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Dominique, Suzanne, and Annette: three women who participated in the adventure of the Medvedkine groups (Besançon, Sochaux, 1967-1974). In those same years, the lives of our grandmothers and mothers experienced decisive changes: they worked outside the home and revolutionized customs. A group of Besançon students are investigating those events and questioning their own family memory.

A film that reminds us there is no such thing as a neutral perspective and that everyone sees the world through a lens, or mix of lenses.

Found footage of the 1926 film "Les Fonts by Ribas y Compañía" (my grandfather) as opposed to subjective filming of my present in Les Fonts. A parody, a game of contrasts between cultivated flowers, domesticated to serve patriarchy, and wild flowers, which grow on the margins of thought.

When the citizens of the small farming village of Dobre vote for a mythical creature, democracy comes face to face with reality.

In the suburbs of Tokyo, away from the chaos and noise of the city, is the Café de Kinema. As if they were into a movie theater, out of time and space, people take refuge in their own silence while the melodies of Nino Rota get lost in the smoke of their cigarettes.

In the old Spanish cemetery of Larache, by the sea, where Jean Genet spent the last ten years of his life, a modest family of guardians watches over this dead man with profoundly human affection and constancy.

An explosion of gender identities and sexual orientations is currently underway: They are becoming more flexible, more diverse and, above all, more visible. One is non-binary, gender fluid, genderqueer, trans or cross gender, bisexual or pansexual. There is also strong opposition to this. The Catholic Church sees the "gender ideology" as a "postmodern aberration", and all over Europe thousands of people take to the streets to fight the supposed "gender madness" and to promote the heterosexual nuclear family as the basis of a healthy society. What is it up to the strict distinction between man and woman? Do we no longer need our classic gender roles? Is this so-called binary concept still tenable? This documentary examines these questions from a scientific perspective and shows that the world is definitely more colorful than we long believed.

After years of struggle, patience and love, Philippe and François will finally become fathers. In Brazil, a 10 year old child is waiting for them, his name is Renan. This film tells the story of this couple whose desire for a child was put to the test. A singular and original story, Le Roman de Renan tells the story of the adoption as it was experienced, simultaneously by the child and by his parents. For Renan and his two fathers, the road to becoming a family is long.

Evangelio mayor is almost entirely shot in the building which was being renovated in Madrid between 2019 and 2020 to house the Josete Massa LGTBIQ+ public residential care home for the elderly, the first of its kind in the world. The film takes advantage of the site under transformation to stage two things. The first is the lucid and harsh testimony of Ramón Barreiro, struck by AIDS in the early eighties and a survivor after many years of struggle and serious aftereffects. The second, a series of dialogues taken from the four Gospels, in which elderly members of the LGTBIQ+ community cite “the old words anew and in a new way”, as one of the notices which can be read at the beginning of the film states. Provocation is by no means the primary intention behind showing them; nor are they composed of irony. Rather, the film understands that the biblical text, as the basis for rituals and stories shared by generations, is a vast framework or grand code which can be harnessed dramatically.

On January 6, 2021, Americans were shocked to see the images of the Capitol under siege, stormed by thousands of Donald Trump supporters. Novelist Russell Banks, civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton, historian Eric Foner and segregation expert Richard Rothstein speak out about the event.

When Van Ngoc Ta originally trained as a lawyer, the Vietnamese family man never imagined that he would be rescuing women.

During his first trip to the United States, Tito Montero follows the footsteps of the writer Eduardo Galeano through the streets of Chicago in search of Haymarket, the place that symbolizes the global struggle of workers for their labor rights. The words of the filmmaker and the work history of his family are intertwined with those of the Uruguayan writer and those of other literary references to compose a personal and collective journey through space and time.

Billie, overwhelmed and intimidated by the outside world, has confined herself to existence within her box. Can she be convinced the world isn't so scary if she's prepared to step into it?

A portrait of Guatemala City and municipalities adjacent to the Pan-American Highway from the eyes of the stray dogs living there.

Cesar Picton lived on Kingston High Street on the outskirts of London at the end of the 18th century, in the midst of the British Industrial Revolution. As a child, he was brought to England on a slave ship from Senegal and grew up as a servant of Sir John Phillips. He later gained independence and became a successful coal merchant and a wealthy gentleman who lived in a white house by the River Thames. A local man comes across this white house during a walk through the town centre. He calls a phone number that he finds on a sign outside the building. At a time of restricted human interaction, this attempt to make contact with the house’s former inhabitant from 200 years ago takes an unexpected turn.

Two people are determined to continue a relationship despite having to distance themselves in dramatic fashion. Is this happening in a time long ago, or is it in a future which has been forced to ‘re-set’? ‘Waves’ is a love story, a commentary on technology and social interaction, and a need for the human touch.

Sara and Alberto spend their days at home. They look out the window and watch: spring is approaching and the sun is setting later and later. Alberto entertains himself by playing with the light, the shadows and the nooks and crannies they leave on the living room. Sara goes out on the balcony in the evenings and examines the neighborhood with her camera. When they are in bed, they talk about what worries them. About job expectations. About being creative and why keep trying, if someone else has done it before you. About living in confinement, but at the same time, realizing that things haven't changed as much as they seem.

