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A Marauders Short Film

Postwar times. A former soldier writes a letter to his wife, recalling their life together. He talks about their home, about the city that survived, about the fountain that dried up. But it gradually becomes clear that these letters will never be read. A story about the pain of loss and the inability to let go of the past. A movie about love that lives in words that will never find their addressee.

In 1930s rural England, a young housemaid, Alice, becomes entangled in suspicion and power games when her employer, Beatrice, uncovers a hidden letter from her husband.

Shot in Roscoff and Île-de-Batz, Bretagne, Kostrov and his companions move through the unknown landscape, in displacement. Their contours blur under his camera’s gaze – looking not at, but into, with and through. Captured briefly along the way, gestures and textures of the world are given physical presence, where the filmmaker’s antiwar sentiment finds its echo. The title comes from an inscription found on a cottage there — a message from another time, another context: the same plea.

From 1947 to 1969, the U.S. Air Force carried out a systematic study of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, codenamed “Project Blue Book.” Thousands of reports from American and European citizens were recorded during those years; more than 700 cases remained “unidentified.” The film reuses original documents from the now-declassified project, superimposing them over family footage from the same period. In the encounter between the domestic and the scientific, the familiar and the alien, a hidden portrait emerges of a nation haunted by its own astronomical obsessions.

An anxious brother delays telling his sister the truth about his upcoming wedding, an uncle takes drastic measures to "make a man" out of his closeted nephew, and a young man reflects on his turbulent teen years and the experiences that pushed him to leave his hometown behind. A powerful collection of shorts about the quiet ways in which we learn to stand up to prejudice and doubt.

Jess, Loanne, and Lilou are members and founders of the Apax Skate Crew, a collective based in Montpellier that brings together women and gender minorities around skateboarding. Through women-only sessions, competitions like FISE, and dedicated events such as the Chica Chique Sess, the documentary highlights the challenges these groups face in a male-dominated world. By following the crew's daily lives, it reveals their commitment, solidarity, and passion. It also tackles issues like sexism in skateboarding, lack of media recognition, and the marginalization of female skaters. Despite these barriers, Apax Skate Crew stands strong and helps pave the way for a more inclusive and accessible skate scene.

To fight the anxiety that haunts him day and night, a young actor decides to explore his dark side. This initiatory quest will lead him to trace the history of Satanism in France, from the legends of the past to the black masses of today.

In a convent about to close, Sister Celeste drags her young sister and a charismatic priest into a night of psychedelic liberation.

A lyrical voyage to the Hebrides and Faroe Islands. The hazy images shimmer in ever changing colours, their emphatic materiality giving expression to the magic of the locations. The voiceover weaves subjective impressions and historical facts into a dense narrative of life with – and about – the whales in these regions. The film reflects on subsistence farming, biodiversity, and endangered marine mammals.

In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish must act as tough as possible, but looks can be deceiving.

One day, Tetsuro Maeda (Tetsu) leaves home, at the foot of Mount Anboto, makes his way through the forests of the Atxondo Valley and arrives at his restaurant, Txispa. As he works, he recalls his life, since he was born in Tokyo, 40 years ago, until today, when his restaurant boasts a Michelin star. Surrounded by the scents and flavours of Anboto, a mythical mountain for the Basques, Tetsu thinks about his dishes, lending them shape and colour to ensure that those eating them may taste the breathtaking landscape visible from its summit.

Hannah, Katti, and Meret have been part of the same circle of friends since their school days. They grew up together in Kiel, spent their youth together, and are now in their mid-twenties, facing the next turning point in their lives. Hannah has finished her studies and is looking for a suitable job. She is currently working on her applications. Meret plans to leave her home town and move to Switzerland to work in a hospital there. Katti is pregnant and preparing for the birth and parenthood with her boyfriend. These are very different steps on the path to adulthood, and they’re each taking them individually – but also together.

Freddie Mercury's biographer Lesley-Ann Jones details her investigation into whether the bisexual rock legend could have fathered a daughter in the 1970s and kept it a secret from even his closest friends.

Dreamlike and arresting, the film moves the viewer between states of relaxation and tension—a visual dance between waking and sleep, public and private spaces.

The time has come for three cultists to summon their almighty god, however as they start the process issues arise.

A man must resist the urge to scratch.

