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The Hungarian word "alkotás" (artwork) has a dual meaning – it can refer both to the process of creation and to the finished artwork. The film tells the story of how a canvas comes alive, how playful, abstract forms are created, each one carrying its own human narrative.
How far is someone willing to go when they're hungry?
James Wylie's 2025 conclusion to the Time franchise, 'Saving Time', was a feature length motion picture released to critical acclaim. But just what do the people behind the picture have to say about it? 'Iron Fisted Tyrant 2' is a documentary that asks the audience questions about power and control in the arts, the nature of adversarial relationships, and the strength of reconciliation.
A contemplative gaze toward the town of Contumazá, in the northern highlands of Peru. Beginning with a murder that occurred a century ago involving the director’s great grandfather, the film reflects on the passage of time through the daily routine of her mother, conversations about an event that is almost forgotten, and the faces of the townspeople. The landscapes and traditions of the town gradually reveal the beauty, solitude, and poetry of its inhabitants.
After the sudden disappearance of a loved one, a woman is haunted by a shadow from her past.
Every Grain of Dirt documents life in South Lebanon under ongoing threats of displacement and war. As sweeping evacuation orders force over a million people from their homes, some choose to remain. Among them is Ismail, a shepherd who refuses to leave his village — even as bulldozers arrive to erase it, nearly burying him alive as he stands in defiance before the machine.
A lonely young man goes through an ordinary day while listening to a voice message, slowly rediscovering the small moments and connections that make life feel a little less empty.
After death inexplicably vanishes from the world, Baron, a drifting trans teen, is pulled into a night of disoriented desire and unraveling violence — where chosen family, fractured identity, and buried memories collide in the horror of becoming no longer human.
On an ordinary day when Elbruz goes out to fish, he finds himself trapped in a deadlock after refusing, despite pressure from the people in his village, to rent out his land.
The documentary film WAR FUN explores the deeply human, yet taboo, role that humor and joy can play in war. Based on the research project War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN) at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, the film follows Professor Antonio De Lauri and his team of researchers as they investigate the experience of war from the perspective of those who fight. The research project aims to bridge the gap between the narrative and the reality of war.
Director Nikita Lukyanov collaborates with creative director Can Dağarslanı for the short film Don’t Say Hop Before You Jump – featuring equestrian vaulting sisters Alice & Helen Layher. Shot on 16mm film,the visual short follows the German sisters when their daily equestrian vaulting rituals slip into the surreal. As their horse circles the arena anticlockwise, time begins to rewind, carrying the sisters back to the childhood where their shared rhythm began.
Scene 1: Cannelle, a human rights lawyer based in Berlin, is pursuing a case on war crimes in Yemen at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). Scene 2: In Sardinia, Italy, STOP RWM activists continue their campaign against the illegal expansion of the German arms manufacturer RWM on the island and its arms exports. Scene 3: Jamal, a former civil servant in Yemen, arrives with his family in Jeju after fleeing the Houthi rebels. Linking Europe, the Middle East, and Korea, these three scenes, which evoke the opening of a large-scale political thriller, arouse both tension and curiosity. At their intersection lies the (forgotten) war in Yemen.
An audiovisual letter that connects an imagined Kyrgyzstan with the filmmaker’s inner world, blending personal illness, memory, and political echoes into a poetic reflection on distance and belonging.
A newly hired stagehand struggles with his first day on the job
Accidentally locked out of the theater just minutes before curtain, two young actors and ex-lovers are forced to confront the unspoken truths of their breakup and the fear of a future about to tear them apart.