Francois Pirette - Un jour je serai optimiste

Since I Was Born

For Zahira, school offers a real chance to realize her dreams and to build a better life than her parents have had. Zahira dreams of becoming a teacher. But is dreaming enough to succeed?

Náhodou je príma!

Even ideology permeated the children's stories: the beginnings of forced collectivisation in the village are seen through the eyes of a young boy. As the son of an honest and deliberate communist official, there is no sh

Je Serai Là

Facing an incurable disease that condemns her, Julie decides not to fight, not to let anything appear to her partner, in order to live her last moments as naturally and intensely as possible. She leaves behind a letter e

Heb je geen kinderen?

Dutch journalist Liesbeth Rasker exposes how society still consciously and unconsciously prefers to see women in the role of mother.

How Ana Bought the Bread

A girl goes to buy bread...

I Don’t Love You Anymore

In a Niagara Falls motel, an unremarkable couple attempts a romantic getaway. But as the days go by, the trip threatens to turn into a cold shower. I Don’t Love You Anymore is a humorous exploration of the red flags we c

Humor je vážná věc

You Don't Just Have an Abortion

They were too old or too young, already had a complete family or weren’t planning to start one: the women in this documentary have a range of reasons for deciding to have an abortion after unintentionally becoming pregna

Who Is This Letter for?

A postman has to deliver a letter addressed to the “best boy”. He goes door to door, looking for this boy, but finds that children everywhere are naughty, so he stamps the letter with “addressee unknown” and returns it t

Small World

Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the fam

I Didn't Make It to Love Her

Through a photographic narrative, this film presents texts of Bosnian poet Marko Tomaš. Marko and Maja are moving flats in Sarajevo. Maja's depression turns Marko's struggle into poetry, and played on the radio, Marko’s

Groter dan je bent

Je ne dors pas

Je est une autre

Salim, a young bookseller in Oran, discovers a black-and-white photo torn in two of a woman with a mysterious smile inside a vinyl record. He pieces the two halves of the image back together, a fragment from the past, an

Je suis un as

A Thousand Kisses

Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her

Everything That's Wrong with You

After the emotional collapse that follows her mother’s death, Maruša builds an online bond with Alja, a nurse living in a small coastal town in Germany. Bonding through humor over their shared struggles, Maruša and Alja

I Am Therefore You Are

Our actions have a greater impact than we think.

Je suis un poisson

A fish-man struggles to adapt to the human world of work. His outlook changes when he meets someone like himself who has successfully adapted.