Porajmos. Zapomniany Holocaust(2024)

33 Photos from the Ghetto(pl)

The film traces two families, one of which is Jewish, who preserved the images for decades but hadn’t brought them to light. 80 years after their creation, the son of the photographer finds the forgotten negatives and launches an investigation. With a team of researchers, archivists, and animators who use near-forensic precision to reconstruct locations and contexts, they trace the circumstances of those tragic days and the lives captured in each frame.

Bullets And Blueberries(en)

The Holocaust began with the indiscriminate mass shootings by the Einsatzgruppen in the bloodlands of Eastern Europe and was perfected in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. “Bullets And Blueberries” explores the motives, methods and madness of the perpetrators, using never-before-seen images captured by the killers themselves — images that fully capture the banality of evil.

The Long Way Home(en)

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

This Ordinary Thing(en)

A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner(en)

One man's foresight and opposition to the Nazis destructive forces and years later the trials and tribulations of his Grandson who would rise above his tragic childhood to share his Grandfather's courageous story.

Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story(en)

We Weren't The Only Ones(en)

In this short film, poet and holocaust survivor John Guzlowski bears witness to his parents’ survival of Nazi slave labor camps. More than a personal remembrance, the poem carries his mother’s plea — “tell them we weren’t the only ones” — a call to acknowledge the countless lives scarred by war, displacement, and silence. Through Guzlowski’s measured reading, the film becomes both intimate and collective: a meditation on inherited trauma, the duty of memory, and the fragile line between history and forgetting.

Reflections of Courage: The 'Eddy Boas Story'(en)

Reflections of Courage is a gripping documentary that follows Eddy Boas’s powerful account of his family’s survival during the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Holland. As the youngest survivor, Eddy reveals how moments of bravery and kindness helped them endure unimaginable terror. This is a story of resilience, hope, and the courage to survive against all odds.

Discovering Edmund(en)

When Isabella learned that her great-great-uncle was imprisoned in Stutthof, the first German concentration camp established on Polish soil during the Second World War, she begins an investigation into his story and the camp’s little-known history. Despite its significance, Stutthof remains one of the least documented sites of Nazi persecution, leaving families of its victims with lingering questions. Through witness testimonies and archival traces, the film follows Isabella’s search for Uncle Edmund and the lives of those who endured Stutthof, offering a quiet reflection on memory, loss, and the lasting echoes of trauma that continue to shape the generations that followed.

The Red Shoe(en)

While fleeing their hometown during the Nazi invasion, Jewish teenagers Fanye and Rivkah are chased through the woods by an armed Nazi soldier and are forced to make life-and-death decisions.

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe(pl)

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

Angst(de)

Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz(en)

Leonardo Defilippis stars in this gripping one-man drama chronicling the remarkable life of Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar and eventual saint who was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp for speaking out against the Nazi regime.

Tango Kabaree(fi)

A fictitious biography of Aira Samulin, the goddess of dance and importer of all the international dance crazes to Finland for some fifty years. The life story of this extravagant ever-teen, well beyond the usual retirement age, is told inside a fictitious plot about a Master of Ceremonies trying to persuade Aira to stage a show at his cabaret restaurant. Besides Aira Samulin, many other Finnish celebrities appear among the eccentric lineup auditioning for the show, playing more or less their fictionalised selves.

Aileen Wuornos : Mind of a Monster(en)

Serial killer Aileen Wuornos writes down her darkest secrets for her best friend while on Florida's death row; now, for the first time, those secrets are revealed in detail.

Landmarks(es)

In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free. The film combines the voices and photographs of the community with courtroom footage to explore the long history of colonialism and land dispossession that led to this crime.

lll(de)

The diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma not only ruined Albert Farkas' summer day when he received it. He narrates scenes from everyday life with the diagnosis. Josephine Ahnelt's short documentary shows Farkas' self-assertion through his humor, with which he defies the initial low point.

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"(fr)

NATO Targets Yugoslavia(en)

An anti-war documentary featuring original on-the-ground footage and interviews from the 1999 NATO war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Watch the 78 days of untold destruction, bombing bridges, hospitals, schools, and dropping up to 11 tons of depleted uranium across the country that NATO considers a successful “humanitarian intervention” in Yugoslavia. Filmmaker Gloria La Riva lifts the veil of imperialist propaganda to reveal the humanitarian crisis caused by the war.

Alltagsgeschichte – Donauinsulaner(de)