Agnès is only ten years old and a great lover of reading. One fine day, she makes contact with the ghost of writer Joan Castelló Guasch, who tells her three Ibizan legends full of mystery and fantasy.
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Agnès is only ten years old and a great lover of reading. One fine day, she makes contact with the ghost of writer Joan Castelló Guasch, who tells her three Ibizan legends full of mystery and fantasy.
Inspired by one of the oldest surviving LGBTQ+ Irish folk songs, Johnny Barnes is a post-modern gender-blending storytelling project encompassing music and narrative that tells the story of a repressed lord who becomes infatuated with a common sailor and questions his own gender identity in the process.
In the clutches of abuse, a woman's desperate bid for freedom intertwines with the chilling allure of a deadly Rusalka.
While camping in the British countryside, Josh stumbles into and desecrates a liminal space one May Day eve. Lured deeper into the woods, he is 'Fae-led' and separated from Sarah his partner, before being offered a stark choice.
Young people, children and their parents come to consult, suffering over their shoulders, under their coat or under their skin, it depends. At the medical-psycho-educational center, caregivers are there to support them in therapy. Through play, dialogue, silence, as a family, in a group or individually, they move forward to help them grow. At night, in the corridors and the waiting room, between dream and nightmare, a funny little man comes to life and releases his emotions. Once upon a time, behind the symptom, lurking in the shadows, were children, adolescents and parents who were afraid of the wolf... Wolf are you there?
Khabur is the longest tributary of the Euphrates, a transboundary river crossing the border between Turkey and Northeastern Syria. Climate crisis, prolonged drought periods, the ongoing war, embargo, water policies, and dam building across the border by the Turkish state are among the reasons contributing to the drying up of the Khabur River and the water crisis in the region.
An ancient monster awakens from the sea. A ship moves between crystal waters in the darkest night witnessing God and the angels last battle.
A short film about the detrimental side effects tablets can cause.
I struggle piecing together some memories. An experimental, archival short film showing recovered footage from a 2013 Blackberry phone.
An under pressure personal assistant gets a call from a kidnapper threatening the life of his son unless he pays their ransom. Except, he doesn’t have a son.
Aleister Crowley (The Wickedest Man in the World) was an English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the 20th century. Crowley has remained a highly influential figure over Western esotericism and the counterculture of the 1960’s and continues to be considered a prophet in Thelema. In The Beast of Loch Ness, we tell the untold story that exists within the walls at Boleskine House. A story that is shadowed by the building’s pop-cultural modern-history. This film brings together a colourful group of well-known researchers from across the globe who together explore the history and mystery of Boleskine House, replacing timeworn narratives with new insights.
Amateur boxer Liam reflects on how colour and light replaced the grey depression he had been living in, in the form of his soulmate, Leo. He tells the story of how he and Leo fell harmoniously in love as the world entered the height of the pandemic.
A micro-documentary depicting the minor (or not so minor) inconveniences of the designs of everyday things.
An astonishing “half abstract night-walk fantasy” based on drawings by the great Miles Davis backed by his interpretation of the Tina Turner classic.
Two film students desperately try to create a documentary for their final project whilst putting in as little effort as possible.
Teddy Sandalls can't find someone to love him. Encouraged by his roommate, Ffion Sydney-Morris, he enters the world of online dating. When Teddy finds someone, and as Ffion's relationship fails, will Teddy learn the true meaning of love?
In a dystopian and indeterminate society, the Black Inquisitor is faced with the task of capturing a dangerous criminal known as Metaphor Poet, who uses his artistic-activist skills to commit crimes
Andy and Charlie perform together on stage in erotic shows. In the summer, far from the cabaret, the two young women confront each other and invent their own itineraries, retracing and redefining them.
Inspired by Come Dine With Me, 5 friends host a series of dinner parties to crown a champion, and a director loses his mind as a fun project becomes a year long feature length nightmare
Kyoko is 70 years old. She is a japanese calligrapher and stylist who left her native japan to live in paris. sanae is 28 and has been practicing contemporary dance since childhood. her maternal grandmother was japanese but to integrate, she chose not to pass on her cultural heritage. at the crossing of ages, sanae is in search of her japanese roots while kyoko finds a new youth. the film is a haiku, with no beginning and no end, a moment suspended in time, eternal.
