
Jeronimo
By Joseph Juhn
2019 | 93 min | Documentary
This documentary focuses on a lesser known part of Cuban history: the Korean Cuban community.


By Joseph Juhn
2019 | 93 min | Documentary
This documentary focuses on a lesser known part of Cuban history: the Korean Cuban community.

2011 | 76 min | Documentary
EVOLUTION OF VIOLENCE was nominated for the Austrian Film Award. This documentary examines the omnipresent violence in today's Guatemala, a country more dangerous than Iraq. Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer. Each day, journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, and a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed. The global hunger for cheap resources has been ...

2018 | 36 min | Documentary
Left-wing militant guerrillas on one side, state violence and right-wing paramilitaries on the other, waged a bloody conflict over land, drugs and power. The consequences for the civilian population: hundreds of thousands dead and millions of refugees. The FARC, South America's largest guerrilla, signed a peace treaty in 2016, transformed itself into a political party, and 7,000 resistance fighters laid down their arms. The government promised training and reintegration programs to integrate the ...

2018 | 94 min | Documentary
Director Bettina Henkel's family originates in Latvia. Together with her father, a psychoanalyst, she embarks on a journey to her roots, which brings to light traumatic experiences of displacement and loss, but also unpleasant truths about her own family. Touching on the subject of trans-generational trauma, the film traces the history of a this little-known part of Europe through dialogue between father and daughter. "An emotional road movie about deep-seated wounds caused by the historical upheavals ...

2015 | 42 min | Documentary
Hans Scheugl could have started a new life with his friend John in the USA 50 years ago - but he didn't. He imagines a life that never happened. The letter A, blurred against a pink background. This is the first letter on a journey that does not go alphabetically to Z, even though many letters appear - not just alphabetical, but written correspondence. These letters connect two worlds: a life in the USA and one in Vienna. The sign with the A marks a house somewhere in America, which the filmmaker ...

2023 | 25 min | Documentary
Directed by Bidzina Gogiberidze and Lennart Hüper, this impactful documentary unveils the aftermath of the Russo-Georgian War in 2008, focusing on the displaced lives in the shadow of conflict. Set against the backdrop of Tserovani, a settlement established by Georgian authorities for refugees, it tells the story of Robinson, who, along with remnants of his family, becomes emblematic of the broader narrative of displacement and the search for a semblance of home. His life, split between memories ...

2003 | 52 min | Documentary
Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge. They were on different sides and belong to different memory collectives: Hanka Jassy, her great-aunt, survived Auschwitz. Gertrude Rogenhofer, her nanny, was a socialist and supported her uncle in the resistance. Margit Kohlhauser, her grandmother, lived in Graz during the war. She did there what most did: nothing. "The film succeeds in providing undisguised and intimate ...

2023 | 73 min | Documentary
In a reflective journey that bridges past and present, a former investigator of The Hague Tribunal, Vladimír Dzuro, revisits the tumultuous landscapes of the Balkans, where the echoes of war crimes linger nearly three decades later. Directed by Viktor Portel, THE INVESTIGATOR emerges from Dzuro's personal mission to trace back the roots of justice in a region scarred by ethnic conflicts and political upheavals. The documentary is inspired by Dzuro's own experiences, documented in his bestselling ...

2013 | 31 min | Drama
Russian-German boy Grisha fools around with a wooden toy gun. The longer he plays, the deeper he is pulled into an altered reality. The boundaries between the past and the present, the real and the surreal, blur. Images from bygone Berlin appear; streets and buildings still carry the memories of war. Suddenly, he is caught in a nightmare of another lifetime, nightmare that is still present today. "This short film successfully shows how much the horror of WWII is still present in the discourse ...

2016 | 50 min | Queer
Tali embarks on an intimate journey to Lodz, Poland, to retrace her personal roots. At the center are her two Polish loves: her lover Magda, and her late grandmother Silvia. Berlin-based Tali Tiller is accompanied by her German-Polish partner Magda. The documentary explores how memories of the Holocaust and war are lived, told and passed down from generation to generation of women.

2011 | 75 min | Documentary
Lotte Schreiber's documentary illuminates the history of Mexico City by looking at a housing complex in the capital – an epicenter of Mexican cultural history. The Nonoalco Tlatelolco housing complex at the Plaza de las tres Culturas in Mexico City is a vertical city built by modernist architect Mario Pani in the early 1960s as a modern utopia for 72,000 inhabitants. As early as 1521, the Aztecs faced off against the Spanish conquerors at this site. Bloody student protests followed in 1968 and ...