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Two men meet in a café and decide to get into a fight over a woman.

A lonely figure does a little dance.

West Yorkshire's notorious HMP Wakefield is known in the prison system as 'Monster Mansion.' It's a warehouse for the worst Category A prisoners, and it's home to some of the most terrible men in British criminal history, such as Roy Whiting, Jeremy Bamber, Charles Bronson and Robert Maudsley. Through interviews with ex-inmates, retired guards and relatives of Britain's most infamous inmates, unlocking the cell doors and uncovering the secrets of life inside the UK's toughest jail.

Orange, lonely and unsuccessful in music, wanders through an inner-city desert. Until Green appears - dancing at peace with himself. Orange tries to follow and let go. Does green exist at all? Or is Orange creating a yearning ideal?

An idyllic field trip, falling out, dashed dreams, the terror of mortality.

A webcam tunes the body. The corpo-reality of the image in the process of transmutation.

For Robert Gladitz and Elina Miller, the world suddenly turns upside down when they learn in 2021 that they are going to be parents. One thing is immediately clear to both of them: they want a better world for their son. So they establish a 'thrive village' in a small village in Bali. The community around the young couple grows quickly. A collective that has made it its mission to develop and promote projects that make the world a little bit better. Cooperation comes first. For many, this is also an opportunity to start over and let go of old burdens or traumas.

Egor lives in Irkutsk, Russia, loves ice diving, and is an active proponent of conserving Siberian nature on social media. But with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his life will change radically.

After a misunderstanding with her girlfriend, a woman contemplates her understanding of love, self-acceptance, and the freedom that comes from facing your fears.

A college student goes to research nature conservation, and instead comes up against a Tyrannosaurus Rex

Osho is the most known spiritual Master of our time. The film shows his life through the people who lived with him. The director is an insider of the Osho movement, so he had access to the people, that no other director probably would.

The film examines the contradictory life in the everyday state of emergency of the Coronavirus pandemic. The starting point for the film was my observation of a bus full of people celebrating in the summer of 2020. In exchange with a diverse group of interlocutors, I approach their different reactions to the pandemic between individual freedom and social responsibility.

A present body with ancestral memories walks through a desolate landscape. Who was? Who is it? Who do you want to be? Eurydice - Ευρυδικη reinterprets the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to narrate the part that has never been told, Eurydice's transformative journey through the Underworld. A film about the search for love beyond its romantic dimension, the portrait of a mythical woman freed from her past.

Spiteful of his neglectful, self-centred parents, 10 year old Tom stages his own kidnapping and hides in the attic. Here he embraces his independence and imagines their reaction to his disappearance.

A housewife and teacher named Mary Whitehouse became the original, self-styled `cancel culture' warrior. Armed with just a typewriter, she began a 30-year campaign to turn back the tide of the permissive culture she saw sweeping through society.

As Liv gets ready for a night out her thoughts jump from reality to a fight club in her mind. Through an outpouring of physical expression and embodied vivid movement, she imagines a world where she can walk down the street freely without fear.

Blanca is a young illustrator who’s just started to live by herself but her life is a disaster. When she faces her mum’s texts and questions, she invents herself a standard life, drawn on her apartment walls. The story is told from texts and photographs exchanged by Blanca and her mum. But on the other side of the phone camera, Blanca’s partner Aurora observes the lies netting around her relationship.

The possibility of (re)constructing human history now no longer takes place in archives alone; it has instead moved into the realm of rubbish. But what if, under modern concepts of an efficient recycling system, there is no more waste?

What do the long-ago war experiences of one's parents have to do with one's own life? Oliver Kanehl takes the audience on a search for the places of his father's wartime childhood in present-day Poland. Past and present meet when today's normality encounters past horrors and hidden trauma is slowly revealed.

One night, a little girl decides to follow her big brother in his night life, despite the prohibitions.

A collection of poignant conversations between young women and their maternal figures during a transitional period in their lives.

The couple Christoph (Ferdinand Dölberg) and Bronko (Milan Dölberg) live a rather bourgeois life of luxury. As a birthday present, Christoph has arranged a holiday trip to Saxon Switzerland for himself and Bronko. But as soon as they reach the border to Saxony, it is not only the boot which is on the other foot…

A group of 'anti-woke' students at a British university attempt to attract more members.

Understandably, many trans people just want to live their lives in peace - not rocking the boat too much, and living a normal, happy life among their peers. Jen Ives is not one of them. In this stand-up show filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jen takes on hot button issues, such as biology, gender critical “feminism”, the LGB Alliance, pornography & of course - JK Rowling. The conversation is as vital as ever, as everyone and their nan seems to be discussing trans women’s validity these days. The only people who don’t seem to get a say, are the trans women themselves.

