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A stack of self-help books. A few calendars with pictures of naked women. An illegal store. A costume of Sancho Panza. A young woman who suffers.

A conversation about heritage and spiritualism with a Sangoma (South African spiritualist) who lives and works in a barber shop in Walthamstow. The collage of ‘The lamentation of a goblin’ with photography, text and 3D scanned Images create a movement through time and space. Elements of heritage, spirituality, intra-action and movement are illustrated as the mundane activity ensues. But in tone of voice and pause of question you find something else.

The story of the caterpillar, which dreams of becoming a butterfly, with the same fate as the main character from Andersen’s “Ugly Duckling”. How to love that what you do not see and that what you do not know?

It's business as usual for the mutant denizens of a dystopia not entirely unlike our own in this beguiling stop-motion fantasia.

A lonely boy creates a friend with a pumpkin for a head. But when a trio of bullies harass them the boy's new friend becomes murderous.

After two years in the shadows, Victor tests Alejandro for the very last time: either he reveals the relationship they have to the media or he loses him forever.

Birds of paradise, displaying their most beautiful plumage, sing and intrigue in the middle of tropical forests. One of them takes us into their world. Their songs and dances lead to a parade, offering a genuine spectacle. But the forest takes on another tone, human hands disturb this harmony and richness. Brutality settles in before giving over to silence.

Voices in a crowd stir violent emotions, microaggressions bring up past traumas. Then a turning shifts the emotional landscape...

Dying Under Your Eyes explores the sudden death of Ashery’s elderly father in 2018, focusing on ageing, dying, mourning and intimate surveillance. Merging depictions of everyday life with symbolic undertones, the film explores end of life care, ageing and intergenerational dynamics. It incorporates diaristic footage shot on the artist’s smartphone over the last seven years of her father’s life, alongside constructed scenes with apparitional figures [eFlux].

«Thin as a hair, wide as dawn» (R. Q.) A single afternoon depression. Intervals of a film yet to be made.

The boxes for the return into her home country are packed and stand around her bed since years. But will she ever know again, if it’s day or night, if she’s awake or asleep, if she’s breaking out or just running into a trap?

People and statues coexist throughout the day in a place that hides a mysterious secret.

Like Lightning follows central character George who is tired with watching the unrelenting laziness of the people around him letting the world fall into a worse and worse position and decides to incite a movement.

Strange plant growths in a volcanic landscape attract curiosity. They seem to come to life when you approach them. But who is approaching? Who is observing them? What kind of interaction is taking place before our eyes?

The film moves forward through an imaginary night, groping its way, startling at strange encounters, vibrating at the touch of shadows and glimmers of light. The narrator shares a growing fear, the ancestral fear of being a woman alone at night.

“You can’t always get what you want...” sang the Rolling Stones once upon a time, though they consistently proved the opposite. A young woman wants a whole lot too. Being heard would be pretty nice for starters.

In Djibouti's Rift Valley, amid the darkness of volcanic rocks, men wait. In this desert, a few years ago, salt production organized life. Since then, competition has won out. On the shores of Lake Assal, a few holdouts search for salt concretions, hoping to sell them to the few tourists who come to admire the blue of the lake.

Carla goes through her memories to find out if she has made the best decision: follow her path or that of her love.

Two friends venture into an abandoned building

Sitting at the table, mother and daughter talk, more than one another, although the silences of one of them say much more than the words of the other. Text and subtext are intertwined and turn towards an outcome that, sooner or later, is doomed to occur. But only five minutes are enough to find the burden and the release of an unsustainable situation by its own weight, corseted and encysted by an empty relationship of content, strange only in one sense.

The movie musical occupies an interesting position in the film industry. On one hand, like action movies, its dance scenes are all about bodies in motion: dynamism, choreography. Yet, with notable exceptions such as Busby Berkeley, those responsible for putting star hoofers on-screen tended to let them strut their considerable stuff uninterrupted. It’s not to say that the camera always remained static; but you could imagine the likes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, or the gravity-defying Nicholas Brothers, taking it as a personal affront if they weren’t shown full screen, to fully appreciate their elegance, their athleticism.

