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A group of men is fixing their eyes onto the sky. High above, a swarm of pigeons is moving in an unrecognizable formation, when suddenly individual birds drop in mid-air, spinning backwards with their wings extended and tumbling down in a circular motion before resuming their ordinary flight path. Yalda Afsah’s short film SSRC slowly dissects this aerial choreography, revealing its nature as a form of animal training and gradually zooming into the at times almost intimate details of this interspecies relationship. Focusing on the specific social context of the Los Angeles-based „Secret Society Roller Club“ and its members’ identification with and through the animals, Afsah’s film negotiates positions of co-dependency and care, domestication and dominance – calling into question the ambivalence reflected in the symbol of the soaring bird free in its flight, yet simultaneously bound to human will.

Natural History film. Crocodile fishing on the Klang River in Malaysia. Fishermen setting the bait, and later hauling the captured crocodile ashore. A final title tells us his hide will be sold to make fancy leather-goods.

This depiction of a lost paradise, composed entirely of archive footage, is a portrait of the British countryside that is at times surreal, as well as a feverish search for what binds us together. Images of idyllic farming life make you long for the sense of community of yesteryear, for the wonder of Alice and the White Rabbit, or pagan feasts around a fire. At the same time, they create a tension: not everything was better in the old days.

A meditative symphony on the city and death. The filmmaker returns to places where he, 18 years earlier, had made a film about suicide. Now, in the crowded streets of Tehran and in the city’s rundown corners with flanked walls, he searches for the reasons that had led three sisters to end their lives together.

A video-dance adaptation of the short story "A Marquesiña" (The Little Marchioness), from the book "Cousas" (Things), by Castelao.

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.

The people who star in the documentary have a strong bond with the towns where they have decided to live freely their sexual orientation or gender identity. Their visibility makes them close references for LGTB+ children and young people, as well as for the rest of their neighbors in the municipalities of Huelva where they live. As Alex's mother says: "We eat our heads with all the bad things that can happen and, sometimes, things turn out well".

The hero Siegfried reforges his father’s shattered sword, embarking on a quest for the greatest prize of all – the love of the valkyrie Brünnhilde, who lies trapped in a ring of fire. Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner broke off composition at the end of Act II of Siegfried to write Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, returning to Siegfried seven years later. Longborough Festival Opera, known as the British Bayreuth, calls on renowned Wagnerian Anthony Negus to conduct and Amy Lane to stage this new production of Siegfried in the bucolic English Cotswolds.

A 1970s beach toy to never stop playing, desecrating, and reflecting on many things.

Icarus (after Amelia) is a work study shot on 35mm. It shows Glasgow women at their workplace and deals with issues of feminist economic theory.

A mysterious protagonist emerges from elemental energies, leading us on her sensational journey. She (the “Ur-Frau”) is a mysterious force, ever-changing, responding to, and even becoming, her encounters with nature. A story of emotion: felt, rather than told, where the original score pulsates expressively with the visuals’ rhythm, breathing and oozing nature’s forms and wonders.

Using archival films from an East Anglian film archive and newly interviewing a local filmmaker, this short story sets out to prove just how important archive footage is in preserving those slowly disappearing local traditions, including weird and iconic sports, as well as the wonderful everyday.

In an ever-changing, chameleonic waiting-room, a young man experiences visions of his past life and a phantom who attempt to reconcile and alleviate the young man’s confusion and pain as he slowly progresses towards his passing. NEVER CURSED explores the meta-physiological and somatic suffering of the body and the soul as it slowly wastes away, whilst also challenging pre-existing notions of death as an unwelcoming and harrowing experience through an acceptance of what once was and what can no longer be.

Desmond and Ray promise Jess that they won't look inside her box, but the temptation is too much for some to take.

The experiences of a young sex worker as she navigates the streets at night.

Wendy Craig is the much-loved star of TV series such as Butterflies and The Royal. This feature-length celebration of her life and career features an exclusive new interview with Wendy, recorded at her home, as she retraces the moments that made her a sitcom superstar. Wendy was born in County Durham in 1934 as Anne Gwendolyn Craig. She reveals that she first set her sights on an acting career at the age of three after seeing a pantomime in Newcastle. At drama school in London in the early 1950s, a performance she gave alongside fellow trainee and future Sherlock Holmes star Jeremy Brett was so impressive that she picked up both her first professional acting job and an agent in the same evening.

Jim Schafer is a 34 year old man and, having found out that he died in a horrific accident and life went on without him, is made to re-examine his place in the universe before he makes an important choice.

In a world where drugs can reignite lost love, a man desperately tries to save his relationship.

K wanders through a mysterious forest and finds a secret within water.

Since his two attacks with a hammer against Marcel Duchamp's urinal in 1993 and again in 2006, the artist Pierre Pinoncelli is known worldwide for this iconoclastic and subversive act. Often misinterpreted by the press, this double performance, and the trials that followed it, overshadowed the rest of his work: his paintings from the 1960s, and the many powerful happenings he made. Pinoncelli sprayed André Malraux with red paint in 1969, robbed a bank to protest apartheid in 1975, and mutilated himself in 2002 to denounce FARC violence in Colombia. Often motivated by political demands, Pinoncelli went to the end of his ideas and expressed himself through often shocking gestures, which question us.

