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A television journalist follow Paris firefighters. she's thus covers the everyday life of firefighters but also the major events and tragedies they are confronted.

The Kummer family stands ready: The Chemnitz-based family of artists is also working from home during the pandemic. Spotlight snapshots of a family caught between standstill and stubborn perseverance.

The Tindalls are on the surface an unlikely pairing of a Wakefield-born rugby union player and the daughter of the Princess Royal born and bred in a royal palace. This programme looks at their life together, from the highs to the lows, revealing how they carved out successful careers for themselves and supported each other along the way.

Celina, a homeless and rootless woman, wanders around stealing objects, only to have something of her own that is still alien. Through the objects she steals, she establishes magical links with other characters, becoming involved in parallel stories from which she cannot escape.

The blind ex-commissioner Alexander Haller will never forget May 12, 2017. It is the day he lost his fiancée Kara and his eyesight in a bomb attack. When a mysterious note appears on a murder victim with exactly this date, his past catches up with him.

In the relentless world of professional cycling, every race is a battle-but for the young Breton team known as the "Men in Glaz," the fight is bigger than a finish line. After earning a coveted spot in the 2020 Tour de France, the riders set their sights on an even greater challenge: securing their place in the 2021 edition of the world's most prestigious race. As the team navigates financial uncertainty, fierce competition, and the unforgiving demands of the sport, One Day We'll Win the Tour offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at their journey. Filmmaker Laurent Cadoret captures their grit, sacrifice, and unwavering belief in a shared dream: to stand among cycling's elite and, one day, claim victory on the grandest stage of all.

Short film by Licio Esposito.

Almost every inhabitant of Fondo Negro has relatives abroad. Since the 1980s, job migration, meaning wages shared with the residents from afar, has been one of the most important sources of income in this region in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. Young women in particular go to Europe or the U.S. to support their families by unskilled labour. In her enchantingly beautiful film, director Anna-Sophia Richard shows how this affects the ones who stay behind.

The Royal Ballet brings their annual presentation of The Nutcracker to life, streamed in cinemas throughout the world.

It's not the bats' fault. Holed up in lockdown, I made a bat-head mask, I made a skeleton. I made a miniature wood by collecting twigs and moss from the local cemetery, scraping it off the gravestones. "Not Yet Out of the Wood" is a phrase that we are going to keep on hearing during our long entanglement with COVID-19. Bats have been around for 50 million years and now their habitats are being destroyed at a terrifying rate. I wanted to give them right of reply.

On 23rd February 2005, the radio announces a bill on the benefits of French colonization. This announcement disrupts Louise and her family's daily life. Her house turns out to be inhabited by peculiar presences.

The charming emotion “Fear” that lives in your head wants to give an interview. Maybe you can become friends! Or is there a reason to be afraid of being afraid?

Ari performs as a Jewish Drag King, much to the confusion of their family. Idolising real-life hero, Pepi Littman, who carved out a space for Drag Kings over 100 years ago, they use this history to open up a space for acceptance in the present.

"Tonino De Bernardi - Un tempo, un incontro" is a film about the duel between two friends who are very different from one another. Two different approaches, two characters, two views that only seem antithetical meet and then open up in front of a camera. Or, more precisely, in front of the cameras. On the one hand, the eye of Daniele Segre. On the other hand, Tonino's, which almost taints the film's aesthetics. The film's development conveys a sense of immediacy, which is a fundamental principle for both directors. Daniele films Tonino and Tonino films Daniele, and this takes place in a play of associations, and in the space of an encounter. The two directors have seized this opportunity to swap views and experiences.

In this documentary, Thomas Betzler, born in Darmstadt in 1954, tells the story of his amazing career in the music industry. It all began with his training as a drummer and the founding of his band Peacock. As the world's first tour caterer, he accompanied international stars of the 80s on their tours through Europe in the years that followed, only to find himself back on stage again today. With many anecdotes and a sense of humor, Tommy B. shares his wealth of experience with the audience and provides insights into his own life story and the music industry of the past 50 years.

A young couple in Havana struggles desperately to find a place in the crowded city where they can be alone and unseen. Combining video essay, fiction, and documentary footage of Cuban streets, What’s Mine is Yours is a darkly humorous, frenetic look at the way dense urban life confuses our desire for intimacy.

Humans encounter various monsters, but each encounter has a consequence.

The silver screen is a window to the world — and the screen showing live surveillance footage is a window into the movie theater. Jannik is a projectionist. During his shifts, he uses surveillance cameras to keep an eye on the few moviegoers in the auditoriums. In reality, he’d prefer to see himself on the big screen. When he interacts with people, the line between game and reality becomes blurred.

