Films
Subject Battlefields: Wars, battles and conflicts. Cultural, territorial and existential. Films about both the inner and outer struggles.
Daughter of Genghis
A seven-year odyssey through Mongolia's underworld with nationalist gang leader, hardcore feminist and single mum Gerel, who wears a black balaclava and fights for a racially pure Mongolia and to look after her son Temuulen.
Kristoffer Juel Poulsen, Christian Als & Knud Brix / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2024 / World Premiere
Hiding Saddam Hussein
The Iraqi farmer who kept Saddam Hussin hidden from 150,000 American soldiers in a hole in his garden tells his incredible story in his own words over the nine months he involuntarily hosted the dethroned dictator.
Hollywoodgate
A filmmaker makes a pact with the devil and risks his life to tag along when the Taliban take over an abandoned US military base in Afghanistan. An unforgettable and chilling insight into a radically alien mentality.
Ibrahim Nash'at / Germany & United States / 2023
In the Rearview
From a simple and minimalistic setup, an entire universe of human stories emerges as a Polish director shuttles to the Ukrainian border to rescue fleeing families from the country.
Intercepted
Secretly intercepted phone calls from the front line in Ukraine, where Russian soldiers call home and tell of the murders and abuses they have committed in Putin's name.
No Other Land
The alliance between a young Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank and an Israeli journalist provides a unique and human insight into a decades-old conflict, as the two fight against the forced expulsion of the Masafer Yatta community. A film created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective.
Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra & Hamdan Bilal / Palestine / 2024 / International Premiere
The Black Garden
With cinematic brushstrokes and few words, a bleak story is told of three generations living in the shadow of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A brilliantly orchestrated study in how conflicts recreate themselves.
Alexis Pazoumian / France & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere
War Game
A nerve-wracking political thriller where elite politicians and military personnel engage in a role-playing game based on January 6th. Is the democratic system strong enough to handle a real-life coup attempt in the near future?
Jesse Moss & Tony Gerber / United States / 2024 / International Premiere