Glory of Documentary Screening Section is curated by West Lake International Documentary Festival for the purpose of cultivating audience and focusing on excellent documentaries at home and abroad through the screening of outstanding international documentaries and Q&A, presenting the academic vision, cultivating documentary audience, arousing discussions of cutting-edge topics, and helping documentaries infiltrate into people's life, so as to create a documentary art feast for the public.
2026 IDF Screenings
Scarecrows
- Country/Area of Production： Latvia, Lithuania
- Language of Dialogue： Latvian, English
- Runtime： 90 min
- Director： Scarecrows
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Uldis Cekulis, Giedre Žickyte
Introduction: Our film's protagonists have the job of understanding the birds and animals that might be approaching or are already in the airport area and doing their best to keep them and the planes from crossing paths. A daily job, because planes fly every day. So do birds.
PreviewSummer Camp
- Country/Area of Production： Switzerland, France
- Language of Dialogue： French, German, Italian, English
- Runtime： 78 min
- Director： Mateo Ybarra
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Mateo Ybarra, Madeline Robert
Introduction: In the sweltering heat of summer, in the heart of the Swiss mountains, thousands of young scouts gather to take part in a historic camp. A place of adventure,initiation, and small rebellions, it's where, for a few days, everyone grows at their own pace. Between supervised swims and forbidden fres, the children safely navigate the rules of…
PreviewLike Moths to Light
- Country/Area of Production： Spain, Italy, France
- Language of Dialogue： English
- Runtime： 26 min
- Director： Gala Hernández López
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Gala Hernández López
Introduction: A woman talks to us from inside a machine that records her brain activity. She describes a mental labyrinth combining an old amusement park called Dreamland, 19th-century dream photographs, contemporary experiments in mental decoding using AI, and Prophetic, a start-up whose goal is to control dreams. But what do our dreams see when they …
PreviewThe Inhabitants
- Country/Area of Production： Portugal, France
- Language of Dialogue： French
- Runtime： 42 min
- Director： Maureen Fazendeiro
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Filipa Reis, Valentina Novati
Introduction: A commuter town in the suburbs of Paris, with its housing developments inspired by the American model, its rose and vegetable greenhouses, its inhabitants. It's winter and a camp of roma people has settled in town. While the majority of the neighbours are displeased and demand that the newcomers be expelled, a few women are trying to help…
PreviewThe Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
- Country/Area of Production： UK
- Language of Dialogue： English, Arabic
- Runtime： 17 min
- Director： Theo Panagopoulos
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Marissa Keating
Introduction: When a filmmaker of Palestinian descent based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender film essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land.
PreviewSinging of the Evening Stars
- Country/Area of Production： China, USA, Estonia
- Language of Dialogue： No Dialogue
- Runtime： 22 min
- Director： Iris SANG
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Iris SANG, Eneos Çarka
Introduction: One night in downtown Los Angeles, a man hears the call of a cuckoo from his childhood. Seeking the source of the elusive sound, he slips into a dream where the songs of vanished birds uncover what has long been lost and buried in the land and himself.
PreviewThe Recce
- Country/Area of Production： United Kingdom, Germany
- Language of Dialogue： English
- Runtime： 15 min
- Director： Daniel Mann
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Daniel Mann
Introduction: In 1904, the Zionist Congress sent an expedition to the Ugandan highlands to explore their potential as a Jewish homeland. Supported discreetly by the British Colonial Administration, which described East Africa as "vacant" and "barren" and a blank imperial canvas, one surveyor began mapping soil, climate, and life in Uganda, which Zionis…
PreviewSaarvocado
- Country/Area of Production： Germany, Mexico
- Language of Dialogue： Spanish
- Runtime： 7 min
- Director： Victor Orozco Ramirez
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Victor Orozco Ramirez
Introduction: I live in Saarland. The place is surrounded by forests and I find it very beautiful and exotic. Almost like a Bob Ross painting. But while hiking I came across a bunker and realized that there were beasts lurking behind the happy trees. A short essay film about war and forest.
