HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

A bunch of tourists travel into the Auschwitz concentration camp. Meanwhile, the voice of a former deported tells us her side of the story. Watch this film here from July 9th to 15th 2024 https://vimeo.com/956375890 Victor Ducas Director

For five decades Estonian-Canadian Maestro Roman Toi composed and conducted choral works and toured a Singing Revolution worldwide to restore freedom and democracy to the Republic of Estonia. The film follows Roman Toi’s life through music and historical events starting from the Russian era in early 1900’s, through Estonian Independence, World War II and then…

50 years after the realization of their utopias, three old architects take the director with them to discover unusual housing. A joyful journey through time from which emerges a crucial question: and us, how will we live tomorrow? Watch this film here from July 9th to 15th 2024 https://vimeo.com/960228483 Director Biography - Elodie Degavre "Elodie Degavre is…

Timeless events happen in a shop in a small village. A craftsman carries out his work in a meticulous manner by receiving the "thoughts" of the inhabitants (in the form of letters) who for various reasons are far from their homeland. The story will take completely unexpected turns when even the Artisan's certainties vanish and…

The documentary recounts the period that the young Pier Paolo Pasolini spent in Casarsa, the Friulan birthplace of his mother Susanna. Those years, as he himself said, 'were the highest moment of my life'. They were the years of cultural and poetic formation of a brilliant boy, avid for books and culture. Pasolini the poet…

Putin's war in Ukraine is not the first time a Russian regime has tried to eliminate Ukrainian culture and independence. In 1932 - 1933, systemic policies perpetrated by the Soviet government under dictator Joseph Stalin exterminated millions of Ukrainians through mass starvation. Survivors who escaped to Canada post WWII recount the horrors of living through…

A border marked by 4056 boundary stones on French soil, delimiting the frontier of the lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine (1871-1918). They form a forgotten scar, a no man’s land of memory which I explore. We follow the boundaries, meeting landscapes and inhabitants, building an itinerary of thought, to provide visibility and status to this frontier,…

film made by activists who lived for a month in the Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona after the start of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Watch this film here from July 9th to 15th 2024 https://vimeo.com/957076554 Director Biography - Lyubava Malysheva, Oleksandr Valko Lyubava Malysheva - born in the USSR, lives in Barcelona. Journalist, publisher,…

This documentary shot between Paris Detroit Los Angeles and Nuremberg tells how Henry Ford and Fordism were in Germany the essential launching pad of a mass anti-Semitism and allowed the anchoring of the Nazis in the camp of modernity and capitalism in the «social virtues» which promised a radiant consumerist future to the German masses…

A Feature length TV documentary which explores political and military decisions of five leaders: Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Harry S. Truman, Kim Il-sung, and Rhee Syngman during the Korean War by interweaving interviews of acclaimed historians and reenacted scenes. Watch this film here from July 9th to 15th 2024 https://vimeo.com/956383246 JUNG HO OH Director SEOK HEE…

An absurdist short film featuring a man, a coat hanger and a ladder; they converse against the backdrop of the rise of Communist Russia. Director Biography - Ugrin Vuckovic Ugrin Vuckovic, 22, is a young film director and writer who currently lives and works in New Zealand. He is a double-major student of Film and Philosophy…

April 1980, apartheid South Africa. Claudia prepares a special dinner for her husband and influential judge Tertius on the eve of a death penalty verdict. The evening unfolds in unexpected ways. Watch this film here from July 9th to 15th 2024 https://vimeo.com/956381952 Director Biography - Jesse Brown Jesse Brown is a South African filmmaker interested in both writing…