Program Cinema Union

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: Ioana Grigore Documentary – Romania – 2024 – 70 min Section: Friends of OWR Leo Records is a symbol of musical resistance against authoritarian regimes and a pioneer of what we now know as avant-garde. It is the story of a man who single-handedly liberated an entire generation of illegal artists, musical misfits and Leningrad cowboys....See more details

Directed by: Tudor Platon Documentary – Romania – 2024 – 88 min Section: Friends of OWR After 30 years of marriage, my parents announced me they were separating. In the midst of this painful process, I was falling in love and starting my own family. The film explores the different shapes that love can take between parents and children and children who become parents....See more details

Directed by: Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc Documentary – Romania, Germany, Netherlands – 2024 – 82 min Section: Friends of OWR Filmed across Italy, Moldova, and Romania, Tata is a raw portrait of a family locked in a relentless struggle against toxic masculinity and the tale of a daughter’s poignant quest to break the cycle for herself, the next generation, and even for the one who hurt her.

MEN OF THE CITY Directed by: Marc Isaacs Documentary – United Kingdom – 2009 – 58 min Section: Focus Marc Isaacs Marc Isaacs chronicles the fate of several Londoners from various social classes during the current economic crisis. The film focuses on four main characters, ranging from a high-end hedge fund manager who loses his family due to his compulsive monitoring of events on the financial markets, to a spiritually oriented street sweeper seeking peace....See more details

Directed by: Zvika Gregory Portnoy, Zuzanna Solakiewicz Documentary – Poland, Qatar – 2024 – 78 min Section: Exist to Resist In 2021, the border area between Poland and Belarus became a forbidden zone, three kilometers wide, where refugees found themselves brutally trapped. Maciek lives with his family on the Polish side of the border....See more details

Directed by: Marc Isaacs Documentary – United Kingdom – 2020 – 75 min Section: Focus Marc Isaacs When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting in his home with a cast of characters connected to his own life....See more details

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: 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: 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