PreviewKoki, Ciao
- Country/Area of Production： Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue： Croatian
- Runtime： 11 min
- Director： Quenton Miller
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Quenton Miller
Introduction: Co-written and narrated by Koki, the 67-year-old speaking cockatoo of Tito,leader of Yugoslavia for 35 years, KOKI, CIAO is a short experimental documentary and autobiography, featuring a non-human animal as its central creative figure.Koki was part of the diplomacy and entertainment routine on the Brijuni islands, Tito's late residence a…
PreviewBeing John Smith
- Country/Area of Production： UK
- Language of Dialogue： English
- Runtime： 27 min
- Director： John Smith
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： John Smith
Introduction: After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the artist fnally admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his sense of self. Combining fragments of autobiography with interjections concerning confdence,self-doubt, fame,and the state of the world,BEING JOHN SMITH t…
PreviewChuuraa
- Country/Area of Production： UK
- Language of Dialogue： Sakha
- Runtime： 18 min
- Director： Evgenia Arbugaeva
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Evgenia Arbugaeva
Introduction: In the remote Siberian Arctic, an Indigenous Sakha scientist descends into the depths of the melting permafrost. Searching for an ancient creature, he makes his way through the dangerous caves to the mythical realm of the Underworld.
PreviewNeko
- Country/Area of Production： Portugal
- Language of Dialogue： Portuguese
- Runtime： 30 min
- Director： Inês Oliveira
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Inês Oliveira
Introduction: Neko and his friends meet in the city center one late summer afternoon. They tour the streets of a city that seems to be a teenager in fux just like them. They meet other young people sprawled on the grass, by the Tejo River. Among them is Matilde, who sees in Neko her best friend from nursery school, Carolina, with whom she has lost cont…
PreviewLetters from Wolf Street
- Country/Area of Production： Poland, Germany
- Language of Dialogue： Polish, English
- Runtime： 98 min
- Director： Arjun Talwar
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Karolina Smigiel, Friedemann Hottenbacher
Introduction: A street in downtown Warsaw is the focus of this witty and personal portrait of Poland. Arjun Talwar came here for his studies, but years later, still has trouble fitting in."Wolf Street" — or "Ulica Wilcza" — hasn't made it easy for him. In an attempt to accelerate his integration, the director begins filming his neighbours, testing his …
PreviewTo the West, in Zapata
- Country/Area of Production： Cuba, Spain
- Language of Dialogue： Spanish
- Runtime： 74 min
- Director： David Bim
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Lia Rodríguez, David Bim
Introduction: Landi is a father who secretly camps in the marshlands of Zapata, where he hunts crocodiles with his hands to feed his family. The radio reports hundreds of daily deaths from the pandemic and strong social tensions in Cuba. On the coast, his wife Mercedes searches for charcoal to cook and takes care of their son, who suffers from severe a…
PreviewGuesthouse
- Country/Area of Production： Mainland China, Macao, China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese, Southwestern Mandarin
- Runtime： 84 min
- Director： YANG Juan
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： ZHANG Xinwei
Introduction: Amid the rapid urban sprawl of Guiyang in southwestern China, landlady Xiuzhi—known to her tenants as Mangmei— makes a living by running a low-cost guesthouse for migrant workers and acting as a broker for the local day-labor market. Unruly tenants, tight-fisted clients, the rising cost of education for her three daughters, and her husban…
PreviewMasayume
- Country/Area of Production： Japan
- Language of Dialogue： Japanese
- Runtime： 110 min
- Director： Nao Yoshigai
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Nao Yoshigai, Eijun Sugihara
Introduction: Nao YOSHIGAI, who lost her mental and physical balance at 34, starts training at a Zen temple. Through Zen, she reexamines "eating," "sleeping," and "breathing," viewing her body and mind as a "bag of flesh." Inspired by Michizo Noguchi, founder of Noguchi Taiso (movement method) , she sees the body as a skin bag of fluid—free to expand a…
PreviewA Fox Under a Pink Moon
- Country/Area of Production： Iran, France
- Language of Dialogue： Persian, Dari, Turkish
- Runtime： 77 min
- Director： Mehrdad Oskouei, Soraya Akhlaghi
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Mehrdad Oskouei
Introduction: At just 16, Soraya is already creating stunning drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. This strong-willed Afghan sculptor and illustrator has been trying for five years to find a way out of Iran and join her mother in Austria. Mehrdad Oskouei directed this film entirely remotely, with Soraya filming all the footag…
PreviewAbode of Dawn
- Country/Area of Production： Germany
- Language of Dialogue： Russian, German, English
- Runtime： 105 min
- Director： Kristina Shtubert
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： DFFB
Introduction: Where do you go when the world feels overwhelming and just plain wrong? Can you escape and start anew? The documentary ABODE OF DAWN focuses on a group of people trying to build a utopian society in the Siberian Taiga. Since the 1990s, they have been following a man who sees himself as Christ reborn: Vissarion. You can fnd his portrait in…
PreviewSilver
- Country/Area of Production： Poland, Norway, Finland
- Language of Dialogue： Spanish
- Runtime： 79 min
- Director： Natalia Koniarz
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Telemark - Maciej Kubicki
Introduction: Through the eyes of a 12-year-old Juvi, we experience life of some inhabitants of the oldest mine in Bolivia, whose deaths weigh as much as the mined silver, confronting the limits of human endurance, and the remanence of history's bloodstains. A visual statement on the foundations of modern wealth.
