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A supernatural tale about a young boy, Tom’s experience of grief after the death of his Mum and having to live with his Dad, who he barely knows. They share little in common - Dad’s into rugby, and Tom loves ice-skating, but with the help of Mum’s Ghost, Dad’s haunted into making an effort to reconnect with his son.

A touching, unexpected friendship anchors this stark, first-person window into psychosis – blurring the lines between reality and hallucination, fantasy and terror.

Drawing on the lore of the Zephid cult, this short film interprets the arrival and birth of the Last Traveller, an invasive, dark entity that uses planets as hosts and breeding grounds to give birth to its matter of chaos. The born swarm intelligence takes over the surface of the planets, plunging all previous life into destruction and chaos. The Traveller and its Matter of Chaos are the beginning of an unstoppable cycle that will take over the entire universe in billions of years.

Solace is a Weeping River is an essay on the multifaceted process involved in mourning. The work visits the shadows, feelings, reasonings and directions involved in this painful yet liberating part of any human being's life. It is the result of a collective sharing of thoughts that celebrate the life of the one who departs and mourns the posthumous existence of the one who remains alive. It is also a reflection that there is more to grief than mourning, it is an attempt to translate all impressions of this unique event. It is an understanding that passing encompasses hopelessness and hope in almost proportional measures.

The Bergmans have gathered for a family meeting. As a specific topic arises, Victor is confronted with memories of his past that could have had serious consequences for the entire family had events unfolded as he had envisioned.

When does someone stop being a Stranger? In a world emerging from social lockdown, this documentary explores the way communication is changing. Seven participants give us their views on social interactions, before having a conversation with a Stranger. Will this change their perceptions?

Women's revenge on men after centuries of persecution.

Two friends hang out in one of their rooms, each doing their own thing. They slowly start making backhanded comments directed at each other.

What does it take for us to act on the climate crisis – especially if we’re the kind of person who should already be acting? In this funny, relatable portrait, a concerned yet ineffectual dad finds the first step is letting those unbearable feelings of climate anxiety in, instead of pushing them aside. But as he meets others like him, he discovers how oil-backed propagandists funded our denial and paralysis. He sets out to unmask the vested interests responsible, helping raise a generation’s leading authors in a vibrant chorus. MY EXTINCTION is a revealingly honest account of how to feel your feelings, act on your privilege, and get active when threatened with extinction.

How did the face of 12-year-old Lola become in one week a symbol taken over by the far right on social networks, crossing Europe, from identity demonstrations in France to stadium stands in Serbia? Six months after the murder of the teenager, “La Fabrique du Lie” reveals how in just a few days an operation of influence and manipulation was orchestrated. For the first time, those close to the victim recount how they experienced this political recovery, as a suffering added to the mourning.

A wife and entrepreneur devoted to her family and business tragically loses everything as her health mysteriously declines. Why is she now left alone and unable to function in society? She finds out the answer through a series of events and a final, uncomfortable diagnosis. How was she crippled by a "taboo" form of disability that has surprisingly been reported for over 100 years?

Bin and Yuan are brother and sister. When they’re not working, they share a small apartment in Marseille. This is their haven, a space where they can rest. Here they can be connected to the outside world at all hours of the day and night, and especially to their home country, China, to which Yuan is planning to return.

Former police officer and stand-up comic Alfie Moore presents this show in which he asks his audience what decisions they'd have made in a real life case that he has dealt with. After swearing in his audience as police officers for one day only, Alfie takes them through one case as it unfolded and asks them what they'd have done in his shoes. Along the way he spills the beans on what it's really like to be one of Britain's finest, tells us some great anecdotes about the law breakers and makers that he's come across, and gets his studio audience to divulge secrets about their own, sometimes less than strictly law-abiding lives.

At the Teatro Real in Madrid, director Laurent Pelly and conductor Giacomo Sagripanti get to grips with Gioachino Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) – a delightful opera buffa teeming with colourful characters!

Sean Quinn was the world's biggest single loser in the 2008 global financial collapse. He'd gambled his business empire on a single investment and lost everything. Now he wants it all back, no matter the cost.

This video is part of a practice that looks at opulence as a display of oligarchic overindulgence from a privileged few, distorting and multiplying the shapes of extractive industrial machinery, and the interior aesthetics of dictators’ homes and private jets

A struggling screenwriter suffering from writer’s block finds inspiration in the most unexpected places after witnessing a bizarre murder during a walk in the park.

School bullying has become a truly political issue. With the rise of social media, it has taken on an even more prominent and pervasive role.

Isabela is found in the middle of the forest after days missing. One night, Isabela had dreamed of crossing the barriers of space and time, where a girl exactly like her, Daniela, returned her gaze.

In 1974, a group of friends, inspired by what they had seen in Italy and driven by their common passion, organized a comic book fair in their Charente town of Angoulême. Half a century later, the event has become an internationally renowned festival, which is about to celebrate its 50th edition. This documentary tells the story of the creation of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in the context of the 1970s, and the evolution of the event since then, which has made the city a world reference in an exponentially growing bubble market.

