Program One World Romania #18

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

Directed by: Kinshuk Surjan Documentary – Belgium, Netherlands, India – 2024 – 108 min Section: Exist to Resist Intent on providing a better life for herself and her children after her farmer-husband’s suicide, Sanjivani struggles against her culture’s traditional abandonment of widows, until she joins a discussion group with other farmer-suicide widows....See more details

Directed by: Pablo Álvarez Mesa Documentary – Columbia, Canada – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations 200 years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, “The Soldier’s Lagoon” retraces The Liberator’s journey across the high-altitude marshlands, while searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory and reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land. 

Directed by: Myrid Carten Documentary – Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands – 2024 – 81 min Section: Dialogues When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself....See more details

Directed by: Zvika Gregory Portnoy, Zuzanna Solakiewicz Documentary – Poland, Qatar – 2024 – 78 min Section: Exist to Resist In 2021, the border area between Poland and Belarus became a forbidden zone, three kilometers wide, where refugees found themselves brutally trapped. Maciek lives with his family on the Polish side of the border....See more details

Directed by: Ana Rieper Documentary – Brazil – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations The movie may contain images with a strong emotional impact. A documentary about the legacies of the Brazilian colonial condition present today in people’s daily life. With a musical narrative, and using archival footage of different natures, the film proposes a restless journey through relationships forged by the ownership of land and people....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: So Yo-Hen Documentary – Taiwan – 2024 – 101 min Section: Dialogues Two poets meet at night in Tainan Park, creating poetry inspired by the day's experiences, weaving imaginative, fable-like verses that transform the night into a canvas of untold stories, with the storytellers merging into the tales they weave.

Directed by: Victoria Verseau Documentary – Sweden, France – 2024 – 72 min Section: Dialogues The movie may contain images with a strong emotional impact. Victoria looks back in time to understand her transition and what it is that defines you as a woman. Having lost a close friend she shares her pain and embodied experience with Athena and Aamina, themselves on their own journeys of transition....See more details