#Solidarity with Ukraine

With the unleashing of a conventional land war, it became frighteningly clear how thin the blanket of civilization is. The films in this channel deal with both recent Ukrainian history and the barbarity and cruelty that humans are capable of, especially in times of war, and should be understood as a warning.
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  • Signs of War

    Signs of War

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.20min

    16+

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


  • Klondike

    Klondike

    Drama, Action & Adventure

    2022

    1h.40min

    16+

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


  • Fortuna Valentyn

    Fortuna Valentyn

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.5min

    16+

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


  • Stop-Zemlia

    Stop-Zemlia

    Drama, Queer

    2022

    2h.2min

    12 FSK

    Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.


  • Museum Revolution

    Museum Revolution

    Documentary

    2014

    1h.16min

    16+

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


  • I Won't Go Anywhere

    I Won't Go Anywhere

    Drama

    2021

    52min

    16+

    This film sensitively shows how two war orphans, in the face of an inhumane policy of conquest and the loss of their home, support each other.


  • The Forgotten

    The Forgotten

    Drama

    2020

    1h.46min

    16+

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


  • 1986

    1986

    Drama

    2019

    1h.17min

    16+

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


  • Refugee

    Refugee

    Documentary, Independent

    2018

    1h.24min

    16+

    In 2015, at the height of the Syrian war, Raf’aa, a mother of two, made the journey alone to Germany to secure asylum for her family.


  • Objector

    Objector

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.16min

    16+

    Like all Israeli youths, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. But unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military.


  • You will never understand

    You will never understand

    Documentary, Independent

    2003

    52min

    16+

    Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.


  • Learning to Milk a Cow

    Learning to Milk a Cow

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.4min

    16+

    At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.


  • Mass Ornaments

    Mass Ornaments

    Icons & Media Art, Independent

    2013

    1h.19min

    16+

    This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.


  • Swimmers

    Swimmers

    Icons & Media Art, Independent

    2015

    1h.17min

    16+

    The doc about the cult surrounding a Soviet physicist Boris Zolotov was awarded the ARTE documentary award.


  • For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

    For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

    Drama

    2013

    1h.22min

    16+

    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.


  • East/West – Sex and Politics

    East/West – Sex and Politics

    Independent, Queer

    2008

    1h.35min

    12 FSK

    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.


  • Hope

    Hope

    Drama

    2014

    1h.33min

    16+

    On their flight from the Gulf of Guinea to the Moroccan coast, two people, despite or because of the omnipresent danger, find each other.


  • Thank You for Bombing

    Thank You for Bombing

    Drama

    2015

    1h.40min

    16 FSK

    Barbara Eder's impressive war drama shows the very unique world of war correspondents and their relationship to war.


  • When It Blinds, Open Your Eyes

    When It Blinds, Open Your Eyes

    Documentary, Independent

    2014

    1h.15min

    16+

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


  • The Peacekeepers and the Women

    The Peacekeepers and the Women

    Documentary, Independent

    2003

    1h.20min

    16+

    Militarization and prostitution: When peacekeeping troops moved into Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, trafficking in women quickly followed suit.


  • Frozen Conflict

    Frozen Conflict

    Documentary, Independent

    2018

    1h.0min

    16+

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


  • Free Speech Fear Free

    Free Speech Fear Free

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.20min

    6 FSK

    In this compelling documentary, Tarquin Ramsay asks just one question: What is the freedom of expression?


  • Evolution of Violence

    Evolution of Violence

    Documentary, Independent

    2011

    1h.16min

    16+

    Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer.