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Being young and LGTIB is not easy in Spain. Despite being one of the best countries to be LGTIB, they continue to suffer harassment in educational centers by their peers. The ignorance of the real problems of the children only increases their suffering.

“I’m not in the picture!” The grandmother is sure the filmmaker has positioned the camera wrong. The old lady vigorously defends her image of herself against her granddaughter, who wants to learn more about her flight from Hungary to Austria. In a dialogue characterized by friction and intimacy, they reveal the way families pass on their history from one generation to the next, and how it works its way into the core of relationships.

Documentary short about the contrasting experiences, past and present, of three trans men of different generations.

On the eve of postponed Congolese elections, two Congolese and two Belgian cineastes make a film about Kinshasa and its resistance against the legacies of colonialism. The four filmmakers want to tell a story together, but having grown up on other sides of history, they have different views on how to tell that story. What should it look like? Who should be in it? For whom is it made? Faire-part is the search of four filmmakers for a way to portray the city. Through filming artistic performances in public space, they paint a provocative picture of Kinshasa and its relations with the rest of the world.

Due of the pregnancy of his sister-in-law, Seba loses interest in his adolescent life of parties and alcohol. Now he fantasizes about the opportunity to form the family he never had, the one that his older brother rejects.

An off the cuff documentary, depicting a group of friends' ramble through the Derbyshire Peak District; including a musical ride on the Folk Train, stunning views from the top of Kinder Scout, and a general sense of Tolkien-esque questing.

Ten years after the first riots the media no longer speak of the Greek crisis. Everything suggests that the austerity cure has succeeded and that calm has returned. This film proves the opposite. In Thessaloniki young people prevent auctions of foreclosed homes. In Crete peasants oppose the construction of a new airport. In Athens a mysterious group worries the power by multiplying the sabotages. In the neighborhood of Exarcheia threatened with evacuation the heart of the resistance welcomes the refugees in self-management. A trip to music among those who dream of love and revolution.

For decades, the 'Legionaries of Christ' appeared mainly as a globally acting and rapidly growing community that is very loyal to the Pope. Especially due to their success among the young, many conservative Catholic circles considered the movement a convincing answer to the crisis of faith in the Western world. After an unparalleled abuse scandal surrounding the Mexican founder of the order, however, overall enthusiasm has cooled noticeably. Nevertheless, the remaining members still believe in the validity of the movement's original mission. Even in an increasingly skeptical environment they continue spreading a message that is inspired by a radical faith. The film follows the work of the Legionaries in Germany, thereby giving a rare insight into the mindset and survival strategies of a specific Catholic worldview.

From his office at La Borde Clinic, Jean Oury recounts a life spent hosting madness. Valuable testimony of one of the major players in twentieth century psychiatry, this film invites us to share the quality of a meeting whose stakes exceed the clinical field from all sides. By drawing us closer to a subtle knowledge of psychosis, He sends everyone back to an essential reconquest of humanity.

Documentary about the participation of the International Brigades in February 1937 in containing the advance of the rebel troops after the fall of Malaga.

The post-industrial city of Marl, Germany carries the scars of the economic depression following the mining industry’s demise. City squares are filled with public sculptures bearing witness of past wealth surrounded by public buildings that are Brutalist masterpieces. Here, a horse stands alone. The horse is almost static, but in spite of his relative fixity, it remains the only source of life present in this deserted urban environment. The work looks at the archetypical forms of equestrian public sculptures and more broadly questions the use, codes and authority of public space artwork.

Short experimental film by Alvaro Chior. Exhibited at various art spaces, including Porto dell’Arte (Bologna, Italy), Spectral Microcinema (Wisconsin, EEUU), Interview Room 11 (Edinburgh, Scotland), Proyecto T (Ciudad de México, México) and Galería Santa Fe (Bogotá, Colombia).

Alois Brunner, member of the Nazi Party and SS officer, is particularly known in France for having directed in the most brutal and perverse way the camp of Drancy from where he sent to the death camps, more than 20,000 Jews, a third of the Jews arrested in our country, sometimes with the complicity of the French authorities.

FLIPPED explores the absurdity of a world where the roles of kids and adults are switched. The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of this relationship, tackling topics about maturity and parenting in a comic way.

