A crew of miners digs coal 500 meters underground. Miners must fulfill the daily plan. But with each hit with the pick, it becomes more and more difficult to get to the coal in the safe zone. The foreman decides to take risks and dig coal in the danger zone.
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Vladimir, 17-years-old, is secretly in love with his neighbour Lou.
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A journalist undercover investigation into a sex trafficking network spirals down with unforeseen complications.
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The farmhouse of a rural family is declared unfit for habitation. While part of the family fights to save the space their ancestors built, the younger ones imagine where they could go.
Absurdist drama about a decayed male ballet dancer and his barking apartment.
Bernard's uneventful life is turned upside down by the unexpected visit of a cheeky little tiger.
A road movie about family and identity.
A restless longing spreads inside the city bus.
Young graffiti woman who was sexually abused at the age of 13, wanders alone through the locked-down streets of Albi.
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again
A woman finds a familiar face whilst driving in the rain and offers him a ride home: a journey that could change their lives forever.
Nikolay and Deliya lives all alone with their horse - Maria, in a small ranch outside the city.
Daydream of a young girl who lives under the shadow of a separation wall.
After a lifetime together, Susana has been abandoned by her husband.
As an Individual Being in a world comprised of Merged Couples, Ren longs to find his other half and become complete.
In a small Bulgarian town an aging homophobic wood-carver receives a tragic news which awakens his buried shame and anger.
When young skateboarder Vincent meets a vulnerable animal at the bottom of a hole, the encounter will get him to confront his own fears of the unknown.
Will their love conquer time and space or will the black hole of everyday life engulf it?
Mutha searches for antipersonnel mines in the Western Sahara Desert.
THE NIGHT SHATTERS MY SHADOWS intends to build, first and foremost, a diary of trips and dreams.
It is dedicated to director's son, Leo, and all people suffering from CCHS and their friends and families.
Sad love story inspired by polish folk song.
Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel.
Can two fragile souls hang on to each other despite the world's cruelty?
After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan (37) falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.
Danielle is a film that chooses not to focus on the disease itself but instead on the person who has the disease, their life and how they choose to live it, despite the obstacles.
This experimental film is a memorial leap. Underwater models stand in for Lotte, or rather: They jump in for her. They jump into the Old Danube and go searching, in a state of floating, before they rise again, transformated, in the Red Sea.
After a clay shoot goes wrong, a miserable cynic, an alcoholic and an accountant find themselves lost in the Scottish Moorlands with the body of a gamekeeper.
Single, unemployed and with nothing to lose, Anton begins work in an illegal coal-mine, where nights are long, friendships last short, and the price of getting out is high.
Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative, and post narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.
A group of children witnesses a crime and is forced to remain silent. Auguste, the youngest, finds the burden too heavy and decides to reveal this secret. To punish this treason, the rest of the kids plan to get rid of him.
Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises over three days until reaching a breaking point.
LIFEBOAT showcases the crisis of refugees desperate enough to risk their lives in rubber boats leaving Libya in the middle of the night and pushing off into the unknown, despite a high probability of drowning.
This is the story of mother and son. It is also about love and destiny
A short visual poem based on the poem Daily Tasks by Stefan Ivanov, where the protagonist strives to escape from solitude into her daily chores only to face madness and chaos.
Buzz Riot takes inspiration from the internet, particularly the way in which it enables us to consume information.
13-year old PUCK knows who she is: a fighter.
The Kite deals with the issue of death, but it does so in a simple metaphorical and symbolic way using the relationship between the little boy and his grandpa. It explains that none of us are here forever and that all living creatures must die, but also shows that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.
On the afternoon of January 14th a girl claims, that it is the New Year's eve! Is it true?
This is the story of one unexpected and different New Year's Eve, the journey of two kids on the shoulder of a giant and the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Among the sea and the wind. Lea meets Val in the middle of nowhere. But the only thing he needs is her patience.
A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language, baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.
A doctor walks the line of his own morality as he participates in executions, while personally opposing capital punishment.
