Program One World Romania 19

Directed by: Rosa von Praunheim Drama – Federal Republic of Germany – 1971 – 67 min Section: Past Continuous Daniel, a young gay man newly arrived in Berlin, moves through the city’s gay circles, from relationships and parties to different social groups, while trying to find his place....See more details

Directed by: Lee Anne Schmitt Documentary – USA – 2025 – 75 min Section: Past Continuous “Evidence” is both an analysis of corporate spending and the impact of dark money on US politics and ideology, and a personal meditation on ideas of family and care. In her most personal film to date, Lee Anne Schmitt blends funded archival materials, industrial landscapes, and personal domestic imagery, reflecting on how her own family—by birth and by choice—was shaped within a mythology of capitalism....See more details

Directed by: Mstyslav Chernov  Documentary – Ukraine – 2025 – 108 min Section: On the Verge “2000 Meters to Andriivka” documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a deeply personal vantage point. Amid a failing 2023 counteroffensive, Mstyslav Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian platoon as it traverses a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka....See more details

Directed by: Ian Bell Documentary – USA – 2025 – 102 min Section: Past Continuous An immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and sound the alarm on the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization....See more details

I WANT MY INNER DOG TO WEAR PEARLS Directed by: Valeriu Andrișcă Documentary – Belgium – 2025 – 38 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues Siblings Victor (he/they) and Alexandra (she/they) return to Romania for a wedding. Victor documents their family’s history of rug weaving and discovers that even tapestry can become a debate about gender, tradition, and resistance....See more details

Directed by: Jiří Menzel, Krsto Papić, Adrian Sârbu, Péter Dobai Documentary – Cehoslovacia, Iugoslavia, România, Ungaria – 1959-1982 – 68 min Section: SAHIA VINTAGE Connect Line-up: “Panel Housing” / “Domy z panelů”, Jiří Menzel, Czechoslovakia, 1959, 7 min “The Hub” / “Čvor”, Krsto Papić, Yugoslavia, 1969, 12 min “I For One Am Alive and Well....See more details

Directed by: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko Documentary – France, Netherlands, Belgium – 2025 – 96 min Section: On the Verge This is a story about Katya, a young woman who works as a welder. Abandoned as a little girl, she embarks on a personal journey to reunite with her lost family – to weld it back together, just like she welds metal at work....See more details

Directed by: Ivan Ramljak Documentary – Croatia – 2025 – 100 min Section: Past Continuous In 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir – chief of the Osijek Police Department, a negotiator and opponent of war – was assassinated. This is a story about the last months of his life at the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, told through witness statements and archive materials....See more details

Directed by: Mona Nicoară, Miruna Coca-Cozma Documentary – USA, Switzerland – 2011 – 94 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues “Our School” follows Alin, Beni and Dana, three Roma children in a Transylvanian village who are among the first participants in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools....See more details

Directed by: Mehrdad Oskouei  Documentary – Iran, France – 2025 – 77 min Section: On the Verge A subtly textured self-portrait of Soraya, a free-spirited 16-year-old Afghan artist in Iran who has been trying for five years to make her way to Europe. She chillingly captures everything on her phone, while pouring her fears, worries and joy into extraordinary works of art, inhabited by recurring figures – a loyal fox, a watchful pink moon, and an ever-laughing clown....See more details