Eastern europe

When Victor returns to his Bulgarian home village, a summer romance blossoms between two young men from different worlds.

Between stigma, depression, and role models, women fight for dignity, closeness, and truth—courageous, angry, and full of resilience.

In Austria, more than 60,000 people from Eastern Europe work in the care sector. You don't see them and you don't know them, but they are there.

In a war-torn city, a story of courage and heroism unfolds that profoundly shapes the lives of those involved.

An unembellished look at the depths of human desires – intense, uncomfortable and deeply impressive.

An ex-investigator of the Hague Tribunal searches for justice in the Balkans. He shows his mission and its influence on the collective memory.

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a touching story of reconciliation takes place between a young German and a concentration camp survivor.

Olga, who is grieving for her mother and also anorexic, is sent to a psychiatrist who is dealing with her own losses in an unusual way.

A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.

To document the imment conflict in eastern Ukraine, photographer Pierre Crom traveled to the Donbass in 2014.

A gripping, thrilling drama-thriller with captivating cinematography about Stalin's political purges in 1938.

Before the war, one of Kyiv's hottest subject was one of Trump’s cronies turning a masterpiece concert hall into a shopping mall.

A gripping film by Ukraine's Maryna Er Gorbach about the tragic events of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.

The threat of being outed causes an explosion of violence: Cristi, a gay Romanian policeman lives under the threat of being outed against his will.

After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.

A touching portrayal of seventeen-year-old Ieva and her ex-alcoholic father’s attempt at rebuilding their tenuous relationship.

Haunting anti-war parable about collaboration in the Nazi-occupied Baltics, based on the controversial work of author Rūta Vanagaitė.

After a stroke of fate, a manager escapes his former live to a magical place, rich in ancient customs, at the Danube delta.

This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.

This black and white film portrays the life and stories of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, combining elements of fiction and documentary.

In the basement of the never completed Museum of the Revolution, Belgrade dwell the outcasts of a society that is being transformed by capitalism.

The powerful and inspiring story of a transgender teenager and his family in Orbán's Hungary.

An adeptly played debut in which a yearning for paternal affection plays out against a background of teenage sexual manipulation.

After the Maidan protests in Kyiv ended, "the revolution's objects started a second life" ... in museums

Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.

An exceptionally candid Belarusian film about three teenagers who are confronted with prejudice from their peers and adults.

After his lover's death, a rock singer studies the art of lucid dreaming and descends into a netherworld in hopes of being together again.

Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.

This episode film explores Russia's state of mind, which is characterized by disorientation, in a dystopian vision of the future.

After winning a highly charged case, a lawyer is found seriously injured on the side of the road.

When two estranged half-sisters are forced to move in together, they must confront their shared past and decades of pent-up resentment.

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, a family lives in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until being chased out.

Childhood soul mates Leni and Lazar are reunited after being separated for years. They spontaneously decide to take a bike trip across northern Serbia

Three portraits about the fate of Eastern European migrant workers who have come to Germany in search of prospects.

This impressive debut from Dutch filmmaker Rosanne Pel examines manipulative sexual abuse among teenagers from the perpetrator’s point of view.

Before the invasion of 2022 in the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two people challenge the new regime.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

This tale of two drifting souls who meet in the most unusual and ambiguous circumstances will capture your heart.

A sheltered teenager rebels against the strict rules, religious beliefs, and conniving classmates at his Catholic boarding school.

The story of an orphan with albinism is told in an unusual blend of neorealism and magical realism.

Shot on Super 8mm, Bernadette Weigel's homage to traveling celebrates the uniqueness of each moment.

10-year-old Valentina lives in a rundown one-room shack with her family of 12. A loving, unsparing and touching family portrait.

Eastern European truck drivers are the backbone of German trucking companies and take high risks because of the enormous deadline pressure.

Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

In the Czech capital, the chav Vandam rises up against capitalism, gentrification and the closure of his local pub.

After a night in jail, April returns to the basement of the luxury hotel where she, along with other women, works as a sex worker.

A tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.

