In the slums of Calcutta, three girls manage to rescue themselves by pursuing their dreams. “When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. Come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.” (R. Tagore) This is Kolkata: it vibrates on Tagore's verses,...

A chance meeting, seventy years later, of Roviros Manthoulis with Euripides, a competitor in EPON during the years of German occupation, brings to light a "small" story. The tragic ranking of a group of young people who sought to continue the struggle in Athens while the fierce battles between the Democratic and the Government army were ragin...

Where do we come from? Where do we go? While carpentering, beekeeping and going on joyrides in his funny car, Mr. Bulisch answers the big questions of his life.

A harassed dog is found by animal helpers near a small village in Iran, they take him to the shelter and cure his disease but soon they find out Attila the dog suffers from an infected leg. As the helpers don't want his leg to be cut off They manage to send Attila to Us via an unbelievable story.

Mehran is a Kurdish woman who participated in the 24 days war in Iran. The war is known as the 1979 Kurdish Rebellion in Iran.

Bum or genius, sage or madman - Galilei Simeonov lives above human gossip and definitions. He is a 91-year-old professor at the Academy of Arts who choose to live in the countryside, among his paintings. In our meetings Galileo shares bits of his life and his thoughts on art, on the great personalities of human history, on the meaning of the ...

After overcoming a series of personal and practical challenges, a dynamic and creative music teacher, manages to lead her students to the international school choir competition.

Some say he has seen the face the Prophet and his first three Imams, others claim that he is a delusional old man, others that he is just sick – this recluse. And yet, Beranaza (known as Berry) roams the deserts of Lorestān despite the hearsay spread in those adjacent townships. He believes, and he pays no heed as to whether you believe his b...

Mohamed, a refugee from Guinea who has fled his country due to his opposition to the Guinean government, is seeking a good, new life in Germany. Although he lost his pregnant wife along the way, he tries to forget his past by learning how to paint. While everything seems to be going well, some obstacles are being placed in the way of his stay...

Nikos does not get to experience human contact, nor the joy of saving lives. He studied medicine but went on to become a forensic medical examiner. The cadavers he examines whisper their stories. As he grows older and his kids grow up, his fear of death weighs heavier. It’s a rainy New Year’s Eve, and the morgue is full. Nikos is hopeful. Wil...

Charlie is 10 years old and diagnosed with Aspergers. He is proud of his disgnosis but sometimes he wishes he could be more like the other boys in his class. Feeling different makes him feel left out at times. Because of his Aspergers Charlie struggles with team sports. But he has found two things he loves to do, surfing and dancing. We follo...

Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.

Australian Jewish artist Ella Dreyfus grew up with little knowledge of her family’s tragic losses in the Holocaust. She sets out to uncover their history through her uncle George in Melbourne and her cousin Jonathan in Berlin, whilst finding her own way of re-connecting to Germany.

A short documentary depicting the story of young transgender boy Ekai Lersundi, who took his own life in 2018 after struggling with the bureaucracy surrounding hormone replacement therapy assignment

Homan Singh Shivabhakti makes out a living by farming in the hills of Sindhupalchowk district, east of Kathmandu. He loves and worships his buffalo which has brought him all the good things in his life. All is well until devastating floods ravage the area. Homan Singh's buffalo disappears.

A cemetery in the centre of Berlin. An undertaker who actually wanted to become an entertainer. And who is now the last companion of all those who are buried by the state authorities. A chapel in which a black urn is laid out and Beethoven playing on a continuous loop. The undertaker sits there and waits. Sometimes people come to pay their la...

Antihero: is the main character in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities and passively dependent from someone else. A group of young antiheroes with disabilities, trying to know more about acting in theater stage. Through their obvious love for it decide to put on a theatrical performance based on improvised scenes centered on super...

An old disabled couple living in a small village in the northern part of Iran, face an unfathomable tragedy when their youngest son falls into a coma after an accident. Defying the Islamic traditions of burial, overcoming problems of red tape, and turning devastation into hope, the parents agree to donate their son’s organs. Five years after ...

