Program One World Romania #18

THE DIARY OF A SKY Directed by: Lawrence Abu Hamdan Documentary – Lebanon – 2024 – 44 min Section: Reverberations “The Diary of a Sky” unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts....See more details

60 min Section: Youth Days This selection is made up of short films about the need for belonging: to a culture, to a family, to a group; about searching, about trying and reconnecting.  “Out of the City” (dir. Ahmed Essam Soliman, 2023, 10 min) “Blue” (dir. Ana Vîjdea, 2024, 20 min) “Sister of Mine” (dir....See more details

87 min Section: Youth Days The most diverse and unexpected of associations include everything from a Romanian found footage film (“The Diary of Florica S.”) to a film made with video games (“How to Disappear”). “The Diary of Florica S.” (dir. Eugenia Gutu, 1975, 10 min) “Bimbos Against Capitalism” (dir....See more details

Directed by: Marc Isaacs Documentary – United Kingdom – 2020 – 75 min Section: Focus Marc Isaacs When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting in his home with a cast of characters connected to his own life....See more details

Directed by: Benjamin Brown, Sam Chown-Ahern, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Georgia Kumari Bradburn, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood Documentary – United Kingdom – 2024 – 67 min Section: Dialogues “The Stimming Pool” is an experimental—at times fantastical—hybrid feature film, co-created by a collective of autistic artists, the Neurocultures Collective, and filmmaker Steven Eastwood, who invite you into a neurodiverse world within the undulating logic of neurotypical environments.

THE SHARDS Directed by: Masha Chernaya Documentary – Georgia, Germany – 2024 – 90 min Section: Exist to Resist In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia — her homeland that has changed. It turns into chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart....See more details

Directed by: Farah Kassem Documentary – Lebanon, Qatar, Denmark – 2024 – 180 min Section: Dialogues After more than a decade, Farah returns to her hometown Tripoli in Lebanon to live with her widowed aging father, Mustapha. Their generational differences often lead to clashing perspectives on the country’s political instability, making it difficult to communicate with each other....See more details

Directed by: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor Documentary – Palestine, Norway – 2024 – 96 min Section: Exist to Resist Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood....See more details

Directed by: Igor Bezinović Documentary – Croatia, Italy, Slovenia – 2025 – 112 min Section: Reverberations In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey.

Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa Documentary – Netherlands, France, USA – 2024 – 145 min Section: Exist to Resist Ten years after the release of his epic film “Maidan,” Sergei Loznitsa resumes his Ukrainian chronicles by documenting the country’s struggle against the Russian invasion....See more details