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A story that aims to address the risks and possible consequences of using artificial intelligence, through a short film that talks about love.

Longley's graduate film, CLAWS, utilises cuts and collages of scanned recycled and archived print to bring the tale to life. The animation drew inspiration from iconic pop culture references, including the chase in JAWS and the playful antics between Tom and Jerry. The sound was designed by Alex George and nods to Henry Mancini’s theme for The Pink Panther. The animation’s goal was to combine a timeless narrative using classic 2D animation techniques and attentive craftsmanship. Through this work, Nim aimed to showcase her artistic vision while staying true to the essence of traditional animation.

Darkness haunts the young girl, Raja. Overwhelmed by the weight of her shadows, she collapses. A light appears and her journey begins. In search for the end, Raja stumbles through a wondrous in-between world. There, she finds something she thought she had lost forever.

Les EnChantières, an association of women sharing building skills, set about building their own workshop in Montreuil. Initially utopian, this large-scale participatory construction site, open to all, quickly turned into a great emancipatory adventure, nourished by revolts and dreams.

A tale of love, grief and resilience. At its heart, it is a tribute to the solidarity of Iranian women.

The film reveals the life, plight and loves of the eminent Mary Anning, an 1800's fossil hunter - navigating her career and research in a male dominated society at a time when women's research was largely unrecognised or plagiarised by men. Predominantly unknown despite her spectacular finds, including Icthyiousauri, a Pterodactyl and Plesiosaurus, and notwithstanding the fact that Darwins' 'Origin of Species' was largely influenced by her work. She is at last becoming the most celebrated paleontologist of all time.

The 20th Anniversary documentary film about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as told by survivors.

Shot in black and white in homage to Helen Levitt, the pioneering photographer of children chalking the streets of Harlem in the late 1930s, this film records individual acts of creation by children from two schools local to the Barbican Centre in London, including students with physical and neurological diversities. Marco goes for horseshoe-shaped patterns, before expressing his self in a spontaneous spatter; Jean-Luc builds oneiric form upon form; Charlyn’s creatures emerge in clear, expansive lines. For Ayesha and James, the chalk is not just a drawing tool but also a curious object for fingers to explore, like they do with the texture of asphalt or the powderiness of their marks. Sensation and imagination imbue every scratch of white on black these children make.

Almen Gibirila is a fashion icon, founder in 1980 of Black Experience, the first black modeling agency in Paris. Congolese journalist Nzoumba-Lissa invites us to discover her creations during the Top Model Africa Paris casting.

A former terrorist lives locked up at home due to his agoraphobia, but his past suddenly resurfaces from the outside, forcing him to make difficult decisions.

Animal rights activists, whose influence is growing, are working to put an end to humanity’s exploitation of animals. Why continue to kill animals when there are other options? Giving up meat and trying a vegan lifestyle for over 100 days—that’s the challenge filmmaker Mathurin Peschet set for himself. A journey from omnivore to vegan, full of questions about our habits and our society, which he recounts in his documentary “Dans la peau d'un végan”.

Twenty-two-year-old Ellie Williams was jailed for lying about being trafficked and raped by a vicious Asian grooming gang. Now, for the first time, the truth is laid open.

Zara Phillips takes us on a personal journey filled with humour, honesty & truth. Adopted as a baby Zara searches to find her birth parents and true identity. A raw, honest, funny insight into the complex world of adoption and what it takes to belong! Based on a Best Selling Book with music by Legendary Guitarist Richard Thompson OBE it will make you laugh and cry!

The Blonde Queen brings a drink to her double, Jonas, in order to create a metaphysical self-portrait.

Adrian Paci’s sensitive gaze enters an aluminum transformation plant to explore the relationship between the workers’ bodies and the factory environment, celebrating the enduring value of labour. Through meticulous observation and perfectly composed framing, Merging Bodies delves into gestures and materials that blur the boundaries between the workers and the machinery. Paci’s hypnotic camera captures details that transcend the immediate context, liberating the visible from a singular interpretation.

Not being there at the end causes distress throughout Life and After. And who is Raven?

In 2020, Toni, Mia, Matze, Pauli, and Elena decide to isolate themselves in a holiday home - and spend a nice time together despite the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. But gradually the initial euphoria makes room for everyday boredom and unhealthy ways of dealing with isolation, which threaten to escalate. And the attempt to retain a certain feeling of freedom is repeatedly thwarted by existential fears.

'Pneuma (Revisited)' uses a film 'Pneuma' made in 2000, originally shown silently on a loop, with the addition of excerpts from an essay commissioned by Towner Eastbourne (UK) about the work in 2021 - a year when we became more than usually concerned with the idea of ‘the breath’. I became chronically ill around halfway between these two works, and this new film can now be seen in a different context, beyond the playful, whimsical gesture for which it was originally made. This new version comments on invisible illness, grief, disappearing in plain sight, isolation and dissociation, common daily states for someone living with chronic illness.

Max's casual sex life forces her to reflect on her early intimate experiences. Looking back from a new perspective, she is confronted with the reality that she may not be as sexually liberated as she once believed herself to be.

