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The night is dark and cold, I walk through the plantations, I look at the leaves and stems of the banana trees while memories of my grandfather come to my mind.

A blue flower blooms on the threshold of the infinite.

A woman who imagines, who distorts her own universe, sensations, sounds, colors. A saint who confesses her love.

Gernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller. Working specifically with an account of a never performed theater production of Maurier’s story - one that was meant to be staged at a psychiatric hospital in northern Italy – Wieland's film inverts the original script’s roles: human characters become birds and the bird protagonists become humans.

Busby Berkeley, circles and bacteria.

Alex, a carpenter who is currently on the road, is once again hit by a car on the side of the road. But this time he is hit harder than the times before and the lonely shepherdess Rita rescues him unconscious from the ditch. On her farm she treats him and the two quirky nonconformists quickly become close. They enjoy each other's company until Luise, one of Rita's sheep, is torn by a wolf. Thereupon, the two's differing worldviews begin to destroy the budding romance. Alex underestimates Rita's intense loyalty with the wolf and she, on the other hand, underestimates his with Luise the sheep.

Fragilities of time and perception are captured in macro in Kamila Kuc's "uchronia, no.1". Seductively textured images contrast against intimate and claustrophobic sounds, forming an eerily demanding observational experience.

La Piave is an attempt to describe the Piave river and its surroundings as a character in constant change. Each chapter shows a different research session in which the landscape is analyzed in its structure through individual shots, thus forming a naturalist mosaic that accounts for the different conformations of the territory over the years. This first part collects the documentation of the place made by me between 2017 and 2021, as well as a couple of found footage sequences.

Supported financially by his mother in Paris, Medhi will learn to become an adult through the discovery of his first sexual emotions and emancipate himself from his mother.

Polaris is trapped in an underwater cocoon and the ocean around her is dead. So falling in love with this story traveller is a really bad idea.

A pregnant woman, a prawn sandwich, a splash of red - Crowning.

The truth is out there. Well, in Cornwall anyway. Television journalist Ellie Thornton spends time in the county of Cornwall reporting and following the lives of a Cornish UFO investigation team.

Five young high school graduates, who appear flawless on the outside, spend one last evening together before they all go their separate ways. After events escalate at a party they are at, the group is thrown out. On the way home together, innermost thoughts and secrets come to light that you would not have expected before.

When Molly is enjoying her summer holidays, her grandmother decides to give her a kitten. The feline happens to be more intrusive than expected.

Bayanihan with Love is a project made in response to the adverse effects of the pandemic on the Filipino community in the UK.

Wake and soil, skin and voice: Hope Strickland's film locates a legacy of slavery and colonial exploitation beneath the archive's official chronicle, in the deep historical memory of the body. "If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever)" sings an alternate history of resistance—familial, elemental, and sensuous.

Brescia, March 2020. The Spedali Civili, the city's public hospital, suddenly finds itself inundated with patients. In the best tradition of direct cinema, Michele Aiello manages to document a moving slice of life, and to film, at the worst moments of this collective tragedy, the unprecedented reports that unite patients and health personnel in the face of the unknown.

Three generations of women from the same family broke the silence of a long history that began in 1939. Alejandro's memory hangs by a thread that will be broken.

The Italian Association for Music Day presents the national event featuring a concert by Edoardo Bennato, the ambassador for Music Day 2021. With an expanded line-up for the occasion, Bennato will blend the various facets of the show, performing pieces that combine symphonic counterpoints with rock – his best-known musical style.

This is a film about control in gay male relationships. A discovery of betrayal leads to revenge climaxing in an attack and the avenger announcing the most controlling of statements to his lover victim in the final shot.

Experimental short film playing with light and how it appears through reflections, lenses, and distortions

Searching for the real in the world of the virtual, motivated by an urge to exteriorize the feeling of loss and grief. 3D reconstruction of the kitchen of the film author's grandparents, where they had dinner together every Sunday and talked about death.

The Danish war veteran Henrik returns home from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress. After a series of failed treatments, he travels deep into the Amazon jungle to heal himself with natural remedies and the world's strongest hallucinogenic drink, Ayahuasca. 'The Soldier' follows Henrik's struggle in the jungle for three full years, and is an inner portrait of a broken man.

Inventory 2021 is a remake of the original film Inventur-Metzstrasse 11 shot by Yugoslav director Želimir Žilnik in Munich in 1975. In this second version of his film, set in the city of Chemnitz and shot in 2021, Öğrenci offers an alternative look at the situation of people of different genders, ages and ethnicities living in Germany as immigrants. As in the original work, the filming takes place inside the building where the people are supposedly staying, who, one after the other, introduce themselves to the camera by briefly telling who they are and how they live their situation as immigrants.

