
Gorgona
2025 | 96 min | Drama
In a future ravaged by social unrest and oppression, a young woman fights for her right to determine her own destiny.


2025 | 96 min | Drama
In a future ravaged by social unrest and oppression, a young woman fights for her right to determine her own destiny.

2016 | 98 min | Drama
Zahira, who lives in Belgium, is supposed to follow Pakistani tradition and enter into an arranged marriage. She seeks help from her brother.

2020 | 92 min | Drama
Nica, 21, drops out of her university course in agronomics and returns home to Apulia in southern Italy after three years away. She finds her father deep in debt, a polluted, devastated region, and olive trees destroyed by a parasite. Everyone seems to have given up in the face of the vast ecological disaster, while her father is obsessed with uprooting the olive grove to make money from the land. Nica fights with all her might to save the ancient trees. But the pollution has also contaminated people's ...

2021 | 65 min | Documentary
EL FULGOR opens a window onto a hard-to-grasp world, where young gauchos in rural Argentina and carnival dancers preparing for a city parade become part of one continuous gaze. Martín Farina turns simple observation into something unsettled and luminous, following bodies, gestures and routines as if they were clues. The film moves between the daily work of cattle herding, the harsh rhythm of the seasons and the preparations for carnival, where attention shifts to movement, anticipation and performance. ...

2003 | 117 min | Drama
Leaving occupied Varsovia in 1943, the two intellectuals, Frederic and Witold, take refuge in the country mansion of an old friend. The girl of the house, Henia (16 years old), is promised in marriage to an attorney Waclaw (30 years old) from a nearby town. However, Henia's childhood friend Karol also lives at the estate works the farm. Frederic and Witold decide to break the arranged wedding and bring the two youngsters together. John Updike described Gombrowicz's book as being the "Dangerous ...

2022 | 100 min | Drama
Set in July 2014, expectant parents Irka and Tolik find their lives in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border violently disrupted by the MH17 crash, a haunting reminder of the escalating conflict around them. Amidst this turmoil, Tolik is torn between his separatist friends and Irka's accusations of betrayal towards Ukraine. Despite the village's capture by separatist armed forces, Irka's resolve to stay and repair their bombed home symbolizes hope amidst despair. The film, praised for its uncompromising ...

2024 | 86 min | Documentary
Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrmacht, and finally for the Red Army. At the center of Elfi Mikesch's multifaceted film is the pioneer of ecological urban development Ekhart Hahn, who, together with artists, is committed to a new, sustainable use of the site that above all serves the cause of peace. Is catharsis possible after catastrophe? "Must the saying ‘There have always been and always will be wars’ remain, or can we abandon ...

2012 | 125 min | Drama
Gilles is an aspiring artist and politically engaged teenager who, along with his friends, is carried away by the revolutionary ideas of late May 1968. During the day, they discuss left-wing theories; at night, they plaster the streets with political slogans. But the rebellious exuberance comes at a price: when one action gets out of hand and a security guard is injured, the group is forced to leave Paris. While fleeing through Italy and England, they encounter new ideologies, new loves and the question ...

2015 | 84 min | Drama
Toro tells the story of two friends who could hardly be more different: the irritable Toro and the sensitive Victor. Both earn their money through prostitution. While Toro saves up for a future together and a better life, Victor increasingly breaks down due to his drug use. When money debts catch up with him, Victor puts their friendship at risk. Director Martin Hawie paints an uncompromising portrait of urban masculinity. The rough camera stays close to the characters, and the staging refrains ...

2017 | 77 min | Comedy
Blunt, sarcastic, honest and in a signature style, filmmaker Yannis Korres' Mumblecore-romcom KISSING? is a declaration of love to the lost souls of today's crisis generation - a story about sex, love and (not) belonging. KISSING? won Best Acting in a debut film at the Athens International Film Festival. Staring down the barrel of their thirties, disoriented Xennials Danny (Thanassis Petropoulos) and Stella (Iro Bezou) feel utterly lost - just what is it about the remainder of their lives that frightens ...

2015 | 73 min | Documentary
Her ex-wife and daughter won't meet her. Her mother still calls her "son". In Poland, to change your sex, you have to get permission from your parents, regardless of your age. Alienated by her mother and neglecting her best friends, she seeks refuge in a theatre group where she comes to make sense of her situation by rehearsing a play based on her past. When the days to the operation loom over her, Marianna kindles an unlikely romance with an older gentleman who offers her a ray of hope, but she ...

2023 | 97 min | Drama
EUROPA begins with a business trip. Beate, a determined executive working for the company EUROPA, arrives in rural Albania to negotiate the purchase of farmland for a large-scale development project. Confident in her position and methods, she expects the remaining landowners to accept the offer without much resistance. But one farmer refuses to sell. What initially appears to be a minor obstacle gradually turns into a deeper confrontation, as Beate’s carefully structured professional world collides ...

2020 | 79 min | Drama
Gulnara has lost her piece of jewelry and suspects her son Sanzhar. Sanzhar, meanwhile, is looking for freedom, which he’s being drawn into by his best friend, Dzhaga. They are searching for freedom while breaking all rules, opening all doors where there’s written “no entry”, going there – where they think that same freedom is hidden. As they seek out new experiences, they fall deeper into an illicit and murky world, putting their dreams and reality at risk. Based on Zara Yesenaman's novel "Hardcore" ...

2017 | 95 min | Drama
Georgia 1991: The president, his prime minister and four armed followers flee into the mountains after a military coup. The group tries to escape their invisible pursuers by constantly changing their location. In doing so, they are exposed to constant psychological pressure. On their way, the president hears a rumor of loyal troops waiting for him to start a partisan battle to help him back to power. After arduous and dangerous adventures, however, the president realizes that everything is coming ...