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AJB Screening 2018
A Feat Of Perseverance
This story celebrates a man by remembering the fragments of past times unimaginable to new generations. It is also a love story of Marin and Nike who live their modest but happy lives on the island away from the bustle of modern Croatia. The story deals…

Special Screening 2022
A Haunted Past
The mother of the Tunisian filmmaker Fatma Riahi offered temporary shelter to a family in need: a Bosnian woman, Mersida, who had fled with her young daughters from Sidi Bouzid to Tunis and had nowhere to live. Her husband, Tawfik, had been arrested…

Competition 2022
A House Made of Splinters
In this war-worn and impoverished corner of Eastern Ukraine where addiction casts a long shadow, there sits a safe haven for children temporarily removed from their parents. A House Made of Splinters follows three kids awaiting their fate— will they…

Competition 2022
A Parked Life
Bulgarian driver Petar Doychev lives for months on end in the cab of his truck. He is one of the hundreds of thousands Eastern-European men who roam Western Europe’s highways. He is a young father, fighting for the bond with his kid. Completely estranged…

Competition 2018
A Walk On The Tightrope
It is the culmination of every refugee story that is supposed to end with official asylum and resettlement in Germany: personal interview with a case officer at a branch of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). The applicant and the case…

Competition 2022
All that Remains to be Seen
When Silas suddenly can't find his friends in the schoolyard, Christina knows all too well what that means: He's losing his eyesight, just like she did as a child. The doctors had assured her that he couldn't inherit the disease, but they were wrong.…
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Competition 2022
Behind the Swedish Model
A unique behind the scenes documentary from deep within the Swedish Government, following the decision-makers behind their controversial fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. While most countries endured harsh lockdowns during March 2020, Swedes went…

Competition 2019
BELLINGCAT: TRUTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD
BELLINGCAT: TRUTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD follows the revolutionary rise of the “citizen investigative journalist” collective known as Bellingcat, a group of online researchers dedicated to exposing the truth of impenetrable news stories from around the…
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Competition 2022
Children of the Enemy
Patricio Galvez’ daughter married one of Sweden’s most notorious ISIS terrorists. In 2014, they join the fight for a caliphate in Syria. Both are killed in its collapse in 2019, but their seven young children survive and are interned in the infamous…

Competition 2022
Children of the Mist
Di is a 12-year-old girl living in a village lost in the mist of Northwest Vietnamese mountains. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial tradition of ‘bride-kidnapping’. When Di enters puberty,…

Last Minute Cinema 2019
COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United…
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Last Minute Cinema 2022
Dida
Fifteen years ago, Nikola left Serbia to follow his heart to Switzerland. Since then, his life is shared between two countries and three women: his mother, his grandmother, and his wife. His mother has learning disabilities and has been dependent on…
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Competition 2022
Fragments of Humanity
This documentary film is portraying the many faces of truth. A team of Finnish forensic experts has arrived in Kosovo in order to investigate alleged war crimes. However, the team realizes soon that there are cases that have deliberately been unexamined.…
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Competition 2022
Girl Gang
Fourteen-year-old Leonie is a successful teen influencer who lives on the outskirts of Berlin. Millions of followers are at her feet, and companies shower her with products. When Leonie's parents recognise the enormous economic potential of their daughter’s…

Competition 2019
GIRL IN RETURN
GIRL IN RETURN is an intimate, character-driven tale of global impact, about personal consequences of the systemic violation of human rights in the international adoption system, portrayed through the eyes of a teenage girl and her personal fight for…

Competition 2018
Grandson
An Auschwitz commander’s grandson, Rainer Hoess was symbolically adopted by the Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor in 2014. The two, with their specific experiences, are united in the struggle against Neo-Nazism, antisemitism, racism and xenophobia around…
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Competition 2018
I See Red People
After 25 years in France, I return to Bulgaria, with a camera in my hand and a vertiginous suspicion: what if my family had collaborated with the secret police of the communist regime? And what if they were a part of the “red trash” that the protestors…
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AJB Screening 2019
LIGHT-FOOTED
The film Light-footed follows the life story of Fahrudin Kučuk, who experienced the happiest and worst of times in his native Sarajevo. On 2nd May 1992, his life took a completely different turn and got a new meaning. Light-footed symbolizes Fahrudin’s…

Last Minute Cinema 2018
Louder than Guns
Aircrafts, tanks, bombs, automatic rifles, media and propaganda were the Homeland War weaponry of choice. Nevertheless, the loudest were the songs. Ones used them to describe the nightmares that befell them, others to confirm their political loyalty.…

Last Minute Cinema 2022
Love, Deutschmarks and Death
In the early 1960s, the so-called guest workers from Anatolia and other parts of Turkey were recruited by the Federal Republic of Germany. From the beginning, there was something that always accompanied them and was part of their culture: their music…
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AJB Screening 2022
Melting Dreams
In Bamyan, Afghanistan, Zakia (25), Fatima (21) and Fariba (16) dream of becoming professional skiers and representing Afghanistan at the Olympic Games. When their European ski trainer Ana (30) announces they can go to Europe to train extensively and…

