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Every day legions of people risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea to reach the southern coasts of Europe, the new Promised Land. But the sea, that once parted to allow Moses' passage, now closes with indifference over the stories and lives of countless victims.

How can a person change the world around them? Art is one of the most important tools that human beings have at their disposal to change thought, to move what seems to be sedimented and fixed. In IO|OI, with a play of exchanges and reflections, a person and their creation dance together. The work of art and its creator guide each other step by step, exchanging parts and leaving behind more questions than answers, one above all: are we the creation or the creator?

In 1972, two Russian cosmonauts are on a mission to the Moon to bring back Helium 3. One of them makes an extraordinary discovery and is forced to make a choice while solar winds are heading towards him.

Acuario is the result of a personal search process through experimentation with the audiovisual form. Animation, documentary and fiction merge in an effort to find the right ways to communicate the sensations experienced during a daily journey through the big city after the exhausting days of contemporary life.

The Cure's "dark and romantic" music left a lasting mark on Jérôme's adolescence and prompted him to become a musician himself. Their countless albums have been the soundtrack of his life. The personality of Robert Smith has rubbed off and strongly influenced that of Jérôme, who now readily asserts himself as one of the last rock icons of the Nantes new-wave era. Fashions follow one another but Jérôme remains faithful to his style and as he himself says to those who reproach him for always dressing as in the 80s and still listening to the same music: “Well yes, but… for follow fashion, you really shouldn't be yourself… ”

We are in 2019 and in the international socio-political panorama, conflicts and threats are manifested that perhaps we did not conceive a decade ago. The world is changing, migration and its counterpoint, xenophobia, are issues present in almost any sphere or discourse that is part of our present time. In this documentary, the filmmaker interviews people who speak about the clash between culture and homosexuality, religion and gender identity, violence and freedom.

Montegelato is a montage film in virtual reality, the first of its kind. Hundreds of cinematic sequences define a three-dimensional collage of the Monte Gelato waterfalls (Roma) as they have been filmed in more than 180 productions including films, TV series and commercials. History of Cinema and History of Humankind coexist in an unexpected tableau vivant

With the passing of her grandfather, Adrianna struggles to find her identity as a Hispanic woman and reconnect with her estranged family.

Adding or removing an animal or an entire species was never easier. Virtual reality permeates the real problems of the present thanks to a cyborg whose nostalgia seemingly reflects a belated environmental grief.

In this poetic portrait of a Ugandan tradition, Masaka’s grasshopper catchers light up the sky.

An exercise in capturing the mundane over a period of 21 days.

The Tindalls are on the surface an unlikely pairing of a Wakefield-born rugby union player and the daughter of the Princess Royal born and bred in a royal palace. This programme looks at their life together, from the highs to the lows, revealing how they carved out successful careers for themselves and supported each other along the way.

Inspired by the original works of H.P. Lovecraft, This is a story of a man who has been brought to the edge where stable sanity and chaotic madness collide. Will he be able to save himself or has he found some kind of 'light' in the void?

A septuagenarian artist must face the passing of time in his works, his body and to confront his own fears. Naked Colossi, strong arms and big muscles struggle against oblivion. They fade into the blue and vanish like birds in the sky. A portrait of Ricardo Cinalli, shot between London and the Argentinian Pampas. An artist of the Renaissance amidst the 21st century.

Celina, a homeless and rootless woman, wanders around stealing objects, only to have something of her own that is still alien. Through the objects she steals, she establishes magical links with other characters, becoming involved in parallel stories from which she cannot escape.

How many metres of Super 8 do I need to go to (S8) at one frame per kilometre? A UN FPM This is a proposal for structural cinema that seeks to condense routes of different kinds, associating a metric value to travel. If we take into account that one second is 24 frames at normal speed, then one minute of filming will correspond to 1,440 ki-lometres.

What beer is to Germans, vodka is to Russians. The Russians consume around 60 liters of their national drink per capita per year - as cheap liquor, fine drink and home-distilled. But the high alcohol consumption has consequences: every year around 30,000 people in Russia die of alcohol poisoning. WELT reporter Christoph Wanner has taken a closer look at the production and sales of Vodka - a lucrative business in which not everything is right.

Sixty percent of our body is made up of water and we also come from the water in the womb. An elderly woman dives into the sea and recovers her deepest 'I': herself as a child.

Part of the historical revision of the battle of Brunete, part of the chronicle of the fieldwork carried out by a group of students next to the director, David Varela! signs a polyhedral portrait composed from different sources (current testimonies, written memoirs of the combatants, photos, maps, comments by scholars) that overlap the contemporary landscape of forests, groves, crops, bunkers and ruined buildings. Remains of shipwrecks that link a journey of more than 80 years through which, through the experience of young people, they become aware of the gap opened in our historical memory. FICX 2021

The work has been created for the IAR international video art exhibition at palazzo Fondi in Napoli, and it was filmed and produced at Via Farini - Vir artist in residency in Milano. The film wishes to investigate a potential contemporary condition of suspension in which western-society has fallen into. The artist by assembling a unique optical device has explored the microscopic dimension of billboard paper and projected it back onto its given urban environments. The result is an atmospheric work in which the micro confronts the macro in a sequence of urban projections where by means of juxtaposition of perspectives reality results as partially suspended.

