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Award-winning British choir Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision. In this performance Tenebrae once again breaks new ground in a programme of music for Easter, with all 20 of its singers filmed and recorded separately as they isolate themselves in their own homes. Under the direction of Nigel Short conducting via video link, Tenebrae sings a concert for Easter, including Gregorio Allegri's stunning Miserere, at a time when the world has never needed the medicine of music more. Tenebrae's repertoire for this specially filmed performance includes the following: JS Bach – Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden Lobo – Versa est in luctum Allegri – Miserere Purcell/Croft – Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts Parry – My soul, there is a country JS Bach – Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein

A man feels responsible for a vulnerable seedling and is willing to go to great lengths to protect it from all the dangers in the world.

The Paccha-Picchus are festive little creatures. They live a carefree daily life in sync with the mountains. When the mountains come, their oasis rises and they are lifted up into a winter climate. The Paccha-Picchus are very fond of the winter climate, which is vital for them. But one day, the mountains stop coming and the restless Kinko decides to go looking for them.

Eva and María are nuns and teachers in a strict catholic school. An unfortunate comment will bring negative consequences for Eva. María, the newcomer, is trying to get adapted to her new life.

The year 1992 in the Saefkow family documented via home video footage.

You become paranoid quickly during a pandemic.

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There he stays at his grandfather’s house. The old man becomes Giacomo’s guide through the forgotten paths of his native culture, which now looks so distant from the daily life of a European twenty-something.

In Eat British Potatoes Again, Sophie Lindsey explores nationhood through the nation’s favourite snack, Walkers Ready Salted crisps. Lindsey spotlights the soundscape of a British supermarket, the nostalgic boast of ‘100% Great British Potatoes’, and the links between identity, Britishness and consumerism – with a delightfully wry final ritual.

Olivia and Aude have played rugby sevens together for a few years. After the new girl's first game, Oli only has eyes for her.

One summer day the animals of the forest are invited to a party. They eat a ton of cake and dance all night long. When the party is over they find that all of the trees they use for shelter and food are gone. Strange creatures have stolen their homes, so they decide to go search for them.

The film combines a scene taken from the movie Copycat (1995) with footage of my editing the film. It is a reflection on the idea of artistic originality as well as the art world’s constant desire to instantly transform everything—even the current health crisis—into works of art.

This is a story about a transaction. Two ‘underemployed hipsters’ take on a challenge set by ‘the richest living artist’: visit all eleven galleries around the world showing his spot paintings while the exhibition is on, and win a print made by his assistants and signed by him. The two figured out a way to do the trip for less than what they would eventually be able sell the print for, and turn a profit, or at least break even…if they manage to make it. 72 Trees explores the absurdity of markets, the people they meet on their journey and the aftermath.

Isabelle Pilling struggles with anorexia and learns to overcome her demons and embrace her life.

In times like these it seems like the monkeys have taken over the zoo but too many people haven't notices or don't want to realize it.

This tape is about a girl who seeks to free herself, the triangles represent Nazism The visual video tries to give another vision of reality from the purest freedom.

Images and stories from the early years of LGBTIQ+ activism in Paraguay until today, in the middle of the pandemic. It's a quest that tries to generate audiovisual memory with voices from the main players of local activism and their accurate analysis of human rights and the political situation in Paraguay.

A travel through imagination, finding a place called home.

A father and son cross the Strait in search of saving Taha's fragile life. Between memories and uncertainty, they learn to survive in a hospital room.

Farnham wanted to capture the craziness of the last few months of juggling home life, working and home-schooling, whilst staying alert! He 3D-scanned his children taking part in the various banal activities he hadset up for them.

During the peace negotiations in Colombia, a troop of women and men found themselves in the midst of uncertainty to dream of life without weapons. They wander between their loves, their fears, between doubts because Peace also produces fear. This guerrilla command reveals the intimacy of human beings who shudder at the possibility of other winds, some will also be overwhelming and uncontrollable.

A gut reaction to the Coronavirus apocalypse, made in the first months of isolation and confusion in March-June 2020, echoing the shocking, eerie and surreal experience of the pandemic. Reworking the classic Zombie public-domain film from 1968 'Night of the Living Dead' by AI colorization, video processing, re-cutting and sound work. The attack of the outside and tensions within the inside were found in the horror film images, broken apart and reassembled to become a haunting kaleidoscopic nightmare. A post-horror series of three acts. This is Act II - Turmoil.

