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Francesco MATTU, a main character in this documentary, lived in various regions of Italy following his father who was a shepherd in his childhood. This outgoing and cheerful man, Francesco, once worked at the construction site, but now he settles down in Friuli. He herds sheep and produces cheese.
A British Muslim girl is facing the choice of a heterosexual marriage or conversion therapy after being pictured kissing her girlfriend.
A Lynchian depiction of self-transformation in the social media age. Steeped in saturated colour, unnerving cinematography and bold sound design, this chamber piece depicts a young woman’s confrontation with impostor syndrome and racialised beauty standards.
In a post-apocalyptic city, Vika and Sasha, two siblings with a lost past, embark on a dangerous mission into Zona, where nature, destruction, and deadly anomalies overcame civilization. But nothing goes as planned…
An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.
Vanessa, Pierre, and Anne-Lise belong to the lower middle class. In 2018, they joined the "yellow vest" movement and became friends at the roundabouts. They share with us their hopes, fears, and desire to transform society.
At the carnival in the year 3000, people have just as much fun as they do today! Joy, abundance, hysteria... Nothing but fun!
Based on a children's book of the same name, Wylder is a story about a Boy, his Dad and the great outdoors.
A sexually repressed taxi driver with a seemingly perfect life, quickly falls apart when he relapses into drug addiction and runs amok across London with his young queer lover.
Two friends, Eypee and Andong, look for the monk, who had saved Eypee's dad on a hiking trip decades ago.
Care is the feature length adaptation of Klein's ICA commissioned musical from 2018, and is an autobiography, musical, animation and diary entry that explores the social care system, friendship and angst through the eyes of Abike (played by Klein) who's been moved from foster home to foster home and what happens when her sister goes missing. It is an ambitious feature film debut which is written, directed, edited and scored by Klein. Filmed throughout the Spring of 2021, the film features, amongst others, an ensemble of street casted kids as well as the musicians Mica Levi & Kwake Bass, grime MCs Musti & Kibo and the poet and scholar Fred Moten, who plays Abike's father. Illustrations are by Evie O'Connor.
A documentary about Rozzano, a city near Milan.
Recorded as part of Go Faster Stripe's Artista Comedy Festival in Brighton, this is the first of two shows by Phil Kay. A late-night totally-improvised show by the doyen of the whimsical, unpredictable comedy freestyler.
A mighty warship, was once sacrificed to the gods in a swamp, when no one had any idea that centuries later there would be the states of Germany and Denmark. Temporarily, the Nydam boat became a bone of contention as to whose national pride could be based on it, only to be almost forgotten again today in an exhibition hall. to remain safe and dry in an exhibition hall for another century.
Golgota is a film about extreme body art with a very pronounced sexual component. The film is told through a series of title cards per hour. It’s 6 hours in the life of Wendy, a woman with multiple paraphilias who has no limits.
Uma, a young woman almost reaching adulthood but drowning in melancholy, decides, during her birthday party, to stop time so as never to grow up. At her 20th birthday party, Uma constantly dreads the moment when the cake will be placed on the table and she will have to blow out the candles. Terrified of the responsibilities and blandness of adults, she wishes she could remain a child forever. So she and her friend Sunny decide to stop everything to relive what seemed lost to them...
In Berlin, a bigband discovers old vinyls from the Malian Bigband era, music which embodied the hope for Malian independence before a coup brought an end to the legendary brass sections. Inspired by these songs, the Berliners travel to Mali to find the heroes of their vinyl-collection. There they research the origins of the songs and bring back the lost brass sections to play with forgotten Malian stars, leading often to heated arguments over the correct beats, and record an album in a studio in Bamako. The film offers a rare insight into the working relationships between artists from different cultures. It captures several key moments which would eventually lead to the production of a truly collaborative album that pays homage to a special period in Mali’s rich musical history.
Dominique Imbert, internationally renowned sculptor and designer, was nearly killed a few days after his birth, burned to death by an accidental overdose of X-rays that left him severely disabled. Burned to a crisp, he has always been viscerally fascinated by fire, and instead of rejecting the forbidden embers, he has devoted his life to exalting the flames. Behind the flames, behind the unwavering success of the creator of Focus fireplaces, his life is a fierce battle against pain and the destiny that was promised to him, a path of rebellion and self-affirmation, an unbridled accession to freedom.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were the deadliest ever perpetrated in the world. Their impact was colossal in the United States, but also throughout the world. Until then, no documentary had focused on its repercussions on French society, on French people. And yet, if the shock wave started in the Manhattan towers, it also hit France from a distance with unprecedented violence. A look back at the facts, but also at the impact of this disaster on the French people thanks to testimonies and unpublished archives.
A play on Chantal Akerman's 1976 film "News From Home," this film is a series of filmed images of Bloomington Indiana and Washington D.C. backed by a years worth of messages from the director's grandmother read aloud by the director herself.
Once a legend, hero, and leader of the pack, Rudoph now lives alone in a trailer on the outskirts of the North Pole. After watching a documentary charting his fall from grace, a fired up Red decides to make the ultimate comeback and reclaim his spot as the King of Deers.
This is an animated short about my best friend and me and how we effed up our lives for quite a bit. It's a story about friendship, sex and mental health. In it's core it's a lesson learnt that one cannot change who they are deep inside - no matter if gay or straight.
4 friends are out on a camping trip when an evil form begins to posses them and take over their lives...