PreviewCloser to Me
- Country/Area of Production： China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese
- Runtime： 95 min
- Director： Yu CHEN
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Ting YU, Ruby CHEN
Introduction: A group of city dwellers take a life decision to venture into the wild countryside for the risky business of Natural Farming. Exposed to pressure from all sides, their journey brings risk after risk. As time goes doubts begin to play havoc on the once strong bond they have had with one another.
PreviewAfterlives
- Country/Area of Production： Germany, France, Belgium
- Language of Dialogue： English, German
- Runtime： 88 min
- Director： Kevin B. Lee
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Caroline Kirberg
Introduction: AFTERLIVES is a desktop documentary that critically engages with the historical and digital traces of extremist propaganda, questioning how images of violence circulate, mutate, and persist. The film moves between virtual investigations and real-world encounters with artists, activists, and researchers who seek to resist the toxic effects…
PreviewTrains
- Country/Area of Production： Poland, Lithuania, Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue： No dialogue
- Runtime： 80 min
- Director： Maciej J. Drygas
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Vita Zelakeviciute
Introduction: TRAINS is a "found-footage" documentary consisting of solely flm archival materials, whichcreates a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing theirhopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies. A train compartment is a place where, for a while,people are taken out of their everyday context. For a few hours or days, they inha…
PreviewThe Illusion of a Quiet Night
- Country/Area of Production： Ukraine
- Language of Dialogue： 70min
- Runtime： 70 min
- Director： Olga Chernykh
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Daria Zakharova
Introduction: In every war, normal life continues in spite of everything — but can it really be called normal? THE ILLUSION OF A QUIET NIGHT shows that "normal" life in Ukraine is a fction. Particularly during the night, when Russia bombards the cities with drones and missiles. This dialogue-free flm offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of life in Ukraine d…
PreviewWhen the Phone Rang
- Country/Area of Production： Serbia, USA
- Language of Dialogue： Serbian, English
- Runtime： 73 min
- Director： Iva Radivojevic
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Andrijana Sofranis Sucur, Marija Stojnic, Madeleine Molyneaux, Iva Radivojevic
Introduction: Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, WHEN THE PHONE RANG investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist's eleven-year-old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity.
PreviewScarecrows
- Country/Area of Production： Latvia, Lithuania
- Language of Dialogue： Latvian, English
- Runtime： 90 min
- Director： Scarecrows
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Uldis Cekulis, Giedre Žickyte
Introduction: Our film's protagonists have the job of understanding the birds and animals that might be approaching or are already in the airport area and doing their best to keep them and the planes from crossing paths. A daily job, because planes fly every day. So do birds.
PreviewSecond Skin
- Country/Area of Production： USA, Mexico
- Language of Dialogue： Russian
- Runtime： 64 min
- Director： Mariia Lapidus
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Mariia Lapidus, Maria Alejandra Rojas, Arturo Salazar RB
Introduction: Three female flmmakers re-enact the testimonies of sexual violence survivors through a raw blend of stop-motion, performance, and documentary rehearsals. Together, they are trying to transform trauma into a shared act of resistance, remembrance, solidarity and hope.