The power of art redeems an artist from the confinement imposed by the fascist dictatorship in Italy.
A black comedy about death with a happy ending.
A portrait of a sleepy village that shines a new light on a serbian soul, while never losing sight of a typical humour of the Balkans.
Nadia, 15 years old, has to take care of the education of her 11 years old brother, of home maintenance and studies, her mother being in training at the other end of France. She will have to face her mother and make choices.
An ageing couple Aniela and Konstanty lead a quiet life together. She gives herself over to knitting while he eagerly works on some invention. Although their everyday life seems extremely well-organized there is something deeply lacking.
Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.
Hidden behind a telescope, Lone, a modern-day hermit falls in love with a quirky woman from the building opposite. He has to cross the threshold to finally meet her. Maybe tomorrow.
Erik is a solitary woodcutter. Kevin is the young conductor of the village cycling brass band. erik never goes out without his old mare. Kevin is keen on the clarinetist. The clarinetist is crazy about horses. But erik does not know how to give. and Kevin does not know how to flirt. They are both going to have to learn.
Daewit is rescued from his violent father and grows up far away from his family among wolves. embarking on a mysterious journey to find his own identity, he encounters great hardship but ultimately finds peace in forgiveness.
90-year-old Krystyna, lives in the tiny apartment surrounded by books and writing pads. That is remarkable in itself since Krystyna is almost blind, but that does not stop this still vital woman from writing passionate and eloquent poetry that celebrates life.
Patarei, a former barracks and tsarist army coastal battery, became a Prison, one of the major centers of Soviet repression in Tallinn (estonia) as it was run by the KGB. In the Second World War, the Nazi army detained about a thousand Jews in this place. Today you can visit the lonely rooms.
Irina is under pressure. She has something very important to attend to, but she is running out of time. rushing to do her groceries, she will have to put an end to a love affar and survive a car accident.
Lacking a traditional plot the film follows the path of emotions and sensations. Based on actual events the film shows five acts - Miracle, Atonement, Regret, Prayer, Forgiveness - that might help us overcome the fear of death
A flaneur tries to explain what purposeless walking is about and how he became what he is. As time goes on he realises that he talks like he walks and reaches a conclusion
Retracing tells about a person, who was born in Mostar, Bosnia and came with her parents as a refugee to Sweden in 1993. She does not have memories of her childhood prior to Sweden. In the film family and friends tell their stories about the child.
It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she did not belong and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country.
Doycho is the last person inhabiting a remote village in the heart of the Balkan mountains, where his neighbours are animals and best friend is a Ram. This film transcends the idyllic vision of rural life and challenges the meaning of isolation.
BELINDA BEAUTIFUL IS A STORY ABOUT A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO RISKS HER ONLY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE YOUNGER FREDERIC IN HER LONGING FOR LOVE AND EXPLORATION OF HER OWN BOUNDARIES.
A WORLD-FAMOUS BOYS CHOIR GOES ON A TOUR. IN THE HANDS OF THEIR SEVERE CONDUCTOR THEY ARE AN OBEDIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. BUT LEFT ALONE WITHOUT SUPERVISION, THEY ARE JUST PLAYFUL CHILDREN
IN A CARE HOME SURROUNDED BY MAGICAL FOREST DEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, THE RESIDENTS LEAD QUIET, UNRUFFLED LIVES. ONLY SUNDAYS SEEM TO BRING ANY VARIETY. FOR SUNDAY IS VISITING DAY.
A YOUNG COUPLE HAS LOST THE SPARK AND SUNK INTO ROUTINE. NOW THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS RUN BY A MECHANICAL VOICE COMING THROUGH THE STEREO. IT SHOULD REKINDLE THEIR SEX LIFE, BUT SOMETHING GOES TERRIBLY WRONG.
A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER AND HIS ASSISTANT SUGGEST TO TIBETAN NOMADS TO TAKE THEIR PICTURE. AGAINST DIVERSE AND MORE OR LESS EXOTIC BACKGROUNDS, FAMILIES APPEAR TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER. THROUGH THESE SHOTS, THE PHOTOGRAPHER WILL WEAVE UNIQUE LINKS WITH EACH OF THE VARIOUS VILLAGERS.
