For the audience, competitive rhythmic gymnastics is an art experience – like ballet. For the gymnast, it is an extremely demanding sport and brutal work – like ballet. Margarita Mamun is the sad-eyed girl in Russia’s rhythmic gymnastics team who won gold in the Rio Olympics rhythmic gymnastics all-around. During her performance, the viewers hold their […]
How to approach something we can’t understand? Phie Ambo‘s …When You Look Away tries to do just that. It is a cinematic study of awareness beyond our physical bodies. Ambo begins an exploration, deciding to pick the people for the film through coincidental connections. The method works well, and we meet the most interesting persons, from quantum physicists […]
Director Olga Darfy is living a good life. She has a fine job, beautiful home and a loving family. But a nostalgic longing won’t leave her alone and she decides to search for her youth and the people from her youth. People, who brought the rave culture to Moscow. The first Gagarin Parties were held in 1991 […]
Dr. Mahinder Watsa answers readers’ sex-related questions in the Indian newspaper Mumbai Mirror. The razor-sharp 93-year-old doctor offers sex education to the uninformed and chooses to ignore the conservative view. Ask the Sexpert is a documentary about Watsa. India is one of the world’s most contradictory countries when it comes to sex education. On the one hand, there’s the […]
How to make a documentary about nothing? This Serbian film-maker invited 62 cinematographers to shoot material from 70 countries, and Iggy Pop to do the voice-over. Nothing turned out to be a surprisingly cheerful topic. Language: English Subtitles: English
Swedish manager Bo Inge Andersson arrives to the Russian industrial town of Tolyatti by river Volga. He has been hired to make the local Lada car factory successful again. The Avtovaz factory is very important to the town. Every seventh resident has worked in the factory at some point in their life. Petr Horký’s film The Russian Job shows us […]
This documentary depicts the 50-year career of Indian photographer Raghu Rai, a staple at the illustrious Magnum Photos Agency, but also his relationship with his daughter and the film’s director, Avani Rai. The camera both unites and separates their generations. Language: Hindi Subtitles: English
In 1992, Estonia saw its first free election since World War II. The young republic was in chaos. Still, a 32-year-old idealist called Mart Laar was elected into office and went on to become Europe’s youngest Prime Minister. Estonian-Finnish co-production tells of the first years of independence as the country traveled towards capitalism and out of the […]