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In the 1950s, Paris is the capital of the liberation of the arts and music. A jazz audition brings together two rival musicians who will try to impress the jury.

Hú Zhǎng Zū writes ancient Chinese poems with water on the ground in Fuxing Park, Shanghai. After a few minutes the characters dry out and disappear. Almost everyday she comes here and practices her handwriting with her friends and colleagues. Together they have lively discussions about the strokes and shapes—amongst each other and with the many spectators. Hú Zhǎng Zū is the only woman within the turmoil of men, and due to her high writing art she is respected and highly admired. I come back to see her often, in order to learn from her and capture these ephemeral moments.

An intimate and honest portrayal of the overlooked communities of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The spaces where the villas can be found were, until very recently, left blank on maps, yet their associations with crime and poverty are well-known and often perpetuated by local media. Tourists visiting Buenos Aires are often warned not to wander into the villas. But in reality, these are vibrant hubs where people get by on wits and ingenuity. Where everything they have, they make: from buildings to power lines to sewage systems. And where the marginalized of society come together to form diverse, self-governing communities.

A man walks through a dark house looking for an exit but something lurks.

When two thieves go to dig up their ill-gotten gains, the presence of a police officer threatens their partnership.

A behind-the-scenes look at how supermarket giant Sainsbury's created its festive food range for Christmas 2021.

Sada, meaning «echo» in Arabic, was conceived as Sada for Iraqi art by the Baghdad-born Rijin Sahakian. Sahakian set up the initiative, which ran from 2011 to 2015, in order to support Baghdad-based artists facing the damage done to the contemporary art infrastructure in Iraq after cycles of war, destruction, sanctions, and continual political insecurity. For «documenta fifteen», Sahakian invited former participants of Sada to produce video work reflecting on their practice and where they are today. The participating artists are Sajjad Abbas, Bassim Al Shaker, Layth Kareem, Ali Eyal, Raed Mutar, Sarah Munaf, and Sahakian herself. This almanac is a valuable historical document about a country destroyed by a bloody war.

In this endless pandemic area, where our sexuality has sometimes had to evolve, has been tested, women from different backgrounds offer their intimate testimonies, addressing their desires and pleasures alone.

How did the human race appear? In Kromdraai, South Africa, the French paleoanthropologist José Braga discovered the remains of two children dating back 2.5 million years. These are the oldest bones ever found. One is human, the other paranthrop, a hominid that is our closest cousin. This archaeological investigation is the starting point of an unprecedented scientific adventure, which could finally lift the veil on the origins of humanity.

Imola, April 29, 1994: Ayrton Senna is at zero points in the Drivers' World Championship. In his team Team, Williams, someone is already beginning to be perplexed. Perhaps, believing that it is no longer the Ayrton Senna that everyone knows. The Brazilian had understood these sensations, presenting himself at Imola with the utmost determination of his career. The Documentary traces the three days that changed the future of Formula 1 forever, having the Senna Judge and the mechanic who dismantled Ayrton's crashed car speak for the first time, inside a hangar at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari racetrack.

Cuties explores the elusive beauty in how we as a species continue forward in spite of our proclivity for destruction.

Sacha is a reporter. For 4 months, he traveled for 6,000 kilometers of expeditions and cooking. First on a sailboat in the Mediterranean, then hitchhiking in Morocco or on a freight train in Mauritania, he ended his journey on a motorbike in Senegal. People, places and local recipes are on the menu of this documentary.

Apocalypse series such as "Fear the Walking Dead" have shown us all too distressingly that, in the face of the apocalypse, stockpiling may secure your own supplies in the short term, but in no way offers protection against the actual threat. And an end-time classic like “Contagion“ already preached ten years ago that hand hygiene and face masks are essential if a global pandemic is to be contained. In "Fiction for Future", we ask old masters of the genre such as Roland Emmerich, Terry Gilliam and Frank Schätzing what the nightmarish tales of doom tell us about the horrors of our future. How will global challenges such as climate change and pandemics change our lives? Can we master the major challenges of our future? And if so, how?

A triptychal cinematic compendium of the previously released Faust Sonnengesang Films about Europe(II), America(III), and Asia(IV), along with a foreshadowing of the renowned author and director Werner Fritsch's planned visual artworks about Africa(V) and Australia.

The protagonist "Choir" needs to save the world from a robo-apocalypse before it's too late.

Weaving audio-visual recordings of zoo-animals into a fine web comprising of actions and reactions, this video finally spirals into a collective animalistic concert. Relating the different animals to each other through audio-visual montage creates fictional relations amongst the animals; a society of animals. Zoologische Gesellschaft (Zoological society) thus comments on human communities, who created zoos as mirror images. There is an otherness there, and at the same time a disturbing proximity, which we’d like to dismiss.

