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The narrator in the moving image work "GALAXY" is technology itself. "GALAXY" tells the story of the brief encounter of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of an encounter of love and disappointment. Small deviations in the language and the narrative logic reveal our social imprint of how stories are expected to be told and how technology is programmed to follow these perceptions. The mise-en-scéne is a computer-generated galaxy of objects and images reminiscent of the organic, but dismembered and fragmented, reflecting on the possibility of creating new worlds and stories in digital space by following a subjective system of ordering.

Lionel descends down the abyss of his deepest fears.

Pablo Legasa from the Paris Opera Ballet dances in the sky in live-action, to Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 1.

In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of the late filmmaker Margaret Tait having tea are rendered through expressive Bolex movements as well as the director’s active camera, and punctuated by abstract swaths of saturated and shifting colors. The film is an homage to Tait, whom Aurand visited in Orkney.

Nina is a rat-girl who lives with her kind in an underground village, which is ruled by a harsh tyranny. But she will discover that a big world exists outside, and she will escape there to improve her understanding of reality.

Power Grab by Nicola Singh and Helen Collard focuses on the interplay of bodies in opposition and harmony.

A short documentary film on the attempts of a young Greek filmmaker to connect with his distant Lebanese half by discovering his mother's secret stories of the war.

This coming-of-age teen dark comedy, revolves around main protagonist, Kiara, who is peer pressured into taking drugs from friends and starts to hallucinate. In this somewhat illusive, fantasy world; Kiara and her friends are on a mission to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend whilst under the influence which makes her question the situation at hand.

I left a voicemail to myself.

There are nightmares that arise from internal storms that we try to ignore and that we stoically endure for a long time. But sometimes we wake up, and what we see, and what we hear above all, is part of another reality in which you are not alone when you understood that you were. Are you afraid when you don't know if what you are experiencing can be or not? Are you afraid to believe in what is impossible? Now something terrifying is happening. At times, you want to believe that it's a lie, that you're going to wake up... But no. This year, this is what happens... Turn off the light, listen carefully and think... Will you let it devour your soul?

A young woman's dream of leaving Africa hoping for a better life is shattered on the eve of her departure when her mother and sister and brutally murdered. With nothing else to lose, what begins as a search for the truth quickly turns into violence and uncanny exposés. In a world full of lies and deception, can she get the answers she is looking for.

Her work, her marriage, maternity, life itself… For Edith, everything has passed along without further questioning. As a cashier of a supermarket, she watches her days pass by between family and labor routine. Weeks, months and years she sees go by without even thinking. Suddenly, she discovers she is not happy. A conflict at work seems to synchronize with other thousands of sparks that set on fire the dry prairie of a society without hope. While Santiago starts to burn, Edith moves, bound for a change of life, no matter where destiny can take her.

How can we find happiness in today’s world? A young filmmaker asks her peers what makes them happy. A snapshot of a generation of French youth faced with the uncertainty, hard choices and intermittent joys of life.

Juan Sartori, a millionaire businessman comes back to his home country of Uruguay to start his road to presidency.

A short documentary on North East professional wrestler Joseph Biggs.

When Andrés knows the diagnosis of Norma's terminal illness, his mother urges him the need to hold on to his camera, record his family environment and rescue childhood memories that show fragments of a young, cheerful, uninhibited and vital mother. After Norma is a catharsis against family history that reflects on the relationship with our parents and is a metaphor for change and absence. A movie about a family that could be yours.

Kathleen is a hairdresser who uses her talents in the most tender and gentle of ways: she primps and pampers people in palliative care, committed to creating small moments of normalcy and joy in their lives.

An outside menace keeps a family captive. Confinement is the only scape in this tale of quarantine times.

At first calm, even dreamy, the film takes the viewer into the quiet of the seaside and undersea landscape somewhere in Italy. They are soon shaken awake from these blissful images by footage of traces of today's global industrial world, as an increasing part of the sea is polluted by wastewater from factories, destroying the natural beauty.

In If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie takes us to Cultybraggen Camp in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Originally built during World War II as a prisoner-of-war camp, Cultybraggen has also functioned as an army training base, a nuclear monitoring post, regional government headquarters, a data storage centre, an orchard and now – in McCrorie’s film – a world run by children.

Ulrike and Olli meet in 1985 while on tour with Circus Roncalli. He is living his childhood dream as part of the successful clown duo 'Illi & Olli'. She has recently left her life as a nurse in Berlin behind. When the season is over, she moves with him to Switzerland. What began as a circus fairy tale eventually becomes reality, amid creative crises, raising children, and ultimately growing older.

The Needle tells the story of a mother, who is in search for her missing son in Turkey. The film is based on true incidents, on the theme “The Saturday Mothers”. The main protagonist is a “Saturday Mother”.