The Pavilion on the Water is a cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture. Japan, to him, was an inspirational universe but also the place where he eventually died in 1978, at the height of his career, while retracing the steps of wandering poet Matsuo Bashō. Through the words of his son, some of his collaborators and a Japanese philosopher, the documentary unfolds and quests after the sense of beauty. A nostalgic feeling permeates the whole film for that rare event which is the birth of an artist. Although he passed away, he left behind a work that, still to this day, delights and amuses.
Listen, watch and relax and feel all the stresses fade away.
Two people are trying to bury a body in the middle of the forest when it suddenly goes missing.
Sex and gender are at the heart of one of the most polarising issues of our times. With views from various sides of the debate, is there an end in sight to the conflict?
and the daughter began to tell a story about seeing when colours remain silent to you about listening, when words refuse blooming anew
High Levels (2023) is a documentary production that focuses on Tom. Tom has diagnosed bipolar disorder and has battled with his mental health over the last decade of his life. He is an intelligent, composed, and rational person who ‘patrols’ the iconic bridges of Newcastle upon Tyne during his walks occurring around three o’clock in the morning. Here, he has come across numerous people who were contemplating on jumping, which he openly addresses in the documentary. Tom explains how he helps these people by listening to them and calling for support when needed.
A lone young man robs a convience store at night. We follow him throughout the night as he tries to make his way home.
Between drug addiction, first discoveries of sexuality and a permanent state of war, the filmmaker searches for her lost youth by wandering the streets of Jerusalem.
Yanis, a young Kabyl man, is leaving for Paris the following day. He goes to the nearby village to tie up loose ends. There he learns of the death of a childhood friend and meets another at the funeral. A mishap in a café turns his last day in the backwaters of an earthy and soggy Algeria into a road movie, first desperate, then thoughtful and melancholic.
The mind of a feverish body drifts far and deep through slivers of memories and layers of ineffable feelings.
What happens in-side? Is it my woman's body that thinks?
Captured as a baby and confined for the past 40 years, Happy is an innocent, incarcerated for no reason and named in an historic court case. Happy is an elephant. But is she also a person? The most important animal-rights case of the 21st century, this legal challenge to whether non-human animals have the capacity for rights and are considered persons would affect all the world's wildlife.
Ellie is an insomniac who is terrified of sleeping. One night, she decides to try and get some rest as figures from her mind try to intercept her waking brain.
Yoknapatawpha is the name of American writer William Faulkner’s apocryphal county. “Apocryphal”, meaning “of doubtful authenticity”. Authentic or not, this is where Faulkner set all of his stories. He even drew its map. That is what guides Geoffrey Lachassagne in this brilliant and dizzying cinematographic adaptation.
A journey into an illness. A reflection about pain as the most intimate thing that we still could have as humans being.
A game of secrets and unsaid things in a neighborhood where three characters cross paths in turn: two lovers and a painter.
July 2017, liberated Mosul lies in ruins. Ghadeer, a young journalist who took refuge in Brussels after the Islamic State took the city, decides to abandon the promise of a future in Europe to return to his people. With a few friends, he founded Radio One FM, a station independent of any religious, community or political affiliation, which could help restore peace. The first two years were those of utopia for this volunteer team: thanks to journalistic work documenting the country's difficulties, Radio One gained a national audience. But economic difficulties and the growing pressure of militias linked to the political clans fighting for control of Iraq finally got the better of the enterprise.
The bat is one of many species that, due to the climate crisis, has been forced into evolution at an unnatural pace. The film looks at this shift as a metaphor for premature evolutions through loss- be that personal, or collective – from the pandemic and climate crisis. Set to the backdrop of Aberdeen’s River Dee and visited throughout by the sound of echolocation calls, the work holds an invitation to converse in unknown languages and to bathe in murky waters.