Projects 2025

A student moves to Glasgow to study the history of sexual shame, only to discover their new home is haunted. A chance encounter with a woman who knows its buried secrets draws them into the past—and together, they must confront the ghosts that refuse to rest.

In one of North Macedonia’s toughest neighbourhoods, 14-year-old Sadije is the only girl in her wrestling club and raised as her family’s son - expected to lead in a household with no boys. As she becomes a champion, she must find her own path through her transformation into a young matriarch.

A young amputee cyclist and his underdog team of bike racers chase their dream of representing Palestine on the world stage, but their six-year mission becomes a matter of life or death as bombs descend on Gaza.

A documentary musical following Palestinian pop artist Bashar Murad as he campaigns to bring Palestine to the Eurovision Song Contest.

As Europe races to secure lithium for its green transition, a filmmaker returns to his mining hometown and follows three characters across France, Portugal, and Serbia, revealing how this new mining boom echoes the coal era's promises and scars, while communities fight to protect their lands.

Peasants and Indigenous communities unite to defend their territories in Serbia and Chile against lithium mining for the energy transition. Spoiler: They win…but how long will those victories last?

When war becomes the new normal, will we see it coming?

It's either about you, or your mother.

50 METERS FROM THE ROAD is a hybrid documentary about Pasvik Valley in Northern Norway and its mythopoetic echoes in the digital realm. It documents the deep ancient forests and wetlands as well as the historic remnants of its fiercely embattled environment in both analogue and digital landscapes. Through this, it invites the audience to reflect on material culture and ecological memory-making.

A hybrid documentary, an adaptation of the bestselling Polish reportage on Adult Children Alcoholics, follows confessions of five people who had to be adults as children, and remain children as adults.

In Istanbul, an independent radio station resists closure by the government after 30 years. As the final broadcast approaches, programmers, volunteers, and listeners come together to carry the radio's voice beyond the frequencies.

Between worlds that reject them, a nonconformist photographer and a refugee bartender find sanctuary in Bologna's Deaf bar, where their stories reveal that true silence isn't the absence of sound—but the lack of understanding.

Driven by her past, Greek human rights lawyer Natasha defends refugees in politically explosive cases at Europe’s borders. As hostility to human rights grows, the fight for justice begins to drain her strength — and she fears how long she can keep going.

In a land scarred each summer by wildfire, a whole community struggles to prevent the next blaze. Among them, a man tenderly nurtures the trunk of a thousand-year-old tree until a fragile leaf appears from its blackened roots, a quiet miracle that reveals the enduring resilience of nature.

A science-based interactive documentary uncovering how creative hubs breathe new life into rural communities—through the voices of those who dare to blend tradition, creativity, and hope, while inviting us to rediscover our own sense of home and possibilities in times of change.

After half a century in hiding, a queer couple fights for recognition in a post-Soviet society, knowing that every moment could be their last together.

Surrounded by walls that have ears and a voice, soldiers confront the psychological impacts of war through unorthodox therapies and evidence-based medicine in a brief sanctuary before returning to the frontlines.

In an age of geopolitical uncertainty, The Refuge is a poetic, character-driven documentary that explores humanity’s deep-rooted fear and search for security. Traveling through bunkers and bomb shelters, the film asks a haunting question: In times of crisis, what would I do?