This experimental film portrays real life on screen, and shows different groups of people living in Yerevan today... The director’s impression of the city is the film’s focal point, every moment adapted to a different mood and period of life.

Through four protagonists aspiring to fulfil their dreams, three contrasting visions of Armenia are sketched out.

In an Armenian village with a patriarchal tradition, five women debate together about life and war while they prepare lavash, the Armenian traditional bread.

In April 2018, Armenia's Velvet Revolution saw thousands take to the streets across the nation, united in hope and determination for a better future.

From Brussels to Tel Aviv, from Paris to New York, the documentary takes us to all of the places Chantal Akerman visited on her travels. An experimental filmmaker and a nomad, she shares with us her cinematographic journey...

Claire Atherton's masterclass on editing during Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2016.

A portrait of a woman that comes close to the Neorealists’ dream of filming 24 hours in the life of a person while nothing special happens.

A miniature homage to Chantal Akerman, conceived as a series of playfully impossible letters addressed to the deceased director...

Maria Fux is a 90 years old Argentinian dancer. In her studio in the heart of Buenos Aires she is still dancing, teaching and conserving the elegance and the energy of a young performer. She accepts all kinds of people in her classes forming integrated groups of dancers. She gives everybody the possibility to develop their own way of expressing themselves and gets out the talent from dancers of all ages and conditions...

A film essay about the human condition in the 21st century told through personal stories of 21 people on the subway in New York.

Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house.

Director Paweł Łoziński sets up a camera on his balcony and talks to passers-by. When listening to them carefully he is rewarded with most confessions.

Imagine waking up as an “enemy of the people.” This was the reality waiting for students and staff of Central European University (CEU)...

Hungary 2018 is a political observational documentary about the main stream right-wing extremism and rising populism in Hungary on the government level...

In 2008 and 2009, a group of Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of attacks on random members of the Roma community. Six people were killed, including a five-year-old, and another five were injured. The trial of the four suspects lasted two-and-a-half years.

The film depicts society in Hungary after the 1989 change of regime, in which a polarized political atmosphere has caused major rifts between friends and even within families...

"Loli Kali Shuba" is a Romani nursery rhyme about the ladybird. Twenty years on Ukrainian filmmaker Aleksandr Balagura returns to the Romani settlement where a twelve-year-old girl once sang this song to him. The children of back then have now grown up.

Dolni Tsibar is a big village in the north-western Bulgaria, statistically one of the most impoverished area of the European Union. Ninety-nine percent of the villagers who live in the area are gypsies...

A lyrical tragicomedy about a village postman Jakub and Jolanka, a Roma girl.

Investigating the history of her great-grandfather, Romani director Vera Lacková uncovers the fates of five Roma partisans from World War II.

Documentary encouraging the inter-generational dialogue about political event's impact on family lives in Czechoslovakia over the 20th century where the regime changed over four times in a hundred years.

A look at the Polish art market, which, together with the political transformation, has changed from a marginal curiosity into a modern, professional machine.

In an Armenian village with a patriarchal tradition, five women debate together about life and war while they prepare lavash, the Armenian traditional bread.

Documentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.

In April 2018, Armenia's Velvet Revolution saw thousands take to the streets across the nation, united in hope and determination for a better future.

Brilliant american detective Nick Carter and czech Commissar Ledvina investigate a baron who has cultivated Adele: a huge flesh-eating, Mozart-loving plant.

When a man known as Oroslan dies, the news quickly spreads through a little village, causing grief and emotion.

A mockumentary where a team of scientists at ESA struggles to craft the perfect message to alien civilizations, tackling humanity's quirks and challenges.

SOLAR SYSTEM is a film about disappearance, about some people of the indigenous community of the Kollas of Tinkunaku, a region in the North of the province Salta, part of the district Orán, Argentina...

A jail for juvenile offenders in Mexico. Thomas Heise films carefully and precisely, in a wonderful black and white, the power structures of the place

In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI visited Germany. If the press was to be believed, the whole country was gripped by Pope mania. One of his stops was Erfurt.

he third part of Thomas Heise's time-lapse observation, in which he accompanies the people of Saxony-Anhalt.

