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Over many years, the director’s father filmed his family life almost obsessively. His daughter’s birth, his son’s first steps, and always Valérie, the young mother. An impressive fund of material which their now grown-up daughter Faustine appropriates to tell quite a different story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother and its demands take away her freedom step by step.

There is a place in the mountains where, just for a moment, God appears.

Following in the footsteps of the Hamburg film director Hans Schomburgk who travelled through the German colony of Togo from Lomé to the north with his companion and actress Meg Gehrts in 1913, Jürgen Ellinghaus screens the footage shot then at its locations in modern-day Togo. Schomburgk’s affirmative images show slave labour, humiliation and the arrogance of the colonial power. The material is contrasted by Gehrts’ romanticising diary entries and other colonial reports which often testify to a horrifying coldness.

Frederike Bader, a former policewoman from Berlin, currently living in witness protection in Passau, is supposed to help her ex-boss Jochen Mohn - formerly a witness protector, now head of the Passau CID - in a private matter.

Omer and Carine move restlessly from place to place and keep their heads above water with tournaments at the pool table. Both are on the run from their past: Omer as an African refugee, Frenchwoman Carine as an ex-junkie who was in danger of sinking into the drug scene. Now the couple have ended up in Berlin, where Omer senses a big coup: he wants to challenge the notorious billiards player Sultan to a tournament. With the winnings from this match, he and Carine could finally move on and perhaps even fulfill Carine's dream of opening a beach bar. But things turn out differently, because the shady Sultan has also devised a plan to pull the wool over Omer's eyes.

Billy is a bisexual man struggling with the binary nature of the world and homophobia in the church. When he meets Lucas, a gay man, he is encouraged to open up about his feelings and finds Lucas on a similar path.

Having finished reading the last instalment of a wonderful saga featuring pirates and a giant lizard, Lou has to get back to everyday life – but reality is sorely disappointing.

A young woman wakes up in a stupor into a nameless British seaside town and spends a day attempting to make sense of this foreign and confusing world. In her journey she faces unwanted wisdom, various levels of musical talent, mountains of chips and an apprentice waiter. Why she is here and what she is looking for remains to be seen.

Michel Gondry, a genius of DIY cinema, opens up his sleepless nights to François Nemeta's cameras. Dreamlike, bizarre, and endearing, this is a unique documentary that lives up to its director, a chronic insomniac with the same qualities.

Reality unravels when Cora suffers a mental breakdown at university.

A sinister presence enters a suburban home.

La Gola (The Belly), Diego Marcon’s film commissioned by the Kunstverein in Hamburg, revolves around the correspondence between Gianni and Rossana. The two characters are portrayed by hyperrealistic dolls with digitally animated eyes and facial expressions. The combination of human voices, analogue dolls, and digital (post-)production brings forth hybrid characters whose status between analogue and digital defies clear distinction.

The extraordinary story of eight friends who find themselves casually involved in one of the darkest moments in the history of the Mediterranean Sea. From the quiet evening on a boat to the sudden rescue of dozens of people at sea, the film explores the strength of friendship and human resilience in emergency situations.

August is a gender-fluid person in their early twenties experiencing the mundanity of an urban, fast-paced environment. The film begins with August listening to a track of electronic dance music and immersing themselves in the audio. They are transported throughout the film to four dimensions in their mind's eye, reflecting separate versions of themself. The distinct layers of the music are performed by the different iterations of August, each exploring a corresponding movement vocabulary. The amalgamation of the separate versions of themself, and the way they dance, represents a synergy - an extended metaphor for how identity is fluid and multi-faceted.

Antoine has taken over his parents’ farm. His partner, Élise, who is totally committed to the project, is careful to define her role as precisely as possible.

A picaresque journey through the bold and experimental world of the 19'40" (anti)classical music series.

Dazzled by the surrealist movement, Francis Falceto decided at the age of 17 to live an extraordinary life. In the 1980s, co-created l'Oreille est Hardie and Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers, leaving his mark on French underground culture. A record he discovered by chance opened another important chapter in his life: Ethiopian music, of which he became a great champion. "Ethiopiques Magnetic Suite" is the portrait of a discreet and essential man, a plunge into the counterculture, an invitation to live his his life.

A controversial portrait of one of the myths of art history. A surprising glance at the infamous Vincent Van Gogh.

For their anniversary, vampires Don and Maude head downtown to celebrate. After an uncomfortable confrontation prompts them to kill everyone inside a local bar, they must now go on the run. Lesbian Vampires from Outer Space is a queer horror-drama about two vampires and their struggle with supernatural impulse and addiction.

