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In a future without imagination, storytelling means recycling the past. A vintage tutorial, narrated by an AI, guides creators in combining fragments of old narratives, revealing that creation is construction, not invention.
Filmed in the heart of the Gaza Strip in the spring of 2025 and produced by WeWorld as part of a project funded by the European Union, in collaboration with Save the Children, the film tells everyday stories of resistance and humanity: a barber who continues to welcome his clients amid the rubble, restoring dignity and beauty; Wafa, a woman who dedicates her life to children with disabilities or those who have been orphaned, offering care, education, play, and a sense of normalcy. An intimate narrative that illuminates the strength of the community even in one of the world's most fragile and war-torn contexts, like Gaza, where the population has been under constant attack for two years and under blockade for over 18 years.
The Great Roundup was an operation organized by King Ferdinand VI and his minister, the Marquis of Ensenada, with the aim of exterminating the Romani population in Spain. Under the pretext of "cleansing" the country, between 10,000 and 12,000 Gypsies (almost 1% of the Gypsy population at the time) were captured without any trial or formal charges.
Montpellier, 1794. Famine rages during the Reign of Terror. A dyer, Elisabeth, and her maid Catherine must engage in clandestine trade, risking their lives. Adapted from a true story.
Mirco Santi, who carries on the Home Movies project/archive with Paolo Simoni, briefly recounts the cinema of Massimo Bacigalupo. Home Movies has restored a number of works by Bacigalupo, a filmmaker who brought amateur cinema to the status of an art form in Italy, and keeps a large part of his archive, in which Frammento catanese was recently found.
Beth's new house is supposed to be a fresh start, but eerie disturbances make it feel anything but home. Then she meets Melissa-an alluring designer who offers her help. As they work together, Beth finds herself drawn to her in ways she can't explain. But as strange events intensify, so do Beth's doubts. Is she losing her grip on reality, or is something far more unexplainable at play?
Rosa von Praunheim is the satanic sow, incarnated by the wanton actor Armin Dallapiccola. A poetic compendium of life and death with pushy fans, the Good Lord, lovers and Rosa’s horrified mother.
In her debut album Fasadé, Guadeloupe-born artist Celia Wa pays tribute to Afro-Caribbean cultures. She will be presenting the album at the Concerts Volants.
It's summer in Biarritz. Anouk, a young photographer, falls in love with a gang of female surfers. Captivated by their sporting performances, she begins to secretly take photos of them, seeking to unravel their mystery.
A small creature is pulled by its own lifeline through a world where it must adapt and learn to cope with life.
"Há terra! is an encounter, a hunt, a diachronic tale of looking and becoming. As in a game, as in a chase, the film errs between character and land, land and character, predator and prey."
A woman meets the man of her dreams in the wrong dimension.
Two warring army generals, unable to negotiate peace agreements, succumb to violence. Just as all seems lost, their eyes converge on a wooden box on the table: the negotiation turns into a game of chess.
In the fall of 2005, a mother does her best to comfort her young son as he copes with the temporary absence of his older brother. Torn between the silence of the adults around him and a vivid imagination that’s starting to run wild, the boy struggles to make sense of his brother’s mysterious departure while confronting the shadows it casts in his life.
The intimate relationship that a photographer develops with the people whose photos he’s taking is at the heart of this film. New York-based Martin Schoeller won acclaim for his ultra close-up portraits of figures like George Clooney, Barack Obama, and Taylor Swift, yet here director Josephine Links focuses on his work featuring people who are not in the public eye, including homeless people and death row exonerees. Through testimonies from everyday people he’s interested in capturing, this documentary shows how some of us survive on the margins of society.
For many years Africa and the Middle East have been connected. However not many people speak about the nuances and experience of the people who are born from the fusion of both cultures. The merging of two worlds - Africa and the Arabian Peninsula - create an identity that is known as Afro-Arab.
Kukuaren Kanta quantifies the beauty of a tiny town in Navarre, which lives attentive to the rhythm of the seasons, on the sidelines of the urgency and waiting for the end of the world. The shooting of a community film serves as a pretext for the inhabitants of Lerga, the 'Cucos', to film themselves thinking about posterity. Songs to the Virgin of Ujué, rituals of faith, aerobic exercises in synchrony, work in the field and crafts or the preparation of a meal collaboratively are combined in the present but are projected towards the future, when the image will be footprint, memory of a life in common. Between resilience and invention, cinema builds senses of community and belonging.
American states and parents in both Europe and the United States are engaging in a joint fight against digital giants to ensure their responsibility in the addiction of young people to screens and social media is recognized. Among them, five women have chosen to disrupt their daily lives: Alexis, Kathleen, Elisabet, Laure, and Socheata.
