Once a week they meet in an apartment to escape the big city and to become poets for a few hours. On one of these days an unexpected guest pays them a visit.
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Once a week they meet in an apartment to escape the big city and to become poets for a few hours. On one of these days an unexpected guest pays them a visit.
In a small town in Calabria, the arrival of an out-of-the-box mayor triggers a series of hilarious events.
An introspective journey into troubled thoughts. A sleep always interrupted in search of a breath of peace, a whisper to life that has the eyes of death in front of a mirror. A struggle between anxiety, restlessness and calm, evoked by music composed by Claudia Ferretti and Piero Modena. The mix of animation techniques remains consistent with the idea of the uncertainty of dreams
One of Emma’s mothers is too busy; the other is too far away. One is rejected, the other idealised. Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.
The signs of the zodiac hold many mysteries, Some believe that to follow their path is to find good fortune, but others believe that to be guided by the stars will bring nothing but pain, misery and for some, something much worse.
Ricardo Ruales Eguiguren, like his father, lives with Treacher Collins syndrome. This genetically transmitted facial condition altered his appearance and prevented him from pronouncing the letter “r” for years, which plunged him into silence. At home, however, almost nothing was talked about. Not the family illness, nor his homosexuality.
The worldwide crises pose particular challenges for global diplomacy. The film accompanies German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and asks how she wants to communicate her human rights-oriented foreign policy and where she reaches her limits. How can human rights be upheld when despots and autocratic systems dominate liberal democracies?
L’Uomo Femina is an opera by Baldassare Galuppi, a composer who, in his day, was more famous than Vivaldi. Directed by Agnès Jaoui, this production—filmed at the Opéra de Rouen—highlights the burlesque and decidedly contemporary nature of this rediscovered work.
Saint Peter welcomes a woman at Heaven's Gate.
The story of two friends and a family, drawn into a reality woven with secrets and relentless twists, a journey through forbidden desires and the fragile balance of an immoral, corrupted society.
Some studies suggest that after a person’s death, the brain continues its activity for another seven minutes, during which one can relive their entire life. But if it were possible to choose what to relive, as a final test, what would happen? Enea decides to relive his own death, to discover who killed him and why. But is this the right way to honor the time that has passed? Or does death, like life, offer no explanations?
A young man who is proud of his upbringing on a traditional farm, is in love with his best friend. But she wants to marry somebody else and move to Berlin. Everybody is waiting for the new wedding shoes to arrive. A few days later, she is gone and he is waiting for a bus that will take him away too. But the bus doesn’t stop and he keeps waiting.
[poem_body_memory_voice] None of them belong to each other. All of them belong to themselves. A layered accumulation —___- a poetic exercise on relating*_on_love, migration, and mourning.
An autobiographical documentary about sight, color, light, history, and fear.
Nando secretly prostitutes himself to survive the day, but will they manage to discover his secret?
In his work, Julianknxx proposes radical listening: the past and the present brush up against each other, and history is not revealed as a static account, but as something that pulses, that is remade at every turn. At the crossroads of art and politics, his images and sounds remind us that our stories were never just the colonial narratives we were told – they are also what we keep singing, even when no one seems to be listening. Work developed during the LUMA Arles Residency Program and commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 36th Bienal.
Maryam, an Iranian woman, is accompanied by a film crew for a documentary about her everyday life. However, during filming, it becomes increasingly clear that the biased image the director wants to portray of Maryam in his documentary may not correspond at all to how Maryam sees herself and her situation, or how she wants to be seen.
After a bachelorette party, three friends ran over a man, who dies instantly. Federica claims Lucia was driving, Lucia claims Federica was driving, and Marta was asleep, drunk, and when she wakes up, she tries to unravel the situation.
1873 - The precocious, French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, has eloped with his mentor - the older, married Paul Verlaine - to London where they are struggling to keep the faith in their love and their work. Despite the downward spiral of poverty and violence, it is here that Rimbaud will pen his aptly named masterpiece, “A Season in Hell.”
All the world’s a stage and Jen and Sam have learned the hard way, being trapped in a Shakespearean multiverse. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality they notice something unusual about Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy.