Last Minute Cinema 2019
MIDNIGHT TRAVELER
In 2015, after Hassan Fazili’s documentary Peace aired on Afghan national television, the Taliban assassinated the film’s main subject and put a price on Hassan’s head. Hassan looked at his wife and his daughters, and he knew they had to flee their home.…

Last Minute Cinema 2022
Museum of the Revolution
Half a century ago, architect Vjenceslav Richter proposed a bold vision for the museum which would “safeguard the truth about us”. Friendship between a seven-year-old girl and an old woman develops inside the remnants of this abandoned utopian project.…
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Competition 2022
Nadia
How can you rebuild yourself when you lose your father and your homeland forever at the age of 8? Nadia Nadim, whose dad was killed by the Taliban in 2000, has embarked on this quest. The young Afghan woman, her 4 sisters, and their mother fled Kabul…

Competition 2022
No Place Like Home
Lost between two continents, Priyangika has always felt her adoption was wrong. She begins a quest to fill the missing pieces of her identification papers, her family history and her broken heart. Adopted from Sri Lanka to Norway at only seven weeks,…
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Last Minute Cinema 2019
ON HER SHOULDERS
Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium,…
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Competition 2019
RODEO: TAMING A WILD COUNTRY
It’s 1992 and the first free elections held in Estonia since the World War II have, to the surprise of all, brought to power young and idealistic political forces. They are led by 32-year-old Mart Laar, Europe’s youngest prime minister, who is charged…
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Competition 2019
SAKAWA
We all have received e-mails from strangers announcing that you have won the lottery or that an attractive woman would like to chat with you … But who are the people that are trying to deceive us? What human stories lie behind this phenomenon of internet…

AJB Screening 2022
Sarajevo Safari
Among the many dramatic episodes of the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996, the story of a human safari has remained concealed from the public eye. Only a select few were aware that the siege of Sarajevo involved not only the Bosnian Serb Army, volunteers…

AJB Screening 2019
SIT DOWN COMEDY SHOW
Jasmin Džemiđić is the first sit-down comedian in the region and an activist for the rights of persons with disabilities. Through his work, he tries to reduce barriers that people with disabilities face in their everyday lives – the biggest ones being…

Last Minute Cinema 2019
SRBENKA
In the early 90’s, the new-born state of Croatia was involved in a military conflict with neighbouring Serbia. Criminals used the chaos of war to harass and rob Serbian civilians living in Croatia. One of the innocent victims was a girl living in Zagreb,…
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Last Minute Cinema 2018
The Beast is still alive
While leftist ideology conceived by Karl Marx gains popularity around the world, one former socialist block country is torn apart by Communist Party officials and informers. 26 years after the fall of communism, a young Bulgarian woman opens her grandfather’s…

Competition 2018
The End of Darkness
In the Breza coal mine, little has changed in the past 50 years. Despite the coal dust and the dark, 400 meters below the surface miners still enjoy the solidarity and job security, as in the socialist Yugoslavia. Above ground, capitalism and individualism…

Competition 2022
The Hungarian Playbook
At the heart of the European Union, an authoritarian regime has been established. A key element in consolidating its political power is a degree of media control unprecedented in an EU member state. The Hungarian Playbook examines the Don Quixote like…

Last Minute Cinema 2022
The Killing of a Journalist
A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret murder…

AJB Screening 2018
The Little Prince
Anto is ten; he attends fourth grade of the primary school in the village of Oćevija near Vareš. Has no mobile or internet. He is the only child of that age in the village. Anto has a sister who will start first grade in the autumn. He is happy as he…

AJB Screening 2019
THE ROPE
Former mountaineering partners, who were conquering European and world peaks until the end of the ‘80s, Muhamed Gafić (70) and Željko Rudan (63), are preparing for what could be their toughest climb ever. Above them is the top of the Babin zub, the mountain…

Competition 2018
The Russian Job
The former Lada factory, built in the Russian city of Tolyatti in the 1970s, was meant to show the Western world the miracle of Soviet prosperity. The perfect utopia that none dared to doubt. More than four decades later, the plant has been losing billions…

Last Minute Cinema 2018
The Unforgiven
Is it possible for a war criminal to find reconciliation with the past? How do you find your way back to a normal life when you have been convicted of one of the worst crimes crime against humanity? Esad Landžo has been looking for the answers for years,…

Competition 2022
This Stolen Country of Mine
This is a film about China's massive hunger for natural resources and how during the last decade it has been aggressively operating to obtain access to these resources in Ecuador. The country is now stuck with the most Chinese debts in Latin America.…
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Last Minute Cinema 2018
Unwanted heritage
Monuments bear witness to their creators and the times of their origin. Ruined monuments are also a testament, to the times of their destruction and those that destroyed them. They are our history teachers, from their existence we learn about different…
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Competition 2019
VOTE FOR KIBERA
Don is a photographer who lives in Kenyan slum of Kibera and tries to capture better aspects of his home in his photos. The film is based on his narration, in which he presents a varied mix of people with strong will and a desire to face an unfriendly…
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Last Minute Cinema 2018
When Pigs Come
Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends, and a husband with whom she fights over a remote control. She has lived in five countries without ever moving from her flat in a small border town. The media and politics creep into…