The Angel of History

In 1921, German philosopher Walter Benjamin purchased a painting Angelus Novus by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee. Benjamin admired it and described it in detail in his essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” The picture portrays a restless angel who tasted reality. For a moment the angel freezes as if observing the inevitable turns of history. German director Eric Esser filmed at the Spanish-French border, which used to be a place of smuggling routes. It is across this border Walter Benjamin once escaped from the Nazis too.

planet v

Fidgeting fish, dancing on the train, big stages – we scroll through a phone gallery. How do you find your own identity between ever-changing trends? When do the borders between real and virtual life blur? A documentary about a self-made musician who wants to stand her ground in a digital world.

Manos Mansas

Three moving stories in different parts of Venezuela, which address the theme of shortened childhood, the family that unites before difficulties and the boys who decide to sacrifice their childhood for a better life for themselves and their loved ones.

Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent

Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar and Indian actor Kalki Koechlin take an inspiring and stunning transnational journey through India and Pakistan, uncovering the common humanity beyond the divisive political rhetoric.

Partidos, voces del exilio

Luis Muñoz Marín: un hombre, un pueblo, un propósito

This documentary analyzes the life and political legacy of Puerto Rico’s first elected governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, covering his early career in the late 30’s through the 1960’s.

The Case of the Wrong Man

The documentary tells the story of Júlio César, a young Afro-Brazilian who was executed by the Police in the 1980s in Porto Alegre. The crime became notorious when the press published photos of Julius being put alive in the police car and arriving 37 minutes later shot and dead at the hospital.

Peeping Ruth

This video essay explores the gender dynamics behind the acts of looking and being-looked-at in Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947).

Hegyizene 2

In the film, the landscape itself speaks — and in reality, it also reaches out to us through the narrator’s voice. While it presents an almost unreal, fairy-tale-like wilderness, it also confronts us, without any embellishment, with how soullessly and drastically we are destroying even the primeval nature of the inaccessible mountains, leaving less and less of it each day. In the first part, mining and overtourism are in focus; here, among other things, logging (deforestation), hydroelectric plants, and road construction are examined.

Carnaval 2019

Au Revoir

Daphne Hérétakis proposes a protean reflection on cinétract, both activist, humorous and poetic. With her camera, she goes to meet the Athenians and collects their disillusions and their hopes. In view of the images, readers, scattered throughout the room, read excerpts from Greek poems.

Algo Fayó

The Odelsrett

A series of interviews of people, whose lives, for better of for worse, has been shaped by the Norwegian inheritance law "Odelsrett".

Kino Kalye

Kino Kalye was birthed from a desire to show how this sense of alienation, the speed of commerce, and the consequences of the increasingly digital landscape occurred even outside his home, across industries, felt most strongly by those in the margins.