Eastern Europe
Black Kites A film by Jo Andres, 1996, 26 min., Color Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, BLACK KITES is th...
Calling the Ghosts Executive Producer: Julia Ormond
Directed by Mandy Jacobson and Karmen Jelincic, 1996, 63 min., Color An extraordinarily powerful documentary, CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyda...
Confession A film by Marina Petrovskaia, 2001, 19 min., BW "I want to make a confession. I used my camera as a weapon to manipulate a now defenseless person and she has been haunting me ever since," declares f...
Copy Me - I Want to Travel A film by Pauline Boudry, Brigitta Kuster and Renate Lorenz, 2004, 68 min., Color With the cadence of a classic spy film, COPY ME - I WANT TO TRAVEL takes three female computer programmers and three female filmmakers on a goose chas...
Countdown A film by Ulrike Ottinger, 1991, 189 min., Color From one of Berlin’s leading directors comes COUNTDOWN, a fascinating chronicle of the divided Germany’s final days. Ulrike Ottinger’s documentary sh...
Dreams of Jagodina A film by Nora Malone, 2005, 29 min., Color Scripted from interviews with Serbian émigré Suzana Jeremic, DREAMS OF JAGODINA merges experimental, dreamlike visuals and documentary storytelling to...
Far From Poland A film by Jill Godmilow, 1984, 109 min., Color When denied visas to shoot in Poland, a filmmaker, steeped in the documentary traditions of the left, decides to construct her film in New York City. ...
The Germans and Their Men A film by Helke Sander, 1989, 96 min., Color "If a woman doesn't have equal rights, is she equally responsible for the crimes of a nation?" Helke Sander's quasi-documentary turns a wry and reveal...
Invisible Adversaries A film by Valie Export, 1976, 108 min., Color Breaking free of conventional unities of body, space and time, this early feature by one of Europe's leading feminist filmmakers is a haunting excursi...
The Peacekeepers and the Women A film by Karin Jurschick, 2003, 80 min., Color Winner of the Arte-Documentary Award for Best German Documentary, this chilling investigation examines the booming sex-trafficking industry in Bosnia ...
Picture Me an Enemy A film by Nathalie Applewhite, Produced by Nathalie Applewhite and Rene Lego, 2003, 29 min., Color/BW Wars in the former Yugoslavia were among the most brutal in recent history, yet understanding of these events is still vague and detached. PICTURE ME ...
The Practice of Love A film by Valie Export, 1985, 90 min., Color "Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, gradually discovers that both are imposs...
Reconstruction A film by Irene Lusztig, 2001, 90 min., Color/BW Filmmaker Irene Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation in her breakthrough feature documentary, RECONSTRUCTION....
Seven Hours To Burn A film by Shanti Thakur, 1999, 9 min., Color/BW "A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family's history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archi...
Writing Desire A film by Ursula Biemann, 2000, 23 min., Color "Ursula Biemann’s WRITING DESIRE is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodi...
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