The creation of the Warsaw Ghetto as seen from both sides of the Ghetto wall, and its legacy in today’s city. New light on a tragic time of division, destruction and mass murder, incorporating unknown amateur Polish 8mm found footage and survivor testimony. In 1941 soon after the creation of…
Filmed in ultra high-definition and imbued with spectacular aerial perspectives, this documentary shows us that water is a defining element for our planet, reminding us at the same time of the need we harbor for it. In Watermark, the viewer dives in a world defined by this force of nature,…
This film focuses on the way the UNHCR manages camps that shelter more than 16 million refugees all around the world, creating a virtual country as large as the Netherlands. How does the UNHCR deal with the urgent needs of thousands of new refugees that arrive each day? How has…
The Canterbury earthquakes. It’s the people’s story shot in the streets of Christchurch. Who New Zealanders when our lives are turned? Filmed on the hoof without narration, When a City Falls offers a new and grassroots understanding of what happened to half a million New Zealanders the year their lives…
Ten years in the making; ‘When A City Rises – The People’s Story’, chronicles Christchurch’s most extraordinary decade. From despair to recovery. From grief to optimism. A people profoundly changed. A new people in a new city. The film will be screend together with When…
When We Live Alone explores the ways in which we live alone together in contemporary cities. The unprecedented growth of urban dwellers living on their own challenges normative ideas about the home and raises questions about how this change in social structure and lifestyle affects cities as a whole. While…
When We Live Alone explores the ways in which we live alone, yet together, in contemporary cities. The unprecedented increase in the number of people living alone challenges theories about housing and raises questions about how this change in social structure and people’s lifestyles affects cities as a whole. Through…
When you return I’ll be living by the waterside is about the clash between an ambitious architect and his passionate client during the creative process of designing a perfect home. The film is a meticulous ode to an imaginary space built on conflicting interests, unanswered desires and fallen dreams.For a…
From Milan to Mumbai, this documentary takes us on a journey around the homes of those who shape modern cities: the architects. Apartments, villas, old industrial spaces or apparently modest houses, what do the architects of the world call „home”? The screening will be followed by a Q&A Session with…
A city with a troubled history, that is trying to rebuild what it lost in the bombings of the Second World War, Dresda is from 2015 the scene of a startling phenomenon: the members of the right wing movement Pegida are marching every Monday evening down the streets of the…
In Romania – Arad, in a former textile factory, the possibility of an alternative place for art is being questioned by the director of the film and, broadly, by a young initiative group for independent cultural events, which the director is part of. A personal, yet generally valid quest and…
Trying to understand the underbelly of the phenomenon of graffiti and street art in Romania, a corporatist ends up discovering himself. Started as an objective analysis of a counterculture, the documentary turns into an intimate coming-of-age story of a 35-year-old man, swallowed by the different universe he discovers. The film…
