The first one is Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork by Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan. Yes, another film about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but told from an unexpected point of view this time. For years Sivan was digging in the archives, looking for images of oranges. The fresh and healthy fruit, that has become a key element in the mythmaking around the founding of the state of Israel.

Ironic observations are intercut with instructive comments by Jewish and Palestinian historians and often moving meetings with orchard owners and workers who remember the period when Jews and Arabs were cultivating the orange peacefully together. Jaffa turns out to be both entertaining and revealing, an excellent lesson about propaganda and about the way images don't show us the things they should.

The other surprise is Farewell by Dutch director Ditteke Mensink. It's the story of English journalist Lady Grace Drummond-Hay who, in August of 1929, two months before Wall Street crashed, embarks on the Graf Zeppelin airship to become the first woman to fly around the world. Though completely made up of archive footage, Farewell unfolds as a romantic adventure story, thanks to the first person voice of Drummond-Hay, narrated by actress Poppy Elliot. To be sure, the musings of Drummond-Hay about her fellow passangers and her former lover Karl Wiegand, were written by Mensink. In a film like this, it's hard to decide were exactly to draw the line between fact and fiction, but maybe that's not what really matters. Somehow, it touches the sensation of living in the twenties. The wonderful images of the real journey (parts of Europe are still in ruins) and the science-fiction-like appearance of the airship make an important episode from the past come to life in an impressive way.