Program One World Romania #18

Directed by: Farah Kassem Documentary – Lebanon, Qatar, Denmark – 2024 – 180 min Section: Dialogues After more than a decade, Farah returns to her hometown Tripoli in Lebanon to live with her widowed aging father, Mustapha. Their generational differences often lead to clashing perspectives on the country’s political instability, making it difficult to communicate with each other....See more details

Directed by: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor Documentary – Palestine, Norway – 2024 – 96 min Section: Exist to Resist Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood....See more details

Directed by: Igor Bezinović Documentary – Croatia, Italy, Slovenia – 2025 – 112 min Section: Reverberations In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey.

Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa Documentary – Netherlands, France, USA – 2024 – 145 min Section: Exist to Resist Ten years after the release of his epic film “Maidan,” Sergei Loznitsa resumes his Ukrainian chronicles by documenting the country’s struggle against the Russian invasion....See more details

120 min Section: Focus Marc Isaacs One World Romania concludes its four-day focus on the films of Marc Isaacs by inviting audiences to further explore their understanding of his cinema – whose clarity of form, genuine encounters, modest perspectives belie a complex process of construction and intervention....See more details

Directed by: Sean McAllister  Documentary – UK – 2015 – 76 min Section: Dialogues Comrades and lovers Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. When McAllister first meets their family in 2009, Raghda is back in prison leaving Amer to look after their 4 boys alone; but as the ‘Arab Spring’ sweeps the region, the family’s fate shifts irrevocably....See more details

Directed by: Matteo Severi Documentary – France – 2024 – 88 min Section: Exist to Resist The Citroën factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois suffered its first strike in 1982. It mainly employed immigrant workers in dire conditions. 30 years later, little has changed, as a new generation takes up the struggle....See more details

Directed by: Mitch McCabe  Documentary – USA – 2024 – 78 min Section: Dialogues Part verité essay, part political diary, ”23 Mile” follows Americans during cataclysmic events in the swing state of Michigan throughout 2020 (including a plot to kidnap the governor), painting a complex portrait that defies media stereotypes, while forcing viewers to question their own assumptions about race, class, social status and geographical demographics.

Directed by: Myrid Carten Documentary – Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands – 2024 – 81 min Section: Dialogues When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself....See more details

Directed by: Ana Rieper Documentary – Brazil – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations A documentary about the legacies of the Brazilian colonial condition present today in people’s daily life. With a musical narrative, and using archival footage of different natures, the film proposes a restless journey through relationships forged by the ownership of land and people....See more details