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A knight meets a mermaid...
A poet reflects on their experience of of love, loss and visibility - a childhood in seaside suburbia, a changing relationship with place and self identity and queering the narrative of being assigned coastal at birth.
A reflection on a journey to Cromarty, a tiny coastal town in northern Scotland.
A boy struggles to confess his feelings for a girl.
An unnamed narrator recounts his pursuit of an animal that appears mysteriously one night on the beach.
Disillusioned and in search of a secure foundation of life, the late thirties Tolga visits his hometown and finds himself in the kitchens and living rooms of his shattered family presence.
In a dark subterranean world an extravagant man tries to bring back some colors and happiness in people's every day life.
A man discovers there’s another meaning for “recycling” in this ingenious fusion of mock doc, workplace satire, and stop-motion animation by Trinidad Plass Caussade, Titouan Tillier, and Isaac Wenzek.
In June 2021, amateur runner Lambert Santelli attempts to bring the record for the crossing of the mythical GR20 back to his island. Until then, the record was held by François D'Haene, the world's number one ultra-trailer.
This experimental film presents a kaleidoscopic and psychedelic composition of digitally modified images thematizing mainly nature, the human body, and machines. Silberstein draws his inspiration from video games and cybernetics theory resulting in futuristic meditation. The sci-fi atmosphere is made complete with electronic music by sound artist Łukasz Szałankiewicz.
Laila meets Eliyas on a rooftop over the city of Barcelona, with one determined goal- revenge. A movie about war and terrorism, about the cycle of violence.
Nacho, a young man in his mid-thirties, is losing control of his life. In order to finance his various addictions, he has accumulated large debts with dangerous moneylenders. Fearing he no longer has control over himself, he flees to the city, leaving everything behind. There, he meets a woman who is older than him and falls in love with her. Lucia is very supportive of his development into a better and more adult Nacho. As Nacho’s mother is lying on her deathbed, he is forced to return home and face everything he had left behind.
On the shores of Lake Como, an association for mental health meets once a week to write a periodical. Everyone brings their story, their ups and downs, their tragedies and solidarity.
Try to escape the magical sounds of this instrument.
The rediscovery of the largest Italian post-war prison camp, an investigation into the mechanisms of collective removal in the recent history of the Romagna Riviera.
The true story of composer Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera, completed by him in Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt and rediscovered, thanks to a miraculous chain of events.
In this haunting stop motion animated black comedy a man attends a séance but is sceptical about such nonsense. Will they really contact spirits from the other side? Or will they find other skeletons in the closet in this harrowing tale of terror and mystery?
Hervé runs the Librairie Aléatoire in Amiens. In 2020, despite the pandemic, he made a liberating decision: “stop Amazon”. From the depths of his cellar full of books, which he came to prepare at night to sell them on the internet, he definitely emerged to find his shop and his regulars. Today, guided by the literature that shapes his thoughts, the bookseller dreams of a bookstore in the shape of a boat. It will float between the worlds.
Two Korean-American adoptees navigate their transracial identity through meeting their birth mothers.
A deadly shadow brings terror to the projects.
Claudia on her Venus way, showing and doing what erotic is starting with the Fall. And the Rosella with a killer dance, coming with laughter, heavy from Dante to opera ... a miracle of an actress.
The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness.
A message about embracing the gift of dual identity that has been given to children of the Black diaspora.
35,000 people came to the Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid on June 24, 2022 to see Vetusta Morla's last great show. This docu-concert recovers that magical night. With a masterful production we attended the band's most important concert after their latest album, "Cable a Tierra", an album in which the group brings its sound closer to the folklore of here and Latin America to explore new rhythms and take our roots to the rock, pop and electronica. Between songs, the members of the group tell us how the album was created and the night of the concert. Accompanied by El Naán, Alibori and the rapper Wos and by unusual traditional instruments in events of this magnitude, the band performed their sixth studio album and their best-known songs in a concert that has already become a must-see music event in Spain.
Various electronic eyes from mobile phones tell the journey of a group of young migrants. With no job opportunities in Germany's first lockdown, they leave Berlin to work and live in a remote flower factory.
With a few shots, Denis Cointe introduces us to a luxurious garden plunged in deep silence, quickly interrupted by some fragile notes mixed in with the birdsongs. Like an interior music, these sounds accompany a long fixed shot showing us a woman in a wheelchair, her hand wrapped in a handkerchief.
In order to get one of the coveted permanent positions at an elite investment bank, two young bankers work day and night until not only their friendship threatens to break apart.
Paura is a project written and directed by Tommaso Ottomano jointly with CAM Sugar. It is composed of two more short films.
