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Alejandro Egido returns to his paternal family’s village, a place on the Castilian plateau that, for years, he has only visited to bury relatives. There, he spends a few days with Carmen and Tomasa, his grandfather’s sisters, who share a daily life shaped by routine and absence. Through an intimate narrative, Hasta mañana si Dios quiere draws a subtle parallel between the fragility of human life and that of a village on the verge of disappearing.
Laura is an off-site student in Rome, but her dream since childhood is to become an actress. To earn money for the acting Academy's fee she opened a paid profile where she posts half naked pictures of herself. The meeting with Stefano, a wealthy young man who offers a large sum to meet her in person, will prove to be a decisive turning point in Laura's life.
Who owns the land? Legend has it that ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi stole a dune in Sardinia, while the locals are fighting for their land and struggling with their dependence on tourism. La Duna is an irresistibly cathartic and humorous documentary that intertwines a portrait of a community with absurd almost-fairytales.
Something strange happens in the family pool when his parents aren't home. A thick rope, a kind of veiny snake, emerges from the drain and grabs him by the rear.
Housing a Dream follows Dutch visionary artist Joost Conijn as he builds his dream home—an unconventional, rotating house that turns with the help of a red bicycle mounted to its floor. By pedaling, Joost can orient the house to follow the sunlight, reflecting his work's delicate balance between function and poetry. Through his process, the film explores the philosophies shaped by a lifetime of craftsmanship, revealing how building a home can become a profound act of artistic creation.
The Green Lady of Caerphilly Castle, Wales, UK. A story of love, betrayal, and the afterlife.
The film follows Peruvian DJ Flave, who now lives in Germany and has found her own musical voice. Between clubs, rehearsals, and personal memories, a portrait unfolds of an artist who blends techno with Latin American classics. Flave talks not only about beats and rhythms, but also about identity, home, and the power of music to build bridges between cultures.
As Gerts condition worsens after having a stroke, his wife Elise faces the fact that she might not be able to keep taking care of him by herself.
A filmmaker revisits home videos of her 13-year-old self, reflecting on the loss of innocence, self-awareness, and memory, creating a dialogue between past and present.
In 1970, the writer María Luisa Elío returned to Spain after three decades in exile in Mexico. Ever since she was forced by the Spanish Civil War to abandon her home at the age of nine, she has dreamed of reuniting herself with a past that perhaps no longer existed. In this documentary, the director explores the various separate parts of the life of this woman who belonged to circles of the most important cutting-edge artists of the mid-20th century and who wrote, acted in and made a film about her own ordeal.
27 real-life stories of American horror are told by a mysterious narrator, who draws inspiration from some famous paintings of American art displayed in an ancient abbey.
An undercover investigation by ITV News has filmed a white supremacist group masquerading as a fitness club whilst secretly working to build a far-right militia.
After remembering a family-woven island tale, young Ailsa ventures into a dreamlike world, in search of her absent father and a way to heal their hearts.
A young girl plays a violent game after her sister is arrested for an unspeakable crime. Her stuffed toys find themselves plunged into lord-of-the-flies depravity.
In 2013, the young journalist Eric Lembembe was murdered in Cameroon. He was tortured and beaten to death because he was gay and had fought for gay rights. Shocked by this gruesome murder in his home country, filmmaker Appolain Siewe sets off for Cameroon to find out more about the situation of LGBTQ people there. He soon realizes that Lembembe's murder is no isolated case. Why is homophobia so firmly anchored in Cameroon society? What role does colonization have to play in this? Siewe’s own experiences, moving encounters with activists who fight for tolerance in their country despite all the risks, and his conversations with Cameroon scientists, sociologists, and human rights activists offer a comprehensive insight into society in Cameroon.
As the family house in Aix-en-Provence where Paul Cézanne created much of his work reopens to the public, this documentary looks at the career of the master painter, who drew his avant-garde inspiration from his native Provence.
With his album New York Tango Trio, Richard Galliano celebrates the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla. A tribute that takes Jazz sous les Pommiers into a spellbinding tango dance.
Jason Manford hosts a night at the musicals.
Hold on tight for a trip through the BBC’s music archives, exploring the sometimes weird but always wonderful world of the Electric Light Orchestra. The pop pioneers’ futuristic fusion of rock n’ roll and classical arrangements first took off in the 1970s with founder members Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan, with Lynne taking on frontman, songwriting and producing responsibilities following Roy Wood’s early departure and turning them into stars all over the world. This programmes brings together the very best of the band’s performances at the BBC over the years, including hits like 10538 Overture, Don’t Bring Me Down, Livin’ Thing, Sweet Talkin’ Woman and, of course, the ever-enduring Mr Blue Sky.
