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This work is a long-term research project developed until now in 10 different cities over the world: Seoul, Bogota, Naples, Saint-Petersburg, Rabat, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Doha and Venice. Born as an artistic commission for the Agora Biennale in Bordeaux around the theme of the moving landscapes, these videos plunge into cities in a spontaneous and subjective approach with very modest means in order to translate in the closest possible way the feel of their constant moving nature: their human landscape. Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together.

An eye-opening investigation into the knock-on effect of single use plastic and how human habits are destroying the worlds longest river, the Nile in Egypt. As part of Sky Ocean Rescue, and presented by Alex Crawford, The Plastic Nile investigates the dire effects of plastic pollution on the world’s longest river, the Nile. The river is a crucial life source for millions of people who depend on it for food and livelihoods. Starting right from the source, Sky News' documentary for the Sky Documentaries channel can reveal the extent of the pollution in the river that runs through five countries.

The untold story of 13-year-old Hazel Hill - and her crucial role in the design of the famous Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes - in the run-up to the Battle of Britain.

Life, love, long distance, identity and the pieces in between. This is a love letter to resilience and about people who choose each other no matter what.

Two men and their circumstances mixed by the cocktail shaker of a peculiar bar, will turn a simple evening into something tragic and bloody.

While bringing a mail to Saint Peter in the Purgatory, Emil, a young celestial postman, accidentally sends the wrong person to heaven. He goes to find them to avoid Saint Peter’s wrath.

The Casteless Collective is a protest music band from Chennai, South India, playing an exciting mix of folk music and Gaana art coming from North Chennai’s slum area, combined with modern musical styles of rap and rock. Dealing with social issues that Indian society prefers not to look at: the still existing caste discrimination, the ‘untouchables’, and the oppression of women, LGBTQI+ people and those from underprivileged and marginalised backgrounds, as represented by the band members themselves. The film shows the young band’s powerful attempt to break cultural stigmas, and joins their journey towards an Indian future of casteless mentality and reality.

From Jerusalem to Haifa, stopping by Acre, Bethlehem and Ramallah, we travel across Israel and the West Bank to meet with Palestinian women shaping the cultural landscape. They are artists, chefs, performers, entrepreneurs, designers... and they tell us about their life, culture and identity in a divided and much disputed territory. The documentary features how these young women reinvent today their political and cultural battles.

The documentary explores the ailing side of the once-powerful Habsburg dynasty and recounts some curious prescriptions, such as hemp cigarettes for asthma and cocaine suppositories for insomnia. A look at medical standards at the beginning of the 19th century also makes it clear that good basic medical care was far from accessible to all sections of the population.

At night, when our fears return, we never know what to expect!

A 2020 French language drama film directed by Sarah Klingemann, starring Astrid Adverbe, Flora Thomas and Marc-Antoine Vaugeois. The film screened at FIDMarseille in 2020.

A young girl struggles with the loss of her mother.

A black-and-white, touching and sensual story of a transgender couple who love in themselves and in each other everything that makes them transgender people.

Palestine and Karyme encounter during a routine exercise day.

A couple's fight that ends up questioning their cinema beliefs and their lifestyle. A satire about how we show us to this hyperconnected world ands its superciality.

What goes moo moo. Study #1.

Vestalia it's a collection of psychic landscapes of a nun from the XXI century at the gates of her death

Grandfather Florentino is seriously ill and his grandson Keyner must tell his uncles in Mahates to visit him before it's too late. Keyner, without more means to communicate, welcomes the tradition of the chakeo and becomes a messenger of his race.

Millions of people around the world are looking for a partner on Tinder. The dating app has changed the way an entire generation meets other people. The coronavirus pandemic has given the billion-dollar company another huge boost, with registrations increasing by 20% in the first half of 2020. But romance and candlelight don't always follow the "swipe right".

After losing one of his socks for the umpteenth time, Thierry decides to sequester the one he has, to find the missing.

A mundane meal turns monsterish in this homage to 80s horror

Digitally animated, amorphous other-than-human narrators are set against backdrops of water, forests, beaches and skies. Interrupted and overlaid with birdsong, pneumatic drills, fluorescent lights and a Carpenters song, these ‘spirits of place’ appropriate Timothy Morton lectures in an unstable, intense and often absurdly hilarious exploration of the nature of being alive. ‘Therefore, blah blah blah blah blah.’

Year 2024. Humanity continues in its fight against the Coronavirus. Countries in chaos, economies broken. However, a young Doctor of Molecular Biology, Doctor Dickinson, is about to change the destiny of humanity forever.

