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First seen in Naples in 1827, this farce of a “theatre within a theatre” narrates the mishaps of a second-rate opera company as it stages the great serious drama Romolo ed Ersilia in a provincial theatre. The unbearable tensions between the two lead singers are finally resolved with the decisive intervention of one of their mothers. The co-production by Ópera de Lyon along with the Grand Theâtre de Genève and Teatro Real is brought to life by Laurent Pelly, a tireless champion of Donizetti's comedies.

A middle-aged mother of two reflects on her emotional decision to immigrate to the United States some 30 years earlier, in this reflective documentary short that borrows its title from a uniquely powerful poem by the legendary exiled Cuban writer Lourdes Casal.

Freddy and his wife Juliana leave the comfort zone of Constance and move to Berlin. With Grandpa Fritz in tow, the Kleemanns move in with Grandma Regina. Unlike his sister Zoe, little Niko is happy to be living with his grandparents. While Freddy and his trusted colleague Lara finally want to implement their own concept as daycare center managers, Juliana sees an unexpected stop sign in her career as a doctor: she is unplanned pregnant! Now a difficult life decision has to be made: a third child does not fit into the current family and couple concept of two full-time professionals.

David dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, while his twin brother Alexis plans to rob a restaurant. The brothers' inability to relate to each other has brought them to the brink of a domestic war that erupts in a fight the night before David's auditions. Their diverging paths will make them meet again in the middle of Havana.

After a young boy is traumatized after viewing the body of his passed mother, he becomes Haunted by the figure of her body.

During the first lockdown a teenager wanders London’s streets at night, tagging buildings in his manor. One night, while creating a new artwork he hears music from a nearby abandoned building, and finds a girl dancing ballet, sparking a newfound curiosity and desire for dance, much to the dismay of his blokey father.

What do you experience as a candidate in a state election campaign? This is what the filmmaker wants to know and accompanies a candidate with the camera for a year. See what he experiences in this documentary.

Madi and Lucia grow up in an Argentinian-German household. While their father fulfills his role as breadwinner, their mother Dolores is the cliché of a matriarch. But then Dolores has to go into hospital and the father is not only overwhelmed with the two young girls. Operation Adolescence begins.

When award-winning filmmaker Juan Antonio Moreno Amador learned that Seville's last brothel was being repurposed into a refugee reception centre, he moved in with his cameras.

The Reich Film Archive was founded in 1934 and existed up to the end of the “Third Reich”. It paved the way for the preservation of films, the safe storage of the highly-explosive film material of the time, and also initiated the international exchange of film archives (FIAF). During the Second World War, it was part of the Nazi war propaganda and the intended destination of so-called “booty films”. In order to protect it from air raids, parts of the archive were relocated in a salt mine near Helmstedt after 1943. Following the end of the war, its inventory was split between the film archives of the GDR and the FRG, which were then remerged after the reunification of Germany.

One of the most famous ancient landmarks on Earth, Stonehenge has fascinated the world for centuries. History is rewritten as a team of experts use cutting-edge technology to investigate a huge, newly discovered ring at the heart of the sacred site.

A team sent by the government is here to protect humanity from tornadoes. Bruce, Walter and Barrett are part of the Anti Tornado Squad and are ready to deal with that one-of-a-kind mission.

Emergency doctor Dr Ronx asks why more men than women are dying of Covid-19. Cancer and HIV too. Dr Ronx also challenges many dangerous gender assumptions in medicine that impact on women’s health.

Alex and Claire have something in common, between recurring nightmares and restless memories, only time will allow them to understand what is happening or has happened. The truth is hidden in a time that the two protagonists do not even imagine.

The question of meaning seems to occupy humanity since the beginning of time and the attempts to find an answer are as diverse as the human beings themselves. But what happens when one tries to examine that question from a non-human perspective? Filmmakers Bedekovic/Grunsky attempt this experiment by sending the alter ego X on a journey through Europe, before the outbreak of COVID-19. Although X observes the human world in a pure analytic way, she is offered quite emotional thoughts from the terrestrials.

An analysis of the importance of sound in horror films.

A couple, dragged by the bustle of their daily lives, are increasingly estranged from each other. With the arrival of the pandemic and social isolation, despite the vicissitudes, they work to recover what they had joined: the essential.

Ophelia is 92 years old, and her foggy memories continue to fade. The only way to slow down the unstoppable action of time is to document the present and rediscover the past in old Super 8s.

A delivery man has to deliver a package to an island, but when he arrives on the spot he is forced to deal with a disturbing and threatening scenario, a place populated by an ambiguous and alienated humanity. Nevertheless, the delivery man will do everything to get the job done, prompted by the incessant alarm coming from the technological device he wears on his wrist, ready to remind him that "the delivery is late".

To help fund his education and pay his rent Daniel has started a new job as an on demand takeaway rider. It's a lonely job and he struggles to connect with people, but Kelly in the chip shop is determined to get through to him.

Between two unsolicited calls, the director’s grandfather recalls an episode from the time when he was twenty and fought in the Second World War.

In the heart of central Europe are some of the world’s most impenetrable military strongholds. In France, 160 megastructure fortresses still line the country’s borders 3 centuries after they were constructed. As solid as ever, how did they withstand attack after attack? Was the secret in their materials? Their shape? In fact, the strength and resilience of these megastructures is due to the genius of one man: Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban.

The film is a story about the deep connection of the life and art of the artist. It takes you on a journey through Berlin like you have never seen before. Take a deep dive behind the scenes of the famous red and blue graffiti letterings that cover the heart of the city and tune into the connection between art, letters and spirituality.