Through a window into the life of the filmmaker's grandmother, Kohandel's short interview-film explores gender roles in early 20th-century Iran. As a young girl, marriage to her older cousin leads to years of control and frustration. Rebelling against her husband, she eventually relocates to France with her sons, building a new life. As she voices her own story, the film weaves her experiences together into a broader narrative of self-determination. She carves out her independence in suburban Paris and finds comfort in the everyday. A simple kind of happiness follows, the sparrow is free.

Suki, a student in an unfamiliar city, happens upon a living statue who seems to be as lonely as she is. Slowly, they start to become friends - but will it last?

A group of friendly characters get tangled in the streets of Buenos Aires between jobs, infidelities, plays, books and musical instruments. A young director takes refuge in movie theaters and declares a sudden muteness. Despite his own and other people's pressures, he refuses to direct a script that he hates. In the end, he makes an unexpected decision.

This is a collective film shot on film, made with and by the opponents of the Cigéo project in Bure and the surrounding area, in the Meuse and Haute-Marne departments. In the film, several worlds clash, intersect, observe each other, mingle, or avoid one another. There are people who live underground, others on the surface or in the trees. We imagined what would happen in a world contaminated by nuclear power. A dystopian film? Perhaps. But also an archival film where some of the places that appear on screen no longer exist. This film was made in parallel with the struggle, alongside it, in close contact with it, in the slow, deliberate process of collective creation, between 2016 and 2020. The story was entirely written, inspired by what was happening here. It is permeated by our fears about the future, our anger and our hope that there will always be people to inhabit the threatened areas and fight against these morbid projects.

Shot in Claude Monet’s Garden in Giverny (France) this film is a search for its cusp — a possible point of passage, set at the limit of the scope of representation and at the beginning of the animal and the vegetal realms. The film shows the microscopic ecosystem that constitutes Monet’s “pictorial Garden”. It is an attempt to capture it from a non-perspectival point of view. Shot as a single sequence running the duration of a 400-foot reel, it features views of the edges of water-lily’s leaves and of Monet’s iconic green bridge, until the lens of the camera is intentionally removed to place the analogue film directly in contact with the environment, recording its presence with no interface. The abstract image resulting from this process captures the shimmering lights and movements of all beings during this quiet summer night.

A delicious flavour of queer London nightlife through the lens of someone who had their life changed by The Chateau, a (now gone) underground DIY bar, cultural space and performance collective in South East London.

In a rural setting, a young nun, disenchanted with her faith, wishes to hang up her habits and looks into suicide as the immediate solution to her reality.

Agustina has been a shepherdess for as long as she can remember. Throughout her life she has had three great loves. Between dreams and memories she sings about everything that has and has not been. Agustina lives with Dionisio in a rural community called El Saltillo in Guanajuato, Mexico. Serranillas are medieval spanish compositions dealing with some kind of amatory adventure in rural landscapes.

A film resolutely turned on the side of the bees, full of hope, enriching, committed, exciting and politically incorrect ... which will transform our view of this insect and the living world. Our relationship with the living world must change if we want to safeguard our environment. Changing our view on nature, working with it and not against it, are values that this film wants to share.

What started as a making of for Robie's next album ended up becoming a visual diary. The day-to-day life and the pains and glories that the young emerging artist faces during the creation of her next album. She tells how her heart was broken, how she seeks funding for her music videos, how she survives and how everything that she experiences is transformed into songs. What is the price to pay to be successful in music? And in love? And in life?

Robert Peroni founds The Red House, a refuge that helps the Inuit population.

Jessica bumps into a man with half a million pounds in cash, Paul attempts a FaceTime date in a restaurant, and Mick the gangster debates America’s gun laws. Follow the lives of Londoners as technology and coincidence constantly interrupt them.

When Lisa Angermann and Andreas Reinke received their first Michelin star, their restaurant "Frida" was already closed to guests. In fascinating images, the film tells the story of the magic of cooking during the enforced break.

Freewheeling film celebrating both sexual and stylistic fluidity. Phoenix literally changes colour as the characters circle one another. A medical student who sometimes rents out a room in his house receives a visit from a young woman he was romantically involved with the previous summer. But he shows little interest in her – mainly because he’s now in love with Harry.

A docudrama about the Gay Trials of Frankfurt 1950-51. When a teenage hustler was arrested by the police he revealed the names of his clients to save his own neck. His betrayal destroyed the lives of more than 200 gay men within 10 months.

A documentary, filmed entirely in the Basque Country, about Basque mythology and the ancestral beliefs of its people. Created by writer Toti Martínez de Lezea and anthropologist Anuntxi Arana, Amari immerses us in a world of legends full of supernatural beings that formed and continue to form part of the Basque people's imagination.

A summer camp. From all walks of life, kids meet there. Some hang out in the field, others in the melancholy of crannies. And there are those who seek their place, clash with others, caught up in a furious desire to establish contact.

Karen is a petty thief and a drug addict. She targets lonely ladies and enters their house under the pretext of taking refuge. However this time, things don't go quite as planned.

On December 30th, 2000, a blizzard in the Pyrenees killed 9 people in Balandrau. An emotional portrait of the tragedy narrated by the survivors.

The director Alain Jessua evokes his beginnings, his career and recalls with passion his experience with the greatest filmmakers.

The film portrays the return to home and encounter with lost memories. Air Carnations explores the possibilities of filmmaking to put pieces together through the editing process. Researching different perspectives on the filmmaker’s childhood home in Chile, interviews with their mother and sister reveal complex family dynamics.