'Imagined Landscapes' is the first sight of a landscape the artist had always imagined but had never seen, as someone who grew up in the UK with a curiosity about their Armenian family. The film shows through a series of still camera shots, landscapes and medieval monasteries, alternately experienced as ancient spaces or as sites of modern conflict. 'Imagined Landscapes' explores cultural memory through landscape and examines our shifting ideas of homeland from the perspective of diaspora.

How editorial can fisting be? This project seeks to portray, through an aesthetic and symbolic lens, practices such as fisting, latex culture, and other expressions linked to BDSM—approached in a way that emphasizes care, tenderness, intimacy, and the body’s erotic power.

One day, a child sits quietly and attentively in a dilapidated apartment building. A fan gently stirs the air as the child plays with a Rubik's cube, its colorful faces sparkling in the fading light. With delicate movements, the child crosses streets and alleys, discovering hidden possibilities. Despite the threat of decay, small moments full of play, wonder, and hope arise, nourishing creativity. A delicate contrast to the faceless world of adults and the impending collapse that threatens to engulf everything.

After his grandfather’s death, Toni Tomàs watches as life in the countryside and within his family begins to change. His grandmother, affected by grief, slowly starts to see the light again, while his father, with calmness and firmness, tries to restore order and ensure that the loss of the grandfather is not too deeply felt. Toni Tomàs reflects on his father and the way he faces the loss, in an effort to understand his family.

Sandia is an exploration of the multiple facets of the Sandia mountain range located in New Mexico. It reveals the mountain’s cold and hostile peaks and slopes in contrast to the warm and arid desert at its base. Aesthetically, the digital image is altered and mystified by techniques reappropriated from the tradition of experimental films, such as frame by frame printing, painting, collage and scratching.

This documentary explores the lives of the Korean diaspora in Germany, many of whom arrived as nurses and miners in the 1960s to 70s and still reside there today. How have their personal and communal lives evolved?

The story follows the events of a lackluster — and frankly, quite boring — party at the ΑΣΦ Fraternity. Seen through the eyes of Dylan and Logan, two fraternity members, everything changes when they stumble upon the key to turn an ordinary party into an unforgettable adventure and change the night forever: a little bit of magic.

Migrants try to cross the border between Belarus and Poland. The Frontex offices in Warsaw are empty at night. ‘Don’t you think that the borders of empires, like the roots of a tree, are much more extensive than we think?’

A small community of passionate ice hockey players from around the North East of England reflect on mental health, fellowship, and loss, as they share a last game with their lost teammate and celebrate his passion for the sport.

Memory offers us a basis on which to recognise ourselves, but how can we remember something that nobody talks about? Through archive images provided by the Basque film library, Isa Sáez talks to her grandmother about the taboos of their relationship. This film was created in “Memorias Sinvergüenzas” a queer cinema lab from Elias Querejeta film school and Tabakalera.

Fotorevolte tells how the world's global storage space overflows and all (digital) photographs and films come to life. People are displaced from their reality by photos of sights and celebrities, logos and film characters. The boundary between the real and the virtual world becomes blurred. When someone then dumps the internet the world sinks into a pixel mash.

An answer phone message

This analogue short film explores the thoughts and feelings the protagonist experiences while looking at the squares painted onto a wall outside her therapist‘s window.

Artist Joe Boyd unveils beauty in life’s forgotten fragments, alchemizing the mundane into moments of wonder. In the embrace of the imperfect, and incomplete, he discovers that art’s true power lies not in permanence, but in the delicate, fleeting dance of creation and release.

A dystopian world where reality isn’t certain and has no boundaries. A mad one, seeking a higher power, willing to do anything for it, even killing others. Two agents and a young scientist on his trail. A rush against time where everyone’s skills will be put to the test.

The music group Akelarre closes a chapter of more than 30 years on stage with a documentary that reviews its origins and the most representative moments of its prolific musical career. 'Akelarre: marearen kontra' is a film that unites the life of the group Akelarre with its fans through their passion for music. This documentary is a recognition of a way of understanding life.

During a stay in Egypt, Roman Pernack observes the revolutionary unrest on the streets and captures it with his camera. Contemporary history up close.

A family photo in the garden, a recording of my grandmother singing, a letter I wrote to her a year after her death—200 kB of data stored on a DNA molecule, the hard drive of the future.

After fleeing from Syria, Amjad has been staying in touch with the outside world from Lebanon via Facebook and the like for years. His mobile offers an escape from boredom and loneliness.

In a country bar, Emmanuelle runs into Olivia—her ex-husband, now the queen of the night. Beneath tired neon lights, between glitter and silence, one question lingers: how do you piece things back together after eight years apart?