Border Movies

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the...

A haunting portrait of five strangers forging fragile bonds amid war and displacement on the Sudanese border.

Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and...

Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency...

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a...

Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world's most beautiful species.

The story follows Dawood, who wishes to don the cop uniform right from his childhood. He grows up to be a straight-laced, passionate policeman, who...

Felipe and Claudio have a unique relationship. Somehow destiny pulls them apart and sets Felipe on a journey where he will risk everything in his...

A UFO believer must choose between the aliens above he has never seen or the mysterious guide who appears in his campsite week after week.

There is a small frontier post. A soldier abiding by the rules of the system gradually turns into a murderer.

When war erupts in Ukraine, three women from different worlds collide at the Romanian border: an Italian woman searching for her missing husband and...

In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.

GAZA brings us into a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters,...

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different...

With a visual style that alternates between intimate verité moments, meditative reflection and suspenseful sequences, the film tells the ...

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two...

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to...

A winter ascent of Piz Bernina by Swiss mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. The film also shows images of avalanche research,...

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care...