Bianca celebrates her 22nd birthday in a small flat in a brutalist neighbourhood on the outskirts of Moscow. To the digital world, Bianca is Electa, known on social media for her touching dance performances and her obsession with the colour white. She was born in Norilsk, Siberia, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and is part of the international group of young people who gravitate to Radio Esperanza Libre, a podcast channel founded by Anita Lopez, a young environmentalist speaker based in Argentina. Anita and Electa met by chance on the internet because, in addition to their shared interest in environmental issues, they share a curious date of birth: 29 February. Electa’s network of virtual connections becomes the only possible escape route for Bianca, at a time when climate change is unfortunately not the only urgency around her. The podcast of Monday 28 February 2022 is an opportunity for Electa to raise a cry for help.
Locked up and isolated, a prisoner starts to merge his imagination with the real world and tries to escape the prison with his newly found powers.
A short story by Alessio Martino and Elisa Pontillo.
The film follows men over several years who reach the age their father was when he died. Among these men are Cyrill Renaud, the son of filmmaker Renaud Victor, who carries the weight of an interrupted work, and Cyril Casmèze, a zoomorphic acrobat who has made working with animality a mode of protection and survival. It is an exploration of grief over the long term, a story of fathers and sons, but also a story of mothers and sons. When the father is gone, the relationship to the mother changes. The film is constructed in two chapters. One that looks back on the brutality of the loss and the trauma, the other that opens up the future, the transformation, the rebirth, now that these men have outgrown their father and allow themselves to live. A third man, Loup, joins them. He too has lost his father and "being a father in turn" has been a way to move forward.
Sir Trevor McDonald examines the brutal killing of PC Andrew Harper in this crime documentary. Follow the investigation to catch his killers and the campaign to change the law.
Homage to Anselm Kiefer.
In her documentary, the Scottish-Syrian director tries to reconcile the two worlds in her head: her fond memories of visiting relatives in Damascus and what has happened in Syria since then. She confronts her cousin, who fled from there, with her recordings from then - and thus calls back memories that were buried under trauma.
Dipendra and Sushmita are two Nepali orphans living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. One day, Dipendra's family contacts him and they invite him to travel to his hometown. Sushmita decides that when she grows up she wants to be a nurse.
The Hoover Dam is a massive structure situated on the Colorado River, spanning the border of Arizona and Nevada in the United States. It stands 722 feet tall, 660 feet wide at its base, and 1,244 feet long, making it one of the largest dams in the world. Below are Key Construction Timeline Dates: - The Hoover Dam's initial early infrastructure work began in July 1930. - The official start date was April 20, 1931. - The first concrete placement in the dam structure itself was June 6, 1933. - The Dam was dedicated by FDR on September 30, 1935. - The official completion date was March 1st 1936.
For a long time, her father was just a blind spot. Only a box of Super 8 films set the puzzle of memories in motion. And a story emerges - in all the colors of the 70s.
From Bucharest to the remote villages of the Carpathians, from the national composer Georges Enesco to his contemporary heirs, a journey in the footsteps of Romanian musical traditions. “Romanian popular music forms an imposing whole, a precious treasure from which our composers draw their inspiration,” said Georges Enesco, trained on the violin by a Gypsy teacher. Punctuated by quotes from the composer and interpretations of his works, this documentary sets out in search of a treasure of many nuances, which continues to liven up village festivals and influence the young Romanian scene. From the scores of Dan Dediu, one of today's greatest composers, to the folk songs of the Maramures, a journey to discover this fascinating mosaic of musical cultures.
The true story of Fabrizio Toffolo, a central figure among the Lazio ultras and one of the historic leaders of the Curva Nord.
Agadiri and Oussama, two Moroccan friends, laze around and survive while the camera explores their bodies and faces. But things are by no means simple. Both have only been in Spain for a short period and are facing a supposedly temporary situation, which must culminate in their futures being defined in the midst of a pandemic. Filmed indoors, Monte Tropic gradually travels towards a more indefinite and dreamlike space to question the memories and desires of these young people, whose inactivity vindicates their right to be above the disastrous political use of their situation.
The entwined bones of two mermaids - mother and child - appear and disappear in time to the funeral march.
When a lonely grandma faces the ignorance of her estranged granddaughter, she has to reinvent the wheel to uphold a long family tradition - making Chocolate Tronchetto together on Christmas Eve.
The Maginot Line: thousands of subway bunkers and concrete defenses lining the French border from Belgium to the Mediterranean Sea, a monumental engineering feat that was celebrated as a technical masterpiece when it was created. When the impregnable wall was demolished by the unbeatable Nazi war machine in 1940, the conquered fortress became the shattered symbol of French defeat.