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From plain white walls to bombastically crafted backdrops: adult chat rooms are portals to people’s fantasy worlds. Focusing on the moments when the performers are off-screen, a meticulous concatenation of ghostly spaces takes us on an unsettling journey of self-expression and lonesome desire.
Two queer people talk intergenerational experience down on England’s south coast.
A psychological suspense film shot entirely on Zoom with an international cast. Starring Michael Lake, Bella Duve, Neil Ovenell, Edward Osredkar, and more.
"A visit in the Bavarian Forest, wallowing in the past - Grandmother Rita, the Bolex, Asparagus, the stone rain barrel, glass vases and casted sculptures by Grandfather Bernhard - casted in the "lost mould“.
A documentary from the RAI archives exploring the life, works, and political commitment of one of the greatest innovators of Italian neo-realist painting.
A girl works at her computer and gets treated badly by her supposed "friend".
The story of Victor, a young homosexual, dynamic and sunny boy whose greatest passion is theater. A love for art that leads him to face his life with his best friend, David, a bond profound that unites them in a society hostile to their sexual and gender identity.
A documentary 'on the road' with Christian, who has lost his pregnant girlfriend and decides to raise money for the scientific research against Cystic Fibrosis, and Davide, director of the movie and affected by the same disease. Loss and friendship as main themes of a long journey, walking side by side.
Once a legend, hero, and leader of the pack, Rudoph now lives alone in a trailer on the outskirts of the North Pole. After watching a documentary charting his fall from grace, a fired up Red decides to make the ultimate comeback and reclaim his spot as the King of Deers.
About our way from the water to the stars.
Angela Merkel is leaving office after sixteen years at the head of Germany and at the height of her popularity. To better understand her, Marion Van Renterghem got close to Angela Merkel by meeting her close friends.
A frenetic, poetic line animation of bell-jars, eyeballs and red exclamation marks punctuated by an inaudible, gobbling narrative. Rowland’s film ‘writhes upon inspection’ – a fast, furious insight into personal anxieties and the spectacle of being looked at.
Retrospect follows a day in the life of JJ, a young man plagued by loneliness, as he looks back on his past and the actions that led him to where he is today.
On October 31, 2014, in Burkina Faso, the people ousted President Blaise Compaoré after 27 years in power. Two years after these events, we set out to investigate in Ouagadougou, searching for the individuals captured in a photograph taken during the occupation of the national television station that day: nine revolutionaries lost to history.
Director, cinematographer and author Susanne Kellermann takes a very personal look at her husband Fritz Wepper. When he receives a serious cancer diagnosis in spring 2020, Susanne Kellermann begins to follow his everyday life and his work during the filming of the final episodes of "For Heaven's Sake". Fritz Wepper talks impressively about his childhood, the parallel filming of "Cabaret" and "Der Kommissar" and about dealing with the last things in life.
'Ai - Below the Surface' is a surrealistic short movie. The main premise was to create a document of a dream of the fictional character 'Ai'. The result of this experiment is the movie - an approach of documenting the undocumentable.
Marcus Brigstocke, taking on the role of Lucifer, regales his audience with his views on moments in history and the modern world, interacting with the audience and trying to ensure his make-up doesn't run.
A meditation on what it means to be/come like all the boys and also what it means to want to be/come like them. It navigates images and ideas of masculinity and trans masculine identity, combining found footage, illustration and personal archive in an act of assemblage that mirrors the erratic and eternal piecing together of a queer identity. The film attempts to trace a story of becoming, the active process of stitching oneself together from a myriad of starting points, whilst also laying bare the moments of conflict and interruption that occurs from this process.
A man gets caught in a rut due to a dominating presence.
Gabriel is about to receive his education on how to get Christian, the boy he desires and is an aficionado of Asiatic BL which is being taught to him by a sensei who is his conscience and at one point references Star Wars.
For as long as Lila and Adrian can remember they lived in a room, that has neither doors or windows, but instead a tube on the wall from which food appears daily. But after a strange light emerges from that tube one day and the food no longer appears, conflict arises between the two. While Lila wants to further explore and understand this foreign light, Adrian opposes it, partly because its presence seems to bring unforeseen dangers.
This documentary is a portrait of the 100-year history of the Communist Party of Spain but, above all, it is a tribute to the wretched of the earth, the oppressed and forgotten, those who gave their lives for freedom and democracy.
As humans, we have been fighting against each other for millions of years. But now, we should stop fighting each other and all fight together for humanity.
Roots explores themes of home, displacement and cultural identity through the process of interweaving personal memory and animation. The film coalesces fragments of different conversations I’ve recorded with my mother as an attempt to understand more about my parent's culture and address questions I have increasingly become intrigued by as I have got older.
Dark Ages: two abandoned little sisters live miserably inside a semi-destroyed granary. On a bad day the surrounding fields become the battleground between two imperial armies. The sisters, pretending to have good contacts with the Almighty, cleverly manipulate the two bigoted emperors and finally celebrate the victory of cunning over the dullness of power.
He is even bad at doing evil.
