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Document and dream exist as one in a visionary travelogue of a journey to Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire. The artists return to the site of an earlier experience in order to look again at a place of personal significance. Revisiting presents an experience mediated by technology and expresses the complex layers that inform how we navigate reality and create meaning from our experiences.
'i am only present' addresses the material foundations of immigration detention in the UK, casting Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in the leading role. Narrated by the building itself, the film takes the viewer to the overgrown outskirts of Gatwick Airport, where time stands still for 508 detainees. Here they are hidden in plain sight, only a few meters from one of europe's busiest runways.
Henker 3 is mindless no budget fun as our favorite executioner makes his way through the forest killing everything in his path. Henker 3 doesn't take itself seriously and this makes it even more fun. The fact he is mistakened for Karl Berger (killer from Violent Shit) in itself is priceless. Henker chops, decapitates, squashes, cuts, punches, hacks, chainsaws, burns, stomps his way through an endless amount of victims, no one including babies and young children are safe from his killing rampage.
A father and his sons are out at sea on their sailing boat when suddenly they hit a rock. Panic stations!
A woman suffering from vitiligo does her best to cover it up, until she meets someone who sees beyond it.
Damián endures bullying in silence. In order to survive, he hides his feelings and sexual desire.
Bea and Jorge met that same night and would never think that they would end up going to bed together. Social pressures and their own special way of understanding relationships will make this a somewhat uncomfortable sexual encounter... or maybe not?
Rosa is a young girl who loses his father and has to live with his stepmother Isabel; as if she was a cinderella, from that moment on you they have a very tortuous relationship in their home. A relationship of love-hatred will be born between the two women, which, like two nations interaction, will have consequences that neither could anticipate, though inevitable.
Given exclusive and unrestricted access, Rebecca Salvadori’s film about East London venue Fold viscerally captures and contrasts the immersive sensory experience of clubbing with intimate behind-the-scenes footage of the unseen hands that shape the environment this unfolds in. The result is a 360 study of of one of contemporary culture’s last remaining temporary autonomous zones: a place where community is forged through music, personal and societal restraints begin to fall, and transformation and even spiritual transcendence become a possibility. Salvadori’s film offers a unique vision into contemporary club culture, exploring the intimacy between ravers and the invaluable team behind the venue.
Marcos spends Christmas eve with MR MAN, a mysterious, broken and lonely man. He will soon discover that there’s someone else on that date…
Miguel and Enrique, a gay couple become addicted to drug use without weighing the consequences.
Three houseplants in an intimate play about solidarity and living together.
Seven-year-old Lucía lives with a troubled family. One stormy night during dinner, she'll try to escape from the claws of a monster that lurks really close by.
Homosexuality remains a sensitive topic on the African continent. Is it an abomination, a sin, a practice imported from the West or perfectly natural? From Yaoundé to Douala, via Abidjan and Dakar, this investigative documentary by two filmmakers from Burkina Faso lays the foundation of a fundamental challenge for African societies.
The House of Tupamaras is a group of Voguing performers based in Bogota, Colombia. They are professionally trained dancers that chose to break from the norm and explore the queerness of their bodies and their everyday self-expressions to turn their art form into a political tool, questioning the double standards of Colombian society. They create impromptu happenings, choreographed dances, kiki balls and have performed on stage with groups such as Pussy Riot, among others. Bogue stands for "Bogota Voguing" and seeks to capture the Tupamaras's attitude, athletic musculature, and spunky personalities.
A documentary about the lives of LGBT people expressing their own experiences of how the process of revealing their sexual orientations or gender identities was, telling their contextualized realities in the first person.
A poet explores his world, a small town on the Lower Rhine in the 1970s/80s, with words. His son, a filmmaker, now confronts the written words with contemporary images of that area that look like they come from the past. In this superimposition of ambiguous linguistic images with architectures, monuments, streets and parks a view of the inscribed mentality and history of the former Federal Republic of Germany unfolds. The images are as permeable as Dieter Liewerscheidt's poetry in which philosophical, pop-cultural and personal elements are intermingled.
A group of ex-projectionists from different parts of Peru prepared to show a film in which they themselves are the protagonists; alongside former patrons and managers, they reveal their most intimate and unforgettable experiences in the cinemas that have aged along with them.
What happens in the night. An encounter at the bar, closing time. Silent empty alleys. Words bouncing against the buildings' walls. One night, one city. Margot and Alice.
A lonely Nan looks after her 3 grandchildren overnight while her son has to go out on important business errands. The children, overly attached to their devices ignore their Nan through the short time they stay with her. They are simply too attached, and need to learn to 'Unplug'. This film is a physical and visual representation of the metaphor 'in your own world' when people are attached to their screens.
A short film about the “noise” of the thoughts of the protagonist of the film dealing with a tormented “coming out”. She’s looking for the best way to tell the others that she’s lesbian but she will find out that it will be easier than she was fearing about.
Are we puppets of a system that uses us for the profit of a few? What are we willing to sacrifice for our own wellbeing?
A group of friends are persecuted because of how they treated a former colleague in school.
In the labyrinth of love a game of contradictions takes place: two women fight a duel with their feelings; one is reason and the other is the heart… but the labyrinth proliferates until it culminates in the ritual of disorderly blood and overexcited viscera.
In this world we would all know a natural, biological, sex change before 30 years and this is the wonderful news that Joe will announce to her friends: her turn has come. Her friends are delighted. However, at the announcement, one of them will reveal their true feelings against this natural process.
A masked maniac stalks a local sawmill, leaving behind piles of mangled bodies and a trail of sawdust and blood.
A special performance at Heimathafen Neukölln in 2019, German rock band Kadavar joined forces with a group of friends and fellow musicians calling themselves The Cosmic Riders Of The Black Sun, and performed a full set of Kadavar songs with additional instruments and expanded arrangements.
A trans woman gets involved in a drug deal to help her boyfriend that was recently deported.
A young poet tries to find his own voice, while dealing with a family crisis.
It’s certainly a classic day for Guy, a candid young man, who walks around with ideas that sprout in the wind. Following the absorption of a strange substance, he enters a dreamlike world linking pleasure to the Arts.
I realize performances so as to give a place to anemic states of being, to represent them, trangress them and if possible to transmute them. Faced with a society that pushes productivity above all else, there is a body that speaks to us that can become sick, and that we normaly ignore. I choose precarious elements in accordance with an equally precarious everyday existence, resulting in multiple pressures which become exhaustive. Lethargy puts us in a small place, where we feel the multiplicity and weight in our bodies.
A film that honors 82-year-old Juan Medellín's legacy as a founding company member of Mexico City's prestigious Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández. An intimate portrait of a life richly lived and a testament to the power and the force of art, the film uses colorful hand-drawn animation to illustrate cherished memories from Medellin's childhood and introduction to dance to his heyday with the Ballet during its golden era in the 1960s and 1970s.
A New Year’s Eve party in Martinique with friends and champagne leads to an innocent game with unexpected consequences.
A failed resistance, leaves one dead.
Slowing down time, the film takes us on a journey through an ever-changing landscape of shapes in motion. An abstract contemplation on a piece of music by Nils Frahm.
A narcissistic woman lives without worrying about the world around her and ignorant of the natural cycle she is part of. It is by reaching the limits of her self-esteem that she will have to open herself to the world and find a solution to the malfunctions she has caused.
Julieta always wanted to be a boy. After a 37-year struggle, he decides to start his transition to becoming Esteban. Despite the social stigma and the lack of legal certainty for trans people, it's what he always dreamed of.