Ancient Lives

Depicts a year of tending the reindeer's and follows a family's move with the herd from the winter pasture in the Luleå archipelago, Sweden to the calving land in Badjelánnda (Padjelanta).

The challenges of immigration are exposed in this touching film where we follow a family who moves to Israel in 2006 from the Tunisian Island of Djerba.

Souls. Dreams. Past. Memories. What's left when nothing to touch and see remains. In the name of communist progress in 1971, Yugoslavia submerged a town on the bank of the river Danube. Building a hydroelectric dam was the most important goal, and the old town Donji Milanovac and its inhabitants were the obstacle that was standing in its way. No one believed Danube could be tamed and town submerged. Thousands of people lost their hometown, their roots were cut from them. The river's flow, species of fish and the local climate were changed forever. Their voices and feelings were never heard, they were subsumed by "progress". Five decades later, the sunken town is still alive in their dreams, memories, in their present life. The town became a ghost that haunts its inhabitants. Fifty years later the town has risen from the water.

Jeppe on a Friday follows the joys and struggles of 5 diverse people living in one Johannesburg neighbourhood. A collaborative, cinema-direct documentary, Jeppe on a Friday was shot by a team of South African women directors over the course of one day.

Amid the backdrop of a contentious presidential election, a health clinic in Southwest Houston is run by and for immigrants and refugees. A family from Iran is bound by love as they build a new home in the city's most diverse neighborhood.

Markku has schizophrenia and has lived in various mental care facilities over the last ten years. He feels abandoned by his older brother Lauri, who he partly blames for his illness. Lauri returns to Finland in the hope of gaining a better understanding of his brother's condition and to try and rebuild their relationship. He suggests they could film together, as they had often done in their childhood. Told through the eyes of the filmmaker, Markku and Me explores the impact of a mental health condition on the relationship between two brothers.