PreviewDirect Action
- Country/Area of Production： Germany, France
- Language of Dialogue： French, English, Arabic
- Runtime： 212 min
- Director： Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Guillaume Cailleau
Introduction: A space physically occupied by French activist group the ZAD, who oppose environmental destruction. The flm captures fragments of the self-suffcient life in this community through lingering, extended shots: cutting timber, tilling the soil, baking bread, a child' s birthday celebrated in a garden, adults engaged in a game of chess. What m…
PreviewThe Illusion of a Quiet Night
- Country/Area of Production： Ukraine
- Language of Dialogue： 70min
- Runtime： 70 min
- Director： Olga Chernykh
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Daria Zakharova
Introduction: In every war, normal life continues in spite of everything — but can it really be called normal? THE ILLUSION OF A QUIET NIGHT shows that "normal" life in Ukraine is a fction. Particularly during the night, when Russia bombards the cities with drones and missiles. This dialogue-free flm offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of life in Ukraine d…
PreviewSecond Skin
- Country/Area of Production： USA, Mexico
- Language of Dialogue： Russian
- Runtime： 64 min
- Director： Mariia Lapidus
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Mariia Lapidus, Maria Alejandra Rojas, Arturo Salazar RB
Introduction: Three female flmmakers re-enact the testimonies of sexual violence survivors through a raw blend of stop-motion, performance, and documentary rehearsals. Together, they are trying to transform trauma into a shared act of resistance, remembrance, solidarity and hope.
PreviewConfessions of a Mole
- Country/Area of Production： China, Poland
- Language of Dialogue： Jianghuai Dialect, Mandarin, English, Polish
- Runtime： 92 min
- Director： Mo TAN
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： LI Shanshan, Tatiana Matysiak
Introduction: After seven years abroad in Poland, Chinese flmmaker Mo TAN returns home for the Lunar New Year and is quickly pulled back into the emotional gravity of her family. When a fortune teller warns that a mole on her face will bring misfortune, her parents insist on its removal. Mo refuses, but their obsession with her, paired with their fract…
PreviewLetters from Wolf Street
- Country/Area of Production： Poland, Germany
- Language of Dialogue： Polish, English
- Runtime： 98 min
- Director： Arjun Talwar
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Karolina Smigiel, Friedemann Hottenbacher
Introduction: A street in downtown Warsaw is the focus of this witty and personal portrait of Poland. Arjun Talwar came here for his studies, but years later, still has trouble fitting in."Wolf Street" — or "Ulica Wilcza" — hasn't made it easy for him. In an attempt to accelerate his integration, the director begins filming his neighbours, testing his …
PreviewSummer
- Country/Area of Production： Russia
- Language of Dialogue： Russian
- Runtime： 109
- Director： Vadim Kostrov
- Type of Work： Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer： Gleb Piryatinskiy
Introduction: Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister Christina. They enjoy evening festivities with their older teenage friends by the fire, go on mellow skateboard rides, and have a quiet daytime nap in the garden house. Caressed by the sun and the wa…
PreviewChuuraa
- Country/Area of Production： UK
- Language of Dialogue： Sakha
- Runtime： 18 min
- Director： Evgenia Arbugaeva
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Evgenia Arbugaeva
Introduction: In the remote Siberian Arctic, an Indigenous Sakha scientist descends into the depths of the melting permafrost. Searching for an ancient creature, he makes his way through the dangerous caves to the mythical realm of the Underworld.
PreviewNeko
- Country/Area of Production： Portugal
- Language of Dialogue： Portuguese
- Runtime： 30 min
- Director： Inês Oliveira
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Inês Oliveira
Introduction: Neko and his friends meet in the city center one late summer afternoon. They tour the streets of a city that seems to be a teenager in fux just like them. They meet other young people sprawled on the grass, by the Tejo River. Among them is Matilde, who sees in Neko her best friend from nursery school, Carolina, with whom she has lost cont…
PreviewConfessions of a Mole
- Country/Area of Production： China, Poland
- Language of Dialogue： Jianghuai Dialect, Mandarin, English, Polish
- Runtime： 92 min
- Director： Mo TAN
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： LI Shanshan, Tatiana Matysiak
Introduction: After seven years abroad in Poland, Chinese flmmaker Mo TAN returns home for the Lunar New Year and is quickly pulled back into the emotional gravity of her family. When a fortune teller warns that a mole on her face will bring misfortune, her parents insist on its removal. Mo refuses, but their obsession with her, paired with their fract…
PreviewSaarvocado
- Country/Area of Production： Germany, Mexico
- Language of Dialogue： Spanish
- Runtime： 7 min
- Director： Victor Orozco Ramirez
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Victor Orozco Ramirez
Introduction: I live in Saarland. The place is surrounded by forests and I find it very beautiful and exotic. Almost like a Bob Ross painting. But while hiking I came across a bunker and realized that there were beasts lurking behind the happy trees. A short essay film about war and forest.