Capitalism produces more and more losers worldwide. An old idea is given new strength: the cooperative. In Guatemala, a country with a cruel history and a dominant oligarchy, indigenous coffee farmers defy the most difficult circumstances. With their cooperative, which has been run by a Swiss citizen for 30 years, they have become one of the most important coffee exporters in the country.

In the wilderness, a giraffe couple puts on a performance every night at twilight. Animals come to listen, and take a well-deserved break to eat, and be eaten.

A man isolated in a motel room with a restraining order receives a phone call from his wife and kids, his sanity is questioned when he begins to lose trace of logic and loses control.

Ana is on her way to pick up her boyfriend, Gabriel, to go to a party together. Upon arrival, she finds something that makes her reconsider their attendance to the party and jeopardizes their relationship.

Francis, a depressive and nostalgic thirty-something, can't get over his breakup and spends his time listening to an old French pop song that reminds him of his lost love. Forced to spend an evening Time's up with friends, Francis' obsession will test the patience of some.

A short film that explores the female body as a battle territory, where it has pain, resistance, collective memory and liberation marked in its own flesh.

In a suburban town, a purple liquid is starting to trap everyone who is settling into their daily routine. The more they wait to change their habits, the harder the liquid makes it to change the situation, and look for what life has to offer.

Portrait of the artist.

Oasissy’s oeuvre transcends onto the silver screen with a cinematic debut that defies genre, deftly blending their subtle tribute to Oasis with an unbridled passion for Céline Sciamma's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Oasissy are a spoof, drag king, Oasis tribute act who have performed all over the UK, on the streets, in cabarets and on screens.

Black Stone Cherry's live 2018 performance from Download Festival UK.

People with different heritages explain what their exotic names mean to them and the society around them.

An innocent student decides to earn some money by posing as a model at the Academy of Fine Arts. The place seems to function beyond time and space, and the other models advise him to run away.

In the heights of the Kurdish mountains between Iran and Iraq, Helia and Sama decide to take up arms clandestinely so they no longer have to endure the violence suffered by Kurdish and by women in Iran. Inside the Komala party’s encampment, they begin their political and military formation...

Inspired by atmospheric adventure games such as Myst, and a poem by Édouard Glissant of the same name, this is a short film which starts with the desire to undo pain and constriction by finding 'negative islands' from which the world might be unmade. Nisha Ramayya plays 'S', who circles between lime kiln tunnels, observation decks high above a future city, and the London clubbing scene, trying to find a re-beginning, or a good way through this field of islands and into a world beyond.

To remove a tampon is a private action. I have always removed them by myself except once.

"Ceguera Inducida" (Induced Blindness) is a retrospective upon childhood and a collective memory which seems to be endangered by the growth of extreme right-wing parties in South America. Yesterday, far away from home, the distance seemed to shape and re-signify my infancy and the memories arising from the Uruguayan worst economic crisis at the beginning of this century. Today, these words seem to prevail and the melancholy continues to invade. The second voice of the film belongs to Jorge Luis Batlle, ex-president of the Republic (2000-2005) during a visit to the United States.

The intertwined story of two boys.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) was founded in 1950 and, since reunification, has relied on the 1990 German Constitutional Protection Act to provide an "early warning system" against threats to democracy. While this intelligence service has been targeting far-left groups and radical Islamists for decades, its critics recently accused it of being "blind in the right eye" - in other words, of neglecting the rise in violence attributed to the far right. Indeed, the institution was powerless to thwart the series of fatal attacks perpetrated between 2000 and 2011 by the neo-Nazi group Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (NSU, "National Socialist Underground"), sparking astonishment and an avalanche of criticism in Germany.

Hello, Are We in the Show? is a poetic animation film that uses the formal language of a nature documentary. The film offers us a glimpse of daily life in the Sonian Forest near Brussels, and shows us the fauna and flora without disguising the influence of city and people.

The incredible story of Oli, a young British man with Asperger's, who overnight discovers he has 25 brothers and sisters, all from the same American sperm donor.

Short documentary by by Maria Luisa Forenza.

This intimate story chronicles the relationship between musicians Faith and Branko over 7 years. In 2011, Faith travels from England to Serbia to learn gypsy accordion. She meets Roma violinist Branko and despite language barriers, they fall in love through music. Captivated by their musical chemistry, they marry and take their duo abroad. Their relationship is tested when they realize their differences and that music may be all they have in common.

Manticore, mythological animal returning from centuries past to shoot their venomous spines and return to the tiny particle state of our dreams. Our human, productive, hurried life without respite is sometimes necessarily attacked and nipped, so we may understand that we are still alive, though drowned, prisoners and cursed, despite having burned our ships.

"From Mono to Stereo fully represents my transition from 'L' to 'R', without excluding either. The Mike Lennon that you have known so far is just one of the facets and personalities that make me up, now you will finally be able to fully appreciate me, in my total freedom of musical and visual expression."

An outlaw convinces his well-established brother (a banker) and sister (a model) to rebel against the "System" by robbing a finance company and flee the country in a deadly road trip.