In her directorial debut, Martina di Lorenzo tells the story of two female ski jumpers, Katharina Althaus and Eva Pinkelnig, as they prepare for a groundbreaking change in skiing: the first official ski flying for women in Vikersund, Norway. Until now, this supreme discipline of ski jumping was only available to men. The documentary follows the two athletes through their physical and mental challenges as well as their fight for equality in skiing.

Although Anne had hoped to spend the day with Bine, the lifeguard she secretly has a crush on, she is stuck in Helena's clique, where she feels invisible. Between french fries and a 10-meter diving platform, she tries to find the courage to become visible.

A dying man wakes up on a beach. The image of his younger self causes him to look back on his adolescence.

A mother and daughter deal with terminal illness and loss, in this gripping and beautifully eerie film.

Andrei, a Moldovan guy, lives just outside Rome together with his mother and 16-year-old sister whom he cares for as a father. His routine involves racing his car, working as a stable hand, and spending evenings with friends. He dreams to become a singer-songwriter, even if the money problems push him into a different direction.

So, you're a talented young actor. It's the eve of your theatrical debut. Would you turn down your big break to help save the family business? And appear with them on their favorite TV game show? Fortune Cookies is the debut feature film from Writer/Director Brenda Lee. Shot in Northampton, UK, by Screen Northants.

Lush! Lives is a film made about Lush! - the clubbing institution that ran from 1996 to 2020 at Kelly's in Portrush. The film features interviews with the promoters, the resident DJs, the guest FJs, the clubbers, the security and the bar staff to celebrate the music, the memories and the legacy of Lush! The film was launched on 27th April 2024 in The Barn at Kelly's with an after-party featuring many of the old resident DJs and headlined by Mr John Cecchini for his farewell performance as a DJ.

Théo, Lucie, Louisette, Hervé or Benjamin find themselves for months in the Charcot pavilion, in the psychiatric center of Cadillac. Through their exchanges and the way they inhabit the daily life, they express the ordeal of confinement as well as the fantasy that animates them. Their painful or comical escapes invite us to go beyond the walls that imprison them.

In a cloistered convent, Catalina, a young nun, witnesses a blasphemous act. From that moment on, she has to fight against an overwhelming temptation that takes hold of her.

Picture postcards, travel brochures and holiday photos are all this merrily caustic collage needs to portray moods and desires between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In spring 1990, the first Interflug plane carrying GDR citizens touched down on Majorca. About the mediterranean colours of the island, the first-person narrator remarks in the voiceover: “We knew them from the postcards sent by our West German relatives. This was the West, this was West-West.” Ostensibly naïve, her recollections nonetheless develop an ironic undertone. However blue the sea shines in the photos, however loud the castanets play, the travel group with their East German money are never more than onlookers in this half-board paradise. Everything seems like an empty promise: the bursting oranges on the trees, the sumptuous breakfast buffet and the giant hotel pools.

Alexis Conran investigates whether loyalty cards save consumers money when shopping, looking into the possibility that supermarkets could be inflating prices only to discount them. Alexis discovers how supermarkets offer a reduced price in return for an exchange of data from shoppers, speaking to those responsible for handling the data and making profits from it.

Maria is a 20-year-old student who leads a double life: university by day, encounters with mature men by night. Her date with Javi, a 45-year-old businessman, is a challenge that changes the rules she had set for herself.

A personal attempt at a documentary, on the impact of art on the artist and the life cycle of inspiration told through the perspective of young filmmaker Regina Denston

Stella and Luka are bored as hell. They try somehow to fill the silence that grows between them.

François is waiting for his friend Pierre at a café when Pierre calls him to tell him that he's being chased by a stranger with evil intentions.

In an unexpected encounter, the life of an experienced writer takes an unforeseen turn when he meets Fernando Lara, a peculiar hotel receptionist with an unusual medical condition. Fernando suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, a disease that basically makes him soil himself at any moment and in any circumstance throughout the day. This will lead him to a great adventure.

The docufictional narration of the genesis of the Risorgimento epic from the birth of Vittorio Emanuele II until the First War of Independence (1849), of which the Proclama is the epilogue.

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest legends of French music and to mark the release of the film Monsieur Aznavour, this exceptional evening looks back at his most beautiful songs. The greatest artists on the French music scene pay tribute to the singer during this musical evening. Accompanied by a 22-piece orchestra, they take turns performing his greatest hits and sharing the love story that binds them to Charles Aznavour. From La Bohème to Emmenez-moi, via Hier encore and Je m'voyais déjà, each performance is a vibrant tribute to the man who left his mark on generations with his profound lyrics and unforgettable voice.

At home in the north of England, an old woman tunes into the radio. As rain drips into the house, dark manifestations appear in her mind.

Creative, unhappy and longing thoughts, in the screen-heart of Versa Geek 26, who is desperately looking for love, or at least, a flesh and blood interlocutor.