After 1945, dozens of millions Europeans lost their homes and were shifted to new territories in an unparalleled act of forced migration. In Germany, some eleven million people had to move out of thein Heimat. By reconnecting the personal family story to its roots, the autor bridges German Silesi...more

Zoltán Szalkai in his film narrates his experiences from his journey in the area of former Soviet work camps in the region of Angara. He walked several hundred kilometers in the region to shoot many amazing events with his camera. The film is a detached report of current life ...more

His invention is used by more than 100 million people all over the planet today. Sale of patents and licences could have made him a fabulously rich man, if he had not lived in the Communist Czechoslovakia - Otto Wichterle, the inventor of soft contact lenses.

In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York's Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and his musical verve, and desperate to get to know him better, she decided to make a film about hi...more

A story about extreme lifestyle according to the ideology of the filmmaker's grand parents. A story of divided families between Europe and Latin America and political systems. A story of destroying the values of grandparents by generation of filmmaker's parents. Film full of emotional and comic...more

Three years of the Kopaszi dam under a demolition order. The sunlight spindle camera, the scratches and flashes of the expired raw material and the cut in the camera breathe together with nature and the people living there. The film’s sound material is an orchestra’s rehearsal in which a brass ba...more

Gustav Klucis (1895–1938), one of the pioneers and major exponents of constructivism and photo collage, is also one of the most controversial figures in Latvian art. Born in a peasants’ family, he is perhaps the best known Latvian artist in the world. Ironically, the art catalogues an...more

Eager for change, Raigo, a young theology student and Mare, a middle-aged widow, try their luck at selling. This world promises more than money; it promises success, recognition, and self esteem... All you need to do is follow the words of Peep, an Estonian star in the motivational training busin...more

On April 23rd, 2005 a 29 year-old woman was publicly stoned for adultery in the Afghan village of Spin Gaw. The story of this powerful documentary begins five years before the aforementioned event broke over international media waves causing a stir on news programs and talk shows. It follows Amin...more

The Czech RAPublic is the first feature film dedicated to Czech rap. James Cole, Hugo Toxxx and Orion on the stage, but primarily off it. Three prominent Czech rappers, ten pieces, ten lively - and even enlivening - film situations. Introducing a garrulous professor of linguistics, cheeky childre...more

Our Street takes place in Lodz, Poland, a city ruined after the downfall of comunism. The old and the new Europe meet here. Right beneath the windows of a working-class family that has been living here for five generations a French company is building the biggest commercial & leisure center i...more

A feature-length documentary about several Roma and Romanian children involved in a school desegregation program in Northern Transylvania.

Šariš, in the East of Slovakia is a very specific border region between Eastern and Western Europe. Borderline between rational individualism of the West and expressive emotionality of the East. The territory in the foothills of Eastern Carpathians has always been strongly traditional but also a ...more

In Music Partisans, Miroslaw Dembinski once again explores Lukashenko's reign of terror in Belarus, this time from the perspective of a number of rock bands. The musicians met each other in Poland, since protest songs are forbidden in Belarussia. Dembinski follows them to Belarus, where after ma...more

A documentary detective story. Lada, a Czech traveller, finds by chance a dirty suitcase in a Swedish waste bin. It contains only a very carefully packed plastic bag full of film rolls. Lada takes all of the 22 film rolls home to Prague and has them developed. There are 756 fascinating photos fro...more

In our documentary film, we follow members of two very different organizations: the young communists and the young conservatives. Through their lives and ideas, we will try to understand why these young people link themselves with politics and how that influences their lives. In the end we will p...more

Kites had a simple starting point: cameras + youth + Afghanistan. Few people believed that it would succeed. CAMERAS? But there is no electricity! But not so long ago it was impossible there to record a human image. And the dust?! The cameras will be broken after three days and the nearest servic...more

One hundred and fifty years ago, mining settlements started sprouting up around the Moravian city of Ostrava. The area began to be inhabited by people from various parts of Europe who came here looking for work. Director Daniela Gébová took a trip to these places where everything looks the way it...more

Boogie nights in Tokyo. A behind the scenes look into Japan's craziest live sex TV station.

This is a personal exploration of the physical and mental repercussions of emigration. In 1969 a pregnant 18-year old girl flees her country with her married lover as the Russian tanks roll into the streets of Prague. They end up in Norway. They have a daughter. They become successful in the worl...more

A documentary film about peculiar and unconventional people living in a peculiar and unconventional place. After several visits to the easternmost region of interwar Czechoslovakia, a director and a cinematographer decided to revisit the place; this time with a film camera, to bring back a messag...more

New inhabitants live today in the same flats, houses and streets that many years ago saw Jewish citizens fight for their everyday survival. Before WWII, Baluty was a feared neighbourhood filled with thieves. Following the occupation of Poland, a Jewish ghetto was established here by the Nazis, in...more

This is a story full of butterflies, silk and schizophrenics, about misery, joy, optimism and compassion. As director of a home for psychologically challenged men, situated in a 16th century monastery near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, Dr Georgi Lulchev fulfills the roles of a psychiatrist...more

A documentary which centres on inmates of the prison in Lepoglava, Croatia, and their rehearsals for a production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

The Stable Theatre was the first independent black theatre in South Africa, founded in the culturally mixed city of Durban. Its most famous product is Broadway playwright and pop star Mbongeni Ngema, a controversial figure tainted by scandal and accusations of racism. In an attempt to return to h...more

The lives of a cowboy and a communist collide when Walter Potts, an artist and chef from LA opens his late night burlesque burger bar, ‘White Trash Fast Food’ in the bottom floor of an East Berlin apartment block where Horst Woitalla has lived since the Communist era. Horst is determined to ...more

Humorous documentary about everyday life of young people in Vienna.

It is very often difficult for us, who can see, to find true fulfillment and happiness in the world. The more complicated is this journey for the seeing-impaired. Their perspective of the world is in many ways much more essential and sincere, and it often reveals the 'invisible dimensions' of t...more

A documentary road movie comedy about a Transylvanian gypsy Lali and his Hungarian friend Lori, who are pressed by financial problems. They are using the new travel opportunities for Romanian citizens and searching for luck in trying to make business in Hungary, Austria and even Egypt.

A documentary project that deals with garden gnomes, German tourists, Vietnamese dealers and the search for a home.

The medical equipment factory which kept the whole town in work during socialist times has been derelict for fifteen years. Second-hand clothing and domestic supplies shops have opened all over the town, which is pasted everywhere with adverts offering work abroad. There’s no work and no money…Bu...more

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) patented the Alternating Current (AC) system we still use today. Around 1900, his vision was to transmit energy without wires so that everybody could have energy for free. Tesla’s vision failed. Today, he is almost forgotten – so the director Michael Krause went to f...more

In 1990, Belarus declared its sovereignty and a year later it announced its full independence after the collapse of the USSR. At the beginning of this period, an elite national lyceum was established in Minsk. In 1995, Alexander Lukashenko's rise to power meant the end of freedom and democracy i...more