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Available until June 6
Almost five centuries after Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire, a fictionalized conquistador retraces the Spanish army’s route to Mexico City. Through the haunting true stories he encounters, the ghosts of Mexico’s brutal colonial past reverberate.
Film Info
Runtime:88
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Mexico
USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:International Spectrum
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Rodrigo Reyes
Producer(s):Andrew Houchens
Inti Cordera
Executive Producer(s):Steve Holmgren
Carter Logan
Co-Producer(s):David Felix Sutcliffe
Associate Producer(s):Sam Schild
Consulting Producer(s):Gunter Hanfgarn
Su Kim
David Felix Sutcliffe
Editor(s):Andrea Chignoli
Daniel Chávez Ontiveros
Writer(s):Rodrigo Reyes
Lorena Padilla
Alicia Valencia
Cinematography:Alejandro Mejía
Composer:Pablo Mondragón
Sound:Ricardo Arteaga
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Breaking the Silence

Available until June 24
An Indigenous woman leaves her Emberá Chamí community for Bogotá as she grapples with her experience of female genital mutilation. Joining forces with a new friend, they return to engage with other Indigenous women about the tradition and enact change.
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Runtime:83
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Colombia
Bolivia
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Embera
Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Persister
Film Subjects:Gender & Sexuality
Indigenous Cultures & Issues
Latin America
Women & Women's Stories
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Priscila Padilla
Producer(s):Laura Coronado Delgado
Executive Producer(s):Gustavo Pazmin
Priscila Padilla
Editor(s):Ximena Franco
Priscila Padilla
Writer(s):Priscila Padilla
Cinematography:Viviana Gomez
Yvette Paz
Composer:Sol Okarina
Sound:Vladimir Diaz
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City So Real

Available until June 24
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Steve James’s fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election. All four episodes will be shown.
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Runtime:240
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Spanish
Punjabi
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Deep Dive
Film Subjects:America
Black Cultures & Issues
Politics & Political Intrigue
Race & Multiculturalism
Urban Cultures & Issues
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Steve James
Producer(s):Zak Piper
Steve James
Executive Producer(s):Jeff Skoll
Diane Weyermann
Alex Kotlowitz
Gordon Quinn
Betsy Steinberg
Jolene Pinder
Editor(s):David E. Simpson
Steve James
Cinematography:Jackson James
Steve James
Composer:Will Miller and Resavoir
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A Colombian Family

Available until June 24
Set against the backdrop of Colombia’s fraught peace treaty meant to end 50 years of violence, an estranged mother and daughter seek reconciliation—but where? Do they fight for a better country together, or leave as a family for Cuba?
Film Info
Runtime:80
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Denmark
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:International Spectrum
Film Subjects:Families & Family Relationships
Latin America
War & Conflict
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Tanja Wol Sørensen
Producer(s):Rikke Tambo Andersen
Executive Producer(s):Vibeke Vogel
Editor(s):Claudio Hughes
Cinematography:Maggie Olkuska
Composer:Sophia Maj
Sound:Sune Kaarsberg
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Día de la Madre

Available until June 24
As night becomes day, a feisty group of youths make a decidedly unconventional ruckus that is sure to go down in the history books for the tired and shocked people at the receiving end of their exuberance.
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Runtime:6
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:Ontario Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Ashley Brandon
Dennis Höhne
Producer(s):Nevo Shinaar
Editor(s):Ashley Brandon
Cinematography:Ashley Brandon
Dennis Höhne
Sound:Ashley Brandon
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: The Forum

Available until June 24
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the most powerful leaders and thinkers on the planet gather, astonishing conversations unfold between the likes of Al Gore, Jair Bolsonaro and Greta Thunberg during an event with so much at stake.
Film Info
Runtime:92
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Germany
Switzerland
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:German
English
Swiss German
French
Spanish
Indonesian
Chinese
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Special Presentations
Film Subjects:Activism
Capitalism & Big Business
Politics & Political Intrigue
Website:https://theforum-film.de/en/
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Marcus Vetter
Producer(s):Christian Beetz
Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Caroline Schaper
Executive Producer(s):Julie Goldman
Chris Clements
Editor(s):Marcus Vetter
André Nier
Ana R. Fernandes
Michele Gentile
Writer(s):Christian Beetz
Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Cinematography:Georg Zengerling
Composer:Marcel Vaid
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Green Blood