The film INDIGENIUS LOCI explores the interface of man and nature. Vasilis Fourkiotis, deep ecologist, shepherd and sociologist strides across his ancestral lands immersed in spiritual reflections of a postmodern world. Psychogeography, Documentary.

90-year-old Krystyna, lives in the tiny apartment surrounded by books and writing pads. That’s remarkable in itself since Krystyna is almost blind, but that doesn’t stop this still vital woman from writing passionate and eloquent poetry that celebrates life. She scrawls her poems herself, but this turns out to be an unreliable method because ...

The Jeepney, or Jeep as affectionately called in the Philippines, is the most popular mode of transportation for thousands of daily commuters. This documentary explores the Jeep’s importance in Filipino culture through the eyes of local drivers, passengers, and business professionals who rely on the Jeep in more ways than one.

While in rehab, a young man recounts his descent into gambling addiction. The animated documentary “King” offers an intimate insight into a psychological illness that is often overlooked.

The story of the people who made the first manned flight into space possible, but remained behind the scenes. The main characters of the film are Semyon Kosberg and other engineers of the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau in Voronezh. They designed and constructed the third stage of the rocket engine, without which Gagarin's spacecraft would ...

It is the story of a person who was born blind, and also can not walk because of a problem with his legs. He spent most of his time in institutions, for people with disabilities, and now he tells us his point of view and thoughts.

Once upon a time, a little girl, Maram, left Yemen with her family seeking for the “Land without sorrows and pains", as they considered Europe. But instead they found themselves staggering in the “Land in between”, living in a refugee camp in Lesvos. This is the story of Maram’s first day at school, when a group of xenophobic people blocked h...

All alone and with an extraordinary amount of willpower, Melina has chosen to undertake a journey into the unknown, sacrificing her own family to defend Holy Mother Earth. The rubbish that has invaded every corner of this world expresses and confirms humanity's actions against nature. Melina's mission is a demiurgic effort to restore light in...

Arash and Alireza are two young poets from Persia who came as political refugees το Greece. They tell us about the poetry nights they organized in their country, and they show us how censorship is applied on poetry, but also about the way in which they managed to overcome the obstacle of censorship.

MUKTI [Emancipation] Singing for the dead Sambhaji Bansode and his wife live in Dharavi, Mumbai. Their profession is an age-old family tradition of singing bhajans [devotional / spiritual songs] in front of the dead body. They believe the bhajans emancipate the deceased, and brings peace in the family that's left behind. These songs bear the ...

In Senegal, a woman playing drums is not commonplace. In this short, N'deye Seck -lead percussionist at the Ecole des Sables- shares her trajectory. The story of N'deye intertwines with the Griot culture. Having inherited this rich tradition from her family, the percussionist shares through her narration, the strength, cultural richness and c...

Christos was born in a small village in northern Greece named Sklithro. Born in 1927, my grandpa has experienced first-hand the entire modern history of Greece, poverty, World War II, civil war, exile and ideological racism due to his political beliefs when he returned to Greece. In the film he shares the circumastances and stories that marke...

Looking for the "lost" residence of Papaflessas. A historical retrospect, through a modern confrontation of the experiences of its inhabitants. A space-time of modern Poliani.

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / Are tears of Portugal! / To get across you, how many mothers cried, / How many sons prayed in vain! // How many brides were never to marry / In order to make you ours, oh sea! / Was it worth it? Everything is worthy / If the soul is not small." (Fernando Pessoa) Eighteen years after Zombietown 23, twelve ...

the film will delve into the emotions of five women who experienced loss severely, so the pain of waiting and postponed destiny were their common features.

Visiting her Grandmother in Brazil, after years living abroad, Mariana sets out to the farm where she lives. Even though everything looks the same as her childhood memories, more profound changes soon come to light, questioning her memory and the love they share.

Rebetiko Underground - A Research on Rebetiko is a short length documentary film about the spread of Rebetiko music and culture through the years in Europe.

Mark tells us the story of how he survived that rough ride of being a drug addict, how he found himself fighting to survive, finding friendship and love on the way up.

