All selected films of the festival edition 2026
We are happy to provide you with details about 50 selected films sorted by our 4 timeframes. Enjoy the possibility to get in-depth information about all of the documentaries, short-, feature- and experimental films dealing with the subject of history that were selected for the 2026 edition.
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Timeframe 1 “Prehistory – Antiquity”
UNDER THE STONE PINES – THE LAMAS MOUND, AN ANCIENT SECRET – THE FLIGHT OF MYTH – THE DEATH OF THE CENTURION, A MYSTERY STORY OF THE PAST – THE BISON’S LEGS – ROOTS & RELICS – REAL STORY ABOUT ARGONAUTS, COLCHIANS AND GOLDEN FLEECE – KING CHRONICLES AND URARTIAN CUNEIFORM – HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA, THE SOLITARY BEE – EARLY BRONZE AGE KURA, ARAXES CULTURE – ARTEMIS, THE LOST TEMPLE
Timeframe 2 “Migration Period – Middle Ages”
Viking Blood – Tales of Tarot – Pater Ennius: tutte le storie portano a Roma – Joanna of Castile – INCARNATIO – Guardians of Hellenism: The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople – Chernihiv principality. 1000 years
Timeframe 3 “Modern Era/Colonialism”
Forgotten Founder: The Untold Story of Samson Occom and Dartmouth – A Book of Freedom: The Confessions of Francisco Menéndez – The Bolters – Industry by the River A History of Kilmainham Mill Dublin – The Ballad of Laura Foster – BET – Marceau | Facade of a Family – Forgotten Heroines of the French Revolution – The Curse of Ligeia – Milton’s Mulberry – The Axe Forgets – The Axe Forgets – Follow, If I Can – The tell-tale heart
Timeframe 4 “Great War – Contemporary History”
Wir schwenkten keine Fahnen – Trezor the Dog – The Man with the Little Camera – The Man Up North – Rendezvous – LOST PAGES OF WAR – L’OSPITE / THE GUEST – L’ESTATE CHE VERRÀ [THE SUMMER TO COME] – Iron Curtain – IN PATRIA MORI – How The Original Futurama Transmuted America – Fragmented – Exiles – Elegy – Covenant of Blood: The Last Soldiers of World War II – Budapest memorandum. A bomb under Independence – Blood Is Thicker Than Water – Among the Smoke