The Late Marilyn immerses us in the last days of Marilyn Monroe. Through the actress' own quotes, writings and reflections on life, work, love, success and loneliness we discover another facet of the icon.
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The Late Marilyn immerses us in the last days of Marilyn Monroe. Through the actress' own quotes, writings and reflections on life, work, love, success and loneliness we discover another facet of the icon.
In a profile pic-obsessed, filter-fixated world where online and reality blur, influencer Dorian Gray makes a deal. For his social star never to fade. For the perfect self he broadcasts to the world to always remain. But as his mental health starts to decline, as corruption and murderous depravity start to creep into his world, the true and horrific cost of his deal will soon need to be met.
“Let nature be nature” is the philosophy of the Bavarian Forest National Park. Despite massive resistance, this vision has become a groundbreaking showcase project. Because humans do not interfere with nature, the former commercial forests grow into a primeval forest, a unique ecosystem and a refuge for biodiversity. People from all over the world come here. They are looking for answers to the question of why we need more wild nature and what we can learn from it to preserve forests for future generations in times of climate change.
At a party, Maggie encounters the father of the boy who assaulted her teenage daughter, testing her instinct to 'rise above' to its limit.
A love letter to the joys and pleasures of champagne.
Somewhere on the outskirts of Berlin, a self-proclaimed priest is preaching to a group of people with addiction and mental-health problems in a run-down building that houses a psychosocial support group. A recent arrival at the facility, which aims to be both a home and a religious community for its residents, is Egon, who is struggling with a psychotic disorder. He cannot sleep, refuses to help on the farm, won’t wash, and has trouble following the priest’s instructions. More than once, the pastor crosses a line and humiliates his charges. For most people here, turning to religion is something of a last chance, affording them some kind of support. Egon, however, claims to have conversations with Jesus in which the latter condones his defiant behaviour. His attempt to take the Messiah at his word and understand his miracles eventually propels Egon deeper and deeper into his psychosis.
More than twenty sports journalists – working mainly on television (BeIN Sports, RMC Sport, France Télévisions, Canal+, TF1) but not only (L'Équipe, Radio France) – testify to the anger, despondency and helplessness they felt when they had to endure the “Yucky jokes”, the « culture de boy’s club » and degrading insults on social networks, while at the same time the presence of women in these programs and in the press has increased. Without forgetting the misogynistic comments, the heaps of small sentences on the physique or the competence, the sexual innuendos… until the moral or sexual harassment.
Slovenia, the country between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps, is like a continent in the smallest of spaces. Just half the size of Switzerland, Slovenia's castles, streams and mountain lakes are just a stone's throw away from each other. The Slovenians are proud of their beautiful country, the plateaus and Lake Bled, which they confidently refer to as “little St. Moritz”.
Based on the novel by Emily Brontë, adapted and directed by Emma Rice. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a child, Heathcliff is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to live at Wuthering Heights. He finds a kindred spirit in Catherine Earnshaw and a fierce love ignites. When forced apart, a brutal chain of events is unleashed. Shot through with music, dance, passion and hope, Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous, Brief Encounter) transforms Emily Brontë’s masterpiece into a powerful and uniquely theatrical experience. Lucy McCormick (Post Popular) and Ash Hunter (Hamilton) lead the company of performers and musicians in this intoxicating revenge tragedy for our time.
Two men with the same name endure the funny consequences of getting mixed up during a business trip.
Clara and Jake have their own band and their own way of life. Everything changes when they find a strange vinyl record at a nursing home. It's up to them to find the origins of the music, no matter the consequences.
Dreams: that cinema of the mind in which we are both spectator and protagonist, where anything is always seamlessly possible, where the most implausible encounters are commonplace.
Roberto Benítez, "Bandido", is a popular singer who’s about to leave his career behind. What do you do with your dreams when dissatisfaction has settled in every bone? A random event leads the protagonist to reunite with old friends and gives his existence and unexpected breath of life.
The three teachers Svetlana, Sandrine and Taslima teach children and young people in places that are hardly accessible for “normal” lessons - in a nomad tent under the snow cover of Siberia, in a hut in the bushland of Burkina Faso and on a school boat in Bangladesh. They share a common goal: to enable their students to have a better future through education.
Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize himself as a writer and in doing so discovers his potential as a poetic rebel. His very first play was banned and soon afterwards he lost his place at the film school. When the tanks of the Soviet Union roll through the Czech capital Prague in 1968, Brasch and his girlfriend Sanda and other students try to call for protest in the streets of Berlin - and fail. His own father betrays him to the Stasi and allows Thomas to go to prison. After being paroled, he continues to try his hand at poet writing about love, revolt and death. In the GDR, however, you don't want to have anything to do with someone like him.
A documentary telling the remarkable human story of Stephen Hawking. For the first time, the personal archives and the testimonies of his closest family reveal both the scale of Hawking's triumphs and the real cost of his disability and success.
Following his failed retaliation against a racist murderer, the protagonist offers his girlfriend up as a pledge in exchange for one more day to live and struggles to surrender himself to his own execution thereafter.
Jarvis has just moved to Shanghai and is suddenly confined to his empty apartment. He finds it difficult to manage his loneliness and plunges into a state of deep anxiety. The only way to escape his nightmares is to flee through the deserted city to get to a friend’s house.
An actor in low hours and a young interpreter who threatens to displace the former thanks to the tricks of their agent; the owner of the high mountain hotel and her estranged sister, creator of a new and unique discipline that mixes yoga and fengshui; a group of children wanting to have fun, but also to discover hidden secrets; a taciturn bellboy who sees everything; and a tremendous storm that will leave everyone isolated just before Christmas. A weekend in which everything can happen, and in which everything will happen.