When a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in New York goes viral after the actor himself makes a surprise appearance, French "Chalamologist" Antoinette Love decides to launch her own contest in France. Between meetings with experts, unexpected twists and turns, and the quest for the ultimate encounter with Chalamet, her adventure becomes a funny and touching portrait of the actor's life.
In one of the most beautiful and captivating corners of the planet—between the majestic Victoria Falls and the mighty waters of the Zambezi River—the human–wildlife conflict has reached alarming levels. Elephants, baboons, crocodiles, and other dangerous species are leaving protected areas and venturing into the city in search of food. At the same time, some residents of Livingstone are entering Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, setting snares or attempting to defend themselves from attacks by wild animals.
The story follows a witch who, in order to save her village from extinction, alters her state of consciousness to collaborate with a scientist from another time and space. In the end, what fate awaits the two of them?
Johann Wilhelm Trollmann becomes middleweight champion in Nazi Germany. He is the first Roma boxer in the world to win the title. He is famous for his dancing fighting style. With the enactment of the racial laws, he is imprisoned in Wittenberge and Neuengamme concentration camps, where he dies at the age of 37. He decides to die as a champion and fights with a Nazi kapo who challenges him. Rukeli, which means tree, the Gipsy, knocks out the Nazi and the entire apparatus of power.
Lily, a lonely young woman, meets James at a party. Together, they embark on a passionate love affair. But the relationship eventually comes to an end. Lily recalls the memories of her relationship and tries to explain what caused their separation.
Michael has won the town's apple bobbing contest for twenty years on the trot. Is he just a genius in the buckets, or has there been foul play?
Narrator and director, Adam Bensoltane films a fragment of his 10-kilometer walk through the fields of the Alsatian countryside to go retrieve some game tokens.
Dina discovers that her partner, Alejandro, is hiding a dark secret.
The film tells of a penniless young man who is forced to pretend to be a cancer patient in order not to be evicted from his house. The encounter with Claudia, a terminally ill girl, forces him to confront his castle of lies.
Across time, a Black woman seeks to piece together the fragments of Black female figures and, guided by Black Venus, attempts to regain control of their narrative.
While the children are enjoying their summer holidays, Basri, 8, heads off to the Macedonian mountains to join his brothers. They are the shepherds of hundreds of sheep, helped by huge dogs that protect them from wolves. For Basri, it's freedom, while his teenage brothers dream of elsewhere.
A woman sits in an open field eating oranges, finding a new companion and ignoring a series of concerned phone calls.
Hussein Darby, the last projectionist of Cinema Jenin in Palestine, thought it a golden opportunity. When a German NGO came to restore the theater, Hussein was ready to prove his skills. He believed that it would help him get his job back. To revive the 50-year-old projector, he travels across the West Bank and even attempts to enter Israel. But he doesn’t know that his era has already passed.
June 6, 1944. Several American paratroopers from the 82nd airborne land near the village of Graignes, 30 kilometers from their initial objective. Surrounded by an SS division, helped by the local population, they organize their defense.
Paul Jannowski, the only $living cannonball” of the Eastern Bloc, was the superstar of the East German State Circus. But one day he dared to do the unthinkable: he shot himself across the Elbe to the West. He left love, friendships, and disappointment behind. Now, he looks back upon his adventurous life and plans one last coup. A portrait too good to be true.
The revolutions that swept Latin America in the second half of the 20th century owe much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith, paying a heavy toll for undermining the traditional relationship between the Church and power. Driven by Liberation theology, they challenged military regimes and oligarchies, risking their lives. Far from Marx's idea of religion as 'opium of the people', here the people fought for the advent of the Kingdom of God on Earth, rather than in Heaven.
In the beginning was the sea and the wind, broken rocks and trees. And Gemma and Sidra. Words come and go. Then the language between them disappears. Inspired by the poems and abstract paintings of the artist Etel Adnan.
A couple of times a year, the sky turns red in France. Sand dust from the Sahara is passed through a difference in air pressure from North Africa to Southern Europe. This dust, a time capsule containing cesium-137 from the French nuclear tests in Algeria, covers everything. The film exposes the impact of a war that was never fought. A French veteran and archeology students share and speculate on what will be remembered and what will be hidden under the sand forever.
On their escape from a torrid city, Noah, Motte and Samuel have to find shelter in an abandoned cabin in the forest. They are exhausted from their journey and their water supplies are almost depleted. As the the light of embers threatens to catch up with them, they are overcome with doubt - is it even possible to escape the nearing danger?
The last lighthouse keepers pay an intimate tribute to life in the lighthouse and reflect on the work that has defined their lives. It is not only their profession that is disappearing... A collective, peaceful requiem for a way of life that is dying out.
A musical montage of Remy "KayZen64" Gerl's 50 favorite movies.