Final Day of the 2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!

Teen Angst
Ukraine/Germany
2025
Director: Inga Pylypchuk
Documentary, 37 MIN
Nine young Ukrainian women document life in a war zone with honesty, humor, fear, and resilience. Their collaborative desktop film captures what coming-of-age looks like when the world is on fire.

2nd Film: Kyiv Theater, Island of Hope
France/Ukraine
2024
Director: Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini & Thomas Briat
Documentary, 110 MIN

Final Day of the 2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!

First Film:
Teen Angst
Ukraine
2025
Director: Inga Pylypchuk
Documentary, 37 MIN
Nine young Ukrainian women document life in a war zone with honesty, humor, fear, and resilience. Their collaborative desktop film captures what coming-of-age looks like when the world is on fire.

2nd Film: Kyiv Theater, Island of Hope
France/Ukraine
2024
Director: Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini & Thomas Briat
Documentary, 110 MIN

2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!

France, Benin, and Senegal
2024
Director: Mati Diop
Documentary, 68 MIN

As 26 stolen royal treasures finally return home from France to Benin, the objects themselves narrate a story of colonialism and reclamation. Mati Diop’s Golden Bear–winning documentary sparks a vibrant debate about history, democracy, and the future of cultural memory.

Group Discussion to follow the screening of the film.

2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!

A bold selection of experimental works exploring how cinema, the internet, and memory collide. These shorts push the boundaries of the video essay form, inviting viewers into an inventive new mode of storytelling.

About the Director: https://lehogalibertlaine.com/

2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!

A bold selection of experimental works exploring how cinema, the internet, and memory collide. These shorts push the boundaries of the video essay form, inviting viewers into an inventive new mode of storytelling.

About the Director: https://lehogalibertlaine.com/

2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!

Germany
2024
Director: Doris Metz
Documentary, 104 MIN

Looking for a politician of stature in a moment of dramatic political change? As a founding member of the Green Party, Petra Kelly played a decisive part in shaping political discourse in West Germany in the 1980s.

*Free Admission with University and College ID
*Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff

2026 European Film Festival (EUFF): Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!

Hungary
2023
Director: Katalin Moldovia
Drama, 105 MIN

A Hungarian literature teacher faces a moral and political firestorm after recommending a film about queer poets. This timely drama captures the pressure of censorship, fear, and courage in a community on edge.

*Free Admission with University and College ID
*Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff

2026 European Film Festival (EUFF): Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!

Poland
2025
Director: Bartek Paduch
Drama, 97 MIN

A Polish cop uncovers a disturbing case that pulls him into a web of secrets uncomfortably close to home. Tense and tightly wound, it’s a European thriller with emotional stakes that hit universally.

Free Admission with University and College ID
Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff

2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!

Latvia
2024
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis
Historical Drama, 104 MIN

A Latvian actress enters Stalin’s USSR seeking her grandchild and finds herself trapped inside a machinery of terror. This gripping historical drama exposes the everyday innocence shattered by ideology and violence.

2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!

France
2024
Director: Julie Delpy
Comedy/Drama, 101 MIN

When a French village accidentally welcomes the “wrong” refugee family, their assumptions get turned upside down. Julie Delpy’s warm, funny dramedy asks who the real barbarians are when fear meets humanity.

*Free Admission with University and College ID
*Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff