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Combining colourful Tableaux Vivants, – re-stagings of art historical references – with chimerically orchestrated scenes, and playful and improvised performances in a low-tech, DIY-style surrealist setting. Through interactions between bodies, objects, and spaces, mothers and children re-re-re-assemble and turn maternal fantasies into playful experiences, personal narratives into social questions, and body dimensions into fields of interaction.
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, little inconveniences become big problems to refugees in France.
Luz is dragged by her cousin Maria to steal a bottle of alcohol from a dark Japanese-owned gas station where a policeman is browsing through a porn magazine.
Get to know one of the youngest countries in the world from an unusual point of view. In a country full of contradictions, strict Orthodox rules are mixed with sexual looseness... The documentary is a collage of several stories of contemporary Israelis who represent different social and religious groups and provides a holistic picture of the love sphere in one of the most contradictory states. We will see a modern Orthodox Jew, Lior, who is looking forward to marrying a strongly religious young man, with whom she has not even tied the knot yet, or a young Jewish couple who are prevented from having a church ceremony due to their parents' foreign origin, and who must have their civil ceremony abroad, since civil marriages they do not exist in Israel. We will also not forget the relationships between young soldiers of both sexes, since military service is compulsory in this country for both boys and girls, homosexual relationships,
Three South Korean women in their thirties, who have successful careers, are considering whether to freeze their eggs so that they can become mothers when they want to. Between social pressure and self-assertion, this is an intimate look at a pivotal age.
Told through a lens of movement vignettes and no dialogue, this film explores a once real life relationship of a queer couple and the brief but meaningful moments of tenderness they shared. This project is part of the 9 part dance film series "Turbulent Kingdoms."
Mary, a single mother, places an all or nothing bet on the 2009 Grand National for her daughter Millie, but when a hotheaded loan shark comes looking for money in her local shop chaos ensues.
On Christmas Eve 2020, a girl was involved in a robbery at a gas station where she went every Thursday to pick up something very important to her.
Blending documentary interviews, fictional setting and audience decision-making, The Acquisitions Panel is an artwork about the legacies of European colonialism and who gets to choose the stories we tell.
A homeless man competes for a pub quiz's cash prize against the competitive young woman who earlier refused him money.
What’s an IKEA table breaking point at the weight of a crumbling friendship? A cubist short about two friends, a lost table and its replacement.
Men are felling trees in the rain forest, barefoot, using chainsaws to cut through the huge trunks. They live in nature, off nature and against nature. Illegal wood selling seems to be their only chance to feed their families. At the same time, they are destroying – tree by tree – their own livelihood. This quiet observation ends with the arduous transport of the wood out of the forest. Anyone who thinks ahead knows that it will end up in our apartments, too, as a mahogany table or Bangkirai floor.
Tsar Ferdinand on a train, during the early stages of World War One.
A short film about trying to find a way to connect to possible queer ancestors in my own family.
Two best friends move in together but disagreements about cleaning and house parties are destined to drive them apart.
Broken Blue is a musical and cinematic journey exploring the human condition. A unique experience combining pop music and cinema, with a tone that is both sublime and tragic. A meditation on a world whose beauty and mystery are beyond our comprehension.
An experimental short film consisting of still pictures and short statements.
Non-binary Japanese-Irish drag artist storms U.K.'s cabaret scene with a gender-diverse, Pan-Asian collective of bitten peaches, to dismantle racial stereotypes with love and glitter.
In 2022, lesbians and queer people converse through black and white with their 1967 predecessors. Featuring footage from landmark BBC documentary ‘Consenting Adults: The Women’, this tribute to yesteryear’s queers blends struggle and joy, old and new, back and front.
Could a son of a disappeared person face the protagonists of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000), who administered death? After almost 40 years of disappearance. Who could answer you about the fate of your family member? Is there any chance of finding the murderer of your family member? In those years: who was the enemy? What was it like, how much of an enemy was it? Was it possible to eliminate them? Finally, have we heard all the protagonists? To those, can we listen to them, should we, is it time or is it not time yet?
Under the uncompleted arch of a disused building, Amira Louadah gathers a group of sportsmen linked by the use of their fists, who call themselves “the 300 faction”, after Zac Snyder’s virilistic blockbuster.
Canadians Comeback Kid have just released the album Heavy Steps. Only one place to celebrate the release of this new gem: the Hellfest Warzone. Comeback Kid focuses the energy of Stuart Ross and Jeremy Hiebert on guitar, Andrew Neufeld on vocals, Matt Keil on bass and Jesse Labovitz on drums. The five acolytes arrive from Winnipeg, Canada's seventh city. Being born far from the usual epicenters of Hardcore did not prevent Comeback Kid from conquering the whole of North America and even the whole world! Inducted in 2003 by the album Turn It Around, the Canadians of Comeback Kid are the darlings of the hardcore scene. Energetic and unifying, the quintet's music hits the mark every time: it's impossible not to nod your head and tap your foot while listening to "Die Tonight", "GM
A ghostly portrayal of the demise of the Elephant & Castle shopping centre.
A rolling montage of images shot through the windows of police vans as suspects are taken to trial at the Old Bailey.
This mini-opera, animated in charcoal, reimagines Georges Bizet’s Carmen and its enduring relevance to issues of sexuality and conflict. In this new work, Carmen is stripped of her usual associations, including gender, race, place and time, leaving only a universal human figure and Bizet’s oiseau rebelle (rebel bird), two alter egos competing for love. This struggle leads to rebirth and a new future.
After winning a life coaching session in a raffle at her local village hall, Helen is guided through the help she never really needed. Together with her life coach Hazel, they explore healing strategies to cope with fear, rejection and grief, raising the important question as to whom this pain really belongs to.
A party, chatting, mingling. The protagonist wears a mask to fit in. As they try to adapt to the changing atmosphere by adding additional layers, they fail and are left isolated. A personal exploration of the pressure to assimilate and perform cultural identity.
After being fired, a man decides to find a job as a delivery rider, but the day he brings some pizzas to Alice, he understands that the world is not as good as he always dreamed of.
An urban development analysis of Hong Kong Island though the lens of its electric infrastructure that slowly shifts to science-fiction. A mysterious phenomenon forces its electricity supply to be cut off. Therefore, Hong Kong is plunged into total darkness.
Margot has been waiting in her house for 40 years. Her waiting morphs into desperate attention seeking. But she does not wait alone. Marie is becoming. Malleable, she tries to fit, slipping through her body and sliding around corners, picking up cues of who and how to be. Marjorie shines effortlessly. Her dream life, her golden exterior, her pretty performance, prove impossible and impermanent. Mother Flower is everything, the beginning and the end. Hers is a body of pure bounty, longed for, nourishing, sheltering. The four women are joined by a chorus of body parts, hands and tongues, mouths and babies, across grandiose performances, staged death scenes, fledgling steps, and displays of fertility and futility, as they reveal how hard it is to be in a body, to be a body.
How does a woman deal with the hair that grows other than on her head? A young woman talks about her journey between first depilation attempts, recurring frustration and slowly, but steadily growing pride in her own body. With verve, humour and honesty, this short, animated documentary visualizes a subject that’s all too often hushed up or shaved off. Strong performance, great cinema!