Filmmakers in Focus: Daniel Asadi Faezi & Mila Zhluktenko

The surreal flickering of the Aral desert transforms into the waves of the former Aral Sea. The sand becomes water. An old man becomes a fisherman again.

My father Hassan and his brother Ibrahim read the letters that kept them in touch when revolution, war and 5000 km separated them from each other.

A documentary about Lake Urmia, once the biggest lake of Iran, shrunk to just 5% of its original size.

Set in the mountains of Northern-Pakistan, the village of Shishkat is surrounded by a huge turquoise lake in between rough, steep cliffs.

While the first guests are waiting outside in the cold, the Opera House of Kyiv is slowly awaking. The Orchestra is rehearsing and the preparations in the cloakroom are ongoing. All of a sudden the people from the outside are flooding the corridors and halls of the Opera...