An Open Field
GRIEF: Processions, prayer, and stillness frame a community preserving the dead’s memory after a tragedy linked to institutional negligence.
capitalism
The Tale of Silyan
NATURE: The Oscar-nominated Macedonian filmmaker Tamara Kotevska returns with a luminous documentary fable that extends her ongoing meditation on a pressing homeland concern: the ecological and economic troubles that drive migration.
9-Month Contract
CAPITALISM: It’s not just Georgia where are women trying to find a way out of social misery through surrogacy.
Better Go Mad in the Wild
SOCIETY: Rural twin brothers resisting modern life, where imagination, memory, and rebellion shape a fading yet vivid freedom.
The Dark Money Game
CORRUPTION: A scathing two-part exposé reveals how political bribery, dark money, and judicial capture have hollowed out American democracy from the inside.
The Impossibility
CAPITALISM: A Kafkaesque portrait of social collapse, systemic injustice, and the racism flourishing in Europe’s hidden housing hellscapes.
You Need This
MEDIA: Unpacking the history of advertising and media manipulation, this film exposes capitalism’s relentless push toward overconsumption, inequality, and planetary destruction.
Super Paradise
CONSUMERISM: Through apocryphal private archives forging nostalgia and conversations about the past and present, Super Paradise tells the story of a freedom oasis in Greece destroyed by cluelessness and greed, a tale that can be universally applied.
Ancestral Visions of the Future
EXILE: Blending docufiction and philosophy, Lemohang Mosese redefines home, exile, and human interconnectedness through Ubuntu and radical decolonial storytelling.
Bright Future
COLD WAR: The sensory and ideological layers of a forgotten Cold War festival, exploring fleeting solidarity, ideological discord, and the fragility of socialist dreams.
Born pre-polluted
HEALTH The dawn of the age of Homo Plasticus – or how plastics are going to kill us, unless we do something about them.
Commercial politics
ADVERTISING: Radu Jude’s latest weaves commercials from the past 35 years, creating a disorienting critique of capitalist culture, advertising, and national identity in post-communist Romania.