Selected Projects

Armenia, France

14,5 km Away From Our Dreams

director Lilit Mkhitaryan • producers Lilit Mkhitaryan, Ruzanna Ghazaryan • production company Hayadoc • co-production company Les Films d’Ici

Arthur, his two friends, a retired teacher and a taxi driver, all live in the Armenian-Turkish border village a mere 14.5 km from Mount Ararat, which currently belongs to Turkey. The boys share a common dream to climb the mountain. They all remain caught up in the anticipation of the decades-long closed border’s potential opening.

Poland

35 Letters

director Zuzanna Solakiewicz • producers Maria Krauss • production company Plesnar & Krauss Films

The discovery of 35 letters to a modelling agency in a folder "Do not reply" sparks a journey across Poland to find the authors – now middle-aged women. They confront their teen-aged dreams just as their own daughters enter adulthood. 35 girls wrote into the future; three decades later the film responds.

Estonia, Finland

Borderline

director Ville Seppänen, Johan Huimerind • producers Johan Huimerind • production company Dokfilm

At Europe's edge a fence goes up and the crossings close. The more Finland, Estonia and Russia control the visible borders, the more life escapes into the invisible. In ritual, in trance, in dreams the people of the borderlands keep travelling. No visa or passport is required on the other side.

Georgia, France

Concrete Grassland

director Shorena Tevzadze • producers Elene Margvelashvili, Adriana Ferrares • production company Parachute Films, Diafilm • co-production company Ceresa Film

A young couple in Tbilisi invests in an apartment that never gets built. As they raise their son, seasons shift, war comes and goes – a decade slips by in temporary homes, revealing a country where no one is held accountable.

Kyrgyzstan

Cords of Bliss

director Janyl Jusupjan • producers Janyl Jusupjan • production company Chagaldak Produciton

A filmmaker turns her camera on her hearing-impaired brother, a legendary Kyrgyz master of the ancient kyl-kyyak. As he prepares the next generation, the film becomes an unexpected journey toward healing decades of silence between them.

Lithuania, Poland

Encounters/Departures

director Vita Maria Drygas • producers Teresa Rožanovska • production company Ketvirta Versija • co-production company Drygas Film Production

A filmmaker disillusioned with documenting war tourism turns to the unfinished legacy of her grandfather, Vytautas Žalakevičius, seeking meaning through a cinematic dialogue across time.

Ukraine

Evening School

director Pylyp Dotsenko • producers Nadia Parfan, Diana Anikieieva • production company Phalanstery Films

A wounded soldier, a patient teacher, struggling students, and staff are all continuing their music routines while war reshapes their lives. The film observes daily life in an evening music school for adults in wartime Kyiv, where lessons continue despite blackouts, loss, and personal challenges.

Latvia, Estonia, Finland

Going Underground

director Armands Začs • producers Dārta Vijgrieze, Gints Grūbe • production company Mistrus Media • co-production company Allfilm, Making Movies

In a time of growing geopolitical tension, Going Underground follows young civil defence architect Veronika in Latvia whose work inspecting bomb shelters for a possible Russian invasion quietly feeds her own spiralling fear.

Ukraine, Czechia

Keepers of the City

director Ella Shtyka • producers Ella Shtyka • production company Indie Media Polis • co-production company Safe Place Production

Keepers of the City explores a community's attempt to create a new vision for their city – war-torn Kharkiv. An intimate and visual documentary where multiple storylines pulse in sync with the city and its local radio broadcasts.

Finland

Lunatics

director Saila Kivelä • producers Ida Karoskoski • production company Wacky Tie Films

Lunatics is a story about humanity driven mad by the Moon—men by its conquest, women by the rhythm of its monthly cycle.

Finland, Bulgaria

Mariana’s Lament

director Antti Haase, Mariana Reyes • producers Kaarle Aho • production company Making Movies • co-production company Soul Food

Mariana, a Mexican psychologist, turns to Finland to learn how to deal with her problematic relationship with her mother. Pirkko, a reviver of old Finnish lament singing, teaches Mariana how to cure her traumas by laments. Will a lament for her mother cure Mariana’s traumas?

Poland, Sweden

Master of Ceremonies

director Katarzyna Piórek • producers Stanisław Zaborowski, Daniéla Frykstrand • production company Silver Frame • co-production company Gunilla Film

Tomasz, a devout Catholic religion teacher who conducts secular funerals to help non-believers grieve, is diagnosed with cancer and must face the one farewell he cannot handle: his own.

Latvia

Meet Me at the Graveyard

director Elza Gauja • producers Uģis Riekstiņš • production company Picture House

A yearly Latvian tradition turns the graveyard into a place of laughter, tears, and reunions, as a community celebrates life while confronting the inevitability of death.