Whilst their game of tennis first looked as boring as usual, Pierrick and Alexis, two 30-year-old men who you wouldn’t call athletes, suddenly find themselves incredibly gifted players.

Pascal Dusapin delves into the deepest abysses of the human soul and, with highly complex music that is dazzling and incredibly changeable, creates a blood-stained work, a parable about man's lust for power. Macbeth, who murdered the king and became king himself, died a violent death after his reign of terror. Pascal Dusapin and his librettist Frédéric Boyer have cursed Macbeth and his lady to relive and reenact their story over and over again in the underworld. Lorenzo Fioroni stages it as an eternal nightmare in the antechamber to hell, where all the spiritual garbage of human history has accumulated in Paul Zoller's stage design.

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

Oh how nice is Panama. However, it may be even nicer in Sweden. At least in winter 2020/21, when a small virus called SARS-CoV2 paralyzed the continent of Europe in particular. While in most countries the fight against the virus was announced with a wide variety of measures such as lockdown, compulsory masks and contact restrictions, which were also punishable by law, Sweden went a different way.

Stacey Dooley returns to Springfield Hospital to work with the team again, looking after patients over six months as they battle through the pandemic.

In Switzerland, discover the daily lives of seven iconic residents of the Illiez Valley throughout the seasons. Seven, like the seven peaks of the Dents du Midi mountain range that overlooks it. Women and men who are deeply attached to this region and its values.

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

A ghost arrives to a strange place, full of beings like him.

The portrait of a mother torn between the desire for security, marriage and children and the need for self-realization and independence.

'DISMAYED' a short student film set during World War One using toy soldiers, lighting and cinematography to recreate the horror, distortion and isolation of the war. The idea of this isn't really to represent a plot as such, more to present and display provocative emotions to the audience and invoke their feelings towards the film and as well as the horrors of World War One.

Are the glorious days of the Eternal City over? Can Rome's mythical beauty coexist with its social problems? This documentary describes "Rome" as a complex organism in its contrast between beauty and decadence.

Since he was a boy, Adam Nicolson has been visiting remote islands that once filled with seabirds. After witnessing the decline of these colonies, he shares his perspective on the resilience of life in the face of catastrophe.

Winter in 1979, military dictatorship in Bolivia. A paramilitary captivated by a transsexual has to keep in secret his sexual orientation for the marriage engagement to the first-born of a wealthy politician, a man obsessed by a young prostitute and with the presidencial chair, so he organizes a coup that will be hampered by family secrets.

An exploration of the hypocrisy and repetition of racist anti-GRT rhetoric in Britain, combining dog-whistle Tory soundbites with footage of the insidious reality in a montage style. Utilising droning soundscapes and disturbing imagery of recent police brutality against GRT people, the film asks the audience to listen to the repeated lies and bigotry of the powers-that-be, including the likes of Home Secretary Priti Patel, who is featured in a campaign trail interview.

While robbing a Scottish whiskey distillery, an aged thief and his protege become trapped inside. Spurred on by a dram or two, they soon learn the truth of their being there, with whisky being the least of their concerns.

As the Earth has become increasingly hot, people are forced to fight for survival. In a desolate wasteland, a loner has created his own microcosm living off canned food and self-grown vegetables.

A state of emergency has existed in Afghanistan for more than four decades. This documentary is devoted solely to the voices of the women of this country, who for the first time get to speak about how their lives have changed during this time. Six very different Afghan women take the audience with them on a journey from paradise to hell.

An amateur boxer suffers from anxiety and fear in the changing room minutes before a fight.

The title is that of a long poem by Jack Spicer, composed of short chapters, almost all of which are rendered here. Florence Pazzottu invites it in to the South Alpine village of La Pomme Chinoise (The Chinese Apple) (FID 2019), scattering it to the wind: written on black cardboard or loose sheets, interrupted by Australian admirer’s rock music, recited in turn by the inhabitants of the village who, in perfect harmony with the Californian’s poetry, add their grain of salt, fine or coarse.

One month before her wedding, a young woman discovers a sudden sexual attraction for her female cousin.

What it is like to be a girl in a boys world. Six girls share their own experiences playing woman’s football in a male dominated sport. Their stories are translated by different animation techniques to explore various narrative possibilities.

Told entirely in drawings made over nearly thirty years by British Artist/Filmmaker Penny Andrea, ‘Locks & Keys, Water, Trees’ portrays the genesis of a rare brain tumour with its origins in early childhood. Diagnosed and treated in the artist’s late twenties, the film reflects an ongoing process of recovery from traumatic brain injury. Portraying drawing as both escape and embrace, a ‘shuttle between inner and outer worlds’, and video as its counterpart medium in time, the film speaks to the communicative power of art to connect, explore and heal trauma.