This two image comparative film celebrates a Beech Tree through changes in light, space and time, represented in the film in transitions between light and shade (LS) and visibility and obscurity (RS). The film is silent and made handheld over a period of 10 years from 2010-20

The video was born within the Berlin postporno scene through a collaboration with trans feminist filmmaker and activist Emy Fem. The artist worked on the shoot on the set of Fem's latest film and from this experience produced the work The Pornographer in which an abstract tangle of bodies with fluid and undefined sexuality becomes an invitation to confront our limitations by embracing the value of diversity.

Alan Fishpaste and his new alien friend, Veronica Vongasuuelbuckett, escape to the grassy planet Toodu, whilst the devious Darren and his bountiful assistant Binky undertake a quest to capture them.

Pierre is an ordinary 55 years old man, solitary and very shy. He lives in his tidy and quiet apartment surrounded by his favourite figurine collections. However, his job is far from his low profil type. He’s been a Drag Queen Barmaid for the past 30 years, a hard and restrictive work he never really chose. But for him, it’s a job like any other.

Temporal Enforcement Agent Elliott Young (Victoria Smith) breaks protocol and returns to her own past. There she comes face to face with her 8-year-old past self, Ellie (Sophia Waterton), and Justin (Ian Mairs), her seemingly kind father. During the encounter, Elliott explosively confronts Justin about a tragedy that will occur in only a few hours time.

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual. The maritime atmosphere, the crudity of people’s lives and passions, and the complex, impenetrable personality of the protagonist come together in a tragedy which ferments and explodes in the din of silence and hearsay. New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden of London, the Opéra national of Paris and the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome

This poetic short romance takes us inside the mind and heart of Fred, an introverted young man. When he meets Raphael, the boy of his dreams, his vision, energy and sensuality leave him breathless. Though they part ways, Fred is compelled to tell Raphael how he really feels.

Under the pine forest, the winds sweep a villa deserted by its inhabitants. Selim Bentounes surrounds himself with relatives to film the dynamics of a group of occupants, protecting the last beating heart of a universe without feelings. The dystopian flavor of Little Heart is not tasted in a profusion of effects. The film elegantly carves a melancholy into the setting, the sound, the faces and the everyday scenes that are not quite what they seem. It is far from the others that this film-parable goes however, so that the world is reborn for a moment, in an explosion of pure emotions.

Doz has woken up in a darkened room, alone. With nothing but a screen, a set of images and a mysterious tele-shopper, Doz must discover what he’s here to do. But all is not so easy, when the digital world is so distracting…

A micro-film made during lockdown about unsent love letters and the feeling of limerence.

As the air has become unbreathable, humanity has learned to adapt and reorganise itself, living in isolation. Carla rarely leaves her apartment just like anyone else. The unbroken cycle of sleep, eat, work is taking its toll. Then one day a young couple moves into the apartment in the building opposite. Carla's life is about to change.

First Step Swim follows Caitlin on a journey of wild swimming as she navigates not only her relationship to her body, but also to the water and space in which she inhabits throughout this short film.

The small industrial port-city of Fos-sur-mer is located in the South of France. The city and the local population are suffocated by atmospheric pollution from the many refineries and industries surrounding them. Residents have developed strategies based on the convergence of economy and ecology. A culture of togetherness emerged.

A day at the lake. Andrej's ex-girlfriend Nadia pays him a visit. Nadia and Andrej's former best mate Claudius are a couple now. Nadia's request for help confronts Andrej with a shared dark secret.

Album release 'Collections From The Whiteout'. Live performance at Goonhilly Earth Station (Cornwall, UK).

Short film.

This work builds on a series which uses the form of online video tutorials to explore ideas around patterns in nature and existence. Each of them begins with Blandy giving a step-by-step tutorial explaining how to make a short video about a specific subject, only using the tools available via a computer – through the Internet and video editing software to video games.

'Hydra' Movietone Peel Sessions 1994-1997. Super 8 film features Movietone tour footage from Paris, Sweden, Norway and Holland 1997/98 and the beach on the Lizard in Cornwall which the song is about. This is a very early version of the song 'hydra' released on the album 'the blossom filled streets' by Domino Records/Drag City in 2000. It has Matt Elliott playing piano instead of Sam Jones playing guitar. Song was recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios on 31/08/1997. broadcast on The John Peel Show, BBC Radio 1, 30/09/1997. Kate Wright - bass, vocals. Rachel Coe - Clarinet. Matt Elliott - piano. Matt Jones - drums. Florence Lovegrove - viola, finger clicks.

ANNA is a young woman who loves music, drugs and her friends. She's struggling against the need of becoming a grown-up and tries everything to avoid reality - until a sudden accident disturbs her familiar routine. A film about friendship, the love for music and saying goodbye.

Online prankster Niko Omilana recounts the wild but true story of his 2021 campaign to become London's mayor and shake up the system.

It is 1942. Richard Mason is the Familiar to an ancient vampiric creature, living in the bowels of an old mansion. In order to survive it's physical and mental abuse, Mason must bring it victims to feed on.

From giving up his rugby dream to fulfilling his darting destiny, this is the story of an unprecedented rise to the top...

In Mannheim, Germany, 68 AI surveillance cameras have been installed to detect suspicious movements. What is a suspicious movement and how do Mannheimers feel about this new technology? How is this technology linked with preexisting forms of surveillance, such as police profiling?