2025 DOCU/BEST
The journey that explores personal dreams and complex chapters of history, delves into painful pasts, and resurfaces in philosophical reflections in search of happiness.
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The journey that explores personal dreams and complex chapters of history, delves into painful pasts, and resurfaces in philosophical reflections in search of happiness.
This films are marked by an undercurrent of anxious premonitions and narratives, often unified by a focus on struggle as a process—often long, exhausting. And on subjectivity, as both a goal and a responsibility.
Resources as the power for creating society based on participatory democracy, where citizens actively participate in decision-making and creating changes.
The central theme of the selected films is the search for strength and motivation to pursue one’s goals despite everything, and to rise above the circumstances.
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The struggle within a rural central Pennsylvanian community over the future of their public schools...
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Sanatorium takes us through the Kuyalnyk in summer, following the staff as they work hard to provide care, comfort and entertainment for visitors—even as the war rages nearby. For the guests, it's a time to seek healing, love and renewal.
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Captured in varying proximities to the frontline over two years, the audiovisual diary of Ukraine's immersion into the abyss of total war traces the subtle changes in Ukrainian society.
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Militantropos captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Through intimate video diaries and poetic letters addressed to a future, grown-up Théo, Alisa captures the devastating reality of war while reflecting on her choice to serve.
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In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, visual artist and filmmaker Alina Maksimenko finds herself alone in Irpin, a town near Kyiv, recovering from surgery with her leg in a cast.
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Without interviews, voiceovers or reconstructions, Timestamp allows the audience to glimpse how the war affects the daily life of students and teachers.
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A coming-of-age journey of three friends chasing their improbable Olympic dreams in post-war Bosnia.
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Ridwan wants to be taken seriously in his dream of becoming a successful rapper...
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Ania and Bartek, two stuttering teenagers undergoing speech therapy, are learning to like themselves and stop being afraid.
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Will the children overcome their discomfort and participate in this crucial conversation on safe and unsafe touch?
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A dreamlike short with an estranged, surreal atmosphere.
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Mû is a 2D animated short film that poetically explores the theme of water scarcity and the importance of water as a life-giving force.