Tatjana in Motherland

Under the warm rays of the sun, the protagonists become living still lifes, resting on benches, chairs, and deckchairs. In the quiet embrace of nature, they wait, reflect, and remember. This cinematic group portrait delves into the legacy and creative spirit of Vilko Filač, the Slovenian master of film photography, celebrating the enduring mark he left on the world of cinema.

How to relate the first Lumière film about a train to dangerous scenes shot on a smartphone by contemporary refugees hidden between iron wheels? The maker is part of an activist movement striving to revive the independent, critical newsreel efforts of the 1960s and 1970s.

Documentary filmmaker Rebecka Rasmusson becomes pregnant with the man she believes to love, when it turns out that he also has another woman. One evening in front of the TV, Rebecka sees an interview with the 90 year old premier queen Alice Timander who says she never felt loved. Rebecka decides to look her up and together insinuates itself a drama about love, betrayal, being a mother, daughter, and as a woman wearing a dream about making a career.

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask him to film them during this final phase of their lives—Gina in her apartment in Mexico City, Danniel in a Dutch restaurant where he feels at home. What stories do they want to leave behind?

An excellent display of how humans can rehabilitate and restore an area where a heavy industry polluted the water so severely that it was unsuitable to sustain any kind of life. A a film showing how birds returned to an environment once devastated by industry. The lakes around the northern Slovenian town of Velenje, placed in the Central Europe, are geographic center of the film. They emerged as the land above the lignite mines subsided and the depressions were filled with water. The mines started operating at the end of the 19th century. In the mid 20th century a power plant was built that caused a severe pollution of the lake waters to the extent of the lakes not being fit for any kind of life. As a consequence many birds moved from these parts. After a long ecological restoration that started in the mid 1980s, life returned to the water. Gradually the birds returned as well, including some there were previously never observed in this area.

A story of a mother and her son and a race against a tortoise where you always lose.

Mother compiles clips of mother figures from classic Hollywood cinema and television dramas. The figures range from the Virgin Mary and Mother Courage, to characters from Maude (1972–78), Aliens (1986), Imitation of Life (1959), and American Gangster (2007). The characters play out scenes of care, loss, emotional manipulation, abandonment, and grief. The intense relationships between mothers and daughters are especially prominent.

People from tripoint of Italy, Slovenia and Croatia tell their stories of the World War II events that happened there.

‘Over the course of several summer days in Split I talked to my mom about everything. I mean, really everything.’

François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the daily life and medical care of a woman approaching the end, treated with love, respect and dignity.

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Erik discover her apartment, which is filthy and full to bursting with junk. It takes the brothers an entire month to clean out the place. Among the chaos, they find films going back to the 1930s, photos and other memorabilia.