"What Richard Did is an engrossing and intelligent drama that throbs in the mind for hours after the final credits." The Guardian

Toronto International Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Room), What Richard Did follows Richard Karlsen (Jack Re...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Belgrade Film Festival
Pula Film Festival

When Jasna (Daria Lorenci-Flatz) returns to her childhood home in Croatia in order to care for her mother, Anka (Neva Rosic), who is in ill health, she is forced to confront the complex, damaging relationship she has wi...

"...an artful look at a part of Europe grasping towards connection, and the unsung workers who help achieve this." Cineuropa

Sheffield Doc/Fest
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
IDFA

Pavel Cuzuioc’s observational documentary follows cable technicians in Eastern Europe - in Kyiv, Ukraine, Buzău ...

Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long busin...

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival
IDFA

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Over forty years have passed since th...

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

There are many aspects that have defined our turn towards modernity and our plunge into the post-modern era. There are the ways in which we communicate, there are the ways in which we travel, the ways in which we work an...

Camerimage
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Montreal World Film Festival

One defining characteristic of our post-modern life is the drastic change of our ways of communication. In the last fifteen to twenty years, emails and text messages have cast aside letters as a preferred way of communicat...

Incuna International Film Festival
porto/post/doc

A Tarkovskian Stalker-like atmosphere surrounds Fernando José Pereira’s O laboratório. The ruins we traverse, they are a landscape of memories. Memories of the past, above all. But they also foreshadow a future, a future of ‘life after life’, a f...

CPH:DOX
IDFA

A huge, over-towering hangar is opened. The static camera is positioned at a distance, so that the full grandeur of the hangar and simultaneously that of the Bolivian airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano is shown. Danish director Sebastian Cordes’s A Place Called Lloyd is a record of loyal...

"...a sensitive and tender observational portrait of falling for the first time - for the same gender - as experienced by two female co-eds." New York Magazine

Berlin International Film Festival
Chicago Film Festival
Seattle Film Festival

Love. It just happens. No rules. It’s Alex’s first year ...

"a heartbreaking and unusually intimate account of a relationship impeded by geopolitics." The Atlantic

Tribeca Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Göteborg International Film Festival

The recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want des...

"This black-and-white study of human endurance, communication and compassion manages to be both austere and moving." Hollywood Reporter

San Sebastian International Film Festival
Torino Film Festival

Living in Barcelona, Stella is an Argentinian without any papers and suffers from ALS. As her li...

"...in equal parts magical, haunting, mysterious and tangible." Cineuropa

Berlin Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Camerimage

Twelve-year-old Alba longs to discover the mysterious, unknown reality of death in director Diana Toucedo's debut feature, an intensely atmospheri...

Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Helsinki International Film Festival

17-year-old Rass is growing up in an Estonian suburb. In the absence of a solid home life his family becomes a group of youngsters who are verging on being thieves. Drugs are an inseparable part of their lives, and when Rass agrees ...

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival
Sheffield Docfest

"I dedicate my life to showing the world that one can pretend to be whoever they want.“ Eva. A 25-year-old drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist and model, Eva declar...

Locarno Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Camerimage International Film Festival

Dorottya Zurbó's insightful documentary explores the life of Kafia, a 17-year-old who fled to Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia, at the age of fifteen. Sh...

"Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa

IDFA
Docville
Munich Dok Fest

The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...

Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Cinekid Film Festival
Goa International Film Festival

When eleven-year-old Jonas insists on visiting his grandfather for the summer and spending time on his boat he is quickly disappointed to hear it has been disposed of. Jonas quickly shifts his interest...

A group of friends, looking for a place to party, break into an abandoned film studio. Amusing themselves by screening some old movies, they stumble across what appears to be home-made film featuring a brutal masked murder. They soon begin to suspect they might be the victims in the sequel when t...

"a compelling story about lost innocence" Cineuropa

Venice Film Festival
Stockholm International Film Festival
São Paulo International Film Festival

Directors Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark powerful, gripping drama centres on Daria (Ana Dumitraşcu), a young woman entering rehab having ...

For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention, to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the surrounding nature is by scientists...

Berlin International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
CPX:DOX

A filmmaker completes his debut film: A reflection on his parents assumed monogamous long-distance marriage as well as his own Nigerian background and identity. He thereafter accidentally discovers his father’s secret; a second...