identity
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Last Letters From My Grandma
IDENTITY: From Moldova to the southern Urals to Spain, Last Letters from My Grandma links family loss to larger political fractures, asking what peace costs and who pays.
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Fighter
IDENTITY: After a dockside dive leaves MMA fighter Geir Kåre Cemsoylu Nyland facing paralysis, Fighter tracks his two-year recovery and a candid reckoning with toxic masculinity.
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Militantropos
UKRAINE: From mass graves to choral singing, images traverse Ukraine’s landscapes, questioning identity while war normalises behaviours unimaginable.
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Ghosts of the Sea
IDENTITY: Through memory, myth, and recovered archives, a filmmaker reckons with a father’s legacy and the brother lost to his shadow.
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19th ethnocineca to open with intimate portrait of war, memory, and displacement
The 19th edition of #ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna will open on 8 May 2025, with the Austrian premiere of Home Game by #Lidija Zelovic#. The festival, which runs through May 14 at Vienna’s Votiv Kino and Kino De France, brings a thematic focus on «Hauntings»—a reflection on how history lingers in personal…
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Time to the Target
UKRAINE: Lviv, a city caught between everyday life and an unending funeral procession during war.
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To Be Continued. Teenhood
Adolescence: A layered portrait of adolescence, To Be Continued. Teenhood explores Latvia’s rural-urban divide, cultural identity, and the universal challenges of growing up.
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Becoming Outline
IDENTITY: Confronting the shame of poverty, domestic violence, and the pursuit of self-liberation through education and art.
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«The role of cinema becomes more crucial each year as we find ourselves in individual echo chambers…»
MOVIES ON WAR: In our interview, festival director Øystein Egge reflected on curating this year’s compelling focus on #Gaza and the #Middle East, the role of cinema in our polarised age, and the festival’s role in fostering critical conversations through it.