Cinema Europe

Current anthropological anima-doc focusing on the world’s cultural heritage, one of the most “vital” and tangible outputs – the cemetery architecture. Film attempts to capture everything related to the traditions of commemorating the deceased in Europe over the past 5,000 years and creates a pseudo-life with the help of the magic of anima technique hyperlapse.

Portabella is putting forward the second part of one of his historic works, the “General report on certain matters of interest for a public screening”, which peeked out in 1976 at the start of the political transition process after Franco’s death. This second “Report” is made in the context of a severe systemic crisis in the cultural, economic-financial, political and energy fields. Above all, it nevertheless bears witness to the way civil society is coming out of this crisis with a new prominence, consisting quite simply in ordinary people’s recovering politics.

A stunning four-part series, charting the dramatic events which have shaped the ever-changing landscapes and wildlife of Europe.

A narrative documentary series on Czech Baroque landscape and monuments from unusual angles.

Unique women. Women gamers. Women who escape to other planets. Heroines. Astronauts Shall we play Europe II?

People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and “European” rules.

Somewhere in Europe... Nightime. A woman and two men in a van making its way through a maze of highways. The woman looks into the darkness, and then at the traffic that's getting denser. The two men take her into a rundown building. The woman is assaulted. The van is parked near a highway, and there are now three women and two men inside. They wait. A car pulls up. A man and a woman get out... One of the women from the van tries to escape... They grab hold of her. The two vehicles leave, and are lost in the night.

Ambiental documentary short, takes a closer, deeper look at the wild parties on the central beach in Split, Croatia, that started to take place every night after the clubs close. The filming took place over several nights, all summed up to six minutes to see glimpses of a giant party of young tourists with no control or authority (the film took place before the police started to make the parties a bit more orderly). Feelings of repetition until decline comes to the forefront as every single party, like a wave on the beach, happens in the same fashion, over and over again while the 'wave' becomes quieter with each stroke.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

How do you film a minority that prefers to stay invisible, when you belong to the majority? Andreas Müller and Simon Guy Fässler travelled with the Yenish for six years—all over Europe and as far as the Grisons—faithfully and empathetically filming this freedom-loving nomadic community who bear the wounds of the past.

Road trip through the periphery of the EU shows present-day Europe through the eyes of a much-travelled six-year-old, wise beyond his years. A fresh look at this old continent: shooting from the hip and free from sentimentality, young Terra questions the usefulness and purpose of borders.

Pekka Jalkanen, a Finnish modern music composer, begins to compose his Russian Concerto – a concerto of longing for home – in his childhood’s home, near Russian border. At the same time, his mind makes a trip to Mother Russia and to Balkans to collect materials for his upcoming work. Analysing reasons for economical and cultural chaos in the new united Europe, the composer finally arrives at the tomb of Andrei Tarkovsky, a Russian master of world’s cinema, near Paris, to respect the memory of the auteur who spoke about longing in his films.

The film is set in Europe and depicts the love between a Japanese photographer and a princess from one of the European countries.

"Letters from Europe" brings to light the words of men and women who gave their lives resisting the Nazi and fascist conquest from 1939 to '45 across the European continent. The moving goodbyes penned by a few of those sentenced to death are sometimes true spiritual testaments that explore the meaning of civic responsibility, human existence, fraternity, and life and death. Their words, which the film mingles with footage of the present day, can perhaps restore meaning to a humanist ideal and to the ever-changing idea of a united Europe.

In Italy and Germany, numerous people die in bomb attacks in the 1960s to 1980s. Clues prove certain connections, the traces lead to a secret structure called "Gladio".

This documentary follows Danish prime minister Anders Fogn Rasmussen in the fall of 2002, during Denmark's Presidency of the Council of the European Union. He negotiates the expansion of the EU in Eastern Europe.

Questions the myths and unravels age-old clichés about ancient cultures.