Berlin 1999 – 2005. They‘re only just out of their childhood. They‘re vulnerable. Sven, Lena, Thomas, Stephan and Daniela. This is about their lives.

Thomas Heise, a filmmaker from the former East Germany, takes a trip to France to visit his brother Andreas, who lives there in a rather unusual situation.

In Saxon-Anhalt, away from busy roads, next to a deserted military landing strip, is the village of Straguth. An unimportant place. Lost in time.

Through four protagonists aspiring to fulfil their dreams, three contrasting visions of Armenia are sketched out.

Mental health professionals and medical doctors discuss the behaviour, psyche, and stability of Donald Trump, as well as his effect on American culture.

Filmmaker Biserka Šuran, takes her father on a trip down memory lane in which she revives scenes from their country of birth, former Yugoslavia.

In Shan State, Myanmar, ancient culture clashes with six decades of civil war. Once a folk singer, Nan Mya Han now channels loss through metaphorical verses.

Kachalka brings you into the heart of what is widely considered the world’s most hardcore gym - Kiev’s enormous open-air Kachalka gym.

A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers.

What is there left in life, when you are old, poor and lonely?

There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all. One such place is a dumpsite. From the humans’ point of view, it is a ghastly place, a stinking desert of trash. But it’s a desert that is teaming with life. The astounding profusion of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, all intertwined in an existential life-death relationship imparts to it with some strangely alluring dream-like quality.

Inese and Karlis live on the outskirts of Riga in a hut, surviving on scraps and a pension. After 15 years together, they're now expecting their first child.

MamaPan is an artisan bakery practicing social economy. A story about all the unseen heroines that form the backbone of our society.

Highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – a playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer confronts how “work works.”

Can someone become a mother without giving birth to a child? Filmmaker Santwana and doula Kata are searching for the answer to this question together.

After 20 years of silence, Olga travels back to the house of her great-grandparents and confront her uncle, who hid his double personality for decades.

What has happened between the moment when a friend shared a melody with the filmmakers 15 years ago and the moment when it is taken up again today?

Jean-René is a retired workman who has lived in Mâcon, France, since emigrating from Reunion Island at the age of 17. Today, for the first time ever, the quiet man recounts his story to his daughter.

In the last days of the summer of 2019, young filmmaker Vadim returns to his hometown to say goodbye to his first love Anya.

A portrait of a woman that comes close to the Neorealists’ dream of filming 24 hours in the life of a person while nothing special happens.

The professional development of university students Renee, Andrés, and Diego is affected after the authorities divert some resources.

Fourteen-year-old Maria spends her time in the extensive tropical garden of her family house. When she meets her brother and his friend Adrian on motorcycles during the New Year celebrations, she decides to flee with them to find paradise on earth together.

After being appointed literary executor, Audrey Benac uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Jozef Wittlin corresponded from 1957-1964.

A documentary essay about the construction of the in which the filmmaker – a New Yorker who has made his life in Buenos Aires – wonders how can he give to his daughters that which does not belong to him.

Devastated after the death of a friend, a young woman (Deragh Campbell) attempts to extract meaning from this intense loss as she discovers signs in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky

On the western-most point of brittany, in the lighthouse, at night, Damien is busily building a mysterious something out of pieces of mirror.

The biography of Bibi, a wild caught female elephant from Zimbabwe, who was imported to the Zoo of East Berlin in 1989.

Voin grew up in communist Bulgaria. After twenty years in Western Europe, he returns to those places in Sofia where he spent his childhood and adolescent years.

Two women and a dog live next to each other in a house during one summer and fill up this peaceful time.

Counting, walking, getting lost, then dissolving into the landscape. Such is the movement in which Elsa Brès involves us in Sweat, a film shot in the Mississippi delta.

How to film what we are forbidden to experience? How to state what we cannot say? How to record the sound of what does not sound? What place do women occupy in a mining town?

