowles
- DirectorPiotr JasinskiStarsTeresa KruszynskaCzechia demands Poland close a coal mine "Turow" because of its harmful impact on the environment. Thousands of Poles are afraid of losing their jobs. One of them - Teresa - decides to fight with the Czechs - In the potato salad contest.
- DirectorEinari PaakkanenFinns don't show emotion - they sing karaoke.
- DirectorLukasz KowalskiStarsJoerg GiesslerBlack docu-comedy from the largest pawn shop in Poland. Times are tough, bankruptcy looms, but then the two choleric proprietors get a bright idea. A hilarious, heartwarming film.
- DirectorVuslat KaranBurcu MelekogluStarsOnur Rüzgar ErkoçlarOn October 4, 2012, a beaming Rüzgar Erkoçlar received his first testosterone injection, marking an important step in his gender affirmation. Could he have imagined then how arduous that journey would be? That traditional Turkey would make him front-page news because formerly he was a well-known actor? Maybe so, because this film leaves no doubt about the degree of homophobia and transphobia in Turkish society. The crowning glory of this transition is the exchange of his pink identity card for a blue one. The entire process, a path paved with frustration, humiliation, and endless waiting, is captured in home movie-esque observations and self-assured phone videos. An intimate report of a struggle with self-realization and acceptance in a traditional society, under intense media scrutiny.
- DirectorMoses BwayoChristopher SharpStarsBarbie KyagulanyiBobi WineFollows Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine. He used his music to fight the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
- DirectorSimon WallonStarsBonnie TimmermannPaul AusterSteve BuscemiA portrait of legendary casting director Bonnie Timmermann. An homage to the craft of acting.
- DirectorCyril LeuthyStarsGuillaume GouixJean-Luc GodardCyril LeuthyJean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. Having just turned 91, he has made more than 140 films. We hate him as much as we worship him. Where does his aura come from? From legendary films of course, but also from Godard himself.
- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsMarc H. MorialJanet MurguiaNational social justice leaders Marc Morial and Janet Murguía join forces to fight structural racism amid a troubling resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era.
- DirectorFrancisco Javier RodriguezStarsGuy DessentLot LemmDavid DelaloyJaime, a 33 years old man, has been in a mental institution for almost half of his life. Through a series of conversations, Jaime shares his world view, his fears, his feats and a secret.
- DirectorEva WeberStarsAngela MerkelRobin AlexanderJoe BidenDriven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became the de facto leader of the Free world, told for the first time for an international audience.
- DirectorLucas de BarrosMariana ThomeStarsJohnny DeppJim JarmuschIggy PopBorn with a silver spoon, Jonathan Shaw chose, at the height of his career as a tattoo artist, to give up on his celebrity lifestyle in order to escape from his own vicious cycle.
- DirectorGiles GardnerJames IvoryStarsJames IvoryOscar-winning filmmaker James Ivory discovers boxes of films he made during a life-changing trip to Afghanistan in 1960 recounting his life as a traveler, outsider, and artist.
- DirectorJon Bang CarlsenWhere does the dream begin and reality end? In Dreaming Arizona, this is the question both for the central figures and for the viewer. Known for his staged documentaries, Danish director Jon Bang Carlsen has five American teenagers from a small town in Arizona reenact their own lives-past, present and future.
- DirectorRithy PanhAnimals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. The statues of the past are gone and new ones are erected to suppress the will of the people.
- DirectorGianfranco RosiStarsPope FrancisIn the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips visiting 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues: poverty, migration, the environment, solidarity and war. Intrigued by the fact that two of Francis's trips - the first to the refugees landing in Lampedusa; the second in 2021 to the Middle East - so closely mirrored the itineraries of his films Fuocoammare (Fire At Sea, 2016) and Notturno (2020), Rosi follows the Pope's Stations of the Cross. He sees what he sees, hears what he says and creates a dialogue between archival footage of Francis' travels, images taken by Rosi himself, recent history and the state of the world today.
- DirectorAndreas KoefoedJørgen LethStarsJoey BaronJakob BroAnders ChristensenA documentary that explores the lives and processes of some of the world's most renowned and prolific jazz musicians.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsHarry GlickenWerner HerzogKatia KrafftMaurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the world's volcanoes. Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsTony RinaudoTogether with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and challenges ideas of conventional reforestation with his simple yet effective method.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsCarlos SauraMiquel BarcelóAnna DimitrovaCarlos Saura's peculiar take on the origin of art. The acclaimed and multi-award winning director, with more than 50 films to his name, portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas from the first graphic revolutions of the prehistoric caves to the most avant-garde urban expressions. A thrilling and personal journey in the company of figures including Juan Luis Arsuaga, Miquel Barceló, Zeta, Musa 71 and Suso 33.
- DirectorJess KohlWayne is a hero on the banger racing circuit in rural England. Now that his son is nearly 13, his debut race is in view. This film explores a deep family connection, through which a shared passion becomes the catalyst for parental lessons.
