A raw, self-made and deeply personal work, If Pigeons Turned to Gold cuts into addiction and intergenerational trauma, capturing several years in the lives of four family members. Pepa, the director, records on an iPhone and tries to understand why their beloved older brother and cousins live unhoused and experience substance addiction. Formally inventive and […]
Tourists lie carelessly on the beach while the island is caught in flames. In her short film Greetings from Rhodes, director Viera Čákanyová reveals our talent for ignoring crises with irony and a hint of kitsch. Realistic comments from holidaymakers and glossy advertisements from travel agencies complement this tragicomic scene and invite the audience to […]
Our house stands where an old cemetery once was. My mother used to say that ghosts are nothing to fear – it’s the living you should fear. The film is a dialogue between a son and a mother who has retreated from the world into the quiet of her house. In images of deserted places […]
They say you can’t put a price on love—on OnlyFans, you can. This thought-provoking documentary reveals the consequences of selling and exposing your identity online and explores how virtual relationships impact real-life ones.
Film director Lea decides to search for her sister Deni, who disappeared from her life when Lea was eight years old. For the rest of the family, Deni’s absence remained a taboo subject for 27 years, and no one ever tried to find her. Although Deni once attempted to contact her family, her message went […]
Does something like a totem animal exist? And if so, can its call send even a European on a journey following its tracks? In this moose odyssey, the director follows moose-obsessed people (“amoosed”) across the planet — from the hidden moose of former Czechoslovakia, through a Russian domestication station, to Swedish moose safaris, where people […]
90% of everything we consume is shipped to us by boat. Seablindness explores the environment in which land meets the sea, the interstitial space of ports where capital is concentrated and distributed. Endless depos, cranes capable of moving hundreds of tons with disturbing precision, gigantic ships ready to sail to the other side of the […]
An intimate story of a married couple who try to break out from the established patterns of behaviour and put their relationship to the true-false test. The documentary is a deep and intimate probe into the partner relationship, its dynamics and fragility. It follows a couple who, in an attempt to keep their family together, […]
Once the most famous spa town of the Soviet Union, Tskaltubo turned into Georgia’s largest refugee camp after the war in Abkhazia. Thirty years later, the government seeks to restore its former glory, relocating most displaced families to new housing blocks on the city’s edge. The film follows the last residents of one sanatorium. Gia […]