In The Garden of Sounds
A touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication. The extraordinary story of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind...
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Swetlana Geier, eighty-five-year old, is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Her translations of Dostoyevsky’s five great novels, known as the "five elephants"....
Saint and Sinner
Chen Yinjen is a prominent novelist in Taiwan. His works succeed in reflecting the social, political and economic development in Taiwan during the past 60 years. This film is an attempt to review...
Hunky Blues - The American Dream
A documentary exploring the fate of hundred thousands of Hungarians who arrived to the United States between 1890 and 1921. To tell their sagas Forgács weaved this grand epic from the early...
Back Home Tomorrow
This film is about victims of war; not only the ones wounded by bombs, bullets, and mines, but the men, women, and children that, physically shattered by war, are denied the right to be cured. The...
40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy
In the first documentary to explore the personal effects of 1965 mass-killings of 500,000 people in Indonesia, four families narrate their struggles with survival, their feelings of hatred and...
Into Eternity
“This place is not a place of honour. No esteemed deeds are commemorated here.” These are the sentences that future man will meet, if he finds and opens the gigantic network of underground tunnels...
All Restrictions End
This is an experimental documentary dealing with contemporary Iranian history, focusing on the evolution of clothes and fashion. The structure of this film is a collage, using archival footage from...
On Rubiks' Road
Rubiks' road is the bicycle road connecting Riga and Jurmala. It is still unofficially associated with the name of the former Communist Party leader of Soviet Latvia. While we were filming...
Salaam Isfahan
From the public to the private space, Iranians have their pictures taken by the director. Through the dialogue created by the photo session, the characters reveal themselves subtly and a question...