Germany, France

Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy of the same name, “an action that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means”, DIRECT ACTION documents the everyday lives of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France and asks whe...

W ZAWIESZENIU

Poland

Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Russia's invasion of Ukraine hits Alina in Irpin, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a plaster after recent surgery. She manages to escape together with her cat from a bombed and cut off city with one of the...

SAYYAREYE DOZDIDE SHODEYE MAN

Germany

MY STOLEN PLANET is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppress...

Palestine, Norway

Winner European Documentary 2024
Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual era...

KÉK PELIKAN

Hungary

In the 1990s in Hungary, travelling is finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary’s borders suddenly ope...

France, Belgium, Netherlands

Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against th...

Switzerland

This is a cinematographic essay centring around the region of the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladuša, and explores questions of displacement, violence and also everyday life and coincidence. It is about scars that break open, war memories that are awakened, profound encounte...

LES MOTS QU'ELLES EURENT UN JOUR

France

In 1962, Yann Le Masson filmed Algerian women activists on their release from prison in France. More than 50 years later, with the soundtrack of the footage having been lost, I set out to find these women.
This film investigation tells their silent story ...