Films 2020

"A marathon is a long journey", says the Kenyan runner Visiline Jepkesho. Like every runner in the east African nation, success brings with it the burden of responsibility. Running is a way out of…

War, pandemics, or famine: All over the world, people working in humanitarian aid are used to extreme situations and potentially lethal danger. SELFISH interviews forty men and women. They give…

China, long plagued by smog has declared war “for the defense of the blue sky”. SMOG TOWN shows the battle underway in one of its most air-polluted cities, Langfang. At the local environmental…

Photographer and activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi prioritizes his family, country, and God, but not in that order. Determined to see an end to political corruption and the British imposed colonial…

A growing group of young adults in the Democratic Republic of Congo are resisting the western one-sided reporting of their country: stereotypical images of war, violence, and poverty. Three young…

Ukraine is at war and 12-year-old Jastrip dreams of being a sniper. He meets Jasmin at a paramilitary summer camp. The kids are taught to be patriots and to fight for their country. Jasmin, in…

In 2017, twenty-five years after the war, a mass grave is discovered in a pine forest in the north of Bosnia. Darija Vujinovic visits families awaiting the identification of their missing persons…

Single mother Anna and her four children live on the front-line in Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world consists of bombings and chaos, the family manages to keep their home a safe haven, full of…

Akbar, Hakim, Mohammad, and Suri are descendants of Afghan immigrants in Iran. During the day, they work in their parents’ shops, but at night they escape into their own world: rock music. In a small…