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The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Positioned behind the camera, each of them directs Coates in a filmed re-staging of a particular episode from their life.
Apophenia is a horror film, a video essay and a travel documentary in which an urban legend becomes the starting point of a Lovecraftian tale in search of a disturbing unknown. The images emerge from the web intertwining and overlapping, showing themselves as symptoms of a collective schizophrenia to which the user slowly succumbs.
Behind the famous fairy tales are two men with a passion for language, literature and politics. The Grimm brothers tell their own stories, in a documentary set in 19th-century Germany.
There is a parking lot, a stadium. A wood and men. The Ardèche river flows. Habits, appointments and messages on the trees. Patrick, his voices, his fingers. Christian, his flowers. The water crosses then the stone, the green. There is, there is, there is.
The film comprises of an intense psychological experiment which was undertaken by students of a local acting college. The results were unsettling and genuinely disturbing.
With fighting and division in the corridors of power at an all-time high, ordinary men and women start to speak out. But as the people rise in protest, who is behind their rebellion? This filmed version of a Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2022 production, directed by Owen Horsley, includes performers from the young company and community participants alongside a professional cast. Henry VI: Rebellion hurtles through one of the most turbulent periods in English history.
Alfredo Arias is an Argentinian artist whose nephew decides to follow him around through one year of work to study his creations and make this documentary.
Queer, post-romantic, low energy sci-fi film where two lovers try to connect in an underwater city.
A captain is cursed to sail the seas of the world forever, only allowed to make landfall once every seven years. Will he find the love of a faithful woman to break the curse? Richard Wagner came across the legend of The Flying Dutchman in 1838 through Heinrich Heine’s From the Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski. After a stormy voyage from Riga to London – Wagner was again on the run from creditors – he chose the material for his next opera and began to compose it, with the unpredictable power of the sea still fresh on his face. Against the backdrop of this wild nature, Wagner exposes in Holländer his utopia of a love that transcends, offered as an antidote to the 19th century zeitgeist of pounding industrialisation and economic growth. Roger Vontobel’s new production from Mannheim is streamed live on the opening night and audiences around the world can share in some of the most rousing music written in opera.
Two friends are taking a break from the costume party that one of them has organized at his house, until boredom leads them to play a game that will change their relationship forever. Will they be able to tell each other their best kept secret?
James Richards’ Qualities of Life: Living in the Radiant Cold is a descent into a maelstrom of images and objects—from glitched medical optics, photos from the archive of Horst Ademeit, who documented the impact of radiation on his body, to Richards’ own collection of erotic objects, drug paraphernalia, and other ephemera that swim in a dark techno-pharmacological miasma.
Two trans people celebrate their love in this playful, sexy, and romantic musical short.
People explore a mysterious island.
Sitting on a hill, Inaxio mourns the death of his wife through a "bertso". His grandson Ekaitz seems to have been invoked by his song and returns to the farmhouse to take care of his grandfather and the animals that provide them with food and company. The two, with different visions of the environment, will unite again and face the complications of the future together.
Álex has been running away for a long time. After meeting with his ex, Max, he´ll have to face everyone who made him feel inferior for being himself.
On the Jos Plateau in Nigeria, the British mined tin and columbite which sustained local generations until the end of the 20th century. Mining is now an artisanal activity. Karimah Ashadu portrays the harshness of manual labour while questioning the harm caused by the uncontrolled extraction of natural resources.
A story of sex, drugs and alcohol in a city where taboos no longer exist. The story of a bored young girl who seeks to touch the limits of the forbidden. A love story like any other and yet...
Born out of fire: on September 19, 2021, a new crater opens up on the Atlantic island of La Palma. Nobody suspects that it will be the largest and incredibly destructive volcanic eruption in Europe for five centuries - a rare chance for scientists to watch evolution at work. ARTE exclusively accompanies the scientific work on the volcano from the first day of the eruption. For almost three months, the volcano hurls gigantic chunks of pyroclastic material, lava and ash out of itself. At times, several rivers of lava are pushed down the mountain flank at a speed of 120 meters per hour. Anything in their way is destroyed and buried under a layer of lava up to 60 meters high.
