國際競賽－長片

Letter to Anna

On October 7, 2006, Vladimir Putin's 54th birthday, the journalist Anna Politkovskaja is shot in the lift of her Moscow home. Anna's death is a personal tragedy: she has just learnt that she is to become a grandmother. But the murder is also a political act, for Politkovskaja was the President's fiercest critic. Why was she shot in cold blood?

The Red Race

This is a road without end, no retreat. These children endlessly jump, roll, and stand on ends upon the red path with only ceaseless criticism and the burden to succeed. They come from poor families with their destitute parents expecting only one thing from them, to become famous one day in the gymnastic field...

The Thirst of a Stone Sea

When 21st century entered picturesque mountainous region of Cuce (western Montenegro), it met the 17th over there: old habits and folk customs preserved, the lack of drinking water and female newcomers… The question “to leave or to stay” is in everyone’s mind. Many uncommon characters and images tell us a story at the edge of so called civilization...

Peace with Seals

In 2002, 'Gaston', a seal, escaped from the Prague Zoo during the floods and managed to swim to Germany. Gaston became a hero. But why elevate this particular animal to such cult status when at the same time seals, once widespread throughout Europe, are now an endangered species?

Megunica

The film is about mural artist Blu at work. It follows him at work in MExico, GUatemala, NIcaragua, Costarica and Argentina, hence the acronym "Megunica". The creative development of an artist is what makes him unique and different from the others. The idea of the film was to see how his art would react to the inputs that these places offer him.

Shadow of the Holy Book

Why are some big international companies translating the Ruhnama, a government propaganda book from Turkmenistan, into their own languages? This film exposes the immorality of these companies doing business with the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich nation, thus helping to hide its human rights and free speech abuses - all in the name of profit.

The Shifting City

This film documents the lives of the people in a small neighborhood, and the film was shot for almost two hours without interruption. The neighbors invited the crew to their houses and garages to see them at work and told stories and explain things that let the outsiders understand both how the neighborhood originated as well as where its future will go.

Send a Bullet

MANDA BALA explores the cycles of violence that plague Brazil's upper and lower classes in fits of rampant corruption and violent kidnappings. The film chronicles these cycles by utilizing highly personalized stories that reflect the growing truth about Brazil’s huge economic disparities – differences that cause violence on both sides of the spectrum.

Heat Sun

End of the Rainbow

In a remote region of Guinea, a desperately poor place with a long connection to gold, a large industrial gold mine has arrived. This film is an elegiac portrait of the changes brought by the mine, and of the universal human desire for a better life. How do local people respond to the opportunities and economic divisions the mine creates?