Available until June 24
Furthering investigations launched by local reporters for which they faced threats, imprisonment and even death, 40 international journalists join forces to blow open large-scale crimes committed by mining behemoths, including Canada’s own Barrick, in India, Guatemala and Tanzania.
Film Info
Runtime:208
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:France
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:French
English
Spanish
Tamoul
Hindi
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Deep Dive
Film Subjects:Africa
Capitalism & Big Business
Crime & Intrigue
Ecology & the Environment
Journalism & the Media
Latin America
South & Central Asia
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Jules Giraudat
Arthur Bouvart
Alexis Marant
Producer(s):Laurent Richard
Aurélie Meimon
Executive Producer(s):Alex Winter
Noor Sadar
Editor(s):Mathieu Goasguen
Matthieu Lère
Writer(s):Jules Giraudat
Arthur Bouvart
Alexis Marant
Cinematography:Raoul Seigneur
Arthur Bouvart
Jules Giraudat
Ram Pateriya
Christophe Barreyre
Julien Mauranne
Composer:Clément Tery
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Influence

Available until June 24
Fake news, weaponized communication and political interference take centre stage in this story of spin, all charted through the rise and collapse of notorious British public relations and reputation management firm Bell Pottinger.
Film Info
Runtime:106
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
South Africa
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Spanish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Special Presentations
Film Subjects:Capitalism & Big Business
Crime & Intrigue
Journalism & the Media
Politics & Political Intrigue
Website:https://www.influence.film/
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Richard Poplak
Diana Neille
Producer(s):Bob Moore
Neil Brandt
Executive Producer(s):Mila Aung-Thwin
Daniel Cross
Thandi Davids
Editor(s):Ryan Mullins
Writer(s):Richard Poplak
Diana Neille
Cinematography:Glauco Bermudez
Mark Ó Fearghaíl
Composer:Florencia Di Concilio
Sound:Benoît Dame
Catherine Van Der Donckt
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Landfall

Available until June 24
How will Puerto Rico reinvent itself after the devastations of Hurricane Maria and a multi-billion-dollar debt crisis? Intimate encounters with afflicted locals and opportunistic newcomers offer a sharp-eyed analysis of disaster capitalism and a stirring portrait of resistance.
Film Info
Runtime:91
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
English
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Cecilia Aldarondo
Producer(s):Ines Hofmann Kanna
Cecilia Aldarondo
Executive Producer(s):Charlotte Cook
Laura Poitras
Justine Nagan
Chris White
Sally Jo Fifer
Sandy Viquez Pedlow
Editor(s):Terra Long
Cinematography:Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
Composer:Angelica Negron
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The Last Archer

Available until June 24
In this intimate portrait of Alberto Manrique, one of the Canary Islands’ most innovative artists, the director—Manrique’s granddaughter—returns home to restore his memory, part of which he lost some years before, and discovers his work’s true magical power to heal.
Film Info
Runtime:75
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Spain
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Art & Architecture
Personal Histories
Western Europe
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Dácil Manrique de Lara
Producer(s):Ana Sánchez-Gijón
Dácil Manrique de Lara
Executive Producer(s):Ana Sánchez-Gijón
Editor(s):Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Dácil Manrique de Lara
Writer(s):Dacil Manrique de Lara
Isabelle Dierckx
Cinematography:Juan A. Castaño (AEC)
Dácil Manrique de Lara
Composer:Christian Johansen
Hector R. Perdomo
Sound:Christian Johansen
Elodium
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A Loss of Something Ever Felt

Available until June 24
When her drug-addicted brother’s calls for money stop, his sister races from Estonia to Colombia to desperately seek him out on the rough streets of Bogotá. But as each rumoured sighting breeds new panic, is she chasing hope or a ghost?
Film Info
Runtime:82
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Estonia
Colombia
Sweden
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Estonian
English
Spanish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Website:https://nakedcinema.eu/A-Loss-of-Something-Ever-Felt
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz
Producer(s):Liis Nimik
Davood Mousavi
Marcela Lizcano
Editor(s):Hendrik Mägar
Writer(s):Liis Nimik
Carlos Eduarlo Lesmes Lopez
Cinematography:Aivo Rannik
Giulia Ducci
Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz
Davood Mousavi
Composer:Ann Reimann
Sound:Gabriel Solis
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art

Available until June 24
Controversy erupts when the American art market is flooded with a slew of fake paintings valued in the millions. As the truth unravels and consequences mount, a reputed New York dealer unwittingly finds herself at the centre of an elaborate con.
Film Info
Runtime:96
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Canada
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Chinese
Spanish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:America
Art & Architecture
Crime & Intrigue
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Barry Avrich
Producer(s):Barry Avrich
Caitlin Cheddie
Executive Producer(s):Jay Hennick
Barry Avrich
Editor(s):Tiffany Beaudin
Writer(s):Barry Avrich
Cinematography:Ken Ng
Composer:Michael Perlmutter
Sound:Richard Spence-Thomas
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Mother-Child

