Distinctive disclosure: films that bring into the open what power would rather keep quiet.
Parrhēsia is the ancient Greek word for speaking the truth plainly, at your own risk. This is the film label of : documentary series and features about hidden networks, agents of influence and the long work of bringing the powerful to account, and fiction drawn from history that was written out of the record.
Documentary series4 episodes
A global network of ultra-conservative organisations, the money behind it and its links to the Kremlin. Based on This Is War, Klementyna Suchanow’s investigation into the movement that set out to roll back women’s rights across Europe.
War crimes and the battle for justice
Documentary series10 × 40′
How people without power forced the powerful into court, from the battlefield of Solferino in 1859 to the trial of Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague. Each episode pairs a turning point in the history of international justice with the trial unfolding as we film. The last episode will be cut only when reality has written the ending.
Twenty-first-century fascism speaks in the prefix of return.
Documentary series6 × 52′
Reform. Restore. Reconquête. Remigration. The new far right promises a return to a world that never existed. Six episodes on how that promise moves from Telegram chats and recommendation feeds into ministries, courts and ballots, from Porto to Tokyo, and how hostile states feed it, hiring people on Telegram for a few hundred euros to stage the hatred it runs on.
A study of the agent of influence. An analysis of the mechanism.
Feature documentary90′Polish, English, Ukrainian
Professor Jacek Wilczur was celebrated as a hunter of Nazi criminals. Files from twelve state archives suggest he was most likely a Soviet agent of influence, and his books still feed Kremlin propaganda today. A film about how a reputation becomes a weapon.
Hybrid feature documentary
Witold Gombrowicz tells his own life, from his Warsaw debut to his death in Vence. Archive recordings and an actor’s performance, rebuilt with AI, give the writer back his face and voice, and the film asks where a portrait ends and a forgery begins.
ENStomping Mad
Warsaw, 1905.
Three women. One cell.
Feature filmPeriod action thriller
In a city plunged into darkness by revolution, an anarchist librarian, a cast-out servant girl and a Russian aristocrat, ignored by the men they fight beside, form their own militant cell and carry out the deadliest attack the city has ever seen. Inspired by the 1906 bomb attack on Warsaw’s Governor General by three women aged 16 to 20.
The projects above are films: each one a single story, developed by with its author and produced under the 
name, one at a time.
is not a film. It is a studio in the making, a separate venture with its own founding team and partners, now looking for its first investors, built to do this work continuously: investigative features, series, short formats and podcasts, made with field crews and a network of reporters across Central and Eastern Europe. is where this work began; is how it is meant to grow.
Cinematic Investigations
An investigative film studio for Central and Eastern Europe
The most consequential investigations in Europe are happening between the Baltic and the Balkans: spy networks, disinformation, hybrid war, scandals that ignore borders. Most of them end as articles that vanish in a day. turns them into films, series and short formats, made together with investigative newsrooms and in English from day one.
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