1970
In 1970, protests broke out in several coastal cities in Communist Poland, with workers going on strike to object to price increases and food shortages. Growing numbers of protesters walked out onto the streets, and as the situation became tense, a crisis team gathered in the capital.
"Choosing to adopt the point of view of the politicians and the military, the filmmaker translates the way in which the violent repression quickly manifests itself...a precise and prodigious film." - Visions du Reel, *Winner*, Special Jury Award
Campus Monde
There was a time when the youth in the South were seeking to travel.Those who believed that living was the only solution. In Abidjan, at the «intelligent immigration» consultancy Campus Monde, young Ivorians are guided and trained to skillfully navigate throught the challenges posed byWestern institutions that grant visas.
"By demonstrating how bureaucratically restrictive and emotionally taxing the immigration process is even when done the “right” way, Glikou’s documentary lays bare the toll of passport inequality." - Guardian
Ladies Only
“What makes you angry?” asks the filmmaker. A small film crew enters the ladies compartments of the local trains in Mumbai. Chance encounters and acquaintances are invited to reveal their opinions, their confessions and their stories in a ‘public’ space. Their diverse answers thread themselves into an unfolding tapestry of details and observations. The light on the faces, the figures in the background, the driving noises of the train and the interactions between the travellers bring the space alive. Black and white images distill the essence of the space. A poetic rhythm takes us across Mumbai and it's mix of cultures, languages and faces, providing insight into how urban Indian women see and shape their lives. Through a feminist lens, the filmmaker explores what ambitions and freedoms mean for women in a hyper-industrial, wealth-driven and complex world.
"a tapestry of faces and voices emerges beautifully, highlighting the challenges faced by women in Indian society....de-glamorises Mumbai, while carving poetry out of the hidden intricacies of women’s emotional lives" - Guardian
Dead Birds Flying High
350 dead birds. 3000 butterflies, mushrooms and bugs. The collection is odd. Filmmaker Sönje Storm explores the life of farmer and photographer Jürgen F. Mahrt (1882-1940), who collected birds and butterflies and staged them in his farmhouse.
"a coherent work of art that reflects both the dramatic changes in nature and the fatal influence of humans on their environment” - DOK Leipzig, Winner, Golden Dove
A Man and a Camera
An enigmatic entity roams the Dutch hinterlands, silently pointing a camera at all that it encounters. Soon it finds itself standing in front of a doorway. Met with an uninvited, inscrutable camera operator, how will the region’s inhabitants respond? Amusing and unsettling, mundane and otherworldly, A man and a camera is an endlessly surprising provocation: an upending of documentary power dynamics, an inquiry into human nature, a rendezvous with the real.
"both recognisable and fascinatingly alienating, at times also causing vicarious shame on the viewer’s part....This successful, original work also gives rise to a creeping sense of unease in the viewer. What would you do, and why?" - IFFR