True love will find you in the end.

In April 2018, the new Paris Courthouse, a 160-meter glass tower by architect Renzo Piano, opened at Porte de Clichy. For several years, this working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris has been undergoing an urban metamorphosis. In the surrounding buildings, the inhabitants are living this transformation on a daily basis, between resignation, adaptation and aspirations. Through a back-and-forth game between intimate trajectories and the metamorphosis of the city, the film sketches moments in the lives of several of its inhabitants, drawing a portrait of a neighborhood at its turning point.

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation and community organising. Combining shot footage, oral histories and archive material from both sides of the Atlantic, the film follows a tangled thread of personal and collective memories to interrogate the church’s contribution to a Black radical tradition.

Adam enters a house, lit by a single candle. Catching a glimpse of a shadowed figure, he becomes a victim to curiosity. Following her, he explores a series of rooms, leading to face-to-face encounters with the being. Truths and lessons to be learnt, Adam's journey leads him 'Halfway'.

We, as a planet populated by humans with nowhere else to go, have 100 seconds left to live because humanity teeters on the brink of self-destruction. While this sounds like the start of an apocalyptic disaster movie, it is in fact, reality. The Doomsday Clock is a warning of man's ability to create something that could destroy everything, humanity's very existence, a count-down timer to the point of no return - humanity's doomsday. It symbolizes how close humans as a species, have come to destroying the world with dangerous man-made technologies. The deadline of Midnight represents the moment of Apocalypse, and how close the clock is set to that deadline warns how close humanity is to ultimate disaster. With the intention of warning the public and inspiring action, the clock's hands are set in accordance to how great is the threat of destruction. Now, in the 21st century we are closer to Doomsday than ever before.

EMBODIMENT is an experimental film, retracing the autoethnography of a transmasculine member of the Chinese diaspora. This short film is the first of a series to come, it is born out of my political self-recovery and reflections on the meaning and crucial importance of racial passing in the context of a white-majority country.

After finishing high school, six young people from Rimini are in crisis, in the throes of a thousand doubts about the path to take in life and work: lacerating doubts especially for those of them who would like to work in the artistic field.

A student's 'American Psycho' spoof about a murderous chef goes wrong!

The work aims to provide a space for people who have suffered under the UK’s border regime to speak about their experiences, whilst also celebrating the rich contribution that people who’ve moved to the UK from overseas have made to our shared social and cultural life. The work comprises 26 sections, each made in collaboration with a partner who has first-hand experience of the issues at hand. Each section is developed, and then collaboratively made, together. The Hostile Environment is the name given by then-Home Secretary Theresa May to a basket of government policies which aimed to co-opt large parts of UK society into policing the UK’s borders — from doctors to landlords, employers, homeless services and more.

Nao earns her money as a cam girl on the internet. For her, the activity is not just a job, but an outlet to express oneself artfully and self-determinedly. Nao stages, performs and reflects on her own body and is constantly discovering new sides of herself.

The prevailing postwar opinion that there was nothing to oppose National Socialism is contradicted by the example of the meeting of Władysław Szpilman and Wilm Hosenfeld. contradicted. Supported by the open, visual form of artistic imagery, the encounter is portrayed. is portrayed. The discourse is opened, civil courage has the floor.

Ivy, a maid of the Manor, is caught up in the turmoil's of three aristocratic siblings. She uncovers a plot to kill the youngest Adelaide, with pressure from the lady of the manor, Ivy is determined to protect her closest companion. Adelaide convinces Ivy to poison her two brothers, without much luck but as time passes by, we learn all is not as it seems in their relationship. Glimpses into the past reveal dark secrets about the family.

Media’s Influence on the Mind is a short film focused on exploring the case of Callum Ford and how an obsession with the movie American Psycho placed him down a dark path. Along with a psychoanalytical view on the situation as a whole.

From the relegation battle to winning the Europa League to the Champions League anthem for the first time - Eintracht Frankfurt has experienced turbulent times with incredible moments. We have accompanied the SGE on their journey to the Champions League so far - and we were in the heart of Europe.

Over the last few decades, systematic concreting and the use of chemical products have seriously damaged the biodiversity of cities. In Strasbourg's old historic city center, on the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Mathieu Baud, in charge of the conservation of the building, watches over the remaining representatives of a rich and unsuspected wildlife. Collaborating with filmmakers Pauline Bugeon and Cédric Chambin, Mathieu embarks on an investigation to document, inventory and attempt to preserve the wild species that populate the most visited religious monument in France, the Cathedral of Strasbourg.

A documentary about squatting in London.

A student leaves early on his last day of school to spend some time alone, only to be questioned by a younger student who is curious about his apprehensive state.

This film is about a hedgehog that is trying to hunt a worm but is finding it hard to catch.

In February 2021, the teams from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unearthed an astoundingly well-preserved, almost intact Roman ceremonial chariot.