Noah, a young man in search of his identity, is invited by his best friend, Ethan, to take part in the expeditions he organises with his gang in the depths of the metro. In this in-between world, where they compete to find their place, Ethan will challenge the teenagers to jump over the rails before the train arrives. For Noah, risking his life seems to be the only way to be accepted and above all to exist in Ethan's eyes.

Madrid, April 2020. Covid-19. A girl, at home, is bored. A boy feels lonely in his room. They don’t know each other, but imagine each other on a chat. And while they do so, they start a journey in space and time trying that will take them away from their enforced lockdown.

11 year old Oscar is on a mission to join a gang. His strategy simple; across the year, keep badgering an older boy, Kush. There's just one major obstacle though. Meet The Gangbuster; when NOT seeing difference makes you different.

A young mother, whose family is separated by ICE, shares her story in this short animated documentary.

But what can they see through this hole? Crowds of people, individuals, individuals in a crowd, partition walls, buildings, bugs, an intruder, the battle... The beginning or the end of a non-systematic system.

Enma and Joel spend Sunday afternoon at home. After watching a superhero movie, Enma's imagination runs wild and she thinks she has superpowers. Joel turns on the TV, on all the channels they talk about the case of "the herd", Enma gets hooked on the news and wants with all her might that they pay for her crime. An unfortunate comment from Joel will cause Enma to rethink her relationship.

The building of a house we will never live in – a house for our ghosts where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide.

March 2018: I am in the Blue Mountains. March 2021: I am in lockdown in London.

Intimate experimental film that explores a forensic jeweller's craft and interrogates whether a new scientific practice could unearth hidden stories that lie beneath a surface.

SELCE LIVE PERFORMANCE 2 16mm projectors, synth and voice, 30′, 2021.

The "Carnival of the Animals" is Camille Saint-Saëns' best-known piece. Saint-Saëns did not want it to be published. On the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in December 2021, the documentary reports on the circumstances under which the piece of music was created, tells of Saint-Saëns' life and how the "Carnival of the Animals" ultimately became an evergreen in the music world.

A couple is having sex when he says "I love you". She is shocked instantly. He, scared, withdraws what he said. Then a discussion begins in which the guy is unable to fix the situation and, in the end he ends up on the stairs naked. At that moment the police appears but the help that the police officer provides is of little use to the guy in this case.

What distinguishes a premium brand from a generalist one? In this documentary, Ducati reveals the path that led it to be a premium manufacturer and that has allowed the brand to create technologically advanced motorcycles, with a superior reliability, while maintaining the ability to bear witness to a passion and a tradition that has not equals in the world. A journey inside the Borgo Panigale factory, with interviews with the main managers who made this change possible.

The photographer and filmmaker Guillermo Cantón premiered “Dos Gringos”, a one-hour documentary on the history of the last 100% Argentine automaker: Industrias Eduardo Sal-Lari (IES). Based on Citroën products, IES manufactured low-cost vehicles in the Buenos Aires town of Mercedes, between 1983 and 1990.

A parent-teacher meeting one Saturday morning attempts to address a complicated altercation between teenagers Jolene Strickland and Stacy Duvelier, with the help of an expert arbitrator, Julie Langham.

Wenceslao, a fisherman from San Mateo del Mar, is forced to work in lagoons where fish are scarce and hardships are plenty. This is the result of a conflict within his community, sparked by the construction of wind farms in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca.

Eli comes back to her hometown, finds her ex lover and her young stepsister. Within a day and a boat trip, while she tries to seduce Zack, she will have to face the harsh reality and reveal herself.

Iorram is a lyrical portrait of the Gaelic-speaking fishing community in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and its intimate relationship with the sea. This first-ever theatrical documentary entirely in Scottish Gaelic blends archive recordings of voices, stories and songs from the past with visuals of island life today and a contemporary folk score, to take the audience on an immersive and moving journey into the heart of an ancient community struggling to preserve its identity in the modern globalized world.

Second part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.

Carolina shines a light on the intersectionality of queerness, transgender-ness and accessibility in this documentary about allyship and making our voices heard.

After twenty years of international competitions, the three times Ice Climbing World Champion Angelika Rainer is at a crossroad in her career. 'My upside down world', the first biopic documentary about the Italian climber's personal and professional life, will follow Angelika's path to self-discovery, as the first woman of her family to be fully in charge of her freedom and destiny.