Distinctive disclosure: documentaries 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 documentary label of Jan Świetlik: series and features about hidden networks, agents of influence and the long work of bringing the powerful to account.
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Documentary series · 4 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.
Documentary series · 10 × 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.
Feature documentary · 90′ · 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.
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. expose turns them into films, series and short formats, made together with investigative newsrooms and in English from day one.
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