Single mother Kathi receives day release from prison and finds her three-year-old son, who is living with her unstable mother, in bad circumstances. She is forced to find a way to enable a better future for him, while time is against her, she has to be back in prison at 6 pm.
Meeting Gorbachev is a biographical documentary film about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and the last leader of the Soviet Union. The film features three interviews between Herzog and Gorbachev, conducted over the span of six months.
The Mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau is suffering from an existential crisis. After 30 years in politics, he feels totally empty and devoid of ideas. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann for a nebulous job conjuring ideas at City Hall. Their interactions are our gateway into a lively, funny and touching exploration of the way we live now through the filter of two generations. A dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.
Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago, but he never stopped thinking about that country and culture. ““In Chile, when the Sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera is everywhere. But for the Chilean citizens, it is an unknown territory. After going North for Nostalgia for the Light and South for The Pearl Button, I now feel ready to shoot this immense spine to explore its mysteries, powerful revelations of Chile’s past and present history.” (Patricio Guzmán).
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) organizes X jubilee edition of the FAST FORWARD Human Rights Film Festival Montenegro 2019 in Podgorica, Berane and Kotor with the support of traditional media partners.
In the early 1990s, patriotic music played an important political role in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Aircrafts, tanks, bombs, automatic rifles, media and propaganda were the War weaponry of choice. Nevertheless, the loudest were the songs. Ones used them to describe the nightmares that befell them, others to…
Siniša Mesjak is an ambitious politician who gets involved into scandal. In order to keep him away from the public eye, the Prime Minister sends him to Trećić, an isolated Croatian island with no…
Regardless of whether you live in Zagreb, Podgorica, Sarajevo or Belgrade, the electricity you use in your home is mostly obtained by coal burning. More precisely – 70% of the used-up electricity is received from regional thermal power plants whose work is harmful to the nature and the health of people. For the European Union this is absolutely…
An incredible movie about the women who has been kept as slave in the heart of contemporary Europe. Director Bernadet Tuza Ritter accidentally heard about her when her ‘mistress’ Eta told her that she had a slave. She asked for permission to film her, and Eta allowed her for exchange of 300 euros per month. Marish, a 52-year-old Hungarian woman has been serving a family for a decade, working 20 hours a day, without…
Film about truth and lies or ‘alternative facts’. ‘Waldheim no, Waldheim no’ shouts a crowd in the center of Vienna in 1986. Ruth Beckermann was one of the activists trying to prevent the…
German troops are close to Paris. Georg escapes to Marseille in the last moment. His luggage contains the legacy of a writer named Weidel, who took his own life out of fear of persecution. This legacy comprises a manuscript, some letters and the Mexican Embassy’s assurance of a visa. Taking over the Weidel’s identity, Georg tries to…
At a homeless center in New York, the documentary filmmakers happen upon Bikini Moon Davis who seeks for help and shelter. With big, lively eyes and broad smile, Bikini is provocative, adventurous and dynamic, but obviously in…
Sule is a Bosnian poet and artist who has been living in London for 40 years. Unsatisfied with his life there, he projects all his troubles on his immigrant destiny, wallowing in idyllic memories of his beloved Banja Luka. Stuck in a rut, Sule gets one last chance to…
