Feature Length Docs

An 87 year-old Italian, now retired in the USA, looks back on his long life. Wartime memories trigger recollections of his inconvenient past as a child soldier in the ranks of one the most violent fascist militias and a revelation concerning Mussolini's lost treasure. ...

Critically-acclaimed filmmaker Marc Isaacs paints a rich portrait of multicultural life in the UK by looking at the lives of immigrants living along the A5, one of Britain's longest and oldest roads. Stretching from London to the Welsh coast, the road has always been an important lifeline for new ém...

Ala’a Hassan, Samer, Tasneem and Waed are third-generation Palestinian refugees living in the Syrian camp of Yarmouk Shot over the course of three years, just before the war broke out, the film brings us affectingly close to the group as it approaches adulthood and negotiates difficult choices with ...

Dima was killed on the 23rd of May 2013 at the age of 21. Enlisted in the Russian army, he was shot in the head during a military operation in Dagestan. His parents face the void following his death, whilst the army continues to train young soldiers for future missions. The two universes intertwine ...

As the symbol of authentic, preserved wild nature, forests are undergoing an unprecedented phase of industrialization.  Heavy mechanization, monoculture, fertilizers and pesticides, loss of traditional know-how,  forest management... all follow the intensive agricultural model at an accelerated ryth...

When Lori, a young Chinese filmmaker, arrives in the small English village of Thaxted, she discovers it’s a place where the dead surround the living and the border between the two is easily crossed. Lori is introduced to the village church and she becomes fascinated with long dead Socialist Vicar, C...

“When I file a complaint against the former priest Olivier, I compulsively pick up the camera. I've forgotten everything about my childhood, and my parents are entangled in denial. I didn't expect the procedure to take so long. Above all, I never thought I'd ask myself one day: what happened to my b...

"Togoland Projections" takes us to the territory of the former German colony of Togo. We follow the film expedition of director Hans Schomburgk who shot documentary and adventure films there in 1913-1914. At each stage of our journey, we show his films to today's Togolese public and question Togo's ...

Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will one day reconnect with his conscience ?...

In the CHUV training center in Lausanne, «fake» patients and «real» carers simulate medical consultations, to learn how to perform kindness. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible? ...