Holy God
A self-portrait. In 1998 Vladlena Sandu’s family came under armed attack. They were able to escape and they fled Grozny. They have been silent...
May I Enter
May I Enter is a documentary essay filmed in an island off the coast of Bahia (Brazil) in which the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé is as much researched as experientially
Carnival King of Europe
In the heart of winter, a very ancient ritual to secure prosperity and good harvests is held throughout Europe, at the original core of...
Hummingbird
In 2014 Pino and Alessio, volunteers for the non-governmental organization "Amigos do bem estar", passed through the Brazilian Amazonian forest and encountered the native...
Message from RA Minister of Culture
I salute the participants and guests of the “Apricot Tree” Second International Film Festival.
The festival aspires to take on a telling role in the...
Roots
A folk holiday of rural Europe, where ancient arboreal and pagan rituals achieve a symbiosis with the Catholic religion, is celebrated every year at Pentecost in the town of Accettura, in the Basilicata region of South Italy.
End of the World
The End of the World is an intimate documentary where a couple of stories weave into one narrative during one night. In a big...
Skhtorashen
It has been 30 years since the village of Skhtorashen in the Martuni region of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is deserted. The only inhabitant is 83-year-old...
Greetings from Festival
It’s not so easy to see the reality in itself as it actually seems. Reality is diverse and variform, it has as many perceptions...
Habitat – personal notes
The film is about Garrthalala as a place and how the community who live there are connected with other beings, including ancestors, animals and plants. Aboriginal people have lived in Arnhem Land for over 45,000 years.