A slice of life – in 75 shots.

The main characters of Chekhov’s The Seagull, today, here, on three lovely, hopeless summer afternoons.

A young woman discovers her grandmother's mountain village, which she fled during the Greek Civil War. There, she faces ruins and oblivion. The summer brings her back to the village, along with a feeling of imminent change.

Shot through the eyes of Felipe (35), a tortured film director who tries in vain to create an authentic portrayal of love that his grandfather could so easily capture in his amateur films of decades prior, his lens follows two actors Edel (30) and May (30) who play the characters Alejandro and Rita, two strangers with two different motives looking for the same girl: Laura.

Steven Moran, twenty five years old. He lives in Los Angeles, California. He spend all his nights and days on his own, filming himself, driving his car.

A circus troupe has raised its tent outside a small town to finish the last touches to its new and great show The Rights of Man.

On the vast and empty roads along the Pyrenees, Two women are marching on a blind pilgrimage. The one is carrying an unborn child in her belly, The other a huge inflatable hemorrhoid on her back.

A poetic documentary about the Mediterranean brings together a mosaic of images of the southern and the northern coast that the director, writer and poet Nathalie Quintane collected without traveling anywhere – they acquired them through hotel and other publicly accessible webcams.

Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta seeks in the emptiness of her body a way to arrive to her inner essence, in an abstract search of a free spirit that might end in her own enclosure.

The Green Vessel tells the journey and the story of an old man on a river. Like a storyteller, he shares with us a story: the tale of a scientist, who discovers a contaminated river, and tries to understand the sources of this problem.

Through four protagonists aspiring to fulfil their dreams, three contrasting visions of Armenia are sketched out.

Inese and Karlis live on the outskirts of Riga in a hut, surviving on scraps and a pension. After 15 years together, they're now expecting their first child.

Masterclass at Visions du Réel 2024

The static view of the sea bay and the urban skyline is the same every day during the coronavirus pandemic.

Two different schools, a building and a common life, one in a foreign building and the other in its shared home.

This documentary shows high school students in the place where they poof their problems away, the place where they enjoy breaking the school rules.

When the Serbian government in the 90's forcibly removed the students from the schools, volunteers built new desks, ensuring education in Kosovo.

When real life and spirituality meet it creates a magical reality, just like this documentary.

A short visit to dad...

Struggling with temptation, the character questions the motive behind her initial allure to vicious circles.

A girl shares her struggles with her drug-addicted friend, desperate to help, but met with resistance at every turn.

Three different women talk about their relationship with makeup, its mundaneness, what it reflects, and how it affects them.

"Mi abuela" is a short film dedicated to director's grandmother, architect Alena Šrámková, who was often described as the first lady of Czech architecture.

A defiant feminist mosaic on the ways that science enters our culture and defines what it is to be a woman.

Vladimír Turner’s film Modern Times (based on Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 film of the same name) presents „hooverboard etudes“ and focuses on the alienation caused by technological progress.

A self-proclaimed videography artist decides to lose his virginity as a birthday present to himself. His twisted sense of entitlement immediately leads him to the Internet.

A cycle of mundane violence, lust for art, and existential dread—all chronicled in an unconventional self-titled docu-horror by Nikita Lavretski.

Three directors make a movie about the events of their past week. Relationships, work, and day-to-day personal struggle are shown with unseen crystal clarity.

Aspiring directors Lev Zaretski and Ruslan Romanov gather the cast and the crew for their misguided amateur film shoot.

When rising rapper Oli finally meets his online collaborator Sasha, their weekend of hanging out turns from sweet to painfully awkward to terrifying.

Igor and Sveta are in selfie mode recording a vlog about Igor's hometown for his channel of 50,000 subscribers. Will their relationship survive this?

A self-portrait in winter. The director is taking a short rest among the key locations of his life. He reminisces about places forgotten, years gone by, and friends gone away.

Documentary film about the loss of the beloved dog Alfonz.

