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Sister Jenkins spends her days in downtown Frankfurt trying to speak to pedestrians about Jesus. When an agitated young woman unexpectedly seeks her advice, a cat-and-mouse game ensues between two women who couldn't be more different.

Benjamin Britten’s elegiac musical setting of William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” supplies the title of Rosalind Nashashibi’s video, which unfolds as an elliptical cross-media dialogue between the multimedia artist Elena Narbutaitė, the sculptures of Marie Lund, and Nashashibi’s own paintings and camera. What emerges is a set of funny and deep reflections on artist-types and the contexts and meanings of art-making—as a place to breathe and wonder, or a form of wasting time. “Don’t take it all too seriously.”

Simon, a depressed, introverted, and drug addict, has a complex relationship with his father, especially since his brother's death. The young man gets his life back on track after meeting Emma, ​​a former drug addict like him. Together, they try to rebuild their lives.

A group of partygoers consider what awaits them after death.

A few shacks built on the hillside on the fringe of society and without men. A place of refuge, of collective and feminist transformation. From this edge, alongside those who build it, the filmmaker questions their place in nature and society, as well as the freedom of their body and the prospect of having a child. Openly alluding to Virginia Woolf’s famous quote (“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction") and introducing us to a bouquet of incredible, uncompromised female characters, an investigative yet tender camera challenges the boundaries of gendered social roles and immerses in the micro-universe of absolute freedom and self-determination.

On a first encounter between two strangers, the candles that light them have a special importance for one of them.

Free-floating yet rigorously structured, this essay film presents botanist and educationalist Catharina Helena Dörrien and her time in Orange-Nassau in the 18th century. Via regulations and floral formulas, nature philosophy and social policy converge.

A ballet dancer must return to the stage under the guidance of a new love interest. A family rom com centering around Christmas.

In the limbo of Yiddishland, two men share with us fragments of their lives. Mendele grew up in a shtetl. Shedding the yoke of tradition and yearning for freedom, he discovers socialist ideas in which he sees as a new messianism. Young Yitskhok lives in the Vilnius ghetto. He rebels against his miserable condition and makes his life a hymn to hope. Shot in striking black-and-white, Oylem is a poetic Yiddish-language journey into the heart of Ashkenazi history and soul.

Rocío (29) decides to return home with her ten-year-old daughter, Candela, after a period of economic and personal crisis. The return home is part of an escape in search of a better life. During the weekend she spends with her mother, Rocío will make a decision.

Youth footballers and professional players are asked the same set of interview questions in this documentary that explores mental health, the academy system and childhood ambition in the world of football.

London's Rocketship Launchers documents the filmmaker's investigation into the true identity of the 200ft circular metal frame infrastructures that sculpt London's skyline. What starts as an innocuous quest for answers brings to the fore questions that are of great political significance. What else do we allow to masquerade as a part of nature?

After a night of partying, a woman wakes up from a blackout, and finds herself and two others confronted with a dead body.

What happens when an artist risks losing the only recording of their album, by burying it in the earth in the name of art. Recomposing Earth tells this unique story - of Erland Cooper's ultimate collaboration with the natural world.

Dennis "Den" Newman prepares for his first pie and mash sale at the Blue Market in Bermondsey, right next to the "Den" football stadium.

MARO proves she is the pride of Portugal once again as she represents her country at Eurosonic 2024. We met her for a session organized in an unusual location: a cheese factory.

Molly battles her worst tendencies in this gripping tale about the dangers of substance abuse.

Are Jewish people in Germany allowed to take a critical view of the war in Gaza? Or do they feel obliged to show solidarity with Israel? Amir wonders how he is perceived here as a peace-loving Jew. Infrared images offer the aesthetics of reversal. The invisible becomes visible, the visible alien. Noise-cancelling headphones momentarily silence the outside in favour of the inside.

A man goes on a smoke break and suffers the consequences.

A man in a long door-studded hallway: a metaphorical place inside his mind. It's time for him to come to terms with a past that has been buried for years and will now resurface with the tinkling of keys.

Sara, a 22-year-old woman with a broken leg, is home alone. One night, two men break in to rob her. Will Sara be able to escape this nightmare?

