Category: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY CONTEST

Siberia in the Bones

Directed By: Vatamanu Leontina Origin Country: Republic of Moldova Date of Production: 2019 Duration Time: 86 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY This is a film dedicated to the Moldovans deported to Siberia during the Stalinist regime. Is structured around the testimonies of four protagonists who were children when those harsh events took place. They were forcibly [...]

War at home

Directed By: Aleksander Zalewski Origin Country: Poland Date of Production: 2023 Duration Time: 78 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY The story of a Syrian man who left his homeland in the 1990s and started a family in Poland. The core of the film is the aid trip he organizes to civil war-stricken Syria, which turns out [...]

Her side of story

Directed By: Davor Šarić Origin Country: Croatia Date of Production: 2023 Duration Time: 52 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY Film speaks about 4 women whose lives were marked by the battle for Vukovar in 1991. The city of heroes but also heroines was and remains a symbol of Croatia's battle for independence. Vasilija Tucker Vaska and [...]

The Calicaturist Gori

Directed By: Raimo Jõerand Origin Country: Estonia Date of Production: 2023 Duration Time: 76 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY A richly animated documentary about the popular caricaturist Gori, whose fate in Estonia at the beginning of the last century shows the balance between power and freedom like a mirror. In the Fellini-like world of Gori, farce [...]

Two Flags

Directed By: Jolanta Kessler Origin Country: Poland Date of Production: 2023 Duration Time: 66 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY The unique film project in the Polish cinematography. It is a film about a group of Polish Jews, fighters of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW), who, alongside the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), heroically fought the Germans during [...]

The Bright Path

Directed By: Iryna Riabenka Origin Country: Germany, Ukraine Date of Production: 2021 Duration Time: 56 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY Russian-occupied "Donetsk People's Republic", May 2017. After reporting from his hometown for several Ukrainian media outlets, young journalist Stanislav Aseyev is kidnapped and imprisoned in the torture camp called Izolyatsia – or Isolation – where he [...]

Vova’s Unit

Directed By: Michał Przedlacki Origin Country: Poland Date of Production: 2022 Duration Time: 71 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY The film depicts the months-long wartime fate of the volunteers who are part of the 7th Kyiv Territorial Defense Unit, whose lives we documented more than six months ago, at the beginning of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

One Crime Story

Directed By: Mariusz Pilis Origin Country: Poland Date of Production: 2023 Duration Time: 78 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY The film tells the story of the Ulma family, who sacrificed their lives saving Jewish families. A murder committed by the Germans in 1944 is the starting point for the director, who uncovers shocking facts. Through previously [...]

Occupation or Liberation

Directed By: Svetoslav Ovcharov Origin Country: Bulgaria Date of Production: 2021 Duration Time: 60 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY The Soviet occupation of Bulgaria from the autumn of 1944 to the winter of 1947 caused the greatest political, financial and moral catastrophe in the new Bulgarian history. The film is made entirely of chronicles and documents, [...]

Is there a license for that? Modernism and avant-garde from the European school to the Balatonboglár Chapel

Directed By: Gabriella MEDGYESI Origin Country: Hungary Date of Production: 2023 Duration Time: 78 minutes Contest: INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY The Balatonboglár chapel, which was closed for good, became the most important, underground exhibition place of ERA, the main intellectual centre and the meeting place for the Hungarian Neoatantgard. The film shows its artistic undertakings.