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«Life in the Future» is a part of a project by a Finnish Film Student Club (Kino Club Helsinki). It was made with help by german Research Instituts for Biology (Humboldt University Berlin), Charité Hospital and the Alfred Wegener Institut Bremerhaven. The music was done by Caspar de Gelmini and Bernhard Range.

A tribe of cartoons are being taken by force from their natural habitat, only to fulfill the voracious intentions of humans. Green and Red are in love, but are their emotions stronger than reality?

How to return to what is lost? to what is not? It seems that we can only recover fragments and assemble pieces. But how can we know that what comes back is what has been disappeared?

Today is the apocalypse. And it is at Charles Péguy College that the future of the world is decided: a group of children with strange powers are taking matters into their own hands.

Taina Lopez films her colleague Martina shooting a documentary in a Swiss ski resort.

Aritz is a young nurse who accepts the job of caring for Biel, a former MotoGp champion who has suffered a serious accident and has been in a wheelchair for years. The physical consequences seem to have subsided, but Biel has been in a practically catatonic state since the accident, from which he has not yet emerged. As Aritz enters the life of Biel, he will discover aspects of his past and his family that will lead him to feel a fascination like he had never felt before. As time passes, Biel's isolation and silence will make Aritz begin an introspective journey that will take him to the limits of his own personality.

Two brothers discover the quintessence that unifies them, in the midst of the pandemic. In a [zu:m] conversation, anything can happen.

Amor Tropicana presents one of the most iconic dance halls in Mexico City, the one that has suspended in time and space in a chaotic city. With the son of cumbia and the rhythm of salsa, the inhabitants full of urban hustle can be free themselves from the evil that haunts them and the dance steps will be the best way of being who they really are.

Luciana has just been through a bad relationship, so she follows the advice of her friend Lorena who encourages her to download a mobile app for speed dating with the hope of finding the perfect guy. Luciana is ready to meet him, but things will not turn out as she imagined.

Thousands of Central American migrants head north each year with a single objective: escape violence and poverty. What awaits them on the journey will be nothing but their enemy and time itself becomes relative. Their surroundings will not be in their favor, as organized crime groups and members of the drug trade are on their prowl watch. Their dreams, are the only thing that keeps them standing.

Elisa plays Russian roulette with her father's revolver. She calls the suicide hotline and Lisandro answers the phone. Who of the two will face their worst ghosts?

It’s your last night working here. It’s the last night of the summer. And tonight you turn 18.

One of the most unknown uprisings in our history, "El motín del pan", was led by women in the city of Córdoba during the month of May 1652. We do not know the faces or names of those women. There is no image. How to recover the gestures of resistance of those we have not been able to see?

Ascepsia. Putting on protective elements and keeping distance from others, distrusting even the contact of our body with the air “outside”, while in one way or another, we would like to free ourselves from hyper-sanitization, tear it, make it disappear.

Resolution taken by two or more people about something, especially by a board, assembly or tribunal: to reach an agreement “After the disappointing results of the plebiscite on 2 October 2016, finally the Peace Accords were signed in Colombia. Almost 4 years later, the war continues, killings of women leaders and social leaders have sharpened, Colombia is classified as the most corrupt country in the world, continuing to abuse indigenous, students, farmers and minorities, but these injustices have been placated by the pandemic. However, this has only highlighted other social problems that afflict the world’s population, insecurity and declining resources for health care and science, insufficient job opportunities causing many families to live from day to day, and the absence of urban orchards.

CONFINED I CAN’T BREATHE / CONFINADO NO PUEDO RESPIRAR

The film follows the inhabitants of a small village in North-Eastern India whose livelihood depends on coal theft from a vast open-pit mine. From dawn to dusk, children and adults alike rummage for the black gold whilst the local mafia consolidate their arsenal to fight off police raids.

Davide and Lucio live bondage as a discipline, a research, an obsession. Rarely they get out because their home is a kind of universe where they can be themselves, forgetting what expects them outside.

A New Year’s Eve party will be the setting for Em to realize the spiritual bond she has with one of her cousins. Doubt and morals will interweave in a visual route that will lead her to decide what will happen between them.

Jay is trapped in the relentless City until he is forced to confront his relationship with Time and himself.

An experimental documentary feature film that offers other perspectives on consent, based on the experience of marginalized communities, their subcultures, explorations and subversivities.

4 idealistic Nigerian students kidnap a Nigerian politician to recover stolen millions.

The tourist town of Lignano Pineta was designed in the form of a spiral by the architect Marcello D’Olivo in the post-war period. Between the 1950s and 70s, it became a site for architectural experimentation, with several buildings imitating organic and rationalist forms. The phenomenon remains unknown today.

The days that pass tells the story of confinement through the eyes of Leo, a 4-year-old boy who does the same things every day with his little sister Olivia

After shopping in the city center, two friends get meticulously ready to make a "story." It seems one more, one more day... However they are in the right place, at the right time ... Or so they believed.

One in six orders placed online is returned. The free returns policy that used to be the big selling point of e-commerce sites is now causing them enormous difficulties. But one man's misfortune is another man's gain, as in the case of Dinco Muhic, which specializes in the resale of these items. "ARTE Regards" takes a look at the winners and losers of this "returns" phenomenon.

A man in a room, in a film - it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.

An expression and examination of the social problem of black-hearted vaccines that are spreading in China.

In the story of the life and mission of Saint Joan of Arc, we encounter the mystery of God's plan for certain souls, which at first glance is difficult to understand unless we look at it from the perspective of faith. God's plans are certainly not our own. Perhaps that is why, when man is faced with an event that breaks all his patterns based purely on human reasoning, it is difficult for him to surrender.

Rumors are spreading. It is said that Giovanni's mother is a bad person. Is she a liar, a whore? He is rejected in his own Palermo neighbourhood and wanders under the judgmental gaze of friends, children, elders and crazy men. A silent turtle for sole consolation, he walks in circles.

Due to the lack of clean public spaces to exercise the fundamental right to life, women take refuge in the street.

Justine Abitbol’s Chant at Dusk explores the materiality of the outdoors in a muddy ritual played out by four siblings. The protagonist, Helen, grapples with mucky nature, holding close the wings of a little bird, and unearthing worms in her hand. For Abitbol, and for Helen, nature and human interaction within in it is serious and visceral.

Santander, January 2015: last words before a new death.

In Yoni Bentovim’s Snow, nothing is ever still. Text from a book is photocopied, wall-projected then filmed on 16mm. The physicality of the formats focuses our attention, searching for movement.

The great Corelli is a young and successful magician. In the most important performance of his life, the great Corelli lets his audience down by failing at performing his most famous trick: the floating chair.

Clown work. Features a noise soundtrack by Dead Bait, Anthony Boobier.

When two friends go Christmas shopping, things don't go exactly to plan.

A tribute to Spanish poetry and to some of its twentieth century ambassadors sucked up by the whirlwinds of Franco's regime.

Naomi is a free young woman who enjoys life. But in the evening, her mask falls and she gets carried away by a euphoric wave. An experimental and clipesque vision to emphasize the liberating body of women.

Sunday, Fulesee. Two people go diving in a lake. They understand each other wordlessly, everything seems okay. But the dive leads them not only to fish and into darkness, it also reaches into the depths of their souls. At a depth of thirty metres, fears and stories for which they cannot find any signs in diving language suddenly rise up.

In Les quatre récits d’Alice, Myriam Jacob-Allard explore a story which, because of its persistence, is part of the family lore. This story, told countless times by her grandmother, is an implausible tale of the time a hurricane worthy of The Wizard of Oz, when she was a child, picked her up and sent her flying.