25. Ročník
18–27. 10. 2024
v Bratislave

Around the World

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Experienced curators have carefully prepared a selection of the best films from around the world, taking into account not only geographical diversity, but also diversity in terms of gender, form and theme. We take great care in providing you with primarily non-colonial filmmaking perspectives from within countries and communities. We give space to voices whose journey to film production has required extraordinary effort and courage.

Films of the section Around the World

A LIFE LIKE ANY OTHER

My father immortalized, in family films, the most beautiful moments of his life, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom. (Faustine Cros)  The screening is …

A TASTE OF WHALE

The fjord’s water, surrounded by stunning green mountains, is turning blood red. It is the “grind” season again – Faroe Islanders’ ritual slaughter of pilot whales. Two proud Faroese whalers are on one side, two young and passionate Sea Shepherd activists on the other. A Taste of Whale invites you to see past preconceived positions …
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BETWEEN THE RAINS

Along the banks of a remote river in northern Kenya lives a Turkana community bearing the brunt of an increasingly unpredictable and harsh climate. The Turkana people are the oldest known historical ethnicity still alive today, and are deeply pastoral. As Kenya grows increasingly barren with access to grazing land and water rapidly shrinking, inevitable conflict and …

GIRL GANG

A contemporary fairy tale about a 14-year-old influencer from Berlin and her biggest fan. But life as a social media star has a shadow side that the adrenaline, fame and free sneakers can’t make up for.
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LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE

In the early 90’s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became …

LOVING MARTHA

Daniela López aims her camera at members of her own family – at her grandmother Martha, who escaped a violent marriage after 39 years, and at the rest of the family, who is struggling not only with that trauma but also with the film project itself.  We invite people with hearing impairments to this screening. …
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PURE UNKNOWN

Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them Pure Unknown. The Pure Unknown belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, prostitutes, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy. If all rights belong to the living, nothing is left to the …
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THEATRE OF VIOLENCE

Theatre of Violence is a true crime documentary film about Ugandan Defence Lawyer, Kristpus Ayana, who decides to defend the former child soldier, Dominique Ongwen, at one of the world’s biggest legal institutions, The International Criminal Court in The Hague. Charged with crimes against humanity the verdict will set precedent, but the case is also …

TWICE COLONIZED

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of Indigenous people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But is it possible to change the world and mend your own wounds at the …

A STORY OF BONES

As the Chief Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m ($360m) airport project, Annina van Neel learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley. It is one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth. …

A STILL SMALL VOICE

As an aspiring chaplain completes a year-long residency in the spiritual care department of a major New York hospital, she discovers that working with patients requires looking deep within herself. Exploring her own past, her Jewish faith, and her boundaries, she learns what it means – and what it takes – to provide spiritual and emotional care …

ALL YOU SEE

What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen, but instead are stared at? The leading characters in All You See have ended up in a new world where suddenly nothing seems to align. In their new lives in the Netherlands, they unintentionally provoke reactions on a daily basis. Even after many …
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WE DONʼT DANCE FOR NOTHING

Captured during a political revolution and pandemic in Hong Kong, this hybrid film combines real events, remembered personal narratives, and staged dances to showcase a vibrant yet oft-forgotten community of Filipina women (200,000 in HK, millions globally), and offer an unseen point of view on events that dominated global headlines. Described as Chris Marker’s La …

TO KILL A TIGER 

In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being dragged into the woods, she was raped by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit’s relief is …

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