An animated documentary about the relevance of Shakespeare's classical works for digital natives in Singapore: Live action and animation combined.The film was created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The documentary focuses on 4 artists, Kharma Queen, Amelie Tea, Aurora Paola Morado and Dr. Oglie Boss, who describe what it is like to be a Drag Queen-King in the second largest city in Greece. The video consists of interviews and scenes from the performances of our Drag artists, as well as shots of our city. Finally, it focuses on the probl...

Kyriaki , descedant of Slavophones of Macedonia in Greece , describes, through family stories and personal experience, the reasons behind her identity quest. Speaking two languages, feeling different emotions about each one , she goes through the family - album pages, allowing us a glimpse at the history of her land.

A documentary on the survival of Mastorochoria Konitsa, Greece throughout the years.

The second wave of Covid significantly increased mortality in hospitals. What does this mean for the work of Mathieu, employed in the morgue of a regional hospital center? How does he relate to these people whose souls have recently left their bodies?

Meet Mr. Paschalis, a retired bank clerk from Halkidiki, Greece. Mr Paschalis has a passion for collecting old objects. A real passion! With 2000 objects collected over the last 40 years, he has turned his home into a museum where he transforms into an eccentric tour guide who is always willing to put on a show for his visitors.

Yannis 24th work anniversary as a garbage collector in the trucks of the Keratsini-Drapetsona Municipality (Piraeus, Greece). His daily struggle reveals and the secrets of neighborhoods through their remnants. Life persists, in an environment of homelessness and stray animals, the rubbish dump experience, the terrifying climb in the piles of ...

Petros Mokas is a fifth-generation shepherd, living in the mountains of Pindos. He fosters ''Βutsko'', a rare sheep breed that lives and grows in the grasslands of Eastern Tzoumerka on the same mountain range. We follow his life, his music, and his traditions.

Abdullah Milhim is a photographer trying to announce by photographing what is going on in the war zone, Syria to the world. Once, he goes to photograph a just bombed region, he sees an aged man inside the ruins. He is influenced deeply by the situation of the aged man who is just standing and crying while people are escaping and wounded are c...

THE MASTER BREWER is a magical comeback story about Leo Andelin, who in 1963 developed the most famous food of Finland - Lapin Kulta beer. A boy from a working class family in remote Tornio, Leo grows up to become the humble gentleman of beer, who passionately nurtures his “northern beer flower”. Leo’s life’s work is destroyed in 2010 when th...

Produced in the year 2007, a photographic essay realized in recognition of the indigenous roots, portrayed twelve adolescents belonging to Eleutério do katu, RN Brasil. Twelve years later the photographer returns to katu in search of these protagonists, now adults, to know about his personal trajectories and his world views.

Wall of shame is a participative/journalistic documentary. It takes as an excuse a violent attack towards a group of refugees o Lesvos island on 2018 in order to show the ''ugly truth'' of Greek society.

This is a movie about limitless human willpower. The documentary will make a cinematographic portrait of the artist Marcos Santos, who was born with cerebral palsy. He has his speech partially impaired, and without the movements of the arms and hands, he paints with his left foot and teaches children in a peripheral and stigmatized neighbourh...

A short documentary film about the special and unknown to most people profession of Vatchemanis.

In the documentary Waves and Ice a filmmaker accompanied five adventurous, nature loving women on their journey through the Icelandic wild, whilst creating stunning images, surfing freezing cold waves, hiking up and snowboarding down mountains, diving icy waters and mastering all obstacles which appear on their way. Most of the women did not ...

Residents of and visitors to the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer logistical advice, philosophical reckonings, and plaintive cries about making "the journey of the dead." Made in remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the detonation of nuc...

Why I'm A Vegan is a multimedia short film that explores the musician Moby's journey into veganism and animal rights advocacy.

A little red panda, a rare species, has become homeless as a result of the recent 16-day wildfire in the Nepali mid-hills, yet one more of a growing number of symptoms of the climate crises that spares no human nor animal.