This film was shot in 48 hours by 8 students of ENSAV in Castres (81). 5 people in a carpool will break down in front of an obscure place: the Black Castle. An unfortunate fate awaits them.
"I wish you an excellent first day of the rest of your magical life, where everything will be magic, enchantment and malice. Well, normally there’s a choreography, but right now, I don’t really want to do it for you." Once upon a time, there was an employee named Wanda who had just started working in an amusement park.
A female, who is a relationship with man, explores her attraction to women in a whimsical way, by inviting women to her house in secret and eating ice creams together.
The documentary is a kind of master class on the pioneer of Basque-language films and the founder of Lekeitio’s Euskal Zine Bilera. Benito Ansola talks to J. J. Bakedano about the secrets of his major productions. In the space of 20 years he produced some twenty films, including documentaries and fiction shorts.
garden rain on a summers day
Five Venezuelan boys leave their country in search of opportunities and means to support their families. They travel to hostile streets in Barcelona, Cartagena, Lima and Miami facing a reality far different from their hopes and dreams.
Inspired by Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" "Who am I, really?" "What is love?" Dorian Gray, the secret child of love and death is suddenly thrust into a confusing world. A world where love dare not speak its name, yet everybody is searching for it. On his search Dorian comes across the many mirrors of his soul. The dangerous and charismatic Lord Henry casts him into a hedonistic lifestyle; Sibyl Vane sees him as the Romantic lead and Lady Henry merely wants to prey on him. But it is the gentle society painter, Basil Hallward, who shows him as he truly is. On his quest to find his true identity, Dorian must decide if it is better to be loved or to be feared. When Dorian realises the painting is, in fact, a portrait of his conscience, he is horrified to see the level of corruption depicted on the canvas and decides to try to reverse time. "I would give anything for that - I would give my soul!" But is it too late?
Alone on a secluded island, a lightkeeper is prisoner of his own madness.
Manu Dibango is eighty years old. Smiling like a kid, he blows out his birthday cake candles, followed by applause. An hour and half later, he is eighty-five years old. Between these two milestone birthdays, the film directors followed in the day to day footsteps of this smiling, debonair giant; for whom the expression, "quiet strength" seems to have been coined. Composer, musician, journalist, an ambassador of the Francophone world, honoured and distinguished around the world; Manu Dibango has remained himself wherever he may find himself.
Anchored to the heart of the King’s Cross redevelopment in London, the film takes the viewpoint of an arbitrary surveillance camera to trace the many flows of a privately-managed but public-facing square.
It is difficult to paint a portrait if your model talks and moves a lot.
Reason: Self-portrait of March twenty-one “October 19, I'm on my very last chapter now, the very last. The rain, the birth, the flood and the barn, the hungry guy is the last scene that's been ready for so long. I'm sure of one thing, it's not the great book I had hoped for, it's just an ordinary book and the most horrible thing is absolutely the best I can do. "(John Steinbeck)
In "Reflection, Refraction", Flora Debechi recasts optical and projector lenses from 'found' sea glass along the coastline of Bute – lenses to look at rather than through. Debechi's visual journal engages processes of capturing, waiting and transformation, from raw material to tactile sculpture.
Gaining ideology from their last album Disco Volodar, the short film uses the core theme of space. The short film is filmed at Unit 3 Regents Trading Estate, the usual area for Sounds From The Other City. Using the philosophy of avante garde pioneer Maya Deren ‘one must at least begin with the body feeling’, the films opening is of the four piece standing atop of the hill in the Pendle countryside. This quickly melts into a warped reality and lands you into the POV of a camera and trapped in a liminal space where you see a band in session.
Mind (FULL) is an experimental pastel-animated short which explores how meditation can take the mind from a state of chaos to calmness.
Using Arthur O'Shaughnessy's poem as inspiration, Naomi Waring's film celebrates the confidence, pride and beauty that disco dancing brings to a working-class community in Northern Ireland. Commissioned by BBC as part of the Two Minute Masterpiece Programme.
What narratives escape the frame of war, and how do those bearing witness, in turn, consume media? Offing, re-focuses the lens on the tender and the mundane as acts of life, and re-centers relationality as a way into the unrenderable essence of sound and subjectivity. Employing the spoken online voice of artist Salman Nawati, against footage shot by Toukan outside of Gaza, the film departs from the summer 2021 war on Gaza.
Experimental animation
On the North East Coast of Scotland, an extraordinary family have turned the previously derelict Bayview hotel into a place of respite for international fishermen when they come to land. This film is a glimpse into this unlikely home and the transient guests who pass through it.
A congregation of images around Newington Green, Stoke Newington, and the surrounding streets form a meeting place for the locals to reflect on their understanding of working-class culture and the local area.
Hannah, a young woman who is both phobic and hypochondriac, lives alone in her mansion and spends her days relentlessly hunting down dust with her army of cleaning cloths. Her maid, Louise, faithfully assists her in this never-ending obsession. Everything must be clean... Clean... Clean... Driven by an unceasing quest for cleanliness, the young heroine is constantly searching for the ultimate miracle product. When she receives a promising new disinfectant, she eagerly tests it on herself without hesitation. But the experiment unexpectedly transports her into an extraordinary world.