The film—we could watch it at Liffe festival as part of its Perspectives section—received the best debut award in the International Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival.
Our Mothers Nuestras madres
Guatemala, 2018. All the country's attention is focused on a trial against the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victims give testimonies. Young forensic anthropologist Ernesto has the task of identifying the missing people. One day, while listening to an old woman's testimony, he suspects he might have caught the trail of his father, a member of the guerrilla, who had disappeared during the war...
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Once Upon a Time in Soča Valley Nekoč v Posočju
Ema Kugler
Friday, 04. 04. 2025 / 16:15 / Main Hall
A poetic documentary about the old faith in the Soča Valley, passed down orally from generation to generation.
No Other Land No Other Land
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Friday, 04. 04. 2025 / 17:15 / Small Hall
Palestinian activist Basel Adra has been documenting for years how Israeli occupiers destroy villages in his home region of Masafer Yatta. While fighting to preserve his community, he forms an unexpected alliance with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham…
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Intercepted Intercepted
Oksana Karpovič
Friday, 04. 04. 2025 / 18:15 / Main Hall
Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of phone calls Russian soldiers made from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia, painting a stark picture of the cruelty of war in a dizzying emotional tension. Juxtaposed with images of the destruction caused by the invasion, the voices of the Russian soldiers – ranging from being filled with heroic illusions to complete disappointment and loss of reason, from looting to committing more horrible war crimes, from propaganda to doubt and disillusionment – expose the whole scope of the dehumanizing power.