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A collective that carries out community projects with LGBTI groups, a documentary filmmaker, theater actors and a group of trans sex workers (known as Las Guapas) come together to settle accounts with the injustices they live by creating a soap opera using friendship and fiction as a form resistance. Between rituals of love, slapping and revenge, this hybrid documentary shows that making community cinema is a valid bet to combat the fetishization of discourses about the struggles of LGBTI people in Colombia.

An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.

Over a hundred years since the publication of the sociological text, La mala vida en Madrid, that coined the term in Spain, what does it mean to be a ‘lowlife’? Eye-catching, almost otherworldy and unashamedly provocative, this commentary on class, sexuality and urban stratification appropriates the pathologising label of ‘Other’ to shine a light on the explosion of ‘lifeforms’ in the Spanish capital today. Featuring the clever use of 8mm to create a surreal, pseudo-documentary look that draws in and distances simultaneously, Madrid, Bad Life is a sophisticated and thought-provoking high-concept work.

An Island, a poem, a dream. Disappearance and reappearance of a whistled language, Silbo. History and transmission of this miraculous heritage from the island of La Gomera.

What appears to be a smooth life for 7-year-old Vivian's family will change when they are confronted with what fate has in store for them. Each of them will understand that only a second is enough to alter the present.

Aesthetically bold, visually rich – a beautiful non-linear encounter with the physical and social dimensions of chronic pain.

A young mother and her daughters are sitting under a bridge. The camera scans the surroundings and follows them on a strange journey of changing sensory perceptions, self-discovery and different kinds of society. Like some unruly “painting by numbers”, it feels as if they are flying under the radar of symbols – from a Mercedes star to Barbie’s horse and the ruins of the world’s largest automobile factory in Detroit. How does one grow up in this kind of world?

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.

Slovenian conductor Martina Batič and the Radio France Choir offers an eclectic programme combining Wagner, Debussy, Fauré and Poulenc. The choir is accompanied by eight cellists from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio de France.

What is the English language plot outline for La brace sotto la cenere - San Filippo Benizi (2021)?

Seven girls doing a crazy seven-veils-dance.

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.

Content with lazy days, pizza, Mario Kart and box sets, Daniel and Mary are a twenty-something couple with their lives stuck on pause - that is until two, very familiar-looking, visitors from the future come to hit fast-forward and blow some smoke up their bums.

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.

After the break-up of her relationship, Katharine finds herself alone and miserable in the middle of the pandemic. With isolation madness taking hold, she buys herself a companion - a boyfriend pillow. It’s an impulse purchase she may come to regret.

A short, socially critical mosaic shot on 16mm film explores how much the way of thinking has changed in Western society in the past few decades, wondering whether equality and diversity are a matter of course, or whether they are still just meaningless words. Patrick Tarrant’s film juxtaposes excerpts from White magazines from the past century and mechanical voice-over segments of an online learning module on equality, inclusion and diversity for present-day employees. – Ji.hlava IDFF 2021 "Mandatory Training is a slightly ornery reaction to being forced to complete computer-based training and tests on matters that range from the banal to the ideological. For better or worse, if you answer wrongly on a question relating to race or gender, for example, you can, as the module explains, keep repeating the test until you pass." – Patrick Tarrant

The image of a corpse abandoned in the street lives like a ghost within us. Film collage made with clippings, voices, drawings and moving images.

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.

Arriving in April 2021, Extended is the fifth album from Modeselektor. The German duo are accompanying this release with a ‘visual album’ in film: 'Work’ stars American dancer Corey Scott-Gilbert who transposes the energy of Modeselektor’s music into a radical performance.

An old widow struggles with some unexpected company on what would've been a quiet Christmas.

A collaboration between BAFTA award-winning animator Cat Bruce and Breabach.

Alone in the wilderness, a woman must find a way to survive after discovering her head has been encased in cement.

Filmmaker Lee Donaldson takes a poignant journey down memory lane with his acclaimed artist father Antony Donaldson about his art, the artwork, and the monumental task of producing a colossal mask of Alfred Hitchcock made from 18 tonnes of solid steel for Gainsborough Studios apartments in London where Hitchcock made his earlier works.

Creatures of the Lines is an artist film and collaboration with anthropologist Heather Anne Swanson. It explores how desires for economic growth and linear progress has produced straightened forms in England’s watery terrains and asks what risks are associated with the conversion of once-curvy and braided worlds into a linearised landscape.

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

A young girl discovers a cursed book with an entity that bounds itself to her soul.

Bastian, famous rocker and leader of the Tucksons, is blocked from developing his new album due to the detoxification process he is undergoing. An unexpected accident happens while his manager pressures him to finish the album.

When filmmaker Andy Howlett set out with his camera to document the final days of Birmingham's Brutalist Central Library complex, little did he know the rabbit hole he was stumbling into. Decried by the Council as an eyesore, but hailed by Historic England as an exemplar of postwar design, the story of John Madin's concrete colossus and the fight to save it is a curious one. In this psychogeographic detective story, Howlett weaves together archive footage with on-the-ground explorations in an attempt to figure out why we lost Paradise and how it might be regained.

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.

Mixing found footage from Egyptian television, with footage of two dancers shot on the Wanstead Flats nature reserve in east London, Adham Faramawy's work considers the body’s relationship to ideas of ‘the land’, plant taxonomy, and ideas of roots/heritage. The film relates this exploration to the passing of the artists’ father during the pandemic, and their relationship, particularly their father’s strong affinity as an artist and musician with his falahi (rural, agricultural and working class) roots and his home town Toukh, north of Cairo.

An experimental dance short film based on the poem by Idea Vilariño (Uruguay 1951), which explores body poetics to talk about heartbreak and diversity. While they are moved by the longing for past coincidences, the dancers engage in a dialogue about the impossibility of meeting. Thus, the dream becomes the non-place where everything will exist: a rehearsal to let go, an appointment to not find or another version of a farewell already known.

Borko wants to send 500 euros to Kosovo. When his banknote disappears, he suspects that Mehrdad, who has deposited the same amount at the counter next door, has robbed him in the queue...

In 1958, de Gaulle made the President a figure who represented both the heritage of the monarchy and that of the French Revolution. In other words, he's the ideal candidate for a leading or supporting role in cinema. Yet in France, unlike in the United States, the list of films using the presidential figure, real or fictional, is meagre. What lies behind this absence?

A performance film by a non-binary artist.

Strength emanates from them. They are unashamed. They unquestionably give themselves the right to break down, whether brutally or delicately. Them is a truth; the truth of loving who you are. Being worthy of being heard, of charting a course that your descendants will follow with their heads held high. This is womanhood in all its splendor.