Month of European Film 2023

The European Commission has given a negative opinion on the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the EU, and citizens leave the country to work abroad.

Documentary film about artists from the Sinti and Roma minority, whose works often address the painful experience of persecution in the 20th century.

Shot over summer and winter seasons on elektrychkas, typical Soviet commuter trains that travel between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and small provincial towns, the film invites us to share a ride with working class, mostly marginalized passengers and vendors.

The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family ́s break-up but also trying to understand.

Babushka Zina is originally Ukrainian, but because of the current political situation she has remained in Russian-occupied Crimea. Separated from her family, she lives in a forgotten seaside town while trying to decide whether to stay or to leave.

A lyrical essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders is told through a series of vignettes that explore the lives of political and economic refugees on the island of Cyprus. The film explores the themes of displacement, belonging, identity, and migration.

A mother, who rarely sees her filmmaker son, suddenly encounters a ghost outside of his childhood bedroom. He pays her a long overdue visit, to explore the mystery, and contemplate why his family has drifted apart.

A documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad.

Van der Keuken sketches a portrait of Amsterdam and its inhabitants. He goes on a world tour in his own city and meets people from every corner of the world.

Everyday hustle and bustle of contemporary Bratislava, an exemplary post-socialist city whose inhabitants cope with the constant grind of urban construction, collapsing traffic and rising housing prices, in addition to their own woes.

Rocks of four colors compose the landscape of Menorca. A route from the darkest of the rocks to the lightest will guide the filmmaker on a journey back home: an island that is sinking, inhabited by his brother, who has decided to remain there.

Kristīne Briede and Audrius Stonys here push beyond the barriers of a typical historical investigation into the Baltic New Wave and towards a more poetic treatment of documentary filmmaking.

We go to people homes, ask them to go outside and we film them through their own windows.

Song for the Buried City is a documentary film, partly silent, partly sung, shot nowadays in the erased footsteps of the Calais Jungle after its destruction.

An 18-year-old girl is killed in a bitter family feud in the Albanian highlands. Her christian father is pressured to break the vicious cycle of conflict.

Two adult women - a mother and her daughter - take part in a family therapy to improve their painful relationship.

The films confronts two different views of the execution of General Ion Antonescu, Romania’s leader during the Second World War...

A fascinating and intimate insight into the lives of people who have come to London from afar in order to seek a better life and struggled to make the city their home.

The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78)...

Documentary about Platz, the largest shanty town in Europe on the banks of the river Stura in Turin where more than one thousand people from different countries lived.

The Kiosk is a video diary filmed by Alexandra, a young artist who has come to help her mother who runs a newsstand in a chic Paris neighbourhood.

Croatia, January 1992. In the midst of the Yugoslav Wars, Chris, a young Swiss journalist is found dead under mysterious circumstances...

A film about the Swedish artist duo Bigert & Bergström’s climate-related art, which for three decades has been inspired by research on the effects of climate on humanity and vice versa.

Elitza Gueorguieva films the making of the novel that her Belarusian alter-ego Aliona begins about her father, a maritime adventurer, who disappeared in 1995.