The Diary of Diana B

This is a true story about the great people in the worst of times. Diana Budisavljevic and her husband, a doctor, daughters and newly born granddoughter live the life of a high-class in Zagreb. In the fall of 1941, she learned that Jewish and Serbian women were being taken to the detention camps where they were left to die from hunger and disease. The Jewish municipality sends aid to the Jews, but no one cares about the Serbian women. She initiates and leads an action that will save more than 10,000 children from certain death in the Ustasha camps by the end of the war.

The Diary of Diana B

Our Mothers

This year’s Belgian Oscar nominee deals with the aftermath of a long-running civil war in Guatemala that resulted in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples. The year is 2018 and the whole country is preoccupied with the trials of former Civil War commanders, with victim statements coming from all sides. Ernesto is a young forensic anthropologist whose job it is to identify the bodies of the dead. One day, in the story of an old witness, he notices a clue that might lead him to the father of a guerrilla who disappeared in the war.

Our Mothers

What a country!

The film consists of three stories whose structure and interconnections we discover throughout the film. The main characters are a general who feels a strong desire to commit suicide, disappointed in what Croatia has become, a minister in the Government of the Republic of Croatia who, without a court verdict, imprisons himself in a cell because assessing that his place is there, as well as a group of parents of different nationalities (Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks) who, by excavating dead presidents of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia, want to force the governments of these countries to finally find their children who disappeared during the war.

What a country!

Gender derby

This documentary confronts us with numerous gender stereotypes focusing on the journey of Jasmin, a transgender gay going through gender transition and being infatuated with roller derby. Roller derby is not just another sport. It is a team game created and played by women and characterized by promotion of physical diversity and inclusivity. An intimate and unusual portrait, taken in vertical video format to give the impression that the audience is face to face with Jasmine at this unique moment of transition.

Gender derby

Golda

The eventful story of Golda Meir’s term as Prime Minister of Israel – from the surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as ‘queen of the Jewish people’ to her tragic and lonely demise. Shortly before her death, Golda Meir was interviewed for Israeli television. At the end of the shooting, the cameras remained on, recording intimate conversation with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette after another, Golda spoke openly, defending her prime ministerial term – five turbulent years that have secured her place in history, but at high personal cost. Based on these never-before-seen materials, the testimonies of supporters and opponents, as well as rare archive footage, the film Golda bring the story of one dramatic period in her reign.

Golda