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Eastern European Films

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1944

1944

WW2 IN 1944, the bloodiest battle on the Eastern Front, not Germans, not Russians but small nations forced to fight for survival.

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A Call Girl

A Call Girl

Working as a prostitute, Alexandra's life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility.

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Afterimage

Afterimage

A story of a well-known Polish avant-garde painter who opposed the Stalinist social realistic styleand maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

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Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky

Sergei Eisenstein's landmark tale of Russia thwarting the German invasion of the 13th century.

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Art Talent Show

Art Talent Show

Every year, the talent admissions exams held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague decide which students earn a spot at the prestigious institution.

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As If I Am Not There

As If I Am Not There

After just moving to Sarajevo, a young woman is imprisoned in a Bosnian war camp.

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Bad Roads

Bad Roads

Four stories transpire along the byways of Eastern Ukraine during wartime. Here, those trapped in the chaos face the grim reality that surrounds them.

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Blizzard of Souls

Blizzard of Souls

Blizzard of Souls pays stark witness to the horrors and brutality of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of an innocent 17-year-old farm-boy turned soldier.

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Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi

After his release from juvenile prison, Daniel is sent to a small village to work as a manual laborer, but a quick lie has him mistaken for a priest.

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Day and Night

Day and Night

An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them

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Donbass

Donbass

In the Ukrainian Donbass, a hybrid war takes place, involving armed conflict alongside killings and robberies perpetrated by Russian separatist gangs.

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Fear

Fear

A strong-willed Bulgarian widow encounters an African refugee who inspires her to make life-changing choices, setting off a revolt in her village.

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Freedom's Fury

Freedom's Fury

Hungary’s 1956 Revolution was crushed by Soviet tanks and guns. Two weeks later at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian and Soviet water polo teams would meet in a showdown that is known as "the Bl...

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Glory

Glory

A good deed and a missing wristwatch morally entangle the lives of a humble railroad linesman and a workaholic public relations executive.

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Her Body

Her Body

The true story of an Olympic high diver who suffers a career-ending injury and reinvents herself as an adult actress, becoming a top porn star.

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In the Name of

In the Name of

A Catholic priest in rural Poland must face the truth of his own sexuality when he meets an intriguing young local.

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In The Rearview

In The Rearview

In a volunteer aid van occupied by multiple generations of civilians, an authentic and intimate observation of the war in Ukraine unfolds.

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Iron Curtain Collection

Iron Curtain Collection

The Iron Curtain Collection explores the profundity of the Cold War and its far-reaching effects on Eastern Europe.

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Karl Marx City

Karl Marx City

Petra Epperlein returns to what was the East Germany of her childhood to uncover the truth about her father’s suicide and his rumored Stasi past.

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Line 41

Line 41

LINE 41 documents a Holocaust and Lodz Ghetto survivor's return back to today's Lodz (Poland)

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Love Me

Love Me

Sasha is an attractive young Ukranian woman who finally decides to end her dead-end relationship with a married man. Cemal, bound by tradition to marry a girl he's never met, is dragged by his uncle a...

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Mellow Mud

Mellow Mud

After the death of their father, Raya and her younger brother Robis set-off to find their biological mother after she abandoned them.

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Minkowski Saga

Minkowski Saga

Opera conductor Marc Minkowski uncovers his family's buried legacy amongst Warsaw's high society.

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Miracle

Miracle

When a young woman sneaks away from her convent and fails to return, a determined detective uncovers clues that reveal an unfathomable truth.

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Nina

Nina

NINA is a LGBTQ debut feature, painting a sensitive portrait of a strong yet confused woman trapped in her role as a wife and daughter.

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October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Eisenstein's classic film about the Russian revolution.

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Poppy Field

Poppy Field

A gay police officer in Romania is sent to quell a disruption at a queer film screening. As tensions mount, events threaten to expose his sexuality.

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Reflection

Reflection

Serhiy, a Ukrainian surgeon, is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone and exposed to scenes of horrifying violence.

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Servants

Servants

Two students of a theological seminary in cold war Czechoslovakia must decide if they will collaborate or attempt to resist the secret police.

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Shtetlers

Shtetlers

For several centuries in the former Soviet Union, the small towns known as shtetls were home to the largest Jewish population in the world.

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The Chambermaid

The Chambermaid

Just before the World War I., the poor 15-year-old Anka arrives from a small Slovak town to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family.

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The Chronicles of Melanie

The Chronicles of Melanie

The Earth is Blue as an Orange

The Earth is Blue as an Orange

To cope with the trauma of living in an Eastern Ukraine combat zone, Anna and her four children make a film about their experience of life during war.

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The Lesson

The Lesson

A school teacher's morality is turned upside down when she takes drastic measures to stop the foreclosure of her home.

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The Way I Spent the End of the World

The Way I Spent the End of the World

In communist era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom as a group of young children devise a plan to kill their dictator.

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Ukrainian Conflict Collection

Ukrainian Conflict Collection

This collection of new, critically-acclaimed Ukrainian films depicts the experience of Ukrainians in the Donbass.

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Unidentified

Unidentified

Detective Florin Iespas relentlessly pursues a suspect he insists must be guilty and resorts to increasingly desperate measures to find justice.

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Watchtower

Watchtower

A troubled young hostess is rescued from a shocking calamity by a fire warden fighting demons of his own.

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Winter Flies

Winter Flies

Two mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery.

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Within the Whirlwind

Within the Whirlwind

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the c...

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