A young man decides to go to explore the forest, he meets a friend, both of them make the journey.

Red shoes tells the story of the activist Daniela Falanga, born Raffaele, first son of a Neapolitan Mafia boss. Her father is currently serving a life sentence in Rome for multiple homicides. Daniela's journey to become who she is now has been a struggle, against his criminal family and a sexist society. She is now the first trans woman to be President of Arcigay Naples and fights for LGBT rights. She has a boyfriend who is a transgender boy, Ilario, and they want to have a baby of their own.

A docudrama about the Gay Trials of Frankfurt 1950-51. When a teenage hustler was arrested by the police he revealed the names of his clients to save his own neck. His betrayal destroyed the lives of more than 200 gay men within 10 months.

Get the official behind the scenes look at the final season of Henry Danger featuring Jace Norman and the rest of the cast in 'The Danger Documentary'! Follow along in the Dangerverse through Henry's final battles in Swellview, all the way through to the introduction of the new Danger Force team led by Captain Man (Cooper Barnes). Get ready for unseen footage, interviews, and behind the scenes content that is sure to blow your mind!

Daniel is a Lebanese-German musician with Jewish roots. Alisha is a black-German student at Leuphana University. Rasha Alhindi is a German-Palestinian filmmaker and the director of this short documentary that looks at how global migration has affected the identity of a small city in northern Germany – and some of its residents. How do individuals with a migration background fit into German society?

A poetry piece about life & death set in gothic Whitby.

A writer's final poem becomes his only chance at reclaiming sanity.

On the release day of her debut album, Maisie Peters performs at the Lafayette in London. This abridged recording presents 8 of the 15 songs that comprised that show.

A beautiful panoramic vision, questioning our perception of the passage of time and the figures we conjure in our dreamlike states. Between sleep and wakefulness, it merges fragments of memories, dreams and reality into a composite liminal zone.

A documentary about Rozzano, a city near Milan.

Recorded as part of Go Faster Stripe's Artista Comedy Festival in Brighton, this is the first of two shows by Phil Kay. A late-night totally-improvised show by the doyen of the whimsical, unpredictable comedy freestyler.

A filmic response to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s text, Romancing the Anti-body (1995), exploring the jarring juxtapositions of friction, toxicity, joy and liberation that trans people, queers and femmes experience when playing as their own custom character creations in video game spaces.

The Sieben Linden eco-village may be featured on television and in print media and admired for its successful small ecological footprint (only one-third of the German average), but short reports and articles naturally fail to elaborate on how challenging such a sustainable life in community really is.

At the Salzburg Festival 2021, the musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis performed the last symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – No. 40 K. 550 and No. 41 K. 551 Jupiter. The two pinnacles of Mozart’s symphonic heritage are interconnected: the classic wrote symphonies No. 39–41 in one short period of just a few fruitful weeks in 1788. In the concert the two symphonies – the two sides of Mozart’s unfathomable genius – are joined by works that are close to them both in spirit and the time of creation: the orchestral Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, the recitative and aria of Donna Anna from the finale of the opera Don Giovanni and the chorus from the spiritual cantata Davide penitente created in 1785.

Five short stories (Flour; Water; Yeast; Dough; Bread) exploring stories from Holodomor, Ukraine 1932-33. A search and journey for stories within groups, histories and identities, personal histories, and truth and how it manifests itself and shifts and changes over time.

Golgota is a film about extreme body art with a very pronounced sexual component. The film is told through a series of title cards per hour. It’s 6 hours in the life of Wendy, a woman with multiple paraphilias who has no limits.

Based on a poem by Andrée Chedid, animation featuring quilting and other textile crafts as a metaphor for childbirth.

Noyz Narcos, born Emanuele Frasca, the most important rapper ever to come out of Rome. The author of unforgettable bars and street hits that become gold records. But also the eye behind the camera of hundreds of Mini dv cassettes, published for the first time, with which he documented his artistic career spanning over 20 years.

Lucas is a boy who walks through the city in search of a job to survive but his journey finds the memory of his love.

A flower reveals a journey through dreamscapes of rituals from childhood, the natural instincts of animals and submersion into the unconscious. Time is portrayed as malleable, referencing a shamanic state of non-ordinary reality. Archival and 8mm footage projected onto a Hibiscus flower and shot digitally.

You carry lots of cards in your wallet; when you drive, for the gym, the library… However, when it comes to having a child, the most important decision someone makes in life, no card or accreditation is needed. This leads us to the following question, who hasn't asked himself, why is there not such a thing like a paternity card?

Washing elephant ears, cleaning, feeding: even during lockdown, this is routine in the elephant house at Erfurt Zoo. Only the visitors are missing. How are the animals and keepers experiencing this time?

A man, inside his kitchen, is preparing his packed lunch. He has decided to visit the Brion Tomb, a monumental funeral complex designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa. It was commissioned by Onorina Brion Tomasin to honour the memory of her deceased and beloved relative Giuseppe Brion, founder and owner of the Brionvega company and is located in the small cemetery of San Vito in the hamlet of Altivole in the province of Treviso.