An elderly woman takes stock of her life when she is is told that she hasn't got long to live.

A big head baby, one of the numerous victims of the white melamine-tainted milk powder incidents caused by the Sanlu (Three Deer) Group Co. Ltd in China, witnesses such nightmarish pain and sinks into with other babies the abyss of horror and despair.

The animation is based on Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Don’t Leave the Room” and shows a surrealistic reality in which the main character is faced with the choice of a room. At first glance, the choice of rooms is quite large, but in fact, all the rooms turn out to be pieces of one large cake.

A film by Jo Reid (2022) - an exploration of Jo's relationship to the internet.

Boja is living the last years of her life, working hard on the family farm located among the war-scarred ruins of Močioci, a ghost village in the mountains above the city of Sarajevo. Her brother’s patriarchal reign additionally weights on the inescapable routine of Boja’s life. To escape, Boja searches for solace in the pastoral visions of nature, as she roams through the memories of days gone by

The story of a loner living in a bucolic dreamworld.

Animation artist Maarten Isaäk de Heer was astonished by the huge number of animal deaths in his direct environment: from masses of fruit flies all dying together, to mice brought in by his own cat. He decided to make a record of all of the dead creatures he encountered over the course of a single spring and summer.

After a long hospitalization, Annie, an old lady, asks to go back to her home. Antoine decides to handle the housework but then finds out his wife is affected by a chronic desease and get loss of independance.

Star-Crossed Lovers - but Juliette has Dementia. One woman struggles with the past. Another lives joyfully in the present - thanks to early stage dementia. To avoid being separated from her lover, the elderly Juliette elopes, triggering a showdown between her uptight daughter and well-meaning grandson. A Dramedy inspired by the writer's mum.

This short, autobiographical documentary combines phone monologues, dashboard camera footage, and visual accounts from social media to make a unique, inside look into the life of an up-and-coming female artist from Baghdad who inevitably crosses paths with political turmoil. Munaf documents her journey from her attempts at creating contemporary art in a very limiting environment, the ISIS invasion, and her emigration to Turkey to the invasion of Ukraine where her parents emigrated to.

Is it possible to use sound to travel through time and experience the fate of other people? This story of a sound engineer studying recordings of war conflicts from the past transports viewers smack dab in the middle of a ravenous rampage where the horrors of the past come to the fore. The film also presents a philosophical reflection on the role that sound plays in our world. The film was developed on the program of the AAMOD Premio Zavattini.

Two masked figures meet. One of them just asks about the weather, but the conversation quickly becomes unbalanced. Or: This is what coyotes sound like.

One day, Jean-Christian Riff notices two boys playing a mysterious game under his window. He films them. This is the starting point for a film that, without the camera ever leaving its unique position behind the window, progressively opens up the circle of perceptions and emotions to the dimensions of the world. The space makes this cosmological miracle possible : a bus stop, a riverbank and the river that runs along it, but also the filmmaker’s appartment, where daily life and its sounds resonate : a multiple scene upon which pass time, seasons, beings of all ages and conditions. This film is its author’s last, as he died just after having finished the editing. It is life itself, made poetry. (Cyril Neyrat)

Ever since the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Valentyn's life has been moving in heavy swell. In his hometown of Romny, in the east of Ukraine, he is fighting against corruption, and so against the strongest powers in the country. When Valentyn needs a break, he prepares for his third attempt to cross the Black Sea in his self-built kayak.

A short film that recovers the LGTBI+ historical memory through the testimonies of seven women who, having lived their adolescence and youth during the Franco regime in Euskadi, became socialized as lesbians and feminists in a repressive and profoundly lesbophobic social context. They are women who are part of the first moments of a feminist movement that strongly claimed sexual freedom and the right of women to have the sexuality they wanted.

Inspired by Slavic mythology, Bogdanka is a tale of a young woman soon to be wed. In a world where choice is an illusion, she gets a chance to make a decision of her own.

Visiting Auschwitz Birkenau museum, anonymous visitors find out the horror of crimes and abuses. Some of them express their difficulties to understand the tragedy and the abyss of death they are facing, whereas others strangely prefer to chat randomly. The result is an unprecedented portrait of Auschwitz, and a dizzying approach of the Holocaust.

A short film about loneliness. Publo hides a deep secret in his little home, and must learn to face the music once it is discovered.