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A young argentine director travels to Spain for the first time and re-discovers his grandfather's past as a Franco soldier and Civil Guard. This fact will affect his own present.

Gianni Reinetti is a quiet 81-year-old man, living in Turin. After a joyful life, his dream finally comes true on 6th August 2016: after spending 52 years together, Gianni finally marries Franco Perrello. They are the first gay couple to be officially married at the Turin City Hall. Franco and Gianni become a family also in the eyes of the Italian state and a symbol of hope for the younger generations.

An investigation of Blackness, labour, diaspora and family heritage through archive, glitch, strobe and sound. A commitment to the Windrush generation.

A portrait of Jamaican-born artistic polymath Barbara Samuels. Featuring an account of her first generation, diasporic experience in Southend and London, and her discovery of hippiedom and the personal freedoms offered by entry into creative life.

The remarkable true story of Michael Cohen, a charlatan art dealer who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run.

A year on, Warwick University is still reeling from the fall-out over a Facebook group chat where male students made rape threats against their female peers. After two of the men had ten-year campus bans reduced to 12 months, serious questions were raised about the university’s handling of its investigation into the messages. In this documentary, those at the centre of the scandal reveal new details about what went on behind closed doors, in a story that is far from over.

Matt Baxter performs a cover of a song by George Michael in his friend's pub.

New York restorer Christian Scheidemann is the "art whisperer". Anyone who is concerned about the durability of their sculpture made of eggshells or their painting made of elephant dung or chewing gum automatically ends up in his studio. Works of art by the most renowned artists await treatment there - today it's works by Warhol and Beuys, tomorrow by Paul McCarthy and Robert Gober. Like an empathetic doctor, Christian Scheidemann treats them in the event of accidents - he accompanies them from their creation to their total loss and is thus the central point of contact for artists, collectors and museums.

When I got to Rignano, the Ghetto residents told me: "You mustn't keep any trace of our lives here in these precarious houses. This despair is not yours to display." The misery in the Ghetto is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I wanted to show.

Languidly lying under the sun, “Incompiuta” is a timeless witness to life happening around it. Its open walls symphonize the feminine voice of the earth, echo the daily chatter about fruit and figs and of the collective consciousness, soul of the world, condensing the vertigo that comes from connecting to the archaic time of our childhood. Simply observing ordinary places and people, an intense and symbolic reading emerges of our fall from paradise reflecting upon the human condition, precarious and painful, on its unbridgeable loneliness, and on its destiny of death.

Two young people face the pressure to comply with gender roles in their schools and with their families.

A man returns to his childhood home to confront his past.

Explore the notorious Aylesbury Estate, concrete monument to the history and legacy of social housing in the UK, and home to a community affected by forces beyond their control.

Documentary on the exhaustive and controversial work of the musician Álvaro Peña, born in Valparaíso and settled decades ago in the city of Konstanz (Germany)

Domenico is a young shepherd. He walks around with his flock and secretly harbors the dream of obtaining his driver’s license. But he lives far away from the first village. His daily chores test his ability to focus. But his sheer determination helps him through the difficulties of studying. A poignantly nuanced coming-of-age film.

In southern Japan, the erupting Sakurajima volcano dominates and threatens to devastate nearby towns and cities. From there, Pierre Carniaux asks his friend Yusuke Oba what he would miss most if every­thing were to vanish.

Cervantes' tale of the incompetent knight Don Quixote has inspired countless artistic interpretations. Marius Petipa choreographed this scintillating ballet about the encounters of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza. At its center are virtuosic roles for the lovers Basilio and Kitri.

‘The Geometry of Pie’ follows Executive Head Chef and renowned pastry expert Calum Franklin around London, capturing glimpses of churches, museums and architectural details – from Whiteleys to the British Museum – that influence his pie designs, as well as showing the process behind the pies served to diners each day at Holborn Dining Room. Fascinated by his attention to detail, the film delves into the intricacies of perfect pastry and reveals the inspiration behind his spectacular creations. From art to architecture, MC Escher exhibitions to antique moulds, Calum draws on both historical references and everyday details to design and build pies that look as good as they taste.

Work, film, work, film, work – day to day – week to week. This is a home movie domestic comedy experimental film drama. Autobiography too. It’s also part four of an ever-growing trilogy. Starting in 2003 I decided to make a series of pieces alongside my regular films, a strand that would constitute an ongoing fictional autobiography. But as all creative work is, to some extent, autobiographical, and as I appear in most of my films, and all the people in these films are who they say they are, then what made this different from the rest – or from real life, really – became kind of blurred. Fuzzy even. So this is fuzzy fiction – latest in the line.

SO I DANCED AGAIN... embraces the act of listening. It is a search for meaning, a dance through our chaotic world of meaningful/meaningless sounds.

Climber Philippe Ribière was born in Martinique. Abandoned and subsequently adopted by a large family in France, Ribière underwent numerous surgeries to improve the functionality of his limbs. Yet today, he is the first sponsored climber with a disability, an elite athlete, and the founder of the "Handi-Grimpe" association. Returning to Martinique with the ambition of climbing the famous Diamond Rock—an uninhabited island located two kilometers off the coast, whose shape inspired its name—holds deep symbolic significance for him.

Racehorses anaesthetised and collapsed on ketamine in a ‘knockdown box’, showgirls from a casino in Macau belonging to the world’s biggest political donor, and Steve Ignorant from anarcho punk band Crass performing in a bingo hall originally built as a cinema designed to look like a church. Produced specifically for a large LED screen, the footage is overlaid with pulsating light formations inspired by Vegas techniques of visual seduction. The interconnections evoked draw logic from apophenia - a psychiatric term describing the tendency to perceive meaning connections between unrelated things or patterns in random information.

A group of friends walking through the woods ignore a homeless man, and he gradually takes his revenge on them all.

A man walks through landscapes to take the measure of a world, a painting...

The Depth Beneath, The Height Above consists in an exploration of the high alpine region of Robiei, southern Switzerland. Conceived as a sensory piece, the film particularly focuses on the existing relationships between the human, animal, infrastructural and natural elements that compose Robiei's specific landscape.