The film tells the story of two brothers, Hjalmar and Simon, who move to Ireland with their parents. Hjalmar begins in a tiny village school, but doesn’t understand a word they are saying. He feels utterly alone, but gradually he learns English and makes new friends. Suddenly both he and his little…
The film stars two boys, Hjalmar and Simon, who move to South Africa with their parents. Full of wonder the children begin to explore their new world, which until recently was a white dictatorship treating black people like slaves. In everyday life and travelling across the huge country with their parents…
The third part of Jon Bang Carlsen’s documentary trilogy about the meeting of his two sons Hjalmar and Simon with other cultures. After lengthy stays in Ireland and South Africa, in the family returns to Denmark by ship. During the long voyage, their thoughts go back to a trip through the Kalahari…
Miriam Lichterman and Pinchas Gutter, two survivors from Auschwitz, tell of the horrors of war and the Nazi death camps’ unimaginable horror. After the war both fled Europe and settled in Cape Town, South Africa, at a time when the brutally racist apartheid regime came to power. Suddenly they were…
About a warrior's battle against boredom. As leader of a survival school in Phoenix, Arizona, Vietnam veteran James Jarrett teaches middle class white Americans to defend themselves against criminals and illegal immigrants with weapons in hand. A portrait of a warrior who misses a war.
In "The Sons of Mapes", the filmmaker creates an intimate portrait of his Afro-Caribbean father, following his youth on the island of Curaçao and rise to international success as a professional tennis player in the 1960s and 70s. The film also chronicles his father's 40-year reunion…
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Cheese and Cream is a film-essay about Zagreb's milkmaids and deep crises of political will and national identity in the period between 2002 to 2006. Milkmaids, one of the symbols of Zagreb, have become an endangered species due to the economic turmoil of a society in transition. On top of it all,…
The experimental documentary film Limbo is a portrayal of a space and life in a newly built neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Croatian capital. Structured around four, so to speak, narrative unities and with a total of 33 static shots, six of them portraits of the neighbourhood inhabitants, reduced…
Dokumentarni film o bolnoj tajni začetoj prije šest desetljeća na 'otoku slomljenih duša' i o prošlosti koja se polako pretvara u povijest. | A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on 'an island of broken souls' and a painful past slowly…
How one man in a dress is changing the world. The Queen of Ireland is a documentary that follows drag queen Panti Bliss: part glamorous aunt, part Jessica Rabbit, she's a wittily incisive performer with charisma to burn who is widely regarded as one of the best drag queens in the world. Created…
Focusing on another creature than man is a pleasure. A creature who doesn't give a shit about the meaning of life while in the background all the turmoil of man is still there, the warmongering in Ukraine, the pretentiousness, the eagerness to please. My protagonists are beautiful lovers, arrogant…
