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«Bliss» is about the end of the world and the end of the internet. The music created by Edgar Mondragón reflects about the saturation of digital files in post-internet world. So the images are intended to simulate chaotic atmospheres. Starting from the disintegration of various visual symbols, a campfire is superimposed on materials found on the internet mixed with personal audiovisual material that also simulates being part of the digital archive. Each layer is rhythmically and counterpoint interposed in order to think about the destruction of the world.

The United States is the only country not to have ratified the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and minors are tried as adults, from the age of 9 years. This investigation, carried out in two prisons, in Texas and Utah, shows their daily life. Journalists were able to meet young detainees, including a 16-year-old boy sentenced to spend four decades behind bars. The latter tells about his daily life in the cell and the means he uses to last until his release.

The film looks at the issues facing young people in Lunel through the prism of the Art et Culture association.

Yann, 11, with a unique personality, lives with his two parents in the south-west of France, near Bayonne. Yann has autism, his schedule is busy and well orchestrated to give him the opportunity to have as much autonomy as possible. Supervised by specialized educators, he navigates between speech therapy, occupational therapy and surfing sessions ...

Self-taught Congolese artists Tétshim and Frank Mukunday have been animating since 2010. Their stop-motion films use chalk drawings, stones and repurposed materials. Machini talks about the influence that mining has on the city. About the pollution and the slow destruction of man by man.

Manuel, a shaman desperate for not being able to cure his daughter Zyanya, decides to go against his principles and practice a ritual of Nahualism.

There are always some moments you don’t want to say a word. The world is silent and you turn silent.

Filippo tries to help his friend Gianfranco, who wants to kill himself, using his powerful washing machine, but something goes spectacularly wrong.

The documentary film MEN OF HOPE follows the soccer national team of Afghanistan, their German-Croatian coach Petar Segrt and the fans on their mission to qualify for the Asia Cup 2019.

Kokosmos is a purely visual, experimental piece inspired by space and our fascination with the unknown. A surreal fantasy, aimed to extend our perception of reality by letting us wonder over the existence of a higher being and our connection with her.

This beautiful short, commissioned by UCLan’s Creative Innovation Zone, is an intricate hand-drawn journey through the life of a local activist, George Dewhurst. An ordinary working man from Blackburn, George was charged with High Treason, shortly after The Peterloo Massacre in August 1819, for speaking at a gathering of workers in Burnley. Narrated by one of George's descendants, 8-year-old Monty Speed, this beautiful animated montage depicts events in George's life in the year 1819, following a quest by descendants to uncover his grave and raise awareness of his story.

A year ago Andrea had a heart attack and was hospitalized. Together with several friends, Fernando began to send her audios from abroad, reading several fragments of books that could shorten that distance. Now, inverting the roles and with the camera, they both reconstruct those words under the same premise: a voice, a place in the city, a short reading.

A young boy is taken in from the streets and trained in martial arts. When his home is invaded and his sensei is taken, he must face his fears and become the hero he was always meant to be.

Cristina plans a quiet friday at home. When she goes out to buy nearby, she meets some friends who tell her that Jimena, with whom she has pending issues, has just moved back to Lima.

Two Kinder-Bueno sellers walk through the parking lot with their merchandise in their pockets. They enter a block of flats and are stopped by two police officers who chase them. A race ensues, followed by shouts of laughter. The vendors find refuge in a church cinema where they meet a lawyer and a teacher…

Irish photographer Tom Wood, affectionately known as "Photie Man" by the people of Liverpool, his adopted city, needs no introduction. He captured it in an almost obsessive manner from 1978 to 2001. His photographs are a tender chronicle of the daily life of the Scousers, from the market to the Anfield football stadium, through its nightclubs and the seaside resort of New Brighton. In front of Emmanuel Bonn's camera, the photographer revisits these places that continue to nourish his work. Back in his home in Wales, against a backdrop of classical music, Tom Wood invites us to dive into his archives and shares his vision of the medium, his life, and the projects that have marked it. A modest and touching portrait of whom Martin Parr calls the "unsung genius of British photography.”

The short film that tells the city of Catanzaro through the eyes of a swallow, which travels through the riches of the city.

1980 - Kylian and Luis are two best friends. They always meet in the fields between their two houses. On this summer day, Kylian dares to take out a Playboy magazine.

