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Germany, Polen 2022, 109 min
by Hanna Polak

Sinjar, Northern Iraq, 2014: Hanifa, a young Yezidi woman, miraculously survives the ISIS attack on the Yezidi religious and ethnic minority in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. Hanifa escapes abduction by ISIS but her five younger sisters are all trucked off and enslaved.Based on exclusive access to one of the most dangerous and underreported places on earth, Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Hanna Polak tracks Hanifa’s mission to find her sisters and bring them home – as she had promised h

2022, 89 min
by Noam Pinchas

The crash of an Israeli Boeing 747 cargo plane into an Amsterdam apartment building in 1992 turned into a mystery that now spans three decades. Fueled by unexplained illnesses, strange men in white suits, a secret section in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, an unaccounted-for cargo with potentially disastrous consequences, covert political battles - and a missing black box, the two-part series develops the full story - all the way to today.This international political thriller looks at freedom of i

Germany 2020, 80 min
by Dmitry Bogolyubov, Anna Shishova-Bogolyubova

A heroic Soviet past and a destitute post-industrial present make the provincial town of Yelnya susceptible for the Kremlin's aggressive anti-Western propaganda leading to the militarization of society from kindergarten to pension age.Filmed over the course of three years, this film introduces Western viewers to the small and prototypical provincial Russian town of Yelnya where people admire Vladimir Putin for making Russia great again. Yelnya has remained economically marginalized ever since th

2016, 90 min
by Michail Fishman, Ljubow Kamyrina, Milana Minajewa, Stephan Kühnrich

A film about the Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. Focusing on his life and career and examining investigations into his shocking murder in February 2015, we take a look at Putin’s Russia today.On February 27, 2015, Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot several times in the back near the Kremlin. The same night the police seized documents and computer hard drives from his apartment. Nemtsov had been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin since 2000. Not long before the m

2015, 112 min
by Vitaly Mansky

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbass, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director’s own family. The main narrat

Germany 2013, 90 min
by Alexander Gentelev

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia will be the first ever to be held in a subtropical resort. The most expensive games ever break all records when it comes to corruption and megalomania. Putin's administration has everyone at its beck and call, from oligarchs down to the ordinary people who have to pay the Olympic bill. Both the powerful and the weak speak out in this investigative documentary, which unveils the hidden story behind Putin's games. Government critic Garry Kasparov says that

2021, 90 min
by Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov

For many decades, every year, half of Europe was facing the complicated task of selecting a new car, among hundreds of new models arriving in to the market. The other half was free to choose from among 10 to 15 makes and models available to them from their States. Almost as Henry Ford put it about the Model T - Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, as long as it is black. These products of the Socialist automotive industry were usually out of fashion, slow, clumsy, a pain

Germany 2019, 73 min
by Sylvia Nagel, Sonya Winterberg

The untold story of the women of Block 10. Some 70 years ago, gynecologist Carl Clauberg conducted sterilization experiments in Auschwitz on women and girls. Were German companies involved in these crimes? Most of the few women that survived became sterile, only some could later still bear children. Clauberg's cruel research on birth control and infertility is part of the medical canon to this day. Meet the last survivors of the infamous Block 10 who speak candidly about their experience and how

Germany, Czech Republic 2013, 117 min
by Vitaly Mansky

PIPELINE is a film about modern Europe, about two of its edges, or to put it more precisely – two of its extremes. This is a film about Europe, which spans from the barren land of eternal winters of Siberia to the complaisant Bay of Biscay, where even the laws of nature form fundamentally different paradigms of human existence. What can possibly connect such ostensibly different lives? Tangibly, it does so through the pipeline 'Western Siberia – Western Europe'. The pipeline has, however, not on