This experimental screen test for an adaptation of the industrial-era ballet Giselle has been reimagined as an ecofeminist thriller. Weaving together digital footage, 16mm, VHS recordings, animation and deep AI, the screen test is a proposal for a hybridised world in a near future where multiple realities push to the surface.

The Aletsch Glacier is the longest and largest glacier of the Alps. According to glaciologists, most glaciers will have disappeared by the end of this century, and only bits of the Aletsch will remain. Through a journey into the body of the glacier the film offers a compelling and unsettling visual experience in which our perception of the nature of the images we see, scale and temporality are questioned.

At the luxury hotel "Panorama" in Oberhof, over 1,000 people are celebrating a lavish New Year's Eve party in 1978/79. Suddenly, the power goes out. At the same time, one of the most spectacular spy thrillers in the GDR is unfolding in the hotel.

Armand Vaillancourt is known for his sculptures, both artistically and socially, both at home and around the world. He is a giant as we rarely comme across. What gives him such creative force? This intimate documentary shows Vaillancourt as never seen before, telling the story of his life with a disarming authenticity.

María emigrated from Ecuador and for the last ten years has lived in a town in La Mancha, keeping house and caring for Rosita, the filmmaker’s grandmother. Andrómedas observes them as they go about life, focusing on their everyday interactions, while other women pop in with the latest gossip to share around the kitchen table strewn with saffron flowers. The flavours rising from the pots on the stove waft outside to the cats in the courtyard as the sounds of the outside world drift in and the trees look on. However, this delicately balanced world is about to be upset when María asks for a fortnight off.

For the previous three years I’ve been interviewing heroic ZX Spectrum figures, be they programmers, designers, artists, musicians and publishers. It’s been a blast, an amazing rollercoaster ride of privilege and enjoyment! However, I filmed a lot. A LOT. I’ve got ninety minutes just on Jim Bagley. Seventy minutes on Rick Dickinson. All the lovely people interviewed just gave and gave, with wonderful anecdotes, stories about the industry, narratives and comedy moments - enough to make ten films... After watching Jackass (sorry!) recently, I noted they created a 2.5 and 3.5 – an extension of the original film including lots of previously unseen footage. I thought, “I wonder if I should do that?” so posed the question to the Spectrum community, and was flooded by positivity and urges to “do it”. “Are you Spectrummed out?” I asked. “You can never be Spectrummed out!” came the reply! So, here I present SPECTRUM ADDICT: THE LOST TAPES.

Lookout is a film about a way of perceiving life beyond our common senses through an intimate portrait of the daily life of Pablo, blind since age three, who lives by himself on a wild area close to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he makes liquors and records poems.

Every weekend through the winter, a group of middle-aged men, who dub themselves the East German Ladies Swimming Team, plunge into the freezing waters of a pond in central London. 'The Home for Broken Toys' follows the team through one season to explore their motivations for braving the extreme cold each week, a decision which seems alien to the filmmaker. The reasons she discovers are by turns comedic, poignant, and profound.

East Berlin, October 7, 1989: While the state elite was celebrating the GDR's 40th birthday before the eyes of the world, resistance was forming in the streets. Guests celebrated in the Palace of the Republic in Berlin. In front of it, people loudly demanded reforms. There were also demonstrations outside Berlin, for example in Plauen. The situation escalates ...

Nine Asturian filmmakers reflect aloud, alone in a hotel room, on the existence, the main characteristics, and the current situation of the cinema made in Asturias.

"Being part of the Soviet Union changed the way people lived their lives. My grandmother's memoirs analyze the reasons why Palanga feels isolated and alone and its inhabitants blocked and lost."