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This is not only the story of the famous rivalry between Borromini and Bernini, but of Borromini’s rivalry with himself, a genius so tied to his art as to transform it into a demon that devours him from inside.
Along the streets and squares of three villages in Monferrato, Serena dances alone, humming tunes from Argentine milongas. From the people, she only receives glances of curiosity and, very few approach her to ask her the question “Why do you dance?”. She hopes someone will dance with her and be get infected by beauty, which is joy and welcome. But everyone thinks she’s crazy. Finally, resigned, Serena picks up her suitcase and is about to leave the town.
On January 27, 2023, a concert was held at the Auditorium del Parco in L'Aquila to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day. Songs and words to tell the story and express the hope that a time will come when we no longer need to live in fear. Events have occurred that are hard to believe could ever happen. But fortunately, there is a powerful weapon: memory.
The architects of GATCPAC designed and built “La Casa Bloc”, during the Second Republic, with the purpose of improving the life of the working class, and they managed to build, as well, a community as strong as the neighbours who reside in it nowadays. The story of Montse, José Luis, Wences and Adela, proves that, although times have changed, the bonds created in the past still remain alive.
This montage film explores tensions between circulatory systems - religion, culture, economy, tradition vs. modernity, nature vs. industry - while visually expressing individual struggles and adaption. It serves as a philosophical and visual essay on finding meaning and balance in modern society.
This video is part of a practice that looks at opulence as a display of oligarchic overindulgence from a privileged few, distorting and multiplying the shapes of extractive industrial machinery, and the interior aesthetics of dictators’ homes and private jets
The feature length animated movie of the YouTube animated hit CANNAMAN. Follow CANNAMAN as he delves into his mysterious past in this nail-biting, THC-friendly adventure!
Archive footage and celebrity recollections reveal how 50 years ago during an energy crisis the government imposed a three-day working week and UK-wide household blackouts.
A special agent enters inside a house to eliminate a chemist working bacteriological weapons.
Anna Zett collages mostly unreleased footage from the Berlin Archive of the GDR-Opposition into a pulsating short film thriller. The film opens up an associative realm which allows for the re-evaluation of experiences of violence hard to access today.
The director decides to travel to Ukraine, her native country, for the duration of the film, to explore her family history, but the outbreak of war disrupts her family's daily life.
A Welsh based short film. Tom, a struggling teen, plans to catch up with his long time friend Wyn. Plagued by his tough upbringing and deadbeat father Geraint, Tom carries a heavy burden to do and be better than his father. Until it all becomes too much for him.
The incredible true story of 18th-century pirates Mary Read and Ann Bonny. The day Ann saw Mary for the first time, her legs could hardly keep from shaking.
Mary, a devout Christian, goes to church to confess and talk to her parish priest. Mary tells him that her daughter has adopted a child, and they intend to baptize him. The priest, delighted, agrees to baptize the child until he discovers the sexual orientation of the child's mother: that she is a lesbian. From that moment on, the pastor will refuse to officiate the baptism and instead begins a discussion with his parishioner.
As he suffers from a romantic loneliness, Narcissus happens to be a guest of an underlying world which leaves him facing his most voracious desire : himself.
The documentary tells the story of farmers who are countering the growth compulsion of our system and breaking out of the structures of conventional agriculture. With the help of communities, they create a local supply cycle based on the values of ecology and the common good - community-supported agriculture.
Marine biologist and diver Dr. Albert Jose “Doc” Jones dove into the first lost slave ship ever to be recovered, and co-founded the National Association of Black Scuba Divers.
A girl visits the German Pavilion in Barcelona after a breakup and gets thinking about Lilly Reich and love.
After a year in Paris and having failed his entrance exams, Slim is forced to return to his small village in Isère. There, he reunites with Joseph, his best friend, who struggled with Slim’s departure. The reunion is tense. Under the summer heat, amid unspoken words and shattered dreams, tensions rise.
After forty years of fighting Moscow, Washington won the Cold War, and NATO found a way to expand eastward; however, there was one loose end to the problem: Yugoslavia was not a satellite of the USSR…
A private detective reveals his dark past to a close friend.
Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-depth investigation into the precariat, a new social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet.
After her estranged Palestinian father passes away, Linda returns to her childhood home in Glasgow, one last time. When her 10-year-old self suddenly appears, she is guided deeper into her own memories and her family's past.
When my dad was just nine years old, he conceived the narrative of his very own horror film. Little did he know that decades later his terrifying vision would finally be brought to life...
The relationship to the city, to nature, and being queer in between all that.
A woman wakes up in a dream world, which she discovers with astonishment and curiosity. At first pleasantly surprised by the things that happen to her, her fate takes a turn for the worse.
Victoria, a film student, has been raised in the Catholic religion all her life, which has been part of her identity. Now that she has grown up, she is afraid of doubts that wobbling her beliefs. That is why, she makes this documentary to face the stigmas about herself and her spirituality.
Jason Manford hosts another spectacular celebration of musical theatre filmed at Manchester’s AO Arena, featuring sensational performances from the casts of 13 of the UK’s best-loved West End and touring productions - along with a few surprises along the way.
This film traces the elusive trajectory of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the American master of abstract expressionism who called his work "a pharmacy for the soul." Moving from Latvia to the US as a child, he left Yale to paint, later inspired by Italy to create his iconic color fields. Full of vibrant colors, drama, and emotion, this subtle portrait makes his legendary art shine forth.
For more and more people, food not only has to be tasty and healthy, but also good for the climate. Five alternatives to classic foods are being put to the test. Can they meaningfully supplement our diet? This documentary goes in search of answers with the vegan star chef Ricky Saward and health experts Irina Blumenstein, Sandra Ulrich-Rückert and Margareta Büning-Fesel.
A man is awoken suddenly by a knock at his window. His attempts to help the visitor put him in a precarious position.
Milly visits her former classmate Lise. They are invited to a vegan birthday party and discover an unsual recipe. Here they go for an afternoon of carnal explorations...
The film focuses on the authenticity of the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano, symbol of the Abruzzo Region, found in Capestrano in 1934 and dated by archaeologists VI century B.C.
In the post-photographic context of the digital age, we relate to images in a different way; they have other meanings, and they have been dematerialized. They have become elements without a body, ephemeral and superabundant. The transition from an analogue to a digital process has become a paradigm shift. Family photographs used to be a treasure, passed down from generation to generation, which we could look at and touch to evoke the memory of a moment, or of a loved one.
A look at the era of kidnappings in Northern Italy by organized crime in the 1980s and is freely inspired by the longest kidnapping in the history of the country, that of Carlo Celadon.
Youri Orekhoff revisits the masterpiece of Max Ophuls's masterpiece, Lola Montès, in a single minute of animation.