War & Resistance

Norwegian filmmaker Benedicte Orvung makes a horrific discovery about her past: facing the shame of a hidden history with the revelation that one of her family members was a prominent Nazi collaborator.  Karl Marthinsen, a brutal police leader, fanatic nationalist, and great uncle of the film's director, is the subject of this personal document of familial healing.

Following his impressive debut with The Wind Blows Round, Giorgio Diritti returns with a dense historical drama that earned him the Silver Grand Jury prize at the International Rome Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Brussels European Film Festival.

Director Chris Kraus’ follow-up to his award-winning debut film Four Minutes is a stunning historical drama set on the Baltic coast on the eve of World War I. Recipient of a Special Jury Award at the Rome Film Festival, this expertly crafted film takes a page from the life of Kraus’s own aunt, chronicling a little-known chapter of European history.

Conductor Armand Diangienda Present

This is a great story worth seeing... - Chicago Reader

Audience Award winner at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Kinshasa Symphony is an unexpected and beautiful musical merging of worlds. 

A moody, socially conscious drama tracing the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre - Variety

Ruveyda is like most residents of the Belvedere refugee camp: a widow yearning to forget the tragedy of war, fifteen years after the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But unlike those around her, she spends most of her days in a bittersweet routine of caring for her extended family, and searching for the remains of her husband and son—both of which offer a precarious hope that is one day tested when her nephew is selected to participate in a reality show in a former enemy enclave. An emotionally rich portrait of war’s troubled aftermath, director Ahmed Imamovic’s film paints an uncommon image of patience, faith, love, and above all, forgiveness.

The questionable US occupation of the Philippines in 1900 takes center stage in this latest offering from singular indie film director, John Sayles.