Two friends spend the last day before the end of the summer.

Annie Clark - AKA St. Vincent - is one of the most elusive figures in world rock. Yet here she is headlining the ARTE Concert Festival 2024 to mark the release of her album All Born Screaming.

Louve and Charlotte, in a relationship for several years, are about to break up. Before saying goodbye, they decide to spend one last day together.

Northern Italy, mid-1960s. Carla is a novice architect and is called to supervise the construction sites of a series of public works in the countryside. Carla meets with a team of construction engineers, tasked with making structural measurements. Locked in the laboratory they reproduce scale models of buildings and landscapes. Their dedication is alienating, as they reproduce life in scale like aliens from another dimension. The more time passes, the less motivated Carla is to work with them. For her, building means being among people, in the world. She dreams of knocking down walls, rather than raising them, and seeing the sky. Instead the engineers are locked in the laboratory, where there is no sky and the sun cannot shine.

When I'm alone, sometimes I get bored, so I play.

In the Anthropocene, Homo sapiens has become Homo mobilis: highways, railways, air and sea connections. But wild animals also want to be mobile. They always have been, even though neither road maps nor navigation systems show us their migration routes on land, water, and in the air. Their migrations safeguard Europe's biodiversity.

Fifty years have passed since the end of Franco's regime, and democratic memory has become a distorting mirror for those who look into it. However, Julián Grimau continues to remind us that a more advanced democracy than that of 1978 is possible.

The film retraces the early years of Paolo Villaggio's career, from when he was an employee to the success of the Fantozzi film series.

Two estranged cousins get a letter from their grandmother to spend summer at her estate. They find out from the Caretaker that she died from a stroke a few weeks ago. They decide to stay at the house and uncover its mysteries and secrets.

The first engagement at the small theater in the Mecklenburg province presents Gesa and Arikia with challenges. Schumann accompanies the young women during their first two years, telling of their hopes and doubts, of internal and external resistance.

Recording of two women picking up olives in a park in Palma (Mallorca).

Tired of everyone ignoring her, the filmmaker rides the London Underground from one end to the other.

A serial killer, hiding behind a seemingly regular job as a watch salesman, arrives in an island. Soon, dead women appear everywhere. Mistrust grows. Everybody is restless. Based on a text by Robbe-Grillet. First short by producer Fabrice Dugast, known for “Le Petit Roi” and “Asomnie”.

Move to the hectic beats and gentle flows of Swedish rapper Raghd. A selection of songs from her performance at Eurosonic 2024.

Directed by a Rwandan-born adoptee raised across France and the UK, the film follows the the journey of two adult adoptees authentically sharing, in their own words, the moments that have shaped their path to coming home to themselves.

In an age of wire and string, futuristic visions anchor in lithic time. In the dark, people are driven to shine in the most spectacular ways. Light, emitted from our digital extensions, has roots traversing millions, even billions of years.

Chef Michael has a murderous obsession with changing negative reviews to save his restaurant, but a date with his latest critic Elysia makes him question his motives.

Guided by the Jules Verne novel “Voyage au centre de la Terre”, four friends set out to explore Snaefellsjökul Volcano in Iceland. However, as they journeyed through the country recording sounds, they found themselves having a series of profound and transformative experiences that exceeded their original expectations. The result of their trip is an immersive audio-visual narrative titled “Journey to the Center of the Sound,” which not only guides the audience through diverse Icelandic landscapes, but also invites them to embark on their own sensory journey.

Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of Youtube videos turned into a bizarre cocktail to show us the most extreme, wild and crazy gun-loving Americans. But what if they are just ordinary Americans?

The 19 is an anthropological comedy about the state of awakening and the purity of the behaviors that result from it. The film seeks to touch our shared humanity and what is universal and unifying about it.

A boy from a working-class neighborhood, Manuel, weary of his life, tries to escape his circumstances and leave the drug-dealing ring of his area, but finds himself hunted by the crime boss who controls the local drug trade.

Anna (12) and her mother (40) arrive in a gloomy ultra-Orthodox neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Anna, who brought a pair of bicycles with her, soon discovers that it is forbidden for girls to ride there.

Winter turns into spring, Mirra is coming back home from Berlin to Kyiv after two years in exile. But what to do with all this love inside? But how to express this love to all the people she has met and all the places she has been?

A behind-the-scenes look at the confectioner that has been crafting Easter eggs since 1875, producing approximately 500 million each year. The program covers the origins of the Easter egg and how George and Richard Cadbury were pivotal in making them a Victorian-era sensation, up to the collaboration with Domino's Pizza to create Creme Egg cookies, a concoction that has stirred up the chocolate and pizza world.

Searching aimlessly, Stine moves through the overstimulated city flowing by. Passing by seemingly everyday, yet strange occurrences, the initially subtle, then proliferating abstract visual language with experimental elements shows a real world in which reality and pain, reality and chaos of thought are mixed, in which it is so difficult to let go.

The personal and intimate story of the friendship of three women and the struggle to live their everyday life while studying abroad in Scotland as a full-scale war takes place in their home country in Ukraine, where their families and close friends are.