PreviewKoki, Ciao
- Country/Area of Production： Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue： Croatian
- Runtime： 11 min
- Director： Quenton Miller
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Quenton Miller
Introduction: Co-written and narrated by Koki, the 67-year-old speaking cockatoo of Tito,leader of Yugoslavia for 35 years, KOKI, CIAO is a short experimental documentary and autobiography, featuring a non-human animal as its central creative figure.Koki was part of the diplomacy and entertainment routine on the Brijuni islands, Tito's late residence a…
PreviewBeing John Smith
- Country/Area of Production： UK
- Language of Dialogue： English
- Runtime： 27 min
- Director： John Smith
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： John Smith
Introduction: After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the artist fnally admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his sense of self. Combining fragments of autobiography with interjections concerning confdence,self-doubt, fame,and the state of the world,BEING JOHN SMITH t…
PreviewThe Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
- Country/Area of Production： UK
- Language of Dialogue： English, Arabic
- Runtime： 17 min
- Director： Theo Panagopoulos
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Marissa Keating
Introduction: When a filmmaker of Palestinian descent based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender film essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land.
PreviewSinging of the Evening Stars
- Country/Area of Production： China, USA, Estonia
- Language of Dialogue： No Dialogue
- Runtime： 22 min
- Director： Iris SANG
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Iris SANG, Eneos Çarka
Introduction: One night in downtown Los Angeles, a man hears the call of a cuckoo from his childhood. Seeking the source of the elusive sound, he slips into a dream where the songs of vanished birds uncover what has long been lost and buried in the land and himself.
PreviewThe Recce
- Country/Area of Production： United Kingdom, Germany
- Language of Dialogue： English
- Runtime： 15 min
- Director： Daniel Mann
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Daniel Mann
Introduction: In 1904, the Zionist Congress sent an expedition to the Ugandan highlands to explore their potential as a Jewish homeland. Supported discreetly by the British Colonial Administration, which described East Africa as "vacant" and "barren" and a blank imperial canvas, one surveyor began mapping soil, climate, and life in Uganda, which Zionis…
PreviewThe Rib of the Greater Bay Area
- Country/Area of Production： China
- Language of Dialogue： No Dialogue
- Runtime： 70 min
- Director： ZHOU Tao
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Ariadne LONG, LI Shaowen
Introduction: Sampling waterside vistas from the Pearl River to Victoria Harbour, the film unfolds as a scroll across the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. Infra-sensory vibrations become reverberant layers, sensing the distance produced by total interconnection.The extension of a very short film that was projected onto the giant facade of th…
PreviewThe Inhabitants
- Country/Area of Production： Portugal, France
- Language of Dialogue： French
- Runtime： 42 min
- Director： Maureen Fazendeiro
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Filipa Reis, Valentina Novati
Introduction: A commuter town in the suburbs of Paris, with its housing developments inspired by the American model, its rose and vegetable greenhouses, its inhabitants. It's winter and a camp of roma people has settled in town. While the majority of the neighbours are displeased and demand that the newcomers be expelled, a few women are trying to help…
PreviewLike Moths to Light
- Country/Area of Production： Spain, Italy, France
- Language of Dialogue： English
- Runtime： 26 min
- Director： Gala Hernández López
- Type of Work： Short
- Producer： Gala Hernández López
Introduction: A woman talks to us from inside a machine that records her brain activity. She describes a mental labyrinth combining an old amusement park called Dreamland, 19th-century dream photographs, contemporary experiments in mental decoding using AI, and Prophetic, a start-up whose goal is to control dreams. But what do our dreams see when they …
PreviewMasayume
- Country/Area of Production： Japan
- Language of Dialogue： Japanese
- Runtime： 110 min
- Director： Nao Yoshigai
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Nao Yoshigai, Eijun Sugihara
Introduction: Nao YOSHIGAI, who lost her mental and physical balance at 34, starts training at a Zen temple. Through Zen, she reexamines "eating," "sleeping," and "breathing," viewing her body and mind as a "bag of flesh." Inspired by Michizo Noguchi, founder of Noguchi Taiso (movement method) , she sees the body as a skin bag of fluid—free to expand a…