Leo, at thirty, feels misunderstood and rejected by others; he lives as a recluse at home. Become an escort boy to meet his needs, he leads a very organized life so as not to lose his footing. Nevertheless, one of his clients does not leave him indifferent. In this process, Leo must also face his best friend, determined to help her.
A woman walks and starts to turn. She continues to turn in different places as we follow, impossibly locked on to her body. Finally floating above her as she turns and walks away.
Aurelia and Teddy meet at a cancer support group and embark on a wild adventure together. A powerful and unique film about human connection and the important role that time, and how we choose to spend our time, can have on our lives.
An unfortunate chain of events motivates a couple in love to try and defy the obstacles between them. Can they be overcome? Or might digging underneath be a better solution? And just when you think it’s getting easier, bureaucracy and the past get in the way!
Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in Impressionist painters at a time when they were attacked and denigrated. The film takes us to Hansen's summer house on the outskirts of Copenhagen and takes us on a tour of the extraordinary exhibition at the Royal Academy in London dedicated to his collection.
In this film, following in the footsteps of Patrick Edlinger, Christian and Olivier build the legendary roof of La Piade (Toulon, France) solo in deep water. Up to 18 m high, the two climbers are keen to work the route without a rope. The Piade site appears in the first minutes of the film “La Vie Au Bout Des Doigts” by Jean-Paul Janssen. At a height of 15m, after several summers of work, Olivier is one of the rare local climbers to have completed this route. Today, it is Christian who is taking on this same challenge. The two climbers are keen to work it without the help of a rope. After each fall, they must start the route from the beginning. Guided by his elder, the film recounts Christian's progression and success on the path. It is also the story of their friendship and the joy they share together, suspended, “at their fingertips”. Determined, Christian works the route in summer, as in winter, despite the sometimes unpredictable conditions.
Jenny Graham designs a grueling training ride, over 1200 kilometres, in preparation for one of the toughest solo ultra endurance races in the world, The Transcontinental. Exploring the history and rules of The TCR, Jenny chats to Race Director Anna Haslock, past winner James Hayden, Performance Coach Laura Penhaul, and cycling Chef Alan Murchision for expert advice on how to tackle the race. From her home in Scotland to Bath in the South West England, Jenny’s ride will test the physical and mental fitness she’ll need to tackle the 4000 kilometre race across Europe.
Juan is about to come out so he is struggling to introduce Carlos as his boyfriend in the middle of a family Christmas dinner.
Max Clifford was a powerful media publicist to the stars. But in 2014 he was jailed for historic sex crimes. Now, the survivors of his abuse tell their stories.
The story of the trials and tribulations of New York native Royce Claxton who's named as the most ruthless boxer on the planet faces his past as he fights through his toughest inner demons. Unprivileged, harded by pain and loss, Royce using boxing as his way out but on his way through a victorious career, he runs into many surprises about his past, family, and his true identity.
Marseille, a European city like many others. La Plaine, a lively district, a large square, a historic and popular market. A tumultuous battle between, on the one hand, the city council's urban planning services, determined to carry out a major program of "requalification" of the district. On the other hand, a part of the residents, who refuse this gentrification operation, and demand to be associated to the decisions. This epic story lasts 3 years and ends abruptly with the incredible construction of a concrete wall of 2m50 high all around the square. The television of the district, imprinted with the stories of past uprisings, a tool of counter-propaganda throughout this battle, refuses to stop at the report of a defeat and wonders. Summoning the Free Communes of 1871, their joyful and fiery rage, a singular writing takes hold of the fiction. In order to make this collective struggle a victorious human adventure, another way of making the city and the world is envisaged.
He symbolized the USA - the dream and the nightmare. As a debuting writer, Norman Mailer was the “angry young man,” but he died as an angry old man and an icon of America. In between, life was like a roller coaster ride, marked by brilliant success and dark moments. Born in 1923 to Jewish immigrants, Mailer grew up in Brooklyn. The dominant figure in the family was his mother, whose father was a grocer and hotelier in the seaside town of Long Branch, New Jersey. Norman actually wanted to become an aircraft engineer, but took writing courses at Harvard College while studying.
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust.
This is the very first time that Les Arts Florissants have performed Partenope, in which the composer breaks free from the rules of opera seria. Conducted by William Christie and directed by Sophie Daneman, this new production invites us to rediscover this forgotten masterpiece... but also to meet six exceptional voices: the six laureates of the tenth edition of the Jardin des Voix, the famous academy for young singers of Les Arts Florissants!
The attacks of November 13, 2015 deeply marked France, with 131 dead and thousands injured, at the Stade de France, the Parisian terraces and the Bataclan. For the first time, victims, families, police officers, prosecutors, judges and lawyers recount their quest for truth and justice, from the night of the attacks to the final preparations for the trial that opens on September 8, 2021. For almost six years, the justice system has been on the move to investigate, question suspects, follow up on leads from Paris to Raqqa, and organize the largest terrorism trial France has ever seen.
A compilation of Nicola Benedetti's performances at the BBC.
American artist Tully Satre wonders about his decision to live and work in Santiago, where he gets to know the men featured in his paintings.
“I’ve been a robber, a thief, a thug. I blew my veins out, I drank, I drank and I fucked chicks. I never stole from the poor. I’m HIV-positive since 16 years. I’m repenting over time. I cleaned myself from my sins. I committed offenses but I never took a human life away. Not yet. Haven’t got an abortion either. These are mortal sins - and as for the others, I paid already. I’ve been the worst of bitches but in this life already I’ve seen the light. My name is Stela, I’m 42 years old and I spent 10 of them in jail. Chaos is my life.”
