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The New World
A documentary about group of Estonian environmental activists in Tallinn caught in a gray zone of illegality and official recognition. Director Jaan Tootsen follows the birth, life and pain of an idealistic movement over five years.
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Shanghai Banzai
This ironic short Lithuanian documentary exposes a paradox where the poor (Lithuanians, Russians, Poles, Romanies) exist in a shanty town (Šnipiškės) nicknamed Shanghai, near the centre of Vilnius. Every city has its own Shanghai!
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Off The Grid
Alexander Oey's OFF THE GRID looks at communities across the United States that are exploring new forms of self-sufficiency and civil resistance. They challenge the dollar by coining their own currency and live 'off the grid' with alternative energy.
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Red Forest Hotel
RED FOREST HOTEL is a documentary by Mika Koskinen about a green reforestation project in China which turns out instead to be a commercial monoculture plantation developed by a paper manufacturer from Finland.
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The Bad Field
In his documentary essay film THE BAD FIELD (Germany/ Austria), Bernhard Sallmann explores his hometown village through the ages by focusing on the field in front of his parents' house in Ansfelden, Austria.
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Milan und Moritz
Award-winning short about Milan, a young Romani man who left Serbia years ago to live in Germany. Milan still has no legal status and a trip to nearby Berlin with friend Moritz has dire consequences.
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ANPO: Art X War
ANPO: Art X War depicts resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying collage of paintings, photographs and animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan's foremost contemporary artists.
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Desk-based Assassination
Václav Havel and Václav Klaus, two giants of Czech politics of the past two decades, face off in Radim Procházka's 2007 documentary. The director shows both political icons a paper model that parodies political events, and films their reactions.
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The Greatest Czechs
A pseudo-documentary by Robert Sedláček about a film crew on the road. Director (Jaroslav Plesl), his producer (Simona Babčáková), and their director of photography (Jiří Vyorálek) and sound artist (Johana Švarcová) failed to score a grant. What now?
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At The Time 3: Husaks Silence
The third installment in a loose trilogy by Czech documentary filmmaker Robert Sedláček. This episode focuses on Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s, the period dubbed Normalization (after the Soviets invaded in 1968 and socialism "returned to normal").
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The Forgotten Patriots of Tobruk
Czech Republic, 57 min.
D: Radim ProcházkaThe Forgotten Patriots of Tobruk
This Czech documentary combines unique archival footage of a little known WWII episode – the fate of Czechoslovak troops in the Middle East under leadership of the legendary General Karel Klapálek – with unit survivors interviews.
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Phaidon - Verlage im Exil
Director team Klub Zwei (Simone Bader und Jo Schmeiser) work with film and new media in a fine arts context. This film depicts the history of Phaidon Press, the legendary art publishing house that got it's start in 1923 in Vienna.
