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In "La Quebradilla" of Alto Hospicio the movement of people, objects and emotions converge, articulated by proximity trade. An almost imperceptible ravine now houses a kilometric open-air market, managed in urban contestation.
In a world both distant and near, with a population of mythologies basques, space and time are mystified. Ceremonies and parades inhabited by the monstrous figures, converge to a ritual carnival.
Léo Walk is 26 years old. After starting to break at the age of 7, he danced for Christine and the Queen and signed the choreographies of artists like Angèle. This year was supposed to be the year of consecration: Léo and his company La Marche Bleue were finally on the front of the stage. But that was before... Before the Covid.
During his tour, a nightwatcher discovers two atypical dead bodies in a position of loving kiss blindfolded. Meanwhile he starts to be fascinated by their otherworldliness, he feels the inevitable desire to transform and liberate himself.
In 1999, the law on the Pacs is voted, allowing homosexuals to become a couple. In 2013, the law on Marriage for All is voted in turn, allowing access to marriage and parenthood for homosexual couples. In 2021, the law on PMA for all, so that homosexual women are no longer discriminated against in access to maternity, is still being debated while deputies and senators are opposed on many articles of the text. More than twenty years separate these three laws, the fruit of three decades of struggle by activists and associations, women and men politicians. From the ravages of AIDS, the first motor of these struggles, to the agitated parliamentary debates around the Pacs, through the demonstrations of the Manif pour tous, this documentary, illustrated with archival images, gives the floor to the actors to retrace the stages, sometimes forgotten, of this history.
When Sam's brother passes away, she organises a virtual funeral for him inside their favourite childhood video game, In Perpetuum. Her closest friends log in and join her - but the server is old and unstable. As the world breaks down around them, Sam realises her brother might not be as far away as she thinks. In Perpetuum's stunning visuals were created using Epic Games' Unreal Engine.
A prenatal experimental self-portrait.
Gérard Coutance, an indebted peasant, converted to social care by founding an educational farm: "La ferme à Gégé". For 10 years, he received groups of young people mainly from the Paris region. Today, at retirement age, he has to leave his farm and restore it to its owner.
Different people talk about what happiness means to them.
Olivia and her ex-girlfriend Penny are reuniting for their friend Natasha's Halloween weekend away in Hollowhood. At first Olivia dreams of reigniting the love she and Penny shared, but the creepy locals, the peculiar priest, and a man whose wife went missing five years ago change those plans. Soon Olivia isn't focused on whether she and Penny can fall back in love, she's focused on whether she and Penny can survive.
Dating in times of corona. SHE invites him to a picnic in the park. Nude HE serves as a reflective object for a feminist cinematic discourse. Inspired by Manet’s painting ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’, the filmmakers reflect on love and happiness in the era of late capitalism.
David Aguilar is a boy who has a disability and makes an arm of LEGO. We see his feelings about his arm, his family, and LEGO. It sort of functions as an unofficial LEGO advertisement. The main subject gets to go to LEGO headquarters and the corporate heads of LEGO are interviewed about the virtues of LEGO.
Sofia intends to make a film made of wishes of actors and actresses. Juan wants to do something on top of a tree, Ezequiel would like to act as a sailor or something like that, Francisco wants to be naked, Maiamar wants to do something mystical mixed with aliens and Walter chooses to get angry with Juan. In that game, everyone ends up lost in a strange time.
A man steals a painting from a museum.
Ruth, a newly divorced gallery manager selling her city home, sees a video of a sheepdog, Mick, for sale. She visits farmer Huw and his wife Megan in the remote hills.
An apartment on the Tiber riverfront, in the center of Rome. The director lives here, where Stella lived until her death. Stella is the nom de guerre of Alba Meloni, a partisan courier who, at a very young age, joined the Resistance in the capital. After Liberation, she became an official of the Italian Communist Party and spent the last 30 years of her life in the Testaccio neighborhood, where she is still a very popular figure. The director follows in her footsteps, talking to her, collecting her memories, capturing fragments of her daily life and experiences: at home, in the neighborhood, and on the streets of Rome, where the girl once carried weapons in a straw bag and planted nails on the roads to stop German trucks. It is a journey through time and the city, during which Alba/Stella's individual story intertwines with our collective history.
Footage shot by the late photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawharieh, slowed-down, studied, and re-assembled with material from where it was found—piles of film reels discarded by former Soviet cultural centers in Amman, Jordan, accompanied with commentary by literary and film scholar Nadia Yaqub. Via Dolorosa (Latin for the Arabic ‘Way of Suffering’) is itself a processional route that Jawharieh filmed in his birth city of Jerusalem.
A remote control becomes sentient and starts messing with someone who just wants to watch TV.