She is the flagship of the German deep-sea fishing fleet: the Maartje Theadora. Built for ocean-going service, the trawler is out in the fishing grounds of the Pacific for more than 300 days a year. This ship can process and transport around 6,000 tons of fresh fish. The fish is sorted and frozen in the factory below deck. The trawler's fishing areas are in the English Channel, but also in the North Atlantic and the Pacific. The week-long journeys are a great physical challenge for the committed crew. Our documentary gives insights into the tough everyday life at a fishing expedition on a board the giant ship.

Debilitated by the death of his father, 22-year-old Maxime suddenly decides to leave his provincial hometown, his mother and two sisters, to look for work in Paris. Sales assistant, waiter, dishwasher, any job will do. But with no qualifications, he knows the odds are against him. Ready to do anything to support his family, the naive young man gets mixed up in prostitution.

She first appeared on stage at the age of eleven with the legendary Krautrock band “Embryo”. Her father Christian Burchard founded the band in 1969 and led it until 2016. Today – in her mid-thirties – Marja Burchard is the bandleader in this project, which has become a kind of family for her. But what seems so simple and organic is far from self-evident in an extremely male-dominated sphere, as Rebecca Zehr shows in her precisely observed and designed film.

3 friends come back from college annoyed, and disgusted with the world in which they live. But everything will change when one of them, in an excess of childish madness, will become the leader of a giant hide and seek in the middle of nature, which will become the scene of an interior journey during which real and unreal will merge...

A mad old bastard recalls the wild rumours that surround his name.

First seen in Naples in 1827, this farce of a “theatre within a theatre” narrates the mishaps of a second-rate opera company as it stages the great serious drama Romolo ed Ersilia in a provincial theatre. The unbearable tensions between the two lead singers are finally resolved with the decisive intervention of one of their mothers. The co-production by Ópera de Lyon along with the Grand Theâtre de Genève and Teatro Real is brought to life by Laurent Pelly, a tireless champion of Donizetti's comedies.

In the old Spanish cemetery of Larache, by the sea, where Jean Genet spent the last ten years of his life, a modest family of guardians watches over this dead man with profoundly human affection and constancy.

Dual narratives presented though poetry and performance, set in the 16th century. A nun has an individual crisis of faith and reflects on her own experience of cloistered life, and the Church funds conquistadors on the hunt for El Dorado in South America.

The rain clears up, rays of sunshine peak through, and flowers start to bloom. Spring – it has arrived, and it is beautiful. Spring is a time for new beginnings, and after a particularly harsh winter in lockdown, spring offers a new hopeful outlook on life. This documentary explores the journey from the dreadful winter into the freedom of spring. While finding joy in the little things, we start to embrace the new life not only affiliated with the season of spring, but also our new beginnings as a society.

The film "Trouble" addresses the theme of the mental disorder experienced by the artist's mother.

Combining home movies, 16mm footage, audiotape, and an original score, Gallisá Muriente’s poetic excavation oscillates between chronicle, dream, and document. Where people and nature meet, she uncovers environmental and colonial memories from her grandmother’s past and in the landscape of Puerto Rico.

After several years of exile in Europe, Stéphane, Léo, Cheikh and Boye Gaye emerge from their silence. From disillusionment to disillusionment, they ended up returning to their country of origin (Senegal, Cameroon). Their return is perceived by their loved ones as a failure.

A documentary about Tintoretto.

The curtain is up, the stage is clear, the microphone on: Let the show begin. The little singer steps forward and everyone is waiting with bated breath what singing talents are about to be heard. She clears her throat one more time and then it starts. But what is this? She’s not really going to lick the microphone like a popsicle, is she? Surely an idea we’ve all had at one time or another!

A minimal observation of an everyday object. Through framing and duration, the ordinary is displaced, revealing subtle shifts in perception and attention.

23 year old Kiss FM host Maskell has lived with insomnia most of her adult life, living on little sleep and frequently being awake until the early hours of the morning.

Jenny Graham designs a grueling training ride, over 1200 kilometres, in preparation for one of the toughest solo ultra endurance races in the world, The Transcontinental. Exploring the history and rules of The TCR, Jenny chats to Race Director Anna Haslock, past winner James Hayden, Performance Coach Laura Penhaul, and cycling Chef Alan Murchision for expert advice on how to tackle the race. From her home in Scotland to Bath in the South West England, Jenny’s ride will test the physical and mental fitness she’ll need to tackle the 4000 kilometre race across Europe.

An old man catches the attention of the wildlife at the seaside after buying Good Gully’s irresistible chips. These chips are desired by all, but only one can eat them. Will the chips end up in a pair of claws, a seagull’s stomach, or in a wibbly wobbly belly?

A group of friends reminisce about their Ghanaian high school’s exchange trip to Jackson, Mississippi a decade earlier. The more they remember, the uncannier it becomes.

Let’s dip our heads in Youtube up to our ears: India, Brazil, Francia, Laos, Indonesia, Mexico, United Kingdom, etc. A wild world tour of sound systems. Boom boom, our hearts go boom boom, the sound system goes boom boom, the Earth goes boom boom… Built on a volcano, the dance floor burns our feet.