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Short film following the struggles of male mental health. Showing the journey of a man confronting his demons and nightmares while finally admitting that it’s ok to not be ok. Shot on an iPhone 11 Pro Max

The latest exhibition, successfully held at the Center of Modern and Contemporary Art in La Spezia, of the famous British mime, dancer, choreographer and director Lindsay Kemp and designed together with Claudio Barontini, one of the most important portraitist in contemporary photography .

Safe Space is pieced together from numerous YouTube clips of ballroom events from the early 1990s. Ballroom culture is created by trans and queer people of colour in response to a society that marginalised their presence.

In a world where the only from of communication is with musical instruments, or creating sounds with their body, it is difficult to make connections. Following through a luscious green and mossy landscape, a small man attempts to play his rhythmic tunes in order to create a loving bond with someone special.

I get home late from my underpaid job. I open the fridge and remember that I didn't have the time to cook for today or buy any groceries. It's the end of the month and I can't afford eating out. I lustily scan my flat mates' shelves, but there's nothing I can steal without it being too noticeable. I end up boiling some pasta, pour some pesto sauce on top of it, and take the plate to my room. Filled with posters, pictures, and drawings, my wall becomes a window. I close my eyes, I'm not there anymore -I'm in a different time, somewhe-re not here.

After having been rejected, Juanes calls his best friend Víctor to go to a movie, where different feelings and prejudices emerge between them.

Four people of different gender tell the same story.

When Van Ngoc Ta originally trained as a lawyer, the Vietnamese family man never imagined that he would be rescuing women.

Not all honeymoons are sweet ... much less during a quarantine.

In the words of Christina Sharpe, a "visually and sonically rich" work inspired by Dionne Brand's "A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging." Commissioned by Hayward Gallery Touring and The Box, Plymouth, for British Art Show 9.

In Kano City, Northern Nigeria, crowds gather to watch local heroes face off in the ancient Hausa martial art of Dambe. Part battle, part dance, part live mythology, it’s a cultural tradition that has survived and thrived in the region, despite invasion, famine, British colonialism and attacks by Boko Haram. In Dambe’s lightning-fast bouts, against a hypnotic soundtrack of live drumming and improvised praise songs, conflicts erupt, rivalries are formed and legends are made.

A dive in the river takes a trans man on a journey back to his past.

I see you shiver with antici... pation.

Although more women are surfing, their stories are still rarely told. What does the sexy surfer girl image do with women who never felt like they suited this image? How has this influenced their career and self-esteem? For her ethnographic documentary Just Go Fucking Surfing Juul Hesselberth spent three months in Australia, where she followed four female pro surfers who pursue(d) a surfing career. This film moves through the online representations to the lived reality of female athletes.

Cristian feels discriminated against for many reasons: he is black, queer and villainous. What are those violences? What are his resistances?

They charge, bump, knock and collide ... they bear the scars of the match but they return to it.

March 8, 2018, International Women's Rights Day. Thousands of women and transgender people marched through the streets of São Paulo, outraged by the profusion of feminicides and the restrictions on the right to abortion in Brazil. March 14, Marielle Franco was shot dead in downtown Rio de Janeiro. She was the symbol of the success of a black woman, lesbian, daughter-mother of the favelas, who defended in particular the rights of peripheral populations and fought against violence against black youth. March 15, black activists gather at the World Social Forum of Resistances in Salvador de Bahia. This film is about them and their daily struggles.

Two lost souls in London. Connected through a poem in German and the question of how they will meet.

Lylybeth reflects on desirability as she walks through a forest. But out in the woods, she has nothing to prove: transition is a perpetual state there. A visual poem about desire.

Between the first and second waves of COVID-19, Nikolas Candido "wrote" an audiovisual letter to his friend. In a series of obscured fragments, he captures the changing mood of Rio de Janeiro with a digital 8mm camera. Although on the surface, life goes on as normal, the city is slowly sinking into darkness. Just like the whole country, where up to 4,000 people died every day during the most critical stage of the fight against the virus.

A short animated documentary that starts from the allegations of Moroccan women who pick strawberries in Huelva to build a polyphonic story that takes us to the focus of a larger conflict, making us reflect on its complexity and forms of representation: migration policies, struggles against extractivism from the North to the global South, racial capitalism, situated alliances.

Lesbian, gay bisexual trans and intersex (LGBTI) people are currently criminally prosecuted in over seventy states worldwide on the basis of their identity. In 2019, over 85% of individuals applying for asylum in Germany came from states with anti-LGBTI criminal laws. In this film, five women who have survived persecution and violence based on their sexuality or gender identity share their stories: about their life before fleeing, their journey to Germany, their day-to-day experiences in Northrhine-Westphalia – and their hopes for the future.

Porto Maurizio, where the director, who lives in France today, grew up, is located on the Ligurian coast. The village is the starting point for a cinematic journey into the past that spans a surprisingly wide arc to a time when Muslim pirates, the corsairs, haunted the Mediterranean and took Europeans as slaves. To this end, the film light-handedly draws from the rich fund of film history and its iconography.

A transmedia project that talks about the positioning of people with functional diversity in situations where they are pigeonholed in stereotypes marked by society.

Clara, a bisexual girl, lives with her friend Helena. She wants to find love and starts hooking up with people addictively until she finds herself on a date that goes way beyond her. One day, hanging out her panties, she will be surprised by what she discovers.

A filmmaker’s empowering drag performance in tribute to his mother who suffered from dementia and cancer and died of COVID-19 complications in 2020.

Vanishing memories, with granulity assaults due to the successive transferts from medium to medium, from a travelling shot in 1993.

Shot during the lock down in the spring of 2020, Missing Commas combines images of our daily family life confined to the small garden and the empty train station with the sounds from 50’s Sci-Fi film and songs from old nursery rhymes that resonate other pandemics in human history. A capsule of worries and concerns about humans and animal kingdom inferences, power of nature, an extinction looming closer and parenting in times when force of nature challenges the sense of safety you are supposed to create.

Voices echo through sewer tunnels in Munich. They tell fragments of stories about vanished people, violence and memory loss while the camera moves above ground, scanning the city’s façades. Munich appears as a body winding its way through time.

As part of repressive methodologies used by the State during the Social Revolt that began in October 2019, Chilean police has systematically shot the protesters in the eyes. Hundreds of people have suffered eye damage and have partially or totally lost their vision. The sunset walks through the streets of a Santiago de Chile, witness to these mutilations.

Two brothers play on the beach with firecrackers. They find a motor home that looks abandoned and decide to inspect its interior. Being drawn to risk is the basis of their relationship.

In 2020, Hannes Wesendonk and Josefine Rieks founded the Erste Berliner Kunstverein e. V. with fellow artists from Wedding, which was entered in the register of associations at Charlottenburg district court in the same year. The film portrays six people in their 20s who - in the midst of start-ups and coworking spaces - dream of changing the world with their art. With aesthetic borrowings from the French Nouvelle Vague, the film shows the life and revolutionary dreams of the Berlin living, working and living community, while also considering the potential for disappointment.