War is no joke. But does that mean you can't joke about war? Stand-up comedian Mariana Shama fled from Kiev to Prague.

Léna is a midwife, and I am her patient. While she replaces my IUD, I document our appointment.

The surreal flickering of the Aral desert transforms into the waves of the former Aral Sea. The sand becomes water. An old man becomes a fisherman again.

Jean-René is a retired workman who has lived in Mâcon, France, since emigrating from Reunion Island at the age of 17. Today, for the first time ever, the quiet man recounts his story to his daughter.

A widow discovers that her husband kept a house on the beach for love affairs.

With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text.

An immersive watercolour of the life of artist Jan Jedlička. The Czech painter, filmmaker and photographer emigrated to Switzerland in 1968 before making his second home in the desolate landscape of the Tuscan lowlands of Maremma.

The epic search of a romantic hero turns out to be a painful discovery of unfulfilled love, unhealed wounds and missed opportunities among three family generations.

Playing with the poetry that offers image and cinema, Atteyat al-Abnoudi films performers and acrobats in the streets of Cairo. In doing so, she pays tribute to street performances, giving back its letters of nobility to a marginalized and downgraded popular art.

In the 1980s, in some rural areas, almost 50% of the women are mothers by age 16. They have their families in charge, facing with them the injustice of the social, historical and political violence.

A short black and white documentary depicting women in a mud-brick factory.

In the village of Abnoud, children play and prepare a meal. Atteyat al-Abnoudi films the joy and simplicity of the daily life of a small rural town that seems to have escaped the passage of time.

For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year-old Edward from Ghana, a resident of the refugee centre which is the subject of great controversy in the village, asks to carry the statue in the annual procession and to stand next to the locals that bear its cart.

A group of veterans of the Portuguese colonial war gets together during present times.

A film-concert about Nizhny Tagil’s rock group Lazy Comet’s trip to Moscow at the end of 2020 for two concerts in one night.

Narodnaya' follows the travails of a garage gallery opened by members of the Nizhniy Tagil underground as it prepares and hosts concerts and an exhibition.

A bleak look into Ural's art underground after the closure of the Narodnaya gallery, probing into the position these artists hold outside the ambit...

The story of the emergence of the Brazilian Marginal Cinema in the late 1960s.

A rebellious worker before retirement is committed to saving ITAS, the only collectively-owned factory left in Croatia.

A reflection on houses constructed by emigrants, back in their homeland.

California Company Town, the much-anticipated essay film by Lee Anne Schmitt, casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them—onetime boom-towns now haunted by the twilight of the American promise...

Didube station is a noisy spot. Trains and buses pass by. There is a small, peaceful veterinarian pharmacy. It is a narrow room filled with flasks and medicine. Niko, the owner, sits behind a counter writing a poem...

The Tower was an iconic place in the Ksuisi village. This is where the kids would go when they skipped school, men gathered to have a drink, couples hid to kiss. After the Russo-Georgian war of 2008 the village was occupied by Russia, but the tower remained on the Georgian side. The locals were forced to leave and settle down in a special settlement for displaced people.

In grandiose wide opening shots, slow panoramas, and concise static compositions, Daniel Kötter explores the landscape east of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

While the first guests are waiting outside in the cold, the Opera House of Kyiv is slowly awaking. The Orchestra is rehearsing and the preparations in the cloakroom are ongoing. All of a sudden the people from the outside are flooding the corridors and halls of the Opera...

The Harvest follows the flow of electricity in the landscape, from a power station to the computers that mine cryptocurrency.

Our Land, Our Altar witnesses the latest daily routines in the Aleixo social housing, marked by the tension of a forced destiny. Between the fall of the first and the last tower, the demolition process has dragged on for years, leaving the lives of the residents in suspense.

Intimately shot in his home, and emerging somewhere between artist portrait and testimony, Riverock is a conversation with the musician, poet, sociologist and thinker Negro Leo.

LOLOLOL is a naturalistic depiction of the bitchy banter of two typical young denizens of the art world attending Parallel Vienna that was shot on an iPhone X.