They are migrants, they are gay and lesbian, and they have extraordinary courage. Diak, Rokhaya, and Maxime managed to escape terrible persecution in their African countries of origin and set off for Europe which is – compared to most African countries – a Rainbow Eldorado. During their journey in the stream of other migrants, they still have to hide their sexual orientation. Once they arrive in Europe, they can finally show themselves: However, they have a hard time being recognized as asylum seekers.
In the halls of the Uffizi Gallery, the great Venetian Palaces, or among the naves of the most important churches in Rome, Renaissance artworks conceal countless faces, hidden in plain sight: those of African and afro-descendant characters. Who were they? Where did they come from? Why were they portrayed, and why did they remain unobserved until these days?
For seven days, a team of international adventurers explores the shores of the French Riviera on the Oxala sailboat in search of thrills. The idea is to bring together a team of outdoor enthusiasts and reach the Calanques Massif by sea.
A walk. A hand. Sorry: my hand. Can you spell the leaf? It's a short journey. It is also a petal, a little bug, a breath, a rehearsal, a sigh. Again, a walk: a round trip. An excursion through the workshop, garden, courtyard, archive, and footprint. A first approach to a series of essays on travel writing and the description of those landscapes we see for the first time.
In the dining room of the abandoned house a white, faded entity feeds on her pieces. Memories keep her here and time transforms her into something new.
"Heavy Metal Dancers" is a documentary about accepting one’s imperfections while striving for perfection on stage. The pole dancers may all be from Finland, but their stories are universal. Their passion for this unusual sport has allowed them to come to terms with their bodies, their lives and sometimes their difficult pasts.
The hero of the film, violinist Helmut Stern born in Berlin in 1928. “I lived under five dictatorships. The first was German, Hitler’s, the second was Japanese in China, the third was Soviet in China, the fourth was Chinese communist, because there was already a civil war and we had communists, and the fifth... guess... These are the conductors", he says. The story of Helmut Stern, his forced trip around the world, his odyssey of a Jewish refugee recalls the story of Voltaire's Candide, who was expelled from his home. Life made him a cosmopolitan and democrat.
Denzel follows the dating life of a young man on his journey to self-acceptance.
'Zorion The Alien' makes a visit to Seaburn and what follows is a series of chaotic unexplainable events.
A stop-motion film by Kornelia
Arctic Monkeys play the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NY in support of their new album "The Car"
Former England international Alex Scott looks at the explosion in popularity of women’s football and asks what the future holds for the game she loves. Women’s football is the fastest growing female sport in the world. With wages on the rise and multimillion-pound broadcasting deals being agreed, this summer’s European Championships in England are set to be a watershed moment for the game.
Apple, is the most valuable company in the world. It has revolutionized the modern age & reshaped our relationships with each other. But it faces a major backlash due to controversies. From anti-competitive practices, using App store to copy the best ideas, trapping consumers in the Apple ‘ecosystem’, tax avoidance & sweatshop practices, this film probes into allegations against the tech giant.
Filmmaker Beatrice Perego admits that until recently she, unlike her good friend Martina, rarely thought much about death. Martina updates her will every year and now she’s even planning to stage her own funeral. Then, unexpectedly, it gets personal for Perego too, and Martina’s ritual helps her get over a major loss.
Drug story to help
'...And He Found Me' is a short psychological thriller inspired by John Fowles's novel 'The Collector'. It stars Aniez, Imma Casademunt and Nora Rabbie.
A young man, somewhere in our world trying hardly every time to be able to cry or to remember how to, by watching some massacres and war crimes videos and maybe cutting some onions.
In the heart of Brittany, a passionate photographer invites us to discover his universe on his lands in Morbihan. After several years in deep connection with nature, he decides to share his secrets, by plunging us with him in a wild immersion.
A wandering duellist engages his next unwilling opponent - a scavenger with nothing to lose.
The world we know has changed... Now, we live in Yuggoth.