In the beginning, there were caves. Or maybe not. But the caves in Mónica Naranjo Uribe’s work seem to have been observing us for a lifetime; waiting for someone to find them and to feel the revelation that we believe can only be achieved through the hardest, deepest and most arcane states of nature.

The serendipitous reunion of Arianne, Sophia and Émile at a photo exhibition quickly turns into a celebration. However, Arianne finds herself caught in a power play of unspoken tension with her old friends.

Erick writes unanswered text messages to Sandra while Satan watches him. That night Satan leaves a ring on Erick's door. The next morning Erick checks Sandra's cell phone, where he finds a conversation that makes him suspect a meeting that will take place that same day.

On his 24th birthday, the private documentary filmmaker Jan Peters snapped his Super 8 camera and captured his still young life for a brief moment. Three minutes in which he looks into the camera and reports on his split between aspiring filmmaker and self-doubt. Then, abruptly - cut - because the film roll of the camera does not allow a longer shot. It is the beginning of an autobiographical experiment that, in its elliptical narrative form, creates its own condensate of life. 29 more birthday films follow: self-monologues in the bathtub, wild dance performances and discussions about the development of the technical film apparatus. Meanwhile, film professor at the Kassel Art College, Peters tells episodic stories of his childhood, love, 'having arrived' as a father and a birthday invitation to Jean-Luc Godard.

A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children's home.

A warm and funny take on gender, as a drag king fulfills her mother’s wish to be a man for a day.

Dahbia is attempting to give her youngest son Naoufel a better life. Her daugher Chahra has the same hopes for her young daughter, Douaa. Asma Benazouz paints a compassionate portrait of these two single mothers with difficult and similar experiences, living in a run-down building in Algiers, as they struggle to offer their children a different fate.

The singer and songwriter Florencia Núñez is from Rocha, a coastal department in southeastern Uruguay. Her first compositions took place at her parents' house, in the classes she shared with the composer Enrique Cabrera, or on the shores of the ocean when she spent the summer in Costa Azul, her usual beach town. Today, she lives in Montevideo, she listens to her songs and wonders: what is the origin of all these melodies? This film is her desire to relive that music that made her grow. A tribute to the music of her department through the reinterpretation of five songs that marked her songbook. With that map in mind, Florencia goes out in search of answers in conversations with authors, interpreters or actors from the Rochense scene who were witnesses or protagonists of the construction of the local folk. A journey through the essence of a department that traces a route between melodies and landscapes, poetry and culture, and voices and roots.

A deer faces its double. The bodies collide, moving forwards and backwards in turn, in vain. Geese, at first feverish, then carried away by violence, will transform this confrontation into a gentler dance.

What if you never saw it rain?

A woman discusses what life means to her in a voicemail message, after quitting her routine driven job.

Logorrhea mixes archives from the 20s to the 80s. A purely sensorial and ethereal exercise, also very unsettling.

Arístides died of a gunshot when he was 19 years old, while he was doing his Military Service in the Cuban Navy. He was shot in the chest at close range by the soldier who was supposed to relieve him in duty, with a Makarov PM handgun made in USSR. There are no images of him; just a letter he wrote to his sister a few hours before dying, whose reply never came to be.

A sensitive and radical approach to the psychological and physical violence inflicted on the inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods by the police. The stories take place in the France of the last twenty years, that of the post-Sarkozy, and are reported by the first concerned: no sociologist, no historian, no journalists or storytelling. Just the word of those we would like to see silent: Wassil Kraiker and his parents Zohra and Abdelaziz, young people from Argenteuil, Amine Mansouri and his father Moustapha, Ali Alexis and his wife, Ramata Dieng and Farid El Yamni...

It can be said that Western Sahara is a limbo: it is the largest territory on the planet still to be decolonised, currently under Moroccan occupation since 1975 and waiting endlessly for its self-determination. In this film we will learn about the history of the oppression and resistance of the Sahrawi people, but also about its beauty and richness from the visual poetry, the sounds that evoke the Sahara and the inter-generational story of the protagonists in this history. A project promoted by the Andalusian organisations Nomadocs and Sahara Acción Granada that aims to make a forgotten and silenced testimony visible.

The film will tell the audience about the life and work of the legendary Japanese textile artist Itchiku Kubota. At the age of 20, while studying the art of dyeing fabrics at the Tokyo Museum, Ichiku Kubota was inspired by the patterns of the special painting on fabric for kimono "tsujigahana". The secret of labor-intensive technology seemed to be lost forever.

Devoured images.

During the first week of the great confinement, behind our walls between father and son, we talked about us, family history and these constructions which rise too high not to collapse.