Soberania is a documentary about an ecosocial crisis in the Chiloé Achipelago, in the south of Chile. Its inhabitants were faced with and reacted to what they called death of the sea after hundreds of years living in a deep bound with the sea

In their youth in the 1990s, Kerem, Dönmez, and Hakan belonged to one of the notorious youth gangs in Frankfurt, which also existed in many other German cities. Drug dealing, acquisitive crime, grievous bodily harm, and manslaughter—their reputation spread rapidly, not least through reports in local and national media.

We Out Here: A LDN Story is a document of the people and places which have laid the foundations for London’s fertile jazz scene in 2018. It’s about the renaissance which jazz has experienced over the past few years. It’s also about friendship, community and the influences of the city that these musicians call home. The film tells the journey of these young, gifted players, many of whom have trained and come up together, and whose sounds are now becoming an integral part of London’s musical landscape – as well as representing the city around the UK and the rest of the world.

Stephen cant resist opening his present before Christmas, he has no idea what festive horror awaits him.

Cotonou - Benin, from one point to the other side of the international market of Dantokpa.

Inspired by Augusto Monterroso’s Maids, this short film combining fiction and dance presents a maid ballerina embodying the voices of two stock radio drama lovers who plan to murder her with their own hands.

Documentary that chronicles the events of July 25, 1978, when two activists were killed by police officers in Cierro Maravilla, Puerto Rico.

In the quiet heart of the New Forest, a group of addicts find the one place they can be themselves - Sunrise.

May 68, behind the scene

Not "da da da", "Hey. Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" is the sound of life. You just have to feel it, and then even still lives swing. Nothing is the way it used to be. Ideas about gender roles, for example, or that grandchildren are always encouraged in their endeavours. Yet, one thing hasn't changed: The grandparents sit on their sofa and defy all external odds with subtle humour and charming determination. Bit by bit, it unfolds that in German history Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

A man becomes obsessed by an art piece from Marcel Duchamp.

Habub and Marcos establish a relationship through “video letters” during the wintertime. Through these videos, we see what daily life is like in the Sahrawi refugee camps and, more importantly, how important the friendship between these two kids is.

A man eats burgers from a well-known fast food chain.

Film made with the archive material of the Catalan avant-garde poet Vermell. This philosophical comedy focuses on the years of Vermell's youth. An anxious artist who wonders himself, What is art? Immediately he throws himself on the murky waters of creation. A delirious walk through Barcelona and Paris at the end of the 20th century. The exaggerated life is a story about the dream of art and the unstoppable power of youth, passion and love.

Thanks to his experiments with brushstrokes and impasto, Camille Pissaro came to be known as one of the fathers of Impressionism.

Short film by Daniele Zanelli released as part of the '4 Nightmares' anthology.

The incredible story of Sally Noach, a Dutch Jewish carpet salesman who rescued hundreds of Jews from Vichy France by forging identification papers and arranging their escape. Equally intriguing is the controversy still surrounding Noach’s exploits: lingering rumours about espionage and black-market profiteering. Finally, with assistance from the filmmaker, researchers and living witnesses whose families he saved, Noach’s children attempt to solve the puzzle.

A man in a blue suit passes the time away watching the dock workers.

With its carnival face, its devilish eye and its giant wingspan, the bearded vulture had everything to become a legend. This bone-breaking vulture, exterminated in the Alps at the beginning of the twentieth century, flies over our mountains again. But his return is no coincidence. Two biologists, one French, the other Swiss, tell us about the mores and the fabulous history of this extraordinary raptor. The Bearded Vulture federates the largest program for the protection and conservation of a bird in Europe. But in the fragile balance of nature nothing is ever gained. What threats still hang over this vulture? A human challenge at the heart of the animal world which shows that, when he wants, man is capable of changing things.

Life in Neuperlach, a Munich suburb, is quaint. It is a safe neighborhood, where people know and greet each other. Everybody has their own backyard; single car garages are lining the narrow footpaths and everything is groomed. But for some time now that peacefulness is troubled, because refugees are supposed to move in next door. As some of the residents are afraid of the noise to be expected, they are putting up a noise protection wall. Biotope shows the life of the locals and gets to the bottom of the reason for building that wall.