A young man wanders through the ruins of what may or may not be his childhood home, where each crumbling doorway opens up onto the past....

A young woman discovers her grandmother's mountain village, which she fled during the Greek Civil War. There, she faces ruins and oblivion. The summer brings her back to the village, along with a feeling of imminent change.

The film explores the paradox of exemplary behaviour of murderers currently serving life sentences in Lukiškės Prison in Vilnius and hoping to return to the society.

In 1991 the Soviet Union disappeared. With the dissolution of communism, western consumerism bled into Russia. Youth culture in Russia started to appropriate western forms of dance music and the drug culture that sometimes comes with it...

Legend has it that at the end of the 1920s the Soviets built a research center in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, with the aim of crossbreeding humans and apes. The theoretical being never saw the light of day, similar to the failure of Marx’s communist New Man ever to appear.

The protagonist of Picturesque Epochs is Mária Gánóczy (1927-), a painter and a film aficionado who comes from a family of female artists as far back as her great-grandparents...

When we Talk about the KGB consists of seven heart-rending life stories, pointing to the lingering guilt over Soviet crimes, and the euphoria over the victory of freedom.

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky meanders through the Ukraine to explore the social effects of the Maidan Revolution.

Photographer Vitas Luckus was a bohemian genius with a camera who was considered “The Master” in the Soviet art scene of the 1960s. He lived with his wife Tatyana and a lion in an apartment in Vilnius.

Is a war ever truly over? Battles reveals a past that has not passed, by patiently observing the traces left behind by recent conflicts in the landscapes and communities at four different sites across Europe.

Uncle Tony (Antony Trayanov) created pivotal films in a tandem with the talented caricaturist Donio Donev, one of Bulgaria’s most prominent animation directors. Tony, unlike Donev, remained unknown to the public...

In 2008 and 2009, a group of Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of attacks on random members of the Roma community. Six people were killed, including a five-year-old, and another five were injured. The trial of the four suspects lasted two-and-a-half years.

Mother Europe takes a look at Europe through the eyes of a six year old child, Terra. Born in the Balkans but raised as a citizen of the world by her Cuban-Macedonian father and Slovenian mother, little Terra quickly learns about borders...

For 23 years, Helena Třeštíková followed the story of actor and stage director Jakub Špalek. The first piece of footage was shot in Autumn 1989 when Jakub, then a theatre academy student, was actively involved in the Velvet Revolution.

A realistic drama about a company in which everyone is hit by the financial crisis. In three main stories, we follow different Slovaks who wrestle with everyday worries and issues such as alcoholism, divorce and family dramas.

This is the story about a small country that in a certain period of history managed to overshadow all the other news headlines in the world. This is the story about the people who raised their independence with the smiles and songs regardless of the danger of the situation.

Materia oscura tells the story of a war zone in peacetime. The film location is the Salto di Quirra test range where, for over fifty years, governments around the world have tested "new weapons" and where the Italian government has carried out controlled explosions of old weapon stocks.

A journey into a lively but rotting building – a microcosm intruded by the constant anticipation of change. A three-story brick building in a provincial Georgian town...

When Valentino offered Eleonora thirty plants of roses to celebrate their thirty-year anniversary, he could not imagine how the gift would change their life. A year in the largest rose-garden of Europe, taking care of the thorns and blooms of love.

Working at the assembly line, bringing up children alone, dreaming of happiness... But Valentina wants more, whatever the price.

Milica Ostojić a.k.a. Mica Trofrtaljka or Mica Davorika a singer from Milićevci near Čačak (Serbia) by singing the song ”Davorike, dajke” became a big star of new underground music in the seventies in former Yugoslavija. Forgotten for years, she returned to the scene in the film ”Preaty village, preaty flame”, saying the historical sentence: “Shut up mate, erotica”.

Have you ever seen a faucet for wine and liquor? Or a house in all colours of the rainbow, combining the aesthetics of ancient Greece with PVC joinery into the unique style of rocco-barocco?

On 21 August 1968 Prague awoke to find itself occupied by Soviet forces. Director Jan Němec took it upon himself to walk the streets documenting the invasion...

A documentary film about army cooks and how the everyday needs of thousands of armed stomachs affect the victories and defeats of statesmen.

This is the unique story of a love and hate triangle built around something one cannot see, touch or weigh: radio waves.

This is a gentle and slightly absurdist documentary about the Ardoteli family in the mountains of Georgia who discovered that a Chechen helicopter carrying cheese had crashed by their house.

Black and white portrait of Guliana Pachner and the hotel "Bellavista": the fate of woman and building have always been strongly connected.

One quiet morning in 1959, the Romanian National Bank was robbed, like in the American movies.

The film based on a strange old pagan tradition, still preserved in only one village in Semogitia (a part of Lithuania). The tradition goes back to the archaic space of the magic’s of folk theater.