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In a fabric society, a young figure diverges from rigid gender binaries to explore where their identity lies.

Film by Seema Mattu

Film by Seema Mattu

Film by Seema Mattu

One day before Chile's national plebiscite gives each voter the possibility to approve or reject the drafting of a New Constitution, Oscar and Marcelo, two brothers with opposing views, will share a journey along the country's desert coast.

A visual symphony conducted by 8 elder women who reflect on different topics concerning the conception of their own bodies inside a patriarchal system that constantly attempts to possess them.

An exemplary son, a daughter who likes to party and a fed up mother. The perfect mix if it were all as it seems.

Alternative Economies was made in conversation with herbalist Rasheeq Ahmad and financial services regulator Rachel Bardiger. The film discusses the imperialist exploits of the Disney character Scrooge McDuck, and the apparently radical yet deeply compromised promises of crypto­currency. Between these two strands, possibilities for an alternative network of exchange and subsistence are sought.

Short film based on the novel The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.

What does it mean to be a successful voice actor? This short film narrates the story of Tommaso, who is the voice of Captain T, the most famous cinematic superhero on the planet.

After encountering the alien Vongashuuelbuckett. Alan Fishpaste becomes embroiled in an intergalactic feud and embarks upon a quest across the stars.

Documentary about people who collect rubbish from the Earth to make it cleaner.

A couple of dancers arrive at a lake in Xochimilco, where they begin an introspective search that connects them with the elements of nature through music and movement. Finding themselves through dance, they prepare their farewell to follow individual paths.

What if you can no longer reach a loved one with arguments? Working on interfamily relationships during the pandemic—between justified criticism and irrational fears.

Images like notes on a diary.

Serving the tourist attraction at Checkpoint Charlie, Maxim puts on his GDR army uniform. It’s tiring, but that’s how he makes his money. For a cigarette, he steps over the former border and meets a waitress in front of a fast food temple who puts a smile on his face.

Grecia, a transgender woman, writes a letter to her friend Jeanine. From remembering her childhood to her daily struggles, Grecia gives us a glimpse into the life of a transgender woman navigating the cruel streets of Tijuana, Mexico.

A correspondence filmed during the health crisis in Ecuador. This letter documents both the notions of refuge and tragedy while discovering the news of missing corpses in hospitals collapsed by the pandemic.

During his first trip to the United States, Tito Montero follows the footsteps of the writer Eduardo Galeano through the streets of Chicago in search of Haymarket, the place that symbolizes the global struggle of workers for their labor rights. The words of the filmmaker and the work history of his family are intertwined with those of the Uruguayan writer and those of other literary references to compose a personal and collective journey through space and time.

Rosa María is a transsexual woman and a father who completed her sexual reassignment surgery at the age of 59. Until then her behaviour had been that of a typical macho male. This documentary shows her “transition” or gradual empowerment as a woman, a process that holds a certain promise of fulfilment. Alongside her friend, Fina, also a transsexual woman over 60 years old, they walk this path of light and shadow in their struggle to conquer the desired status of being a woman, as well as a degree of recognition on the part of society.

Nathalie Mere Povede is a 30-year-old make-up artist from the city of Lima. She takes us through her routines, talks about her life and what it means to be a transgender girl in a conservative society like Peru, showing that the only one difference between her and someone else is intolerance.

Claudia, a young film director is working on a movie about her grandma,Rosa, a woman who's been marginalised because of her sexual orientation. Forced in a marriage that she didn't want, Rosa entertained a secret relationship with Carmela, until their husbands found out and Rosa has been condemned to a life of shame. Claudia, fond of her grandma and her story, makes this film to celebrate her story and her courage, but most of all to show it to Rosa, who is now very old and affected by senile dementia, and unfortunately can't understand what the film is about when Claudia shows it to her.

Between the color of memory and the texture of dreams, a search becomes a body. Summer is an island without references, a place without language in which the objects I touch take me just where I cannot find you.

After a distracted day at work, Suzy is pursued and controlled by an ominous periscope.

Amber celebrates the end of her studies by organizing a small party in a country house. The presence of his ex-companions will trigger a series of unforeseen events. (Never seen on TV)

In no decade were there even remotely as many social, cultural and technical upheavals as in the 1960s. The 60s are still reflected in everyday life today: in the relationship between the sexes, in education, in fashion, in leisure behavior, in work. Much of what moves people today has its origins in the years from 1960 to 1969.

A white bird living in a black world encounters a black cat living in a white world. The moment they meet, their backgrounds literally collide.

"Gaps in the Persistent Hiss" is a journey through a landscape both sonically and visually. Through the combination of experimental music and a microscopic lens, the video plays with a radically discontinuous almost hallucinogenic image which reveals a primordial awareness of the world around us.

Sometimes our memory evaporates, sometimes it is mesmerizing, and sometimes it is like a granular souvenir.

This film deals with the startup eco-system in the Ruhr, the former German rust belt area, now devastated by unemployment. The local hope is that there will be a revitalization of the region through the creation of an ecosystem for startups. The film dives into the specific vocabulary and subtexts around these new economic hotspots.

The Equilibrists of the film are patient and surprising exemplars of the lessons to be learnt from scrutinizing the elementary principles of physics. Here familiar feats of balance and curious games combine with the didactic serving as a reminder of the patience, delicacy and balance essential for stability.

How can school education be designed differently? Four passionate teachers show how it can be done.

At 84 years of age, Rosa realizes that she no longer has the strength to take care of her daughter Eva who has Down syndrome, and she struggles to decide whether or not to put her into a care home. In this intimate portrait, we follow Rosa’s pain of indecision and her unique way of coping.

Bergamo, 2021, a border space, a performance, 8 characters on the threshold: between adolescence and adulthood, between real and imaginary, between past and present. Vagli a spiegare che è primavera (Go tell them it's spring) is a documentary based on the biographies of a group of young people who, over the last three years, have been researching the boundaries of identity, a story about art as a possible space for growth, resistance and transformation.

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895), was a lawyer, journalist, publisher, writer, pioneer of sexology and is known as the "first open gay man" and "LGBTQ+"-activist in Germany. At the German Juristentag in Munich in 1867, he publicly called for the impunity of same-sex sexual acts for the first time in a speech, which led to tumultuous scenes among the audience and his speech being broken off.

High above the clouds a big airship-city is flying. However, one of the balloons, which hold the city, is loosing air. That is why the airship is sinking. All the inhabitants there know about that, but they try to ignore it and carry on with their daily routines. It's a modern fairy tale about a girl who wants change and a story about love which is put into an appealing comical visual style.

Fragilities of time and perception are captured in macro in Kamila Kuc's "uchronia, no.1". Seductively textured images contrast against intimate and claustrophobic sounds, forming an eerily demanding observational experience.