This documentary celebrates the spirit of freedom and joie de vivre of the Clara Mosch artist collec-tive. Starting in the late 1970s, these non-conformist free spirits from Karl-Marx-Stadt declared the GDR a happening zone. Great, but also serious fun, which seems more relevant than ever today - and a poetic cinematic portrait of the power of art.
This film addresses the emotional absence of parents in a digitalized world. Inspired by Edward Tronick's scientific "still face" experiment, it shows how children are suddenly left alone in shared moments—not physically, but emotionally. Adults disappear behind glass panes, symbolic of smartphone screens, into their own reality, while children desperately seek attention.
In the form of a diary, I retrace the thread of internalized patriarchal domination and seek to trace my lesbian desire. Faced with the looming danger of a world on fire, I forge my own path and, like a beaver, seek to build my lodge elsewhere.
A chance find at the flea market: an old football-fan vest, covered with the patches and slogans of the football team SV Darmstadt. To whom did it once belong? Moreover, what is behind the phenomenon? Those colourful, never-washed denim frocks worn by rock fans at heavy metal concerts or football fans in sports stadiums? A good-humoured road trip exploring passion, rivalry, and belonging.
Moving snapshots of people taken along a river in Kyoto develop a captivating rhythm one is only too willing to give in to. People play, sing, and take walks.
Mortimer's compositions blend roots reggae with more contemporary influences. His remarkable voice moves with disconcerting ease from a deep, raw timbre to a delicate falsetto.
Taking Margaret Tait's poem 'Northerner' as its starting point, this film reflects on the seasonal and emotional transition from winter to spring. While the poem searches for words to understand this passage, the film uses images to communicate that process of longing. From here, language becomes both theme and method.
The story of a racehorse named Zadorny in a film that combines documentary footage with 3D animation. The stallion originates from a stud farm in the east of Ukraine, where Daria’s great-grandfather used to work. By following the paths of Zadorny’s offspring, who compete across the world, Daria explores her personal migration experience and investigates the exchange of resources between Eastern and Western Europe.
20 years old Lili is finally able to live a peaceful life but an unexpected comeback will prevent her to lead her everyday life as she intents. She will have to fight and hold on to her habits to avoid drowning again.
AMPERSAND, 1978, re-purposes clips from a 1974 film I never completed. In SPECTO they are re-purposed again. The hot tungsten filament of a Specto film projector is a recurring image, along with re-worked clips of a troupe of actors performing Artaud’s Jet of Blood at locations in the city of Lincoln. You’ll see the cathedral and a dilapidated mill with UNSAFE 74 painted on its wall.
There are places that never stop speaking to us, even when we think we've forgotten them.
Mireille Delmas-Marty, a visionary French lawyer, and Antonio Benincà, a passionate Italian artist, join forces and create a compass of possibilities to guide us through the chaos of the world. A deep friendship develops between them, nourished by their shared love of freedom.
Private Investigator Click gets a call from Mrs. Jason as her husband goes missing.
A hand-drawn animation odyssey through Michael Pederson’s poem The Secret Life of Balconies, where the everyday transforms into the extraordinary. A restricted primary color palette heightens the poem’s sense of wonder, guiding viewers through a circular journey—plummeting from the cosmos to Earth, diving into the smallest details of life, before rocketing back into the stars. A celebration of nature, human connection, and the magic hidden in the mundane.
"If I can't abandon you, then how can I save you?"
What kind of presence is made possible by the cinematic encounter? With the camera as an intermediary, an artist punches a hole in the wall that separates her responsibilities as a filmmaker from her role as a daughter.
In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, times are dark behind the front lines.
Normandy to Bach is a deeply personal yet carefully restrained love letter, both in form and content. As part of Film Letters series, it intertwines intimate narration with images from a journey through northern France.
Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Dylan Chambers performs at the Leverkusener Jazztage festival in Germany and brings all his charm and emotion to the stage.
The film is a poignant personal memory quest that begins at the Bay of Diamant, in Martinique, and carries us to 3 continents, to shine light on what it means to be black today in a globally interconnected world, as seen through the eyes of Martinican artist Laurent Valère and his transatlantic dialogs with the black diaspora.