Program Cinema Muzeul Țăranului - Studioul Horia Bernea

Directed by: Kinshuk Surjan Documentary – Belgium, Netherlands, India – 2024 – 108 min Section: Exist to Resist Intent on providing a better life for herself and her children after her farmer-husband’s suicide, Sanjivani struggles against her culture’s traditional abandonment of widows, until she joins a discussion group with other farmer-suicide widows....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: Igor Bezinović Documentary – Croatia – 2012 – 93 min Section: Extended Dialogues “The Blockade” is a unique view from within on the most massive, longest, and politically most significant student protest in the country, since 1971, that started in April of 2009 at the Faculty of humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb....See more details

Short film screening with the work of the three directors selected in the Emerging Voices program of One World Romania 18, followed by an open talk on how to grow as a filmmaker interested in human rights in an increasingly precarious industry

Directed by: Various directors Newsreels – Romania – 1940-1945 – 55 min Section: Extended Dialogues This past winter, one of the most searched for words in the Romanian online dictionary was „legionary”. In order to contribute to satisfying this curiosity and to add images and faces to maybe too abstract definitions, we’ve decided to put together a programme of newsreels owned by The Nation Film Archive from the years 1940-1945....See more details

Directed by: Mihai Dragolea, Radu Mocanu Documentary – Romania – 2025 – 84 min Section: Extended Dialogues Two filmmakers follow a businessman turned eco-activist as he exposes Romania's timber mafia. Their journey takes a dramatic turn when, in the middle of a forest, the three are attacked by a group of 12 angry men....See more details

RESISTANCE, WHY? Directed by: Christian Ghazi Documentary – Lebanon – 1971 – 58 min Section: Extended Dialogues In 1970, at the initiative of Soraya Antonius (Fifth of June Society), Christian Ghazi and Noureddine Chatti met with a number of Arab political figures, especially Palestinians residing in Lebanon....See more details

THE DIARY OF A SKY Directed by: Lawrence Abu Hamdan Documentary – Lebanon – 2024 – 44 min Section: Reverberations “The Diary of a Sky” unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts....See more details

THE SHARDS Directed by: Masha Chernaya Documentary – Georgia, Germany – 2024 – 90 min Section: Exist to Resist Masha films a mosaic chronicle of Russia since the start of war in Ukraine and her personal story in this context to cope with the mutating reality. Her mother dies of cancer and her lover escapes the conscription, while the country is aggressively militarizing and the underground scene of youngsters who don't support the regime newly blossoms in response to this....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.