A night of procedure after the the rape of a young Rumanian prostitute. She does not speak French. A Rumanian translator has to make the link between the administration and the victim.
he young Gypsy Mile gets married to Simona and, as tradition calls for, the wedding is grand. But Mile's father has paid for the wedding with borrowed money, and when the debt catches up with him, he disappears and the father-in-law takes back his daughter. In the fight for his marriage, Mile finds out how much a boy is really worth without his father.
Vasko has written an essay that insults Hristo Botev. When the school principal demonstratively questions him in front of the whole class, it turns out that what Vasko wanted to say is totally different.
“PERROS” follows the lives of five dogs, from the simplest things like what they eat or where they sleep, to discovering the obsessions of each owner materialized in their pet. Through a dog, you can get to know an owner; through several dogs, you can get to know a social group. Each of the stories has common points: going for a walk, preparing food, the home, which in turn become, throughout the film, the things that differentiate each character. These differences allow us to reflect on a society like Cuba, which, although it does not theoretically assume it, is stratified.
Despite his extraordinary gift, a solitary particular person doubts himself while looking for the meaning of life.
A photo shoot and the model is unnerved. Back in the changing room, she makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible - the chair, the TV, the walls.
A father is unable to accept his son's world. At Easter's Eve he turns him out of the family. A couple of hours later, the father realizes his mistake and sets out to look for him. Will he be able to bring his son back and to overcome himself, and to accept him back in the family?
A short film about memory and childhood, set in Yaroslavl in 1930, and created under the supervision of Oscar-winning animator Aleksandr Petrov after a year and a half of work.
A reflection on modernity and global development, documenting the use of human physical force to perform work in the 21st century. The film takes place in the capital of Bangladesh, where the 'machine men' execute different physical works, a mass of millions of people who become the driving force behind the city.
The film tells the story of a young man, living in the country side, whose nightly ritual consists in recovering bodies from a river and returning them to their mourners. We see him sailing away on his boat and picking his catch along a moonlit path. As he ventures outdoors nature's presence is sensed in a heightened manner: animal and insect noises, wind-swung trees, and an impenetrable darkness overtake the viewer's aural and visual fields. All these natural elements work together increasing the sense of awe and mystery surrounding this young man's ritual.
When Yavor's world collapses, the first thing that comes to his mind is to meet his best friend, Ferti, in the neighborhood where they grew up together. Driven by despair, the two boys find solace in memories and drugs.
The short animated documentary film Father (2012, 16'30") features five parallel realities in which the impossible dialogue between a child and a father would take place. The film is based on the authentic experiences of several young people
In late 2011, Bulgaria - country of truly unlimited political possibilities where a dictator's bodyguard can become a Prime Minister - voted for a figurehead president and local administration. Displaying an absolute faith in the fairness and integrity of the election, OSCE dispatched only 12 officials to observe 12,000 election sections. At the same time, SILBA, a small Danish NGO, sent 20 young Danes to gain experience in a calm and controlled election process. This is the story of the election night adventures of Marie Louise, a 25-year-old Dane, stuck between the Bulgarian way to run an election and the convenient conclusions reported by the heads of the European delegations.
A woman called D, seeks shelter from a tormenting past in a sanatorium in the middle of the mountains. The obsession she runs away from is death. But death has taken for her an unusual shape: her own hair.
Tables screwed to the floor. One hour, that must suffice for two weeks, sometimes even a month. Meeting room in one of Polish jails. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers. The film depicts the world of one of the mothers, her solitude and constant waiting.
Julia's life takes place in the bath tub. Drop by drop she will build up the courage to change the order of things.
Tony, a 45-year-old dishwasher, finds herself with no money after she doesn't get her salary. When faced with despondency, a mother does whatever it takes to make her child happy.
A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.