Germany’s infrastructure is falling apart. Countless buildings, bridges and roads are crumbling and need to be torn down. These demolition experts have a true giant at their side. Our documentary accompanies the men of Bavarian demolition teams as they live out what is probably every little boy's greatest dream.
Dr. Bob Johnson, a psychiatrist, and others who knew the Queen singer best seek to bridge the gap between what people think they know about Freddie and who he truly was. The performance paints a psychological portrait of the guy who began life as Farrokh Bulsara and finished up as Freddie Mercury.
A monochromatic exploration of the colour Blue.
A light-hearted love letter to self-expression and the journey of self-discovery every queer person goes through. The internal struggle that latches to fear, and being able to overcome whatever fear that may be.
A collaboration with a machine-learning based AI technology of next-frame prediction. The computerised synthesis of images by a neural network learns video clips and then guesses how they will continue, recreating them in the process. The reborn video images are then woven together into an audio-visual poem, revealing both computer and human cognition processes and raising reflections regarding the implications and future of this new technology.
Carlotta cannot recognize faces, not even her own. For her, human faces are no bastion of trust, but places of fear and confusion. She is one of the 1% of all people whose part of the brain responsible for facial recognition does not work properly. With his film LOST IN FACE, neuroscientist Valentin Riedl travels through Carlotta's universe, full of anthropomorphic animals, lucid dreams and bumpy false paths. He peels back her charming, idiosyncratic solutions that she employs to be able to join the masses of human conformity, until she one day decides to build a ship and leave her fellow humans. Her never-ending search for answers leads her to art-and thus an avenue to her own face and back to humanity.
PLAYGROUNDS is a short film that travels back to the early '90s, lost deep in the suburbs, absent parents allow forgotten kids to escape to other worlds where they can't be found.
The Italian Association for Music Day presents the national event featuring a concert by Edoardo Bennato, the ambassador for Music Day 2021. With an expanded line-up for the occasion, Bennato will blend the various facets of the show, performing pieces that combine symphonic counterpoints with rock – his best-known musical style.
The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true, high-born identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised to another. In despair at the revelation of Albrecht’s infidelity, Giselle kills herself. Her soul enters the ranks of the Wilis – shades of young women who died before their wedding day. All men that come across their path are compelled to dance themselves to death, and Albrecht falls into their trap. Through Giselle’s love from beyond the grave her intercession saves him and also releases her soul from the Wilis’ power.
A girl suffers unbearable mental torment during a portrait photo shooting.
In 2154, the scientist Eden escapes The Great Catastrophe thanks to the EXOVSKY 7 space mission. She returns to earth in the hope of finding a last trace of life there.
Close-ups and motion effects on the bird’s plumage create a colorful abstraction that challenges our conventional representations of animals and landscapes.
A Short Film focusing on the urge to escape from the rabbit hole of depression
Located in Berlin and framed by my voiced address to the revolutionary Marxist, Rosa Luxemburg, the film brings the largely silenced stories of ordinary individuals who resisted fascism during the Third Reich, often at the cost of their own lives, into the present and foreground the current resistance to the right-wing nationalist organisation, the AfD, through the activities of the Berlin branch of the group, Omas Gegen Rechts (Grandmothers Against the Right).
This is a film about control in gay male relationships. A discovery of betrayal leads to revenge climaxing in an attack and the avenger announcing the most controlling of statements to his lover victim in the final shot.
Film following the efforts to rescue one of the most important and influential seaplanes of WWII when it became stranded in the notorious waters of the Loch Ness.
On February 26, 2018, the bodies of 27-year-old Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová were found in Veľká Mača. The investigative journalist specialized in articles where he clarified the connection between the political elite and the Italian mafia group 'Ndrangheta. The execution of the young journalist caused an uproar in Slovak society and led to the resignation of Robert Fico, the prime minister at the time and one of the main actors of Kuciak's articles. But was this investigation the reason why he found himself in the search of murderers?
Veiled Satyr is a science fiction biological tale about the revenge of algae, lichens and fungi on humans: the revolution of microorganisms.
The night is incoming and a couple sneaks into a sinister and peculiar villa moved by feelings of adventure and transgression. Among the ancient and unsettling statues, a blood-thirsty, mysterious figure awaits them.
A short documentary/drama based in the little known world of a dancing woman. Set in the vibrant city of Lahore "Her My Voice" tells the emotional story of Komal. A deaf mute transsexual, as she reconnects with her father after he suddenly falls ill leading to a stroke.
This film puts the late Prince Philip's own words front and centre. Drawing on rare archive recordings, he touches upon a range of topics including the role of the monarchy.
When the director left Naples, he knew it was forever. He would never come back. Though he left a part of himself there: in those streets, on that beach, beneath the ruins.
