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(School Play): A man is tired of his every day work. After a heart attack he discovers the truth.

Remarkable photographer Charlie Phillips is responsible for some of the most iconic photographs from the 60s and 70s, most notably the windrush generation around Notting Hill and icons such as Muhammed Ali and Jimi Hendrix. However, his work was ignored for decades. In his twilight years, Charlie yearns to return to nature and solidify his legacy.

From chaos, cosmos arises. Emanating from a cache of Mini DV and HDV material, gathered a decade earlier, The Nursery of Worlds has arisen like a mirage - a hallucination composed of overlapping sheets of translucent imagery.

Peter is forty and has never ever worked of his life. For him to get a job, his mother takes him by force in the bank where his deceased father had built his carrier. Peter will only need few hours to take the place of the director.

Against all odds, Dolorès Marat quietly built a personal body of work on the fringes of fashion and the world of contemporary art. Timeless images, evanescent but persistent, like so many interior landscapes bathed in solitude. Working through an alphabet primer from Avignon (at the blue hour) to Ventoux, from the apartment-studio to hanging the "Cascades" exhibition, the director follows in the footsteps of the frugal Dolorès, shy yet bold, always sincere.

The short film takes place in a liminal space that I attempted to recreate in what used to be my grandparents' attic. There, a character searches for their identity through light and shelter.

A lady in her mid-70s was social and active. Although she took heart medicine every day, she continued to participate in various gatherings and activities. However, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she gave up all outdoor activities, spending most of her time in or around the home. Since then, she has unfurled conversations with plants on the balcony, plants in the kitchen, and those rooted in the vegetable garden too. ‘Get Some Sunshine’ explores a day in the life of this lady (the film director’s mother) and the solidarity she developed with companion plants during the pandemic.

In the 2022/23 season, Alexei Ratmansky created a three-part evening for the Bayerisches Staatsballett based on overtures by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. Ratmansky forms an abstract ballet out of them, in which narrative motifs appear again and again without following a fixed plot. Instead, overture follows overture - each as a new beginning. The result is a multi-layered dialog between music, literature and dance that questions classical ballet in the here and now.

Dee, Mariarita, Claudia, Giselle, Elizabeth - all of them have fun to show the world how they do their business.

Longform VHS music video from British indie rock band Supermilk, comprising various Covid-era home video footage shot by the band and their collaborators.

One more dream came true for the Soul Flyers, Fred Fugen, Vincent « Veush » Cotte and Aurelien « Bras Noir » Chatard. This incredible flight started with a fly by at the summit of the majestic Mont-Blanc, followed by the longest terrain flying wingsuit line ever! From the summit to the opening of the parachute there is 3650m altitude difference, 7,5km horizontal distance for a 3 minutes and 5 seconds total flight! A terrain flight, discovering the Mont-Blanc like no one did before. Flying over the glaciers, ice cracks and cliffs was so intense, incredible and powerful!

A moving image work and soundscape that incorporates film, sound, and photography. A collection of photos were discovered in 2021 at an antique market in London’s Notting Hill. The striking nature of these images, functioning as a time capsule far from their original context, immediately conveyed to the artist that they depicted a Nigerian Yoruba family from the early 2000s.

‘Passing Place’ is a short documentary based on my own experiences growing up in a remote area, inspired by the BBC Archive Footage ‘The Smallest School in Britain (1974)’. Working with the archive footage makes me reminisce about my own upbringing in the Highlands, and think about how social and physical distance still exists living in these remote areas, forcing young people to move away to find more opportunities elsewhere.

A staging of Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" by Fabio Ceresa. Recorded at the Opéra de Rennes.

The journey of a man who seeks his very beginning as a human and his approaching end in humanity. In this journey his father, mother, brother, daughter and a mysterious voice accompany him. He tries to find the right way in the labyrinth of life, by following the signs of secret stories and prepares to tell his own story to us.

A visual album charting the spiritual trajectory of an emotional marathon.

A short film.

A father sees live how his son becomes the protagonist of a TV program.

After she can’t afford to go on her dream holiday, Emily builds a miniature model wonderland of her desired destinations.

Short experimental performance film by Salome Lübke.

A composition made from stereographic images of snowflakes, animated with methods reminiscent of structural cinema.

A reflection on education and an ode to the bonds that are formed by students at, (and in spite of,) the institution they are studying within. By weaving together footage from the 2021 anti-racist occupation of the Slade School of Fine Art with scenes from the install of the art school’s class of 2020 degree show, the academy emerges as a site of frustration as much as of achievement. Running over both events - , from the final touches of varnish being put on a painting to protest banners being unfurled across the building, - is text from former Slade student and tutor Christopher Kirubi’s poem ‘… - then love is the name’.

While exploring a Mediterranean island, Burgin came across the rusting remains of a car abandoned in a stand of pines. Based on the photographs and notes he made, he reconstructed the scene in 3D computer space, elaborating upon it through written and visual representations of the associations it prompted. Here, personal memories mingle with a tale from the life of Goethe, an image from a film by Antonioni and the plot of a Handel opera.

Luisa and Paolo, friends who recently moved to Paris, question and discuss the social significance of time, and of delay as its reflection. A short film between documentary and philosophical dialogue, by Francesco M. P. Maccarone. With Livia Ghika and Giovanni Cassanelli. "Future" is a song by Garbo.

A young adult's search for fame on social media leads to his uninevitable mental and physical downward spiral, losing everyone he loved in the process.

What is the nation's favourite festive film? Simon Callow takes you through a top 25 countdown and reveals the Yuletide number one, as voted for by the public.

On two medieval-arty releases, from two streaming giants.

At the edge of the land where the land meets the sea, and the sea meets the sky on the distant horizon, a string quartet appears on a beach. During a beautiful performance recorded in situ, we are invited with imagery and music to contemplate the passage of time and the slow turning of the earth with the slow greatness of the first movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet no. 14 in C♯ minor, Opus 131, 'Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo'.

On the night between 5 and 6 September 2020, in a square in Colleferro - a town about fifty kilometers from Rome - the tragic event took place that marked the sad epilogue of the life of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a 21-year-old young man of Cape Verdean origins, attacked and killed with kicks and punches during a fight while he was trying to defend a friend.

The portrait of an artist in action. The process of creation, as it happens, is emulated and experienced in the choice of shots and in the arrangement of the editing. The film is born from an unexpected meeting of sensitivity in the making, in constant search of the true entity of art. It is the second of a series dedicated to various artists’ work . The portrait is “temporal”, also referring to how the human condition can be represented.

Poetry of Aimlessness is a video that shows a feeling over a few minutes (3'42), which is presented as a stretched moment. What is shown is my reality between ambiguity and ambivalence. This moment is strong and clear in factual emotionality. This moment is also a permanent state and beyond my possibilities of verbal communication. This video with the music piece "Funny Feelings" by Tina Jander shows a simultaneity of opposites. Poetry of Aimlessness shows facts.