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A Feat Of Perseverance
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…
A Haunted Past
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…
A House Made of Splinters
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…
A Parked Life
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…
A Walk On The Tightrope
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…
All that Remains to be Seen
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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Behind the Swedish Model
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…
BELLINGCAT: TRUTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD
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…
Blix Not Bombs
Last Minute Cinema 2023
Blix Not Bombs
Greta had just turned 8 years old when she watched the unfolding of 9/11 on her TV in Stockholm. In the following months and years, she saw her fellow countryman, the diplomat Hans Blix, become a major player in the global crisis, as a weapons inspector…

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Children of the Enemy
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…
Children of the Mist
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,…
COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
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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Dear Memories
Competition 2023
Dear Memories
Thomas Hoepker is one of the most important living photographers worldwide. His pictures became icons of photojournalism. In 2017, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The man whose art has become part of the collective memory is now slowly losing…
Dida
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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Flotation
Competition 2023
Flotation
In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is intrinsically linked with both does their best to ensure the survival of their traditions and their future generations. Lifelong miner Dragan…
Fragments of Humanity
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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Girl Gang
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…
GIRL IN RETURN
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…
Grandson
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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I See Red People
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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Las Abogadas
Competition 2023
Las Abogadas
Las Abogadas follows a group of immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey, as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war. From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen…
Laughing in Afghanistan
Competition 2023
Laughing in Afghanistan
A young Afghan actor, Karim Asir, in the midst of bombs and disasters, decides to become the Afghan Charlie Chaplin. He wants to change the world using pantomime and humor and gives performances with laughter - his only weapon. After the Taliban takeover…
LIGHT-FOOTED
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…
Louder than Guns
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.…
Love, Deutschmarks and Death
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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Make People Better
Competition 2023
Make People Better
In 2018, the Chinese scientist Dr. He Jiankui crossed a Rubicon in human evolution by altering the genetic structure of embryos to produce the world’s first genome-edited babies. This controversial experiment, supported by China's government and top…
Melting Dreams
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…
MIDNIGHT TRAVELER
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.…
Mrs. Iran's Husband
Competition 2023
Mrs. Iran's Husband
Sultan Mohammad's quest for power and expansion puts the burden on his two wives: Iran, and Sara, to maintain his prestige and assets. As the ruler of a mountain kingdom with 11 children and a flock of sheep, he seeks to marry for the third time, but…
Museum of the Revolution
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.…
My Name is Happy
Competition 2023
My Name is Happy
Aspiring popstar Mutlu Kaya (Mutlu means ‘happy’ in Turkish) narrowly escapes an attempted femicide. Despite life changing injuries, Mutlu goes in search of justice and tries to reclaim her voice as a singer.

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Nadia
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…
No Place Like Home
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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ON HER SHOULDERS
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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Pure Unknown
Competition 2023
Pure Unknown
Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them the Pure Unknown. These Pure Unknown often belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, sex workers, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants,…

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Return to Raqqa
Competition 2023
Return to Raqqa
Return to Raqqa follows the story of Marc Marginedas, a Spanish journalist who was kidnapped by the Islamic State in Syria. He was one of 19 journalists taken captive by the terrorist group in 2013, and he was detained for six months before being released.…
RODEO: TAMING A WILD COUNTRY
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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SAKAWA
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…
Sarajevo Safari
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…
SIT DOWN COMEDY SHOW
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…
Spring in Mariupol
Competition 2023
Spring in Mariupol
When the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was besieged in the spring of 2022, the Italian journalist Maurizio Vezzosi was a remarkable eyewitness to the siege. Following the advance of the Russian troops, he was at times the only Western journalist reporting…
SRBENKA
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,…
Strong Female Lead
Last Minute Cinema 2023
Strong Female Lead
One in three Australian women experience discrimination or harassment in the workplace. Australia’s first and only female prime minister, Julia Gillard, was one of them.Strong Female Lead is a film about Australia’s struggle with the notion of women…
Subject
Last Minute Cinema 2023
Subject
What happens when the cameras stop rolling? Subject explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through the participants of five acclaimed documentaries. As tens of millions of people consume documentaries in an unprecedented…

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The Beast is still alive
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…
The Dayton Legacy: Bosnia - A Fragile Peace
AJB Screening 2023
The Dayton Legacy: Bosnia - A Fragile Peace
After Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina? Nearly thirty years after the end of the brutal war that ravaged the country, the small and fragile Balkan state appears to be again on the brink of collapse. This is a revealing analysis of the current crisis,…
The Deepest Summit
AJB Screening 2023
The Deepest Summit
The dream of every alpinist is to climb the highest mountain in the world, the roof of the world - Mount Everest. In order to achieve this, we must be 'good students'. If you are from Sarajevo, it is only logical to climb the top of Trebević first. After…
The End of Darkness
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…
The Hungarian Playbook
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…
The Investigator
AJB Screening 2023
The Investigator
Vladimír Dzuro is the only Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His task was to collect evidence against war criminals and perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. His two biggest cases were the…
The Killing of a Journalist
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…
The Little Prince
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…
The Mind Game
Competition 2023
The Mind Game
When he was just 14, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year journey filled with danger and hardships – which he minutely documented on his phone camera – he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. He is sure that when he arrives, he’ll…
THE ROPE
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…
The Russian Job
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…
The Unforgiven
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,…
This Stolen Country of Mine
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.…
Tomorrow's Freedom
Competition 2023
Tomorrow's Freedom
In 2017, filmmaking sisters Georgia and Sophia Scott gained intimate access to the story of imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouthi. Working closely with Marwan’s family in the occupied West Bank in Palestine, the Scott sisters spent…

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Unwanted heritage
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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VOTE FOR KIBERA
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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When Pigs Come
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…
When Spring Came to Bucha
Competition 2023
When Spring Came to Bucha
What happens when a chapter in a war comes to an end? This is an unsentimental account from Ukraine of the existential spring cleaning that awaits people when they return to their city, first besieged, and then liberated. After 35 days of fighting and…