Available until June 11
At a public hospital in Argentina—where abortion is still mostly illegal—vulnerable teenage girls confide in caring professionals, revealing the weightiness of their decisions and the fragility of their dreams.
Film Info
Runtime:65
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Argentina
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Website:http://www.kinorebelde.com/dist_mother_en.html
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Andrea Testa
Producer(s):Francisco Márquez
Luciana Piantanida
Andrea Perner
Editor(s):Lorena Moriconi
Writer(s):Andrea Testa
Francisco Márquez
Cinematography:Gustavo Schiaffino
Sound:Abel Tortorelli
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Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

Available until June 24
In Venezuela, corruption, pollution and political decay take their toll as the small fishing village of Congo Mirador is literally sinking from sedimentation. Confronting the crisis, two local women clash over the upcoming election, eyeing different paths forward.
Film Info
Runtime:99
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Venezuela
UK
Brazil
Austria
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:To Conserve & Protect
Film Subjects:Ecology & the Environment
Latin America
Politics & Political Intrigue
Rural Live & Agriculture
Women & Women's Stories
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Anabel Rodríguez Ríos
Producer(s):Sepp Brudermann
Executive Producer(s):Claudia Lepage
Editor(s):Sepp Brudermann
Cinematography:John Márquez
Composer:Nascuy Linares
Sound:Daniel Turini
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Playback

Available until June 24
In the conservative city of Córdoba, Grupo Kalas, a chosen family of transgender women and drag queens combine performance and protest onstage at club La Piaff. This unknown history from the 1980s manipulates time and space using VHS tracking and re-enactments to produce alternate endings for those who died of AIDS.
Film Info
Runtime:14
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Argentina
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:http://www.kinorebelde.com/kino2020/playback/
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Agustina Comedi
Producer(s):Magalí Mérida
Editor(s):Valeria Racioppi
Writer(s):Agustina Comedi
Cinematography:Magalí Mérida
Sound:Guido Deniro
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Sanmao. The Desert Bride

Available until June 24
Chinese writer Sanmao has inspired generations of young women through her conviction to fearlessly pursue a life as an artist and independent woman. Poetically told, this biography captures her extraordinary life, full of adventure, loves and losses.
Film Info
Runtime:86
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Spain
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Chinese
English
Russian
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Art & Architecture
East Asia
Women & Women's Stories
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Ana Pérez de la Fuente
Marta Arribas
Producer(s):Edmon Roch
Patricia Takata
Executive Producer(s):Edmon Roch
Editor(s):Clara Martínez Malagelada
Writer(s):Ana Pérez de la Fuente
Marta Arribas
Composer:Marc Timón
Sound:Gabriel Gutiérrez
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Sex Assistant

Available until June 24
Daniela and Andrés, a Venezuelan couple with physical disabilities, engage an artist to assist them in taking their sexual relationship beyond the boundaries of their wheelchairs. An erotic autobiography that is part advocacy and part voyeurism, Sex Assistant overcomes obstacles and prejudices by sharing a sensual, empowering and romantic scene rarely seen.
Film Info
Runtime:22
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Venezuela
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://www.facebook.com/SexAssistFilm
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Andrés González Majul
Producer(s):Andrés González Majul
Daniela Berlet
Marcel Rasquin
Joe Torres
Juan Antonio Díaz
Alain Gómez Reglá
Editor(s):Dester Linares
Andrés González Majul
Writer(s):Andrés González Majul
Marcel Rasquin
Daniela Berlet
Cinematography:Andrés González Majul
Marcel Rasquin
Composer:Francisco Mejía
Leo Aldrey
Luis Daniel González
Alain Gómez Reglá
Andrés González Majul
Sound:Pararrayos Studios
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The Song of the Butterflies

Available until June 24
Finding himself stumped for artistic inspiration, an Indigenous painter travels from Lima to his ancestral land in Amazonia, absorbing his family’s stories and finding the strength to confront the painful past of a people nearly extinguished.
Film Info
Runtime:65
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Peru
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Munuka
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Artscapes
Film Subjects:Art & Architecture
Indigenous Cultures & Issues
Latin America
Website:http://www.thesongofthebutterflies.pe
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Núria Frigola Torrent
Producer(s):Rolando Toledo Vega
Núria Frigola Torrent
Chela de Ferrari
Executive Producer(s):Rolando Toledo
Editor(s):Nicolé Hurtado Céspedes
Cinematography:Nicolás Landa Tami
Composer:Karin Zielinski
Sound:Raúl Astete
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Stateless