The day Aminata was born, her mother, Duturna, saw her life change forever. Motherhood was not what she had expected or what she had been told it would be. She was forced to pack her bags and flee her home with her daughter in her arms. She was very young, alone, had no resources, and did not know for sure what the future held for her. Only one thing was clear: she had to save her daughter's life.

A young girl who lives in a tower block in East London, finds a way to connect to her Yoruba culture through music.

Broodmother is a short film that combines simulation and performance. The film is a deconstruction and reimagining of the female monster character Broodmother in video games. The Broodmother is a new species of fully digitised, slimy spider-like creature with the ability to devour, vomit, scream and breed demons. In this work, the Broodmother transforms into a powerful avatar that tells a scientific myth about life, nurture, ecology, and technology.

Timothy Quiche has forgotten how to play. Or has he? Maybe he’s just been looking in the wrong places. A short film about not overthinking things and rekindling the joys of play.

It's a story of desire, a story of resistance, a story of a singer, a story of a little boy, a story of hair, a sad story, a political story, a language story, a beauty story, an old lady story, a cross-legged story, a funny story. It's a trans story. It's a love story.

Feferle, a whimsical and childlike being, wakes one fateful day with the unsettling knowledge that something terrible has happened. Her world shatters due to the sudden loss of her father, propelling her into a poignant exploration of her family’s history. Tasked with sorting through the old cluttered apartment, Feferle contemplates whether she can approach the history of her Jewish family through the material remains and raw facts.

In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia — her homeland that has changed. It turns into a chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart. Her way to cope with the grief is to fixate everything with her camera. Her anger guides her to inner emigration to the local underground scene, which became an escape for young russians. This kaleidoscope of shards chronicles not only spirit of the time, but the director’s personality crumbling against the backdrop of global turmoil.

A boy places a handful of roses on the ground. After that, he undertakes a lone journey into a desolate summer night.

Unable to locate the grave of Letine—19th century leader of an acrobatic cycling troupe (buried locally)—I went home and wondered. And then I made this film. Equal parts experimental animation, stylised domestic drama, and autobiography accompanied by reflections on mortality, filmmaking and magic.

A female director makes a movie that turns out to be too close to home.

2024. France. Directed by Manon Lutanie. 6:30 min.

A girl tries to grow a new face with the help of her friend.

Marie-Jo, my grandmother, worked in the textile industry for 34 years. Although we were close, I never knew what her experience had been like. By filming my family, I am attempting to piece together this legacy.

PROOF OF LOVE is a short film: Gigi prepares breakfast in the morning.

Peter Strickland's portrait of his mother, who looks back at Greek history through her memories while she cooks a traditional meal.

What role has the ability to collectively care for the youngest members of our species played in our evolution? An update on the latest research findings.

David, 50, travels to Malaga from Cantabria to resolve family matters. In a café he knows, he sits down to talk to Don Manuel, 70, who claims not to recognize him.

A young girl battles her own identification of queerness in this surreal summer fever dream that brings the science of her school project to life and her relationship with her best friend to new, scary places.

A field full of sheep is observed through the camera, preserving that moment in time forever.

M. Woods, a mentee of Aldo Tambellini, conducted the only interview with him in virtual reality. This interview has been expanded to include an immersive view of some of Tambellini’s work as well as a VR experience influenced by Tambellini. Included in this installation is a stand-alone VR headset where the participant can witness one of the final interviews with Tambellini as conducted and filmed by M. Woods.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany has increased significantly since the massacre by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023. Jews are insulted, defamed, berated and attacked not only on the street, but also at universities and in the cultural sector. The anti-Semitic riots at the Free University of Berlin on December 14, 2023 and the completely inconsistent reactions to them from those responsible and politicians are representative of this. Jewish students in Germany have to fear for their lives again. Left-wing groups demand solidarity with Palestine, question Israel's right to exist, but completely ignore the Hamas massacres and, in their view of the Jews, rely on a simple worldview shaped by ancient prejudices and narratives.

The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of three of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets: Danses Concertantes (a plotless ballet for three soloists and corps), Different Drummer (the harrowing, unremittingly grim story of a simple soldier driven to madness and the murder of the only person he loves, his wife, by his inhumane treatment at the hands of experimenting army doctors), and Requiem (the portrait of a company coming to terms with the loss of a much loved director).

A seven-day journey through Ukraine, where 14 people recount their experiences of war.