A look at the era of kidnappings in Northern Italy by organized crime in the 1980s and is freely inspired by the longest kidnapping in the history of the country, that of Carlo Celadon.

Actor Jack joins a panto tour of care homes, where he is confronted with the reality of where it ends.

A study of Merle Oberon, in a screen test for an unrealised project which became The Red Shoes (1948).

Friends on the Outside is an experimental short documentary that tells the story of Jamie, exploring how foraging for weeds and caring for birds has helped him recover from mental illness and the chronic stress of incarceration. It questions why the UK prison system is currently in its biggest expansion in more than a century, exposing the naturalising language used around this expansion.

One evening, Quinn's wardrobe bursts open, revealing a mysterious place where he will have to confront all his fears about being 'out'.

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the frustration of the future generation who want to bring more awareness towards our mother earth and the beautiful nature she brings us. A statement film about the environment and climate crisis from the future generation

Throughout the continent, discovery of a new generation of independent self learners who share a common passion for African culture and aesthetics and a strong ethic in opposition to the huge fast fashion industry.

The colorful Maria Bodin and her son Christian are over the moon: they have just been chosen by the Belgian royal family to organize a gala in honor of their 25th wedding anniversary. The gala will be held at the Royal Palace in front of the royal family themselves. Unfamiliar with the workings of the Belgian monarchy, mother and son will have to learn the ropes, get organized, and prepare to join the aristocratic ranks.

We don't know why Maddalena, young and beautiful online trader, never goes out. Aghi, her boyfriend, works in a carpets' shop and acts in theater, secretly pursuing this passion. The two young adults live online together. Love has no limit

Boogey, a boy who is always in disguise, and Mildred, a witch who wants to be beautiful, simultaneously enter another dimension where their obsessions will become their worst nightmare.

Asier tries to understand how to live and embrace his own trans identity in a social context that constantly questions him. He does this through cinema, with its power of representation and identification, and through the etymological questioning of two specific words: 'identity' and 'monster'.

In the height of summer Enea turns up at his family's country mansion, but the holiday mood is quickly undermined by the house's only inhabitant who reopens old wounds that have never healed.

A Black and Jewish biracial woman retraces her Jewish grandfather's history which brings her to Auschwitz. During her journey, she learns heart wrenching facts about where her family's from and how her grandfather escaped persecution.

A young woman’s inner demons manifest into a real world entity of malevolent destruction.

A discreet look at the creative process of the painter Lito Portela during the last days of work on a painting that reflects the sea waves.

Still reeling from the recent death of her mother, Leah spends much of the Covid lockdown engaged in a Zoom relationship with a younger man. But past traumas, hang-ups and insecurities prevent her from connecting with him beyond their onscreen relationship, causing her to spiral downwards into mental despair. BUBBLE explores love, loss, isolation and mental health during the Covid pandemic and asks, "Who are we when no one's watching?’

Sultana of New York is a Palestinian drag queen, performer, and artist. "Sultana’s Rein" opens with a conversation with Sultana, as she is being painted by Jordanian artist, RIDIKKULUZ. Reflecting on her journey from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, to then New York, Sultana tells of the challenges of performing drag in conservative societies, her nostalgia for the glory days and the glamour of Egyptian cinema icons, and her struggle to prove her existence and her self-expression as a performer and artist. She also shares her love of celebration and her everlasting commitment to be true to herself.

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese‑American relations. John Adams, a major musical figure of the last forty years, made this event of contemporary history the subject of his first opera. Nixon in China tackles the political thaw instigated by ping-pong diplomacy, begun by the invitation of the American table tennis players by their Chinese counterparts, one year before the presidential visit. A mesmerising work in which the pulsations and repetitions typical of minimalism are combined with melodic lines of great lyricism. For its entry into the Paris Opera repertoire, this work has been entrusted to the director Valentina Carrasco, who underlines the importance and the mediating power of Chinese national sport in history.

Ever had the feeling where someone has gotten so close to you, yet at the same time seemed so far away? For these women and young girls, this is a moment that could change their lives forever. But will they act on their impulses, or let chance fade away? Through a diverse collection of short films, Upon Her Lips: Touch and Go beautifully explores the transformational power of a single touch in shaping our sense of self, sexuality and belonging.

Filmed at Birmingham Rep, Molière’s classic Tartuffe is updated to the West Midlands. Lies and deceit unfold in this wickedly funny Brummie comedy about faith, family and faking it. After a smash-hit run at the RSC in 2018, this version of Tartuffe received rave reviews during its acclaimed revival. Written by the Bafta-winning duo behind Citizen Khan and Goodness Gracious Me, Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto, and directed by Iqbal Khan, creator of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony.

A woman slowly fades into darkness waiting to see her son one last time.

It’s Valentine’s Day at Finja‘s school, and this year, the fifteen-year old is responsible for delivering roses and letters to the other students. Everything goes to plan until, at the last minute, her little brother Malte hands her one final letter – to a male classmate.

À la Poursuite de mes Rêves is the story of four adults who never attended traditionnal school. They grew up in « democratic schools », where class is not mandatory, and where they learned what they wanted to learn, from 4 to 18.