On the picturesque shores of Lake Prespa, in the tri-border area of Albania, northern Macedonia and Greece, drug smugglers fight for supremacy.

Gripping legal drama about injustice and corruption, filmed in the style of Eastern European social realism.

A snapshot of the multifaceted life in the megapolis Moscow, with the focus on lesbians and gays who take to the streets for their rights.

To avoid homelessness, a mother resorts to extreme measures in this accomplished and touching and subtle drama.

The black-humored comedy about an inept theater troupe united only by their love of Westerns was Croatia's Oscar contender.

Tour guide Hurtig has to take over a Black Sea trip head over heels. In addition to a lack of foreign language skills, there is also Sybille.

During the melon harvest in the rolling green hills of Moldova, 15-year-old Anishoara experiences the overwhelming feeling of first love.

Juliane Ebner embarks on a very personal search for traces of the war in former Yugoslavia. A film about us, our neighbors, neglect and the aftermath.

A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.

Ivette Löcker accompanies two addicted St. Petersburgers in her documentary chamber play.

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

Monika and Toník live next to a steel mill under a roof full of holes. The two dream of a future elsewhere and seem blind to the happiness on their own ...

Petr gets to know Marie, a young widow and farmer. In the sun-drenched fields of Bohemia, a deep friendship develops between them, but Marie hopes for ...

In the usually grueling everyday life of Moscow, a city of millions, ambulance driver Oleg tries to preserve a remnant of humanity.

A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija. Belgrade's cityscape is still haunted by the Hotel like a mirror held up to a Serbia ...

The coming-of-age drama by Michal Rogalski tells how everyday life in the WW2 grey zone between normality and terror looked like...

World War II, somewhere in Eastern Europe. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or they will be ...

This film is the personal story of three generations of a family: grandmother, father and daughter - doctor, psychoanalyst and filmmaker.

A Buddhist high school for Roma youngsters in Hungary? A school experiment that seeks to overcome exclusion through education and spirituality.

Anja and Serjoscha, young adults, live in Mariupol, a city in southeastern Ukraine, which was conquered by separatists in April 2014.

Top-class arthouse film from Bulgaria. An unsparing document about despair and guilt - visually stunning and impressive.

In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

This black comedy tells the story of 35-year-old teacher and unsuccessful writer Ovidiu, in post-Ceausescu Romania.

The honey producer and industrial magnate N. becomes an ecoterrorist after a reawakening experience.

Three wacky slacker guys open a pizzeria in Slovenia's capital. To grow their business, they offer to make a wish come true for every ordered pizza.

Radu is a journalist, who sees his chance to land a big scoop in an international scandal involving an underage prostitute and human trafficking.

Documentary about an age-old Albanian custom that lets women change their social gender by taking the oath of a “sworn virgin”.

A story about sensitive seventeen-year-old Lena whose enchanted teenage world is shattered by a horrific event.

The organizers of the Pride Parade in Belgrade find unexpected allies in the criminal milieu.

A portrait of the music collector couple Marcel and Catherine Cellier, who already documented the music of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

The gay movement fought its way from the margins to the center of society. What battles still need to be waged?

Follow the mummified former Yugoslavian leader Tito as a guide to alternative culture in the post-Yugoslavian region.

Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins.

An essayistic story about the last century of Soviet and post-Soviet electronic music - from Leon Theremin to Putin's Russia.

In order to feed his family, the young Kirghiz Alisher enters into a slavery-like working relationship.

A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.

A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.

A bus trip in the Balkans becomes a microcosm that captures the simmering conflicts in the region.

A little lie can have big consequences... huge, monstrous, unimaginable consequences. Inspired by a true story.

One of Europe's strangest borders lies between the Republic of Moldova and the de facto autonomous region of Transnistria.

Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Tali Tiller embarks on an emotional search for traces of her grandmother in Lodz, Poland.

A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.

This film reconstructs the rarely told story of the women involved in Polish Solidarność.

German-Polish culture clash. A German baker and Polish grand star Grazyna Szapolowska in a battle for the affections of his granddaughter, living Poland. Baker ...