Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre...
During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre...
It’s autumn. We see a huge sprawling conurbation of tower blocks built in the Soviet era – the neighbourhood called Lasnamäe. Mati is a young writer who lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment after his wife left him for his friend.
When the aliens land on Earth, they will change the lives of everyone they meet. Sirje and Maret, dreaming of finding work abroad, end up in an extraterrestrial science experiment. Jüri, still living with his mother, falls in love with his lustful neighbour, Gertrud.
Martial law, which was imposed in Poland on 13 December 1981, targeted the Solidarity movement, but it had other faces, too. On the basis of exclusively archival footage, the film questions the mythicised image of Polish society as a victim of the system...
In 1933, in times of hardship when nothing is certain and love only seems to exist in films, optimistic cinephile Irma believes in the possibility of true love. The country girl catches the eye of the lonely, handsome older publisher Rudolf, but he is surrounded by unsettling rumors.
A street in downtown Warsaw, Poland. Arjun Talwar immigrated here a decade ago from India but still struggles to fit in. „Wolf Street” hasn’t made it easy for him.
Preceded by the short film Sauna Day (dir. Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash)
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children.
Aurora, the daughter of a religious leader, travels with her husband Joonas to celebrate their wedding anniversary with her parents and the congregation.