Documentary Movies

A Woman Captured

A Woman Captured is about Marish, a 52-year-old Hungarian woman who has been serving a family for a decade, working 20 hours a day without getting paid. Her ID was taken from her by her oppressors and she's not allowed to leave the house without permission. Treated like an animal,she only gets leftovers to eat and no bed to sleep in. Marish spends the days with fear in her heart, but dreaming of getting her life back. The film follows Marish’s heroic journey back to freedom.⠀

waiting_for_cows

waiting_for_cows explores the complex relationship between humans, animals and technology. Set on a Frisian farm, the main protagonists are a trio of Dutch dairy cows monitored by wearables, conditioned by algorithms and quantified in data. Dairy bovines and their farmers have become some of the unlikely forerunners of agricultural automation. Both human and animal are entangled in systems of efficiency, productivity and time management where every cow is assigned a Key Performance Indicator by agri-tech companies. Through a data-led film experience, waiting_for_cows offers rare glimpses into contemporary machinic rituals of farm life where the flow of bovine data reveals much larger systems of power. Set against this backdrop of technology and control, the waiting_for_cows immersive installation reveals an allegorical tale, opening space for reflection.

Marlowe Drive

Marlowe Drive is an experimental film that explores the field of video games as a context for making a documentary. A director, Adam Kesher, from David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive, lands in another fictional Los Angeles.

The Automaton and the Magic Spell

An introduction to the world of French composer Maurice Ravel through The String Quartet in F major, performed by the Canadian ensemble Quatuor Arthur Leblanc. The four movements of the quartet are presented on screen by dance segments recreating key elements of the composer's life interspersed with documentary vignettes.

Grandchild

Claudio and Hilla yearn for their first grandchild. Nitai, their son, begins a surrogacy process with his husband in Canada. The family has to bridge intergenerational gaps.

Jaranera

The stoy of Maria Diez Cadenas

Gib mich die Kirsche! – Die 1. deutsche Fußballrolle

Beautifully Broken

Beautifully Broken explores the life and work of renowned contemporary Toronto photographer Rafael Goldchain whose work has been exhibited at MOMA, the Canadian Centre for Contemporary Photography and around the world. Goldchain is fascinated by themes of identity and mortality. His unusual artistic interpretation of photographs of his ancestors is true performance art. As an artist and father, Goldchain struggles with his own Jewish identity and passing on this legacy to his son.

Larysa Kadochnikova. The War

Larysa Kadochnikova is a screen legend of Ukrainian cinema who played Marichka in Serhii Paradzhanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. On 24 February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she refused to evacuate and stayed in Kyiv during the offensive. The film tells the story of her life in those dire times. The story of a new reality where the past, the present, the future, memories, meditations, and dreams intertwine as the war goes on…

Osvaldão

Osvaldão, a guerrilla leader, is hidden in the woods with guns in his hands, pursued by thousands of soldiers. He is feared by the military dictatorship and adored by the people. The film tells the trajectory of this boxing champion who became commander of the Araguaia Guerrilla.

Safe Spaces

Safe Spaces explores the intimate lives of three women trying to reconnect with their bodies, from which they have been distanced against their will. They welcome the camera's gaze as they rediscover themselves and, through sensual experiments, explore sensations, including pain, in order to find themselves and meet the other.

Abuelú

Join "Abuelú" on this sensory journey through his routine, his plants, and his memories, where loneliness and melancholy intertwine through time and space.

Home

The return of an absent daughter to the city where she was born -absent for fear of a crisis from her bipolar mother- is the trigger for a family reunion.

Paraguay River: First Movement

A rarely-screened trilogy of short films by the great Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina.

New Beginnings

Al Moon lives a solitary life on the territory of the Yurok nation in California. Surrounded by violence and ecological threats affecting his people, buried anxieties from his time in Vietnam now begin to resurface. Driven by an urge to confront his past, Al Moon embarks on a cross-country journey, moving closer to uncovering a truth that has haunted him for decades.

Diabolical - The Epstein Files

It's the scandal that has shocked Americans and rocked the Trump administration. A legal and political saga that has shattered fundamental beliefs that all are equal in the eyes of the law. What do the Epstein Files reveal?

Ubiquity

Three "electro sensitives" who endure electro-hypersensitivity in Japan, Sweden and the Netherlands share their experiences evading connectivity.

Barajas

Explores the tragic death of Angel Rama, Marta Traba, Manuel Scorza and Jorge Ibargüengoitia on an airplane crash near Madrid in 1983. Through the biographies of these four authors –each one from a different part of Latin America- the film explores this continent´s history in the second half of the 20th century, full of social unrest, revolutions and dictatorships that influenced a whole generation.

Adhkhana Bhalo Chele Adha Mostaan

Adhkhana Bhalo Chele Adha Mostaan is a film that explores the duality of an artist told through chats between the Director and Arnob about life, battling our demons and overcoming them. Essentially we're all Adhkhana Bhalo, Adha Mostaan and it's learning to embrace both that sets us free. This film is a self- realisation trip and I hope we can all connect to it through stories of love, loss and human connection.

Thomas Hitzlsperger – Katar, warum nur?