An older woman sits before a telephone in an empty house. Her daughters have flown the nest. As she prepares to phone them, their memory is brought back to life
A dead soldier's blood-soaked t-shirt; a nun kissing a priest; a gaunt young man with AIDS; all were images used by the fashion label Benetton to advertise its clothing in the 90s. The provocative campaign was the work of Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, a man who brought topics such as war, racism, the death penalty, and the misery of refugees into the business of advertising.
Italy summer of 1946. The war has ended but there are no signs of peace between fascist Paolo and socialist Luigi.
The film is a personal story and explores the trials and tribulations, the celebration and disappointment and the influence and effect of this distinct cultural movement - past and present.
The sexual fusion is not enough for Céline who would like to know everything of Matthieu. Between frenzies and deep malaise, the young woman looks for the answer to her questions. And if it was simply Ru?
Caught up in the middle of a divorce, shark obsessed oddball Boris persuades his parents to take him to the coast where a shark has been sighted, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to get them back together. The trip is ruined when Boris's mother brings her lover and he must face the fact that his parents are never going to be reconciled.
The window displays of the Tehran clothing shops catch the interest of passersby who stop and linger. Gradually, the onlookers meet the stares of the grotesquely mutilated mannequins, disturbing reproductions of the female figure. The female mannequins are mutilated in order to minimize the feminine characteristics, like a warning call sent to Iranian women and society, an absurd totem intended to perpetuate the established order.
An unsentimental observation of an ordinary day in the life of a non ordinary family. The mother cooks, the father delivers newspapers, and the son reads the paper with the aid of a magnifying glass he holds with his feet.
"Mrs G" is a puppet love story full of the funny situations that can occur during the co-existence of a man and his unusual female life-partner. You can expect humor, romance and at times even thrill.
Zebel the monkey, is the only source of income for his master who abuses him. One day he finds out that the master is dead. But can Zebel, who has never been free, enjoy his freedom?
16-year-old Zohar lives with her younger sister and single mother Debbie, in a poor neighbourhood in southern Tel Aviv. The talented young athlete balances between her obligations to the single parent household – helping Debbie in her self-run beauty salon at home, and her training as a sprinter.
An American man walks into a small store in Slovakia. At first he's happy to find a fellow fan of baseball and the Stars and Stripes on the wall. On his way out, his eyes fall upon the t-shirt the store clerk is wearing and his mood changes dramatically.
Not a valley, just a hole beside a dump. No path leading to the house, only mud on the way to a miserable shed. Lacking everything, but not a lack of kids. This is where Mrs. Sona lives: In the middle of this Roma reality: strong and intelligent. But also helpless
A young boy seeks out a little more attention.
Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.
You use to have to make an effort to overhear other people's intimate conversations. Now you have to make an effort not to. The Intimacy of Strangers is a story of life, love, loss and hope - entirely constructed out of real, overheard mobile phone conversations
A look inside the world of die hard motorcyclists.
On a rainy night a battered taxi drifts through the streets of Berlin. Iona, a Russian immigrant, is behind the wheel. His son Sasha had financed the family by driving the taxi until his sudden death. Now Iona tries his best as a blundering taxi driver. But what he really wants is to find someone to talk to about his son's death.
After their deportation from Germany, a group of teenagers of Roma descent suddenly has to integrate into life in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, a city they actually only know from TV. They do not speak the language and, being gypsies, they are often discriminated against. They find release and new friends in the break dance scene. There, it does not matter who you are, as long as you can make the right moves. In this student film from the Potsdam Film School, three friends candidly tell about their lives in Germany, where they spent most of their childhood, and their day-to-day lives in Belgrade.
The tale of a grumpy badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.
Two middle-aged brothers have been planning a trip to America. When David finds out that Ezra has a girlfriend, he becomes jealous and withdrawn.
On a very hot evening in Buenos Aires, Soledad returns home after visiting her boyfriend. In the deserted streets, she crosses paths with a Ford Falcon and two ambulances - a public one and a private one. The film explores the paradox between cyclic and linear time.
Four short films in different genres from the most consistent group of independent filmmakers in Bulgaria.