Future Perfect follows a child's drawing of their parents as it is placed in a time capsule until the earth dries to a husk. It's then found by aliens who use the drawing as the blueprint for a twisted new version of humanity.

An abstract poetry-film made in response to Margaret Tait’s poem ‘Light’. The surface of the screen glistens and sweats as individual pixels shiver and shimmer. A soft voice-over explores the symbolic and physical properties of light whilst a contrasting voice interrupts with thoughts about the difficulties of writing.

As Andrew deals with the emotional aftermath of his father’s funeral, an unwanted visit from his ex-boyfriend casts new light on parental acceptance and the complex nature of forgiveness.

A documentary short film that tells the story of Jairo Briceño, a 63-year-old drag queen from Villavicencio who started cross-dressing and performing in the 1970s.

Texts and colors derived from some of the works of visual artist Francesco Impellizzeri characterize this film, where the structure of the TV intermission combines different colors with a decisive musical component.

Ebun Sodipo’s film And the Seas Bring Forth New Lands brings together archival footage and a performance of original text to grapple with the interconnected precarity and joys of Black life. Footage combines clips from popular films, news broadcasts, social media platforms such as Vine, and fashion shows. Sodipo’s film reckons with the demands placed on Black existence while speculating on other ways of being adjacent to these violences. The soundscape knits together music from artists such as Blood Orange and Solange, along with Sodipo’s performed text.

A documentary on Rojava/North-East Syria and the social change there.

Kwessi is different from other children his age. His parents Nènè and Kagame are very worried. After having consulted many sorcerers, pastors and doctors, the diagnosis finally falls: their child is autistic.

Alone in London, a teenager is made suddenly homeless. Vulnerable and desperate, he falls victim to a violent sexual assault which leaves him struggling with trauma and haunting nightmares as his life unravels.

What happens when bodies defy the norm on a daily basis; when existing, breathing or showing yourself becomes an act of rebellion? A film that reflects on the traces that sexism, heteronormativity, transphobia, racism, ableism and fatphobia have left in their lives and the strategies they have developed to resist.

Alba is flourishing. At that strange in-between age where she is neither a girl nor a woman, she faces love, her sexuality and the overwhelming power of hormones for the first time.

In May 2014, fire tore through the west wing of the Glasgow School of Art, destroying its famous library. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the building was one of the finest examples of modern architecture in the world. What followed was the biggest conservation project in Europe: to restore the building to Mackintosh's original vision. It was on the verge of completion when a second, more devastating fire struck in June 2018. Featuring behind the scenes access following the restoration process, this documentary charts five extraordinary years which saw the Glasgow School of Art make headlines around the world. A tale of passion, dedication and emotion: as the building is brought back to life only to be destroyed once more, we hear from the highly skilled conservation workers, architects, former students, local residents and artists in a compelling portrait of the battle to save The Mack.

An egg that won’t crack. A mermaid who wants to do the splits. A breast that won’t lactate. A pelican that pecks itself. This performance to camera builds on a series of live works made in 2018 and develops a free-associative language to discuss the lived experience of fertility treatment. Viriditas is a concept associated with the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen – a notion of spiritual ‘greening’, which here is applied to the female body. Performative action is layered with readings of Hildegard’s texts and coded watercolour drawings. Other points of reference include Carlo Crivelli’s portraits of the Virgin and Child; the lactating nereids on the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna; and the pagan-Catholic hybrid goddess, Madonna of the Wheat. This work is supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

A young girl's peaceful evening turns into a nightmare when her mom asks her to call her phone, which she's unable to find.

The Son wants to become a fisherman and dreams of going to the sea. The Father is a mortician who does not understand his son's desire to leave their land. The Mother, seriously ill, wants to see her family happy.

A world where everyone lives in their work stations. Eat canned liquid food provided by a distributor. Workers which are only numbers, with alienating and incomprehensible tasks that earn them points, that might conquer them a better life. One of them is known as 079 and often stays behind, meaning his promotion is always out of reach. He then decides to steal the necessary points from his neighbor.

A middle aged Italian man is lonely and misses his wife, who has left him. The cure for loneliness is as bizarre as it is practical. The result of the cure is poignant and hardcore.