Eastern europe

An ex-investigator of the Hague Tribunal searches for justice in the Balkans. He shows his mission and its influence on the collective memory.

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.

A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.

To document the imment conflict in eastern Ukraine, photographer Pierre Crom traveled to the Donbass in 2014.

Before the war, one of Kyiv's hottest subject was one of Trump’s cronies turning a masterpiece concert hall into a shopping mall.

After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.

This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.

This black and white film portrays the life and stories of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, combining elements of fiction and documentary.

An adeptly played debut in which a yearning for paternal affection plays out against a background of teenage sexual manipulation.

After the Maidan protests in Kyiv ended, "the revolution's objects started a second life" ... in museums

Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.

An exceptionally candid Belarusian film about three teenagers who are confronted with prejudice from their peers and adults.

Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

Shot on Super 8mm, Bernadette Weigel's homage to traveling celebrates the uniqueness of each moment.

Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.

Ivette Löcker accompanies two addicted St. Petersburgers in her documentary chamber play.

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

This film is the personal story of three generations of a family: grandmother, father and daughter - doctor, psychoanalyst and filmmaker.

In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

This black comedy tells the story of 35-year-old teacher and unsuccessful writer Ovidiu, in post-Ceausescu Romania.

Documentary about an age-old Albanian custom that lets women change their social gender by taking the oath of a “sworn virgin”.

A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.

A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.

A little lie can have big consequences... huge, monstrous, unimaginable consequences. Inspired by a true story.

One of Europe's strangest borders lies between the Republic of Moldova and the de facto autonomous region of Transnistria.

Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Tali Tiller embarks on an emotional search for traces of her grandmother in Lodz, Poland.

A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.