Available until June 24
After the Dominican Republic Supreme Court strips citizenship from anyone with Haitian parentage—retroactive to 1929—200,000 people are rendered stateless due to anti-Black racism. In response, a young attorney ignites a grassroots campaign, relentlessly fighting to protect citizenship rights for all.
Film Info
Runtime:95
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Canada
Premiere Status:Canadian Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Creole
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Canadian Spectrum
Film Subjects:Activism
Black Cultures & Issues
Latin America
Race & Multiculturalism
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Michèle Stephenson
Producer(s):Jennifer Holness
Michèle Stephenson
Lea Marin
Executive Producer(s):Anita Lee
Joe Brewster
Sudz Sutherland
Editor(s):Sophie Farkas-Bolla
Writer(s):Michèle Stephenson
Cinematography:Jaime Guerra
Nadia Hallgren
Naiti Gámez
Tito Rodriguez
Alfredo Alcántara
Pedro Arnau Bros Santana
Composer:Ben Fox
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Things We Dare Not Do

Available until June 24
From one of Mexico’s rising cinematographers comes this story of 16-year-old Ñoño, who, living amid cartel violence and models of toxic machismo, seeks the courage to tell his family he wants to live life as a woman.
Film Info
Runtime:71
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:Mexico
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Film Subjects:Children & Youth
Families & Family Relationships
Gender & Sexuality
Latin America
LGBTQ Cultures & Issues
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Bruno Santamaría Razo
Producer(s):Abril López Carrillo
Executive Producer(s):Charlotte Cook
Editor(s):Andrea Rabasa
Writer(s):Bruno Santamaría Razo
Cinematography:Bruno Santamaría Razo
Composer:Tomás Barreiro
Sound:Zita Erffa
Andrea Rabasa
Javier Umpierrez
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Unforgivable

Available until June 24
A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence in an isolation cell in El Salvador. But in prison, Geovanny is not just guilty of crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay. A story of harrowing horror and homophobia, this unforgettable film stands alone as an example of extremes.
Film Info
Runtime:35
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:El Salvador
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:Spanish
Accessibility:Full Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Marlén Viñayo
Producer(s):Marlén Viñayo
Carlos Martínez
Executive Producer(s):José Luis Sanz
Editor(s):Andrea Bilbao
Writer(s):Carlos Martínez
Marlén Viñayo
Cinematography:Neil Brandvold
Additional Cinematography:Víctor Peña
Patrick Tómbola
Marlén Viñayo
Composer:Omnion
Sound:Eduardo Cáceres
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Welcome Strangers

Available until June 24
At 6:00 p.m. every evening, Sarah Jackson and a group of dedicated volunteers collect asylum seekers from an ICE detention centre in Aurora, Colorado. For these anxious newcomers, the invitation of a warm bed, food and clothing is a welcome sojourn on the way to their next destination.
Film Info
Runtime:21
Copyright:2020
Country Listing:USA
Premiere Status:International Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Spanish
Cameroonian PidgEnglish
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:Shorts
Website:https://welcomestrangersfilm.com
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Dia Sokol Savage
Producer(s):Garret Savage
Executive Producer(s):Morgan J. Freeman
Editor(s):Chelsea Jackson
Cinematography:Matthias Grunsky
Composer:Mark A. Crawford
Sound:Michael Kranicke
Matthew Polis
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Wood

Available until June 6
A crack team of spies infiltrate a global syndicate operating in remote Russian forests, Chinese factories and Romanian mills to expose illegal timber trading. Hidden cameras capture the pace of human greed and natural destruction in this white-knuckle enviro-thriller.
Film Info
Runtime:95
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Austria
Germany
Romania
Premiere Status:North American Premiere
Festival Info
Festival Year:2020
Language:English
Romanian
German
Spanish
Russian
Chinese
Accessibility:Partial Subtitles
Program Category:World Showcase
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan
Michaela Kirst
Ebba Sinzinger
Producer(s):Vincent Lucassen
Ebba Sinzinger
Thomas Tielsch
Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan
Adrian Sitaru
Executive Producer(s):Vincent Lucassen
Editor(s):Andrea Wagner
Roland Sto¨ttinger
Writer(s):Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan
Michaela Kirst
Ebba Sinzinger
Cinematography:Lukas Gnaiger
Jakub Bejnarowicz
Jo¨rg Burger
Attila Boa
Jerzy Palacz
Sound:Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
Claus Benischke
Nora Czamler
Andreas Pils
Peter Rösner
Simon Bastian
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