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- An uptight rafting instructor loses his clients to the dank waters and dark forests of a river valley pregnant with the paranormal. Bound by the roots of their pagan past and submerged in unconscious passions: do they want to be saved?
- In 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.
- A tragicomic portrait of a two-man team of sheriffs in a remote Ukrainian village disturbed by everyday incidents and political developments.
- This documentary recounts the lives of Roberto Rossellini's children from the perspective of Alessandro Rossellini, the first grandson of the director.
- The first Story of Soviet Techno Revolution "In the USSR that was the beginning of a new era. The Era of Dance".
- A breathtaking road movie about Samtskhe-Javakheti, an isolated region in the republic of Georgia, where Georgians and Armenians live together in suppressed hostility.
- They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.
- ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA. George Orwell ...AND ALL PROPAGANDA IS ART. Laibach
- A journey in time and inner space, the image of an eccentric genius and the spellbinding landscapes of the far south USA in this documentary film about the creator of the Coral Castle, Edward Leedskalnin, who was born in Russian imperial Latvia, crossed the North American continent and created a monument capturing the eye and imagination for 70 years since.
- The film, set in a north-western industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanisms that entice human beings to voluntarily become a resource to the state. Can a person ever be free in an imperialist society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director's subtle but demanding look reveals "the system" at work in the most benign-looking situations, in all aspects of the everyday. What happens to people's free will and self-determination in such conditions? The film is a Nietzschean treat, asking the core existential question: is a human being ever born free?
- Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys's meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
- Inta is a brusque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a documentary filmmaker. In his eyes Inta is an outstanding would-be film protagonist but the wild woman would rather put a curse on the importunate intruder than let herself be filmed. But the filmmaker's persistence finally succeeds in melting the ice of Inta's heart... just in order to break it soon afterwards.
- A documentary film crew arrive at a Latvian garbage dump to investigate reports of a giant mutated worm living in the garbage. When the worm story proves to be a myth, rather than waste their trip, they decide to film the dump itself. Far from being a lifeless wasteland, the dump proves to be home to a multitude of birds and animals and a handful of people, all struggling to survive in an endless cycle of death, decay and rebirth. Insects and snakes, beavers and deer, men and machines play out their roles against the backdrop of an expanse of gently steaming garbage which, thanks to deft camera work, at times seems surreally beautiful.
- "TESA MAN" is a poetic music film, inviting into an animistic experience where music performed by the band Tesa in a frozen Baltic landscape attempts to transform air, steam, ash and clay into something much more alive.
- This creative documentary cinema tracks a group of sex workers and their young children form CAM-ON, a film production house in the Kalighat brothel, Kolkata. Despite the opposition, they are determined to become film technicians, resist prostitution among the second generation, strengthen the inter-personal relationships, survive through the art of cinema and aspire to transform the red light area into a professional film colony.
- Russians, and especially Muscovites, have been marching in ever greater numbers in recent months against a power that is considered to be liberticidal. More than ever, Russia appears to be a nation divided between those who keep a low profile in front of Putin's authoritarianism, or even support him, and those who fight him, often at the risk of their freedom. Who are these ordinary citizens who take all the risks, up to having to go into exile, to demand a Russia with a human face? For nearly a year, director Stéphane Bentura followed those who, often young and educated, made Alexei Navalny their figurehead, poisoned and then imprisoned upon his surprise return to Moscow in January 2021.
- Psychological thriller connecting three different people in the mysterious vortex, trying to untangle the dramatic fight of border between the truth and fantasy.
- A personal tale of political courage
- This philosophical and claustrophobic tale explores the consequences of death and introduces a cast of unsettling researchers you'd never want to meet in real life.
- Two brave men from Latvia go to five months long journey of their lifetime. Different cultures, unexpected accidents and fresh experience. Crazy yet funny situations on their way of freedom around half the globe.
- The world seen through the eyes of children. The action takes place in Karosta, the former military port of Liepaja city - however, it is not that important, as the film could take place anywhere. We observe children playing on the beach, revealing the core of Pakalnina's work: perceiving and transmitting emotions.
- In many homesteads of Latgale, the postman is the only person who not only delivers letters but also listens to the hearts of the locals.
- A deeply personal view on the life of artist Gustav Klucis, one of the foremost representatives of early 20th century Russian avant-guard art, whose life drama reflects the tragedy of a whole nation during the years of Stalin's repressions. It is a story about boundless ambitions, hope, love and artist's responsibility that continues haunting him after his death.