Motherland

Hong Kong war film.

The university student Bobchev joins a youth brigade. The commander's council entrust Bobchev with a literacy course for members of the brigade. Velizarov and Monkata arrive in the camp to carry out sabotage. They place explosives on the dam, and attempt to win Bobchev over by means of intrigue. There is a storm: the camp is put on the alert. Everyone joins the rescue work at the dam. After a long struggle with Velizarov, Bobchev cuts the burning fuse of the explosive. The dam does not yield to the pressure of the flood. Everymen sing in Jubilation.

Featuring actual correspondence between the filmmaker's father and the caretaker of his ancestral home on Hainan Island over the past 30 years, we take a glimpse into the life of a 65-year-old Hainan-born Singaporean retiree living in the bustling cityscape of Singapore, and the caretaker living in the tropical village of Qionghai, Hainan.

Fragments of a lifetime in a militant society.

Using Cuban cities as the backdrop to personal stories, the renowned documentary maker Vitaly Mansky depicts the complexity of contemporary Cuba. As the regime begins to slightly relax its iron grip, the island begins to slowly open up to the world. Despite the economic hardship, a life full of passion, temperament and energy still pulsates in Cuban cities. Food is rationed and decent living conditions is an illusion for many. The dreams of today’s senior citizens, who believed in Fidel and his communist experiment 50 years ago, have not been fully realized. Children of these revolutionaries still follow the ideals of the revolution but do not seem all that convinced. Instead young people prefer to enjoy small pleasures the regime allows for. While many Cubans look for life outside of Cuba, for tourists the island is for many reasons very special destination. Motherland or Death is the story of real life played out against the picturesque background of today’s Cuba.

Filmmaker Ben van Lieshout was inspired by the work from Sergei Prokoedin-Gorski (1863-1944), inventor of the color photography in Russia.

Soviet propaganda cartoon made shortly after the German invasion, promising victory against the fascist invaders.

Surreal philosophical animation from Russia

On the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet Byelorussia. The main heroine, the actual "daughter of the Motherland", is the chairman of the kolkhoz, and has detained eight trespassers. But the main enemy may be lurking from within the borders.

The film is about Russian emigration to Harbin and Shanghai and return to Russia. Who were these people, how and how did they end up in China, what obstacles and hardships had to be overcome? How did they manage to organize themselves and obtain Soviet citizenship, and, most importantly, how did their fate turn out at home? Did you manage to start life over again, take place and become a citizen useful for your country?

2021 has been declared a year of great revenge in Belarus. During this time, a plane was forcibly landed there, incredible sentences were handed down to Lukashenka's rivals in the elections; the practice of forced public apologies was introduced. As a result, a huge number of people have left the country.

A documentary film about Lund's student choir singers (LSS) and about the world of music and traditions associated with the choir.

A glimpse into Bengal's erased history.

The movie portrays the relationship between overseas Chinese and Singaporean Chinese through intricate love stories.

Early short film by Yang Fudong.

Having left their home country for almost 20 years, a mother, her son and her daughter reminisce of their days in Armenia and reflect on how radically different their life is now. They also discuss the current political state of the country in the midst of an ongoing war.

A Russian flag bearer in World War II questions his will to fight. With a Russian flag as his weapon, he charges into machine guns. As war engulfs him, he must ask himself why he continues to wave his flag.

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in this thought-provoking documentary filmed in the wake of the United States' invasion of the region. In a country where one in seven women dies during childbirth, many women are willing to travel for days to receive adequate care from a trained professional.