- DirectorRuslan FedotovA heartbreaking portrait of 16-year-old Ukrainian refugees Andrey and Alisa, who help out at a school for refugee children in Budapest. Andrey asks the children to draw pictures of something from back home in Ukraine. What beautiful things can they recall? He offers the example of his own grandfather's cherry orchard. The children use confrontational, adult vocabulary to describe their experiences of war. A young boy earnestly goes through a number of battle strategies, and a girl provides a vivid account of a rocket attack. After school, the young couple make colorful protest artwork out on the streets of the Hungarian capital, sparking discussions between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian passersby. The camera films the pair without commentary, capturing the everyday fun had by two teenagers in love, as well as the difficult phone calls to the home front. Reassuring stories of ripening cherries are welcome, but the sadness of the war, the imminent trauma and the growing awareness of their wrecked youth is unfortunately ever-present.
- DirectorFanie PelletierBLOOM delves into the world of today's teenage girls through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young womens around the world.
- DirectorSusanne Regina MeuresThe 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin.
- DirectorSusanna FlockRobin KlengelLeonhard MüllnerStarsJacob BaniganAn ethnographic exploration of the work and daily life of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labor loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
- StarsJang Dong-yoonSeol In-ahChoo Young-wooA period drama set in a turbulent Republic of Korea from the 1980s to the 1990s. It contains the fierce life, revenge, and conflict of young people who had to live after power and wealth regardless of means or means in wrong social values.
- DirectorJustine MartinStarsRaphaël CormierRémi CormierAt the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fraternal attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.
- DirectorLaura SisteróTolyatti, once the symbol of socialist pride, is today the Russian Detroit, a limbo city where there is no future for the youth. In this hopeless environment, Boyevaya Klassika arises, a movement that rescues iconic old Lada cars from the local factory to turn them into a means of rebelliousness and expression that explores the conflicts and dreams of the youth in one of the poorest cities in Russia. We follow Slava, Misha and Lera in the year that they have to face for the first time, their adulthood in a place where the future seems to be a dystopia.
- DirectorLena KarbeThree young South African women must navigate the crumbling ruins of a colonial past when they become rangers in the Greater Kruger Park, South Africa.
- DirectorKarl MalakunasPalawan appears to be an idyllic tropical island. Its powder-white beaches and lush forests have made it one of Asia's hottest new tourist destinations. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders and vigilantes trying to protect its spectacular natural resources, it is more akin to a battlefield. DELIKADO follows Bobby, Tata and Nieves, three magnetic leaders of this network, as they risk their lives in David versus Goliath-style struggles trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines' "last ecological frontier". It is a timely film emblematic of the struggles globally for land defenders as they are being killed in record numbers trying to save natural resources from being plundered by corporations and governments. As the world faces its sixth-mass extinction and the climate emergency worsens, It is also a unique expose of President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs' in the Philippines, which has claimed thousands of lives and the International Criminal Court of Justice has said may amount to a crime against humanity. DELIKADO shows the drug war is used as a tool for politicians to control the levers of economic and political power. DELIKADO offers a story of courage and resilience to inspire others into action.
- DirectorBecky HutnerStarsChloe MarksAmy PowneyFollows Amy Powney, a daughter of environmental activists, during her trajectory from outsider to industry leader as she sets out to create a fashion collection that's ethical and sustainable at every level.
- DirectorAlexander AbaturovStarsAnton ZakharovNelli AlekseevaVasili EverstovThe heart of a raging forest fire in northeastern Siberia, brought on by climate change. Left to their own fate, the villagers join forces.
- DirectorIvars SeleckisThrough six very different families, documentary "The Land" shows the variety of the countryside in the 21st century, the contradictions of the countryside living as well as illusions about farmer's life. There are various reasons why our protagonists chose to live in the homesteads, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Some were done with spending too much time in an office, traffic and living a virtual life, they wanted real, tangible things. Some have moved to countryside by their own choice, but some by predisposition of their families. But what unites them all - they aspire for the stability provided by their own land and house. Together with our protagonists, we will spend one year's cycle of farmer's life, that will start with the spring sowing and finish with the autumn harvest and land preparation for the next year. These individual stories will draw the landscape of the 21st century countryside.
- DirectorInês T. AlvesIn the Amazon rainforest children live in deep intimacy with nature. Between the waters of the Pastaza River and the top of the trees, they run their daily lives almost autonomously and with a strong sense of collaboration.
- DirectorIgor BezinovicA psychogeographic exploration of the village of Momjan, narrated entirely in Istrian dialect.
- DirectorIgor BezinovicIvana PipalStarsDjordje BrankovicPetra ZlonogaEdo IvceAmong the garbage heaps of a big landfill on a Croatian island, Zoki uncovers a microcassette. A close study of the discarded object serves as a tribute to chance and imagination.
- DirectorIgor BezinovicShot within six hours on a single location, this documentary shows us a man who claims he has been detained for 78 times which makes him a record-holder in Croatia. In these 78 times in prison, he was convicted only once. The film shows us his aversion against institutions and his peculiar life philosophy.