When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself. A Want in Her is an immersive, first person account of the cost of love, and how difficult it can be to escape.

This essayistic personal short documentary tells the story of a soldier who never wanted to be one. Choosing never to pull the trigger, his defiance leads to military prison. Faking mental illness he detours away from the front line, through a lunatic asylum back home to Belgrade on the day that NATO begins bombing the entire country.

In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia – her homeland that has changed. It turns into chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart. Her way to cope with the grief is to fixate everything with her camera. Her anger guides her to inner emigration to the local underground scene, which became an escape for young russians. This kaleidoscope of shards chronicles not only spirit of the time, but the director's personality crumbling against the backdrop of global turmoil.

25 years after her parents' wedding, a filmmaker discovers the VHS recording of the event. By watching and rewatching the images, she tries to discover more about her family, but eventually finds herself trapped in a world of hidden memories.

1939, Romania. A soldier follows a young woman. Their love story begins. The soldier is called to the front and their love fades into the war. 2014, during a long interview, Noucha, now 91 years old, reveals for the last time the secrets of a forgotten time. What remains of a love story after three quarters of a century and a world war?

Through archival footage and intimate conversations, the film explores the enduring impact of migration on identity, using my family’s journey from Romania to America and back. (Valentin-Rareș Fogoroș)

Petronela, the author’s mother, has been working since 2010 as a caretaker at a village school. Through a phone interview with her daughter, she reflects on her years of work, the accumulated exhaustion, the bonds forged, but also the uncertainty of the future.

A young filmmaker studying at the Alexandria Higher Institute of Cinema (AHIC) struggles with an internal conflict; torn between his deep loyalty to his hometown of Alexandria and his burning desire to immerse himself in the vibrant film scene of Cairo, the bustling capital.

Rodica, Maria, and Patrick are Romanian expats living in Brussels. After several meetings with them, we mutually decided to collaborate on a film project. A film about the wide range of love, about the moments when we deeply strive for connection but all we manage to do is hurt each other. (Ana Vîjdea)

Zuzia, a very sensitive and artistically gifted teenager, struggles with drug addiction. Her brother, who is also the director of the film, tries to find out what happened in the whole family life that Zuzia fell into addiction.

Women’s emancipation through social and political change was part of official discourse in Socialist Romania: state-sanctioned gender equality was based on equal roles for women and men in socialist economic production. In other words, women were emancipated through work, most often in the so-called “light industry” (e.g. textile) being developed in several of the country’s cities. Taking a newspaper article about a diary kept by a textile worker from Slobozia as its narrative pretext, The Diary of Florica S is an upbeat ode to collective industrial femininity, which draws on two familiar motifs of the time: the disparity between the ‘old’ (bourgeois) and ‘new’ (socialist) orders and the main characters’ emancipatory journey from village to town.

Is art activism? Can art be feminine or feminist? The new hypersexual approach to the outdated bimbo counteracts the patriarchal society that women are still fighting.

What does it feel like to grow up in times of war? In a collaborative documentary they developed themselves, nine young Ukrainian women provide a unique insight into their lives in Ukraine and Germany. How much is left for oneself when fear for family and fellow human beings are omnipresent?

Solid as a Rock is a short documentary from the perspective of a 16 year old climate activist. In this personal story she takes you by the hand and tells you about civil disobedience as a source of hope. What propels her to protest? What is it like to get arrested? What are her thoughts on the future?

How to Disappear is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of a war game. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion - in both digital and physical-real warfare.

In 1970, at the initiative of Soraya Antonius (Fifth of June Society), Christian Ghazi and Noureddine Chatti met with a number of Arab political figures, especially Palestinians residing in Lebanon. In the documentary produced, Ghassan Kanafani, Sadiq Jalal El-Azm, Nabil Shaath and other personalities share their vision of the Palestinian revolution, tracing its history back to the early 20th century.

Arab Israeli Dialogue (1974) is the passionate final documentary from Lionel Rogosin (On the Bowery, Come Back Africa), in which Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein and Israeli writer Amos Kenan seek dialogue toward a possible solution to the never-ending conflict. Never before have both sides discussed a mutual problem so frankly, and so willingly.

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponization of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop.

Award winning filmmaker Marc Isaacs explores the secret life of Britain's truckers, discovering an uncharted world of isolation, loneliness and the open road. Finding many of these men sleeping in their own trucks in lay-by car parks and service stations, this film is an intimate and poignant portrayal of modern masculinity on Britain's motorways.

Marc Isaacs chronicles the fate of several Londoners from various social classes during the current economic crisis. The film focuses on four main characters, ranging from a high-end hedge fund manager who loses his family due to his compulsive monitoring of events on the financial markets, to a spiritually oriented street sweeper seeking peace. Using images of the eternally rain-sodden British capital, as well as impressive music, Isaacs fluidly balances sensitive portraits of people striving to find their place in the swarming city of London.

In 2021, the border area between Poland and Belarus became a forbidden zone, three kilometers wide, where refugees found themselves brutally trapped. Maciek lives with his family on the Polish side of the border. He has taken in an exhausted Syrian refugee, the 27-year-old Alhyder. After he has regained his strength, Alhyder faces the big question: what now? Where can he go without putting either himself or Maciek in danger?