Reijo Nikkilä was in Prague studying the Czech language when on 21 August 1968 the tanks of the Warsaw Pact rolled onto the streets and ended all calls for freedom of speech and humane socialism. Nikkilä also took to the streets with his camera and 30 years later compiled his footage into a film.
‘It is my life and my curse,’ describes the 61-year old Swedish woman, Agneta Eckemyr, her home, Penthouse North. She has lived in the rental flat next to New York’s Central Park for over 40 years. The flat has become a part of identity for this former top model, actress and clothing designer. It is […]
Sleepless in New York is a consoling documentary about an inconsolable topic: the crash after love. People, surrounded by the big city landscape, are contemplating the tragedy of being dumped and the difficulty of letting go. The main characters find themselves on the brink of desperation which wakes them up at night, causes physical pain […]
Pixadores are a group of young men from the São Paulo favelas. They paint their message on incredible locations to fight the society that’s suppressing them. An invitation to the Berlin Biennale changes everything for the outcasts. Their art, however, won’t fit the frames provided by the establishment. As the men’s world expands outside the […]
In 1990, a Soviet policeman, Sergei Toropsai, had a sudden religious epiphany. Its message was mind-boggling: Sergei was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. The collapse of the Soviet Union soon followed, leaving millions of communism’s acolytes into a spiritual vacuum. Sergei, now calling himself Vissarion, soon gained thousands of followers. The mystical leader urged them […]
An Austrian’s cellar is sacred for her. It’s a space for letting obsessions and identities loose, a place to drop all facades between self and the world. If the living room is the home’s showroom, the cellar symbolises basic humanity: hobbies, friendships and even the most unspoken perversions that are acted out literally underground. The […]