by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter (Austria 2019) How a Moscow street dog was sent into space and returned as a ghost.Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed […]
by Ai Weiwei (2019) Through a documentary film (and a series of portraits made with Lego pieces), the artist explores the personal and social consequences of the disappearance of the 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa on the night of September 26-27, 2014. This project makes a bid for constructing memory as […]
by Maria Arlamovsky (Austria 2019)ROBOLOVE is a film about the future of human interaction with humanoid, android robots. It explores how we will bond with robots that resemble human women and men. Robots that will serve us at home, teach us, help us, comfort us and perhaps be our cuddly partners. Premiere at DOK Leipzig […]
by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts (UK 2019) FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in […]
by Archana Phadke (India 2019) Three generations of the Phadke family live and work together in South Mumbai. As they prepare for a family wedding, director Archana Atul Phadke, who is not in any hurry to marry, observes the shifting, often very funny household dynamics, as both her mother and grandmother wonder how they have […]
by Hye-Ryeong Park (South-Korea 2018) A deep homage to Mother Nature through a heart-warming culinary journey. Jiho Im, better known as the “Wandering Chef”, travels the Korean peninsula, in search of the most unique ingredients, honouring Mother Nature with whom he has a very strong and personal relationship. For him, Nature is at the core […]
by Dalia Kury (Norway 2018) How do you tell completely authentic stories from Syria? Would former prisoners be able to reveal their deepest feelings to an interviewer? The Jordanian filmmaker Dalia Kury came up with a solution. For Privacy of Wounds, she reconstructed a prison cell in a Norwegian cellar, in which three Syrian immigrants […]
by Claudia Tosi (Italy 2018) Manuela and Daniela dream of changing their country, Italy, but have to meet the harsh reality. From the feminist fights against Berlusconi to the last elections of 2018, the film explores the last ten years of Italy through the political actions and the everyday life of the two compelling women. […]
by Kati Juurus (Finland 2018) Cinema Dadaab takes the viewers to one of the world’s largest and oldest refugee camps, Dadaab. A dreamlike place forgotten by the rest of the world. Here Abdikafi Mohamed runs a simple cinema, which offers moments of dreaming and mind travelling for the refugees, who cannot leave the camp. The film […]
by Ricardo Calil (Brazil 2018) In a huge building occupied by homeless people is the abandoned cinema Morocco. In 1954 it was the center of a Film Festival with US stars and great films of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Today the refugees in the building select their favorite scenes of the old films and […]
