An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”, later an uncompromising adversary of Putin — that was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Election campaigns and hotel beds, protest rallies and office routine, train compartments and courtrooms, night walks and police vans […]
We visit three corners of the United States. In Alaska, the once bullied Blake has finally found a loving partner in Joel. Due to Joel’s illness, the couple’s love is literally fragile, but it is Blake’s unconventional career choice that might eventually get in the way of their happiness. In Hawaii, surfer-hippie Willie has recently […]
’Even if everything is fake and we know it, it tells us so much about the social reality in which we live.’ – Slavoj Žižek Fact: Yugoslavia hosted the world’s first international symposium on space exploration in 1967. Fact: American astronauts from several Apollo missions visited Yugoslavia in the 1960’s. Fact: Yugoslavia received more than […]
“Will you begin?”, 25-year-old Hania asks her mother Ewa and gazes hesitantly at the therapist. A shared history, swept under the rug for decades, will now be dug out in family therapy. In the beginning it is difficult to find the right words to describe the feelings that have been left unnamed for so many […]
Officially the war with Russia might be over, but in many parts of Chechnya the fighting continues and the shadow of violence is never absent. Chechens take the attitude that to survive, you always have to be ready to fight. Russian director Ksenia Okhapkina shows the impact of war on a village in the Chechen […]
The stories of New York, its citizens and the city’s loneliness, are depicted in this documentary with a hint of Polish melancholy. The film follows the passengers travelling in a subway, introducing us to their lives, dreams and hopes. Languages: English, Polish, Chinese Subtitles: English
Man, can you make your woman ejaculate? Woman, are the sacred waters running within you? If not, perhaps you were born in the wrong country? In Rwanda pleasuring women until ejaculation is an old tradition; one they try to keep as the country is modernized. Most of the Rwandan women can ejaculate – and not […]
In the early noughties, there was no such thing as Nordic haute cuisine. Fermented herring was pretty much the only Nordic delicacy that the world’s top chefs knew about. But then, the Noma restaurant opened its doors in Copenhagen, going on to be selected as the ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ year after year. The […]
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its […]
The ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach has been raising controversy ever since its foundation over 35 years ago. This is not only because of its music, which includes infamous covers such as Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil,” Opus’ “Live Is Life” and Queen’s “One Vision,” but also due to the striking visual language the band […]