Films A-Z

Earthlings, Who Are You Voting For?

Pozemšťané, koho budete volit?
Linda Jablonská / Czech Republic / 2010 / 40 min.

Paroubek, who are you voting for? shouts Aleš Koudela at the now former chairman of the Czech Social Democrats during a party meeting in the town of Litoměřice. Koudela is a member of Inventura (Inventory), a group which supports arts and journalism projects by people who are mentally handicapped. ...

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement
Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir / USA / 2009 / 61 min.

Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer met in New York in 1966. They started going out with one another and have been a couple ever since. Thea is the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Netherlands who fled to England in 1939 before the Holocaust. Thea has no memories of her mother, because she died when she was ...

El Sicario - Room 164

El Sicario - Room 164
Gianfranco Rosi / France, Italy / 2010 / 84 min.

El Sicario is a specialist in kidnappings, torture, and contract killings. For a number of years, he was a unit commander with the Mexican state police and he even completed training with the FBI. While working for Mexican drugs cartels over the course of 20 years, he has killed hundreds of people, ...

Emergency Shelter

Yingji Binan Changsuo
He Yang / China / 2010 / 51 min.

In 2001, when China celebrated Beijing's successful candidacy for the 2008 Olympic Games, Ni Yulan worked as a business lawyer for a large commercial corporation. The celebratory songs in the streets of the capital city had barely died out before they were replaced by the sound of wrecking balls. Buildings ...

Ex-mother

Ex-moeder
Nadine Kuipers / Netherlands / 2010 / 55 min.

The roles of parents and children can sometimes be reversed, as demonstrated by Dutch director Nadine Kuipers in her documentary. This film student and former model grew up with her father and his parents, because her mother couldn't kick her drug habit. Nadine did not re-establish contact with her ...

Eyes of a Tiger

Oči tygra
Jana Počtová / Czech Republic / 2011 / 41 min.

It's better to go boxing than to be bored at home or to just hang around the streets, says one secondary school student from the Prague district of Žižkov, explaining why he visits the local gym several times a week. The Oči tygra ("Eyes of a Tiger") boxing club was opened years ago by the former ...