Czechia, Lithuania, Slovakia

My Other, Perfect Me

director Veronika Lišková • producers Martina Netíková, Kristýna Michálek Květová, Anna Mach Rumanová, Giedrė Žickytė • production company Cinémotif Films • co-production company Moonmakers

Tereza, a successful actress and musician, struggles with bulimia hidden behind her public life. As her condition begins to threaten her voice and career, she embarks on a cinematic journey confronting her desire for perfection and searching for a path toward recovery.

Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia

My Shadows Grow Faster Than Me

director Roman Bondarchuk, Dar'ya Averchenko • producers Jurga Gluskinienė, Dar'ya Averchenko, Uldis Cekulis • production company Monoklis • co-production company SOUTH FILMS, VFS Films

When Russia’s invasion forces a Ukrainian filmmaking family to flee to Britain, their children grow into a new language and culture while the parents film what is being lost — and ask what returning home can mean when home itself is changing.

Italy, Latvia

Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police

director Simone Manetti • producers Raffaele Brunetti, Uldis Cekulis • production company B&B Film • co-production company VFS Films

The true story of the greatest gymnast of all time, a symbol of propaganda, target of the Secret Police, a precious prisoner of the Ceaușescu regime, which seized control of her body, her mind, and her life.

Estonia

P

director Vladimir Loginov • producers Janika Möls • production company Korraks Film • co-production company Anthill Films

Before the first note is heard, music already exists. This film follows the journey of a piano’s creation, where nature, labour and sound slowly transform into music, accompanied by reflections from Arvo Pärt’s diaries.

Ukraine, Lithuania

Ravine and Tower

director Oleksiy Radynski • producers Lyuba Knorozok • production company Kinotron Group • co-production company Studija Kinema

Babyn Yar in Kyiv – the area of one of the worst Nazi massacres of the Shoah – was subject to Soviet state-sanctioned oblivion for decades. Now, it is under Russian attack. We trace the troubled history and uncertain future of Babyn Yar to reveal how our troubled past still defines our present.

Lithuania, Italy, Ukraine

See What I Say

director Arturas Jevdokimovas • producers Ringailė Leščinskienė, Ivanna Khitsinska, Giusi Santoro • production company Zero Copy Reel • co-production company WAYA Production, POPCult

In the Deaf world, there is no universal sign language – every country has its own. But in three bars across Bologna, Vilnius and Kyiv, people who share no common language keep trying to reach each other. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

Latvia

The Crust of Europe

director Ivars Zviedris • producers Ivars Zviedris, Liene Ulmane • production company Documentarian

The landscape along the eastern border of Latvia and the EU is changing – dragon’s teeth, anti-tank iron crosses, minefields, and a fence like a sharp ribbon disrupt the harmony of nature. As military presence and uncertainty increase, a shrinking population navigates life on the edge of Europe.

Azerbaijan

The Shepherd’s Son

director Nurlan Hasanli • producers Turkan Huseyn • production company Ultra Production

A nomadic shepherd’s son abandons school against his father’s wishes to follow him into his family’s traditional livelihood, as ecological collapse and the takeover of herds push shepherds into wage labour.

Poland

Trains Towards The Night: On the Use of Images

director Patricia Venti • producers Karolina Rum • production company Alpha Productions

Using fragments of Nazi propaganda filmed in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Trains Towards the Night exposes how images are constructed to be believed—and how that construction continues to shape the way we see today.

Lithuania

Two of Us

director Jūratė Samulionytė • producers Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Danielė Kunčinaitė • production company Just a moment

After half a century in hiding, a queer couple fights for recognition in a post-Soviet society, knowing that every moment could be their last together.

Estonia, Columbia

Beautiful Stupid Thing

director Carlos E. Lesmes • producers Merili Laur • production company Tin Can • co-production company Altiplano

After over 13 years apart, Angela and Carlos, mother and son, reunite when she migrates from Colombia to Estonia. What begins as a quest for an imagined ancestor, turns into a journey from the pains of the past to the possibilities of the future.

Ukraine, Latvia

I See No Death

director Yevhen Titarenko • producers Natalia Khazan, Guntis Trekteris • production company Braha Production Company • co-production company Ego Media

What is it like to fight a war without experiencing death? War has taken a new turn in the twenty-first century, with the arrival of new technologies in the battlefield. Despite the return of conventional warfare to Europe, the threat now comes from the sky.

Latvia

Wise Guys

director Ieva Ozoliņa • producers Madara Melberga • production company FA Filma

In Riga, on the Eastern border of Europe, two former gangsters decide to go legal. They start a debt collection agency, still relying on the skills from their criminal past.