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Arte with its "Court-circuit" programme will leave no secrets left unturned as it takes you behind-the-scenes to see how the film "Flow" was made.

Sophie wonders: An unknown person, a certain Kenny, is about to live at her home. What meaning does have an encounter? What does it imply to welcome someone?

Inspired by true events, based on the before and after events of a shooting; a lesbian couple fall into a dark wonderland of hate when they come to the terms with what they must do to become infamous.

A meta-film about a meta-journey.

A man, wearing a female dress, has just moved into his new home. Beyond his humorous plot, 'the move' in this case also wants to represent another symbolic 'transfer': the restitution of dignity denied by the male world to the female, throughout the human history.

Amis du Lac depicts an interstellar terrarium containing some of the last vestiges of earth’s living creatures: surveilled by a large, blue alien, the complexity of human life and longing is brought into clarity via the daily lives and waking dreams of the terrarium’s inhabitants. The film stands as a treatise on the innate ability of the imagination to envision perpetually better worlds than the one we’re currently inhabiting, as well as the evocative power of music and art. The earthlings of Amis du Lac are no longer physically connected to their planet, but the planet itself lives on in an ever-expanding world of self-contained dreams and ideas.

Documentary about the history of a village guest house

Julian has moved with his father in a new building. One day, while he goes down in the elevator, he is “cocked” by an his neighbor, arousing something in him. As the days pass this event becomes a routine until the elevator stops working, making Julian to go outside looking for this “special touch”.

A feeling of being lost that connects them. The uncertainty they share. A glimpse into each other's lives. In the same place, yet somewhere else entirely. The characters in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1962 film L'amore are overtaken by this feeling.

A man goes to the shops

When Abou from Mali finally made it to Europe, it felt like a new life had started for him. A life, that offered a future. The film he made about his journey from Africa to Europe gets shown all over the world and throughout Germany, where Abou lives as an asylum seeker. His life oscillates between that of an artist with a voice, who is invited to screenings and events, and the isolation and boredom in a remote refugee centre. An essayistic reflection about Europe’s invisible borders and filmmaking as an act of self-empowerment.

Raphael is forced by the Austrian Unemployment Office to take an underwhelming job as a night-time security guard. He recently moved back in with his bedridden mother, who is also cared for by the dedicated Ukrainian nurse Vera. Through Vera's support, Raphael gradually learns to cope with his new life situation, but a tragic incident breaks his world apart once more.

A mosaic of cultures, Spain is rich in the many influences that have passed through its history. Iberians, Celts, Phoenicians, Romans, Ottomans and Jews have shaped Spain's cultural heritage, making it the third country in the world in terms of number of sites classified by UNESCO.

A short suspenseful horror film of the found footage genre, following two students through a media project turned sour after a mysterious book leads them to an unknown part of the country.

"Tha-at’s right" is an attempt to choreograph a dance from a dance review. This review, written in 1959 by critic and poet Edwin Denby, articulates the music and movement of a dance using an idiosyncratic stream of metaphors. "Tha-at’s right" takes these outlandish descriptions literally by using them as a script or score, translating the written word back into a performance. This process was realised collaboratively with the performers onscreen over the course of a day.

A man took his own life. He discovers the after-life, unexpected, cold. In the grip of his inner demons, he begains a dialogue with himself in order to fight to come back to life. Impressive, powerful, the story of death, rebirth, regret and fear, and the love of a son for his mother.

Gerry and their big brother Jos show us that there is more to being different than bullying, discrimination, and harassment.

Jolanda and Hendrik are a couple. They have very close relationship. Hendrik is her favorite coat to put on. We see a day in their life.

Totem is a small, family owned Parisian style cafe where Nina, a young waitress is enlightened to the internal conflict going on inside everybody by a mysterious patron, who visualizes this internal struggle in the form of spirit animals – one that represents the “good” in each person, and one that represents the “bad”.

A documentary that collects the stories of 32 people, from which a complex mosaic of current Paraguayan reality emerges. Essential problems: unequal land distribution, rampant deforestation, intensive use of agrochemicals in the cultivation of transgenic soybeans. In the middle, there is the story of Javier, a gay man, whose life trajectory becomes entangled with different social problems.

Michelle, 86 years old, is an equally obstinate and touching widow and filmmaker Amélie Cabocel’s grandmother. Michelle lives alone in a big house in a lonely area of Lorraine and is probably completely unaware that with every fibre of her existence she bears witness to a vanishing age. But when Amélie tries to persuade her to take part in a photographic and exhibition project, she resolutely makes it her own.

What are aluxes? Where do they live? Do they really exist? The Aluxes are not imaginary beings that only exist in the minds of people, writers or by the superstition of the indigenous people and that have been transmitted orally from generation to generation.

Love emerging on the airwaves, filled with all the sweetness and intensity of first emotions.

Eva, one of the 500,000 young Spanish migrants away from Spain, spends her New Year's Eve looking for the reasons why she is where she is. During the course of the night, Eva will confront herself with different situations and encounters that will show her the way to becoming the person that she wants to be.

Giulio, bold and impulsive, is a street boy who does not lower his head in front of anyone. Genny, his cousin, is shy and introverted. Forced by circumstances to meet, against the backdrop of a bare and gray Neapolitan suburb, the two face a journey through sexuality, growth, and the gray areas of adolescence...

After eating a mysterious jar of pickled fruit from the 1800s, a curmudgeonly woman transforms into a hideous and bloodthirsty granny hellbent on wreaking havoc on the criminals and lowlifes in her neighborhood.

A study of the landscape and of the traces left by time and man in the mountainous areas of northern Tuscany, between the Apennines and the Apuan Alps, following the rhythm of the seasons, the movements of light and stages of transformation of matter.

Maria, LGBT rights activist, writes a letter to the director of the senior residency who has denied, to her and her wife Rosa, access to an apartment there. She tells the reasons why they won’t be able to accept the director proposal.

A woman's mannequin is showing different outfits so that we can label her and pour our prejudices and fears on her, created by our contaminated gaze. Men, women look at the dressed woman and value, judge and fear. And only the clean look of a child can put all this on trial.

Angel and Ethan are about to go on a date to fix things between them and resolve unfinished business from the past. However, they will discover that sometimes things are not what they seem, and that when someone really wants to be part of your life, they will go out of their way to stay in it.