PreviewAfterlives
- Country/Area of Production： Germany, France, Belgium
- Language of Dialogue： English, German
- Runtime： 88 min
- Director： Kevin B. Lee
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Caroline Kirberg
Introduction: AFTERLIVES is a desktop documentary that critically engages with the historical and digital traces of extremist propaganda, questioning how images of violence circulate, mutate, and persist. The film moves between virtual investigations and real-world encounters with artists, activists, and researchers who seek to resist the toxic effects…
PreviewTrains
- Country/Area of Production： Poland, Lithuania, Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue： No dialogue
- Runtime： 80 min
- Director： Maciej J. Drygas
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Vita Zelakeviciute
Introduction: TRAINS is a "found-footage" documentary consisting of solely flm archival materials, whichcreates a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing theirhopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies. A train compartment is a place where, for a while,people are taken out of their everyday context. For a few hours or days, they inha…
PreviewAbode of Dawn
- Country/Area of Production： Germany
- Language of Dialogue： Russian, German, English
- Runtime： 105 min
- Director： Kristina Shtubert
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： DFFB
Introduction: Where do you go when the world feels overwhelming and just plain wrong? Can you escape and start anew? The documentary ABODE OF DAWN focuses on a group of people trying to build a utopian society in the Siberian Taiga. Since the 1990s, they have been following a man who sees himself as Christ reborn: Vissarion. You can fnd his portrait in…
PreviewSilver
- Country/Area of Production： Poland, Norway, Finland
- Language of Dialogue： Spanish
- Runtime： 79 min
- Director： Natalia Koniarz
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Telemark - Maciej Kubicki
Introduction: Through the eyes of a 12-year-old Juvi, we experience life of some inhabitants of the oldest mine in Bolivia, whose deaths weigh as much as the mined silver, confronting the limits of human endurance, and the remanence of history's bloodstains. A visual statement on the foundations of modern wealth.
PreviewCloser to Me
- Country/Area of Production： China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese
- Runtime： 95 min
- Director： Yu CHEN
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Ting YU, Ruby CHEN
Introduction: A group of city dwellers take a life decision to venture into the wild countryside for the risky business of Natural Farming. Exposed to pressure from all sides, their journey brings risk after risk. As time goes doubts begin to play havoc on the once strong bond they have had with one another.
PreviewA Fox Under a Pink Moon
- Country/Area of Production： Iran, France
- Language of Dialogue： Persian, Dari, Turkish
- Runtime： 77 min
- Director： Mehrdad Oskouei, Soraya Akhlaghi
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Mehrdad Oskouei
Introduction: At just 16, Soraya is already creating stunning drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. This strong-willed Afghan sculptor and illustrator has been trying for five years to find a way out of Iran and join her mother in Austria. Mehrdad Oskouei directed this film entirely remotely, with Soraya filming all the footag…
PreviewGuesthouse
- Country/Area of Production： Mainland China, Macao, China
- Language of Dialogue： Chinese, Southwestern Mandarin
- Runtime： 84 min
- Director： YANG Juan
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： ZHANG Xinwei
Introduction: Amid the rapid urban sprawl of Guiyang in southwestern China, landlady Xiuzhi—known to her tenants as Mangmei— makes a living by running a low-cost guesthouse for migrant workers and acting as a broker for the local day-labor market. Unruly tenants, tight-fisted clients, the rising cost of education for her three daughters, and her husban…
PreviewTo the West, in Zapata
- Country/Area of Production： Cuba, Spain
- Language of Dialogue： Spanish
- Runtime： 74 min
- Director： David Bim
- Type of Work： Feature-Length
- Producer： Lia Rodríguez, David Bim
Introduction: Landi is a father who secretly camps in the marshlands of Zapata, where he hunts crocodiles with his hands to feed his family. The radio reports hundreds of daily deaths from the pandemic and strong social tensions in Cuba. On the coast, his wife Mercedes searches for charcoal to cook and takes care of their son, who suffers from severe a…
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