Paolo, a thirty-year-old overwhelmed by responsibilities, visits his mother Lina. Between jokes and confidences, his desire to start a family with his girlfriend Laura emerges, despite work pressures. Meanwhile, in the heart of the same neighborhood, Marco lives a complicated relationship with Sara and is involved in increasingly shady dealings that, due to a case of mistaken identity, will also sweep Paolo into the chaos.
Laura, a social worker, is sent out on the road for her very first day, traveling from farm to farm to meet so-called “at-risk” farmers. Between the relentless calls from her supervisor and back-to-back appointments, the miles unfold a profession whose ideals sometimes fall out of step with the reality on the ground.
Why is ordering coffee so complicated? Originally written for o-region's From The Horse's Mouth Project. WINNER Best Actor Cornwall Monologue Competition 2025 WINNER Best Cinematography Cornwall Monologue Competition 2025
2030, one year after the happenings of GAME OF DEATH CHAPTER 1, two worlds and storylines collide, ending in a bloodbath
Following one bloody night, estranged couple Alice and Tommy venture deep into the woods. There, Alice watches Tommy dig, as they bicker over the horrors of their relationship. Harsh truths and heart-breaking revelations lead to a violent conclusion that will change both their lives forever.
Short drama film made in 5 days on the BFI Film Academy at Film Oxford 2024. Two uni students go to their accommodation for the first time, but is all as it seems?
Reverie and observation forge relations among a fire lookout in California and a landscape painter in London. With a concern for how media technology (from painting to surveillance webcams) impacts representations of forest fires and the experience of witnessing with one's own eyes, the film forms an ecology of images from distinct and ultimately interlinked perspectives.
In a dark, abandoned mansion deep in the forest, an aging vampire filmmaker lives in communal seclusion with his five disciples. On the night of his birthday, he reveals his final wish: to film the one moment he has never dared to face — the sunrise —.
2007: 17-year-old Karl lives with his single father Werner in a cramped flat in an East Berlin apartment block. Karl's eight-year-old brother David is in a sheltered housing group. Karl feels overwhelmed in his contact with his little brother, because David looks to him for what their 62-year-old father cannot provide. After their father's birthday, something unexpected happens: Karl lays an egg. He tries with all his might to keep the hatching creature alive.
After a car accident, Adam looses part of his memory and finds out that he has the power to travel to the in-between world : Limbo. He sets out to recover his lost memories by battling entities from another time. He will have to relive past events from these entities in order to understand his links with them and the reason of his presence in this world.
XD are my initials, did you notice? That's a fact. I've been touring with this monologue for two years and now it's time to share it with the world, our old planet Earth. And here it is, complete and open to all.
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.
A filmmaker loses himself in his own wanderlust.
A man has been sentenced to death. As a last resort, two lawyers go to the Élysée Palace to seek a presidential pardon that could overturn the sentence.
Offering a poem for a coin: that's what Jimmy does, but amid the constant hustle and bustle of the street, no one pays any attention to him. He blends into the background. Until the day Léna crosses his path.
For decades, Le Tango, a legendary LGBTQ+ dance hall in Paris’s Marais district, welcomed everyone who loved to dance, regardless of gender or orientation. When the building was put up for sale in 2020, its music stopped, threatening to erase a vital community refuge. This documentary traces both the vibrant history and the fierce fight to save this iconic space. Through personal stories from regulars and activists—Grégoire, Giovanna, Christian, Livia, and others—the film revisits nights of drag balls, Dalida tributes, and joyous Madisons, revealing how Le Tango became a symbol of freedom and belonging. As filmmaker Antoine Vergez follows Hervé and the Tango 3.0 collective’s three-year struggle to reopen the club, the film becomes both a love letter to queer nightlife and a chronicle of collective resistance to cultural disappearance.
After losing his job and fuelled by the hatred of anonymous forums, Steve develops an unhealthy obsession with the new tenants of his old apartment.
Jess, Loanne, and Lilou are members and founders of the Apax Skate Crew, a collective based in Montpellier that brings together women and gender minorities around skateboarding. Through women-only sessions, competitions like FISE, and dedicated events such as the Chica Chique Sess, the documentary highlights the challenges these groups face in a male-dominated world. By following the crew's daily lives, it reveals their commitment, solidarity, and passion. It also tackles issues like sexism in skateboarding, lack of media recognition, and the marginalization of female skaters. Despite these barriers, Apax Skate Crew stands strong and helps pave the way for a more inclusive and accessible skate scene.