San Vittore

The Scars(eu)

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?

San Siro(en)

A forensic study of Milano’s famous football stadium that builds an increasingly intense anticipation and suspense as game-time approaches. San Siro is an episode of the series The Roots of Violence which is also composed by: San Vittore (2018) and San Giorgio (2019)

San Giorgio(en)

San Giorgio is an episode of the series The Roots of Violence which is also composed by: -San Siro (2014) -San Vittore (2018) Actually work in progress

Love Letters(de)

Citations from love letters and poems written between Karl Marx and his fiancée Jenny von Westphalen during their teenage years are combined with images, paintings, and beautiful, atmospheric landscapes of places connected to Marx.

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters(de)

With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer thus gets to know the young Engels personally, learning about the significant moments of his development from a bourgeois-liberal upbringing to the theoretical partner of Karl Marx. Later be awarded the Gold Dove at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week.

American Factory(en)

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

Bedlam(en)

A psychiatrist makes rounds in ERs, jails, and homeless camps to tell the intimate stories behind one of the greatest social crises of our time. A personal and intense journey into the world of the seriously mentally ill.

David Crosby: Remember My Name(en)

You thought you knew him. Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind. With unflinching honesty, self-examination, regret, fear, exuberance and an unshakable belief in family and the transformative nature of music, Crosby shares his often challenging journey.

Hail Satan?(en)

The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic foundations of US society.

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements(en)

A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.

Flesh Memory(fr)

At age 33, Finley Blake lives alone in a remote house in Austin, Texas. Since her divorce, she has been fighting to get back custody of her son, who was removed from her because of the supposedly immoral nature of her work. Finley is a camgirl: she earns her living by performing customized sexual scenes online. Flesh Memory is a document of a few days in her life, which is at once profoundly isolated and populated by virtual presences, a life attuned to screens, to so many distant interfaces connecting her to the outside world. The background to Finley’s performance life is her custody battle for her son.

After the Bath(en)

Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers to create the specter of a "province-wide child pornography ring"

Shoulder(en)

According to the first volume of the Andy Warhol film cat. rais., the film was probably shot on the same day as Jill Johnston Dancing. In the Stephen Koch filmography, Shoulder is listed as: "16mm, 4 minutes, B/W, silent, 16 fps. Filmed summer, 1964. Lucinda Childs' shoulder."

Žokejové – Cesta na Velkou pardubickou(cs)

Our Years(en)

A group of young researchers enter a film archive and provide a view into its life. It is from that process of work and after the visit to prehistoric caves that questions arise regarding the function of an archive, the passage of time or the human imprint.

Ministre ou rien(fr)

This is the unlikely story of 21 ministers and prime ministers who have crossed or are crossing the french Fifth Republic today. Twenty-one politicians who, from one day to the next, find themselves at the head of a ministry by the grace of a President of the Republic and his Prime Minister. The formation of the government, conflicts of attribution, reshuffles, rumours of appointments, evictions, casting errors: it is all the capricious backstage of the games of power examined here under the angle of confidence and which sheds light on the prestigious but unknown function of minister. An original and instructive political saga on the reality of those who hold or have held this prestigious position.

The Outlaw Knight(pl)

Warrior Father King(de)

MMA fighters Ismail Cetinkaya, Kamil Lipski and Carlos Eduardo Rocha navigate injury, defeat and emotional growth in this intimate documentary.

102 Minutes That Changed America: 15th Anniversary(en)

History's Emmy® Award-winning, and critically acclaimed documentary chronicled the terror of 9/11 in real-time. This 15th anniversary edition includes interviews and perspectives from people featured in the original documentary.

My age, yours, and the age of the world(es)

After the earthquake, my grandmother is facing the loss of her apartment.