Swanhilda is a happy go lucky Queen Bee. However, motherhood beckons, as an unplanned pregnancy takes her life in a very different direction.

Bartolina Xixa is an andina drag artist. Thinking of his own history, inspired by a Chola paceña and in the constant search to give transformism a more indigenous perspective, he rebuilds Bartolina. With transformism, he allowed himself to feel and denounce what is often denied or made invisible.

Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbors cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbours, the cat and the nucleus.

A seamstress tries to work on sewing a suit, while keeping her imaginative child safe, and eventually gives in to her own imaginative side as well.

Confined in their flat in Berlin, March 2020, a Mother and her 7-year old son collaborate on a playful testament to creativity — a fantastical short made using only a clothes horse, a shiny hula hoop, and a lamp. In the process, they transform their ordinary corridor into a ghostly and experimental place marked by gamelan sounds and transfixing light imagery.

A family like any other ...but not for everyone!

Gatite is a non-binary trans chick, who questions ideological utopias and proposes an escape through fantastic ideas, poetry, digital art, animation and virtual collage that crosses universes, the Buenos Aires Pampean plain, the edges that separate the city from the country, the frontier spaces, the heterotopic spaces, the margins, the shortcuts, the cuir universe, punk, naive and anarchic transfeminism.

More than a decade after the worldwide financial crisis of 2007–08, what does globalization mean today? Filmmaker-philosopher Jean-Daniel Lafond takes us behind the scenes of the International Economic Forum of the Americas, a massive annual gathering at which economists, financiers and politicians hold forth on the key issues of the day. Featuring first-hand testimonials by nearly two dozen influential men and women, The End of Certainties unfolds as a multi-voice meditation on the state of the world. This observational documentary offers a cogent assessment of globalization—and its ideals, disillusionment, fears and hopes—and the quest for a new humanism, characterized by greater inclusiveness and fairness.

A little girl disappears after finding a monster in the basement.

In a small car full of things, where he eats, sleeps and dreams, Massimiliano is immersed in a book. Collections of photographs weave together his everyday life living on the street with his inner one.

The racing bicycle documentary in feature-length.

MARY is a short film co-devised by filmmakers four directors from Royal College of Art and GPT-2, an AI text generator deemed ‘too dangerous’ for full release to the public. When GPT-2 responds to a series of model prompts, it generates dramatically suggestive scenes that are rife with gender biases. But what also emerges is MARY, a character who wrestles GPT-2 for control of her story and the languages used to tell it. ‘Comic, bizarre and (at times) quietly terrifying,’ MARY aims to rewrite the dominant narratives produced by and around emerging technologies like AI.

Xavier is a homosexual boy from France who came to Naples for a university erasmus. Here he met Fortuna, a young and beautiful Neapolitan, in a sentimental crisis after her last relationship. The two, initially in stark contrast, create a relationship that will be defined by Xavier as "laussesoreté". The mystery of this word will make their bond pure. It needs no relationship, no meat. it is essential only to try it.

In 1962 Ernesto De Martino travelled to the South of Italy for his ethnographic research and shot "La Taranta". A study around women who were poisoned by a Trantula bite while harvesting in the fields. The remedy against the deadly poison was a folk dance called Taranta. The women danced the poison out of their bodies with the help of local musicians and priests. Studies around this phenomenon have highlighted that, in the majority of cases, these women were suffering severe mental illness and hysteria due to sexual abuse and poverty. In present-day Italy a similar dynamic has resurfaced, uncovering the stories of groups of immigrant women (mostly from Romania) who were victims of agricultural and sexual exploitation in Ragusa, Sicly. I reapprorpiated the 1962 archival footage to propose a different angle of the story surrounding these women. Not from the point of view of a man who has undertaken to observe them, but from the point of view of a woman from the South of Italy. (FF)

Last Minute: highlights the importance of closure and the moment we spend with each others

"Akirot (Uprootings)" is a personal account which lays out a complex set of identifications and dis-identifications with the homeland, beginning with childhood memories and ending with the act of departing from the country that was called home. The videos weave together footage shot in two locations in Israel with illustrations from books of local flora. At the centre of the work is an unspoken conflict between mother and daughter considering their Israeli identity. Using hermother, anational nature trail guide, Leshem exploresthe Israeli relation to the land as a site through which identity is constructed. Through the performative and symbolic gesture of uprooting,the work deals with the personal pain of rejecting one’s motherland. As the term “motherland” suggests, land and mother are never distinguished from one another. The political objection to the land is at the same time a separation from the mother.