Enrique Morente's three sons tell the story of their father: the most revolutionary flamenco in history. Despite criticism from purists, he opened cante jondo to cultured poetry, brought it closer to young university students, explored its Arab roots and paired it with rock and other contemporary sounds. Much of the Spanish music of the last decades is heir to his findings.
Three young adults face the reality of homeless people in Milan and tell three different portraits of people that leave this condition in their everyday life.
A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?
During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. The film follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.
Nora disappeared for several months. One summer evening, she strangely reappears at a party with a certain Samuel. Camille, her best friend, comes to find her, wondering what way to behave. The night goes on, a trio forms and time stands still.
Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year 2019 is oppressively prophetic: climate catastrophe, increasing public surveillance, powerful monopolistic corporations, highly evolved artificial intelligence; a fantastic vision of the future world that has become a frightening reality.
Considered the greatest musical success of Pablo Luna's career, this operetta was released at the end of 1923 in El Teatro de la Zarzuela. Many consider it the best of his compositions, bolstered by an inspired and amusing libretto. After its premiere, it went on to be produced in Cuba, Mexico and continued its life cycle on stage until the 1950s.
When Iva was a little girl, she was a believer. As an adult, she added the D to her name to become D-Iva, a pure product of the star system. Offered to and adored by her trance-like audience as a modern golden calf, D-Iva realizes that her childhood dream has turned into a nightmare.
In this mesmerizing experimental film, a Stephen King television movie is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect.
An Italian middle-class family, during lunch, talks about the problems that afflict our nation.
In the show, Europe's most successful pop star enchants the people in front of the TV with her music in the intimate atmosphere of a theater. Helene Fischer relies on a special collaboration for a glittering evening: as music supervisor, Stefan Raab designs the live performance of the songs from her new album "Rausch" together with Helene Fischer. On stage, the artist will perform these unique versions of her songs with a live band. This show will not only be a musical highlight. In conversation with Steven Gätjen, Helene Fischer will give her fans unusual insights into her life and career on this evening: What meaning do the individual songs have for the singer? What makes "Rausch" probably her most personal album?
The film recounts failure in a fun and constructive way, often experienced as an indelible shame and almost never as a precious opportunity for growth.
An emotionally detached fruit farmer confronts a heinous act from her past during a promotional video for her award winning jam.
Leon is forced to confront his sexuality when he meets his favourite queer author, Martin McAllen, whilst surrounded by the toxic masculinity of his homophobic colleagues.
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
A woman prepares for a shoot.
A quirky tale about a man ignoring his problems as he slowly and literally drowns in them. This is a unique animation exploring the themes of procrastination, loneliness, stubbornness and lethargy.
During the day, 18-year-old Elaha argues with her mother about cleaning up, at night she works at the club to move in with her friend Ina. She also uses her quick wit to answer endless questions about her origins.
A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.
Shortly before the election for commander-in-chief of the first mission to Mars, the ambitious Nova makes a serious mistake that throws her world into turmoil.
In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length documentary recounts his adventures.
Leslie, a young and disillusioned suburbanite, drags his best friend Fox into a messy scheme all across Paris’ suburbs. On a construction site of the Grand Paris Express – the train of the future! – they discover a mysterious artifact. Just what they need to cash in a little extra.
When his mother asks 17-year-old Arne to take his sick father on a mysterious date, he begins to see him differently.
Otto Waalkes plays a magician who strayed into the present from the 11th century and who absolutely wants to return to his time.
When the fireworks inflame the memory of a war survival.
Ben is a suicidal and depressed man. After a new attempt to kill himself, he meets Jean-Pierre, a former butcher who has become a serial killer since he got diagnosed with cancer. Both of them are going to change, for the best.
Luca, a young aspiring model, tries to elevate his modeling career, by meeting up with the once-very-famous-photographer Jerry, that he has met online. Jerry will introduce him to a glamorous new world Luca could only dream of. but at what cost? Sternchen examines the abusive side of the fashion industry, and how mentorship gets confused with sexual and personal domination.
Satur and Tina are married, and Berta enters their life as a ‘unicorn.’ In the end, however, Satur is pushed out and Tina and Berta have an affair. Manu is a loser who tries to embark on a relationship with Amanda, who at the same time is involved with Alex, Claudia and Marta and Esteban, with whom they are all co-raising two children. Everyone seem to be living many different lives but all of them will have a lot to learn from each other.
Josefina depicts Middle Age Juan's love angle, Juan was a prison guard and the lady he loved's son Sergio was a prisoner in prison, and he loses his job because of his love.
In the past, Skyler has been a fanatically religious teenager, and then a young lesbian queer. Now he is an FtM transgender coming up to middle age, with the recurring idea of having missed some sexual opportunities during his youth. Not that he was inactive sexually, but he feels the need for a more 'standard' experience. For this moment, he chooses Bishop Black to be his partner, and a supportive female friend to hold his hand.
Animated short film painted with oil on transparent acetate. This project is about the poetic instant. Just as a Haiku, it cannot be defined as such only by its metric; an instant cannot be defined according to its duration. The duration of an instant is similar to the vibration of a note, it passes through our body and leaves a resonance; we don't know when it starts or when it ends. The moment dissolves and makes way, but leaves a trail in its path. The instant is poetic because it is situated between what we don't have and what is escaping from us.
The film depicts how the Church has adapted to the new security norms in the Covid-era, without renouncing to its rituals.
In a city damaged hard by the epidemic and isolation, suddenly a beautiful woman appears who no one knows but who everyone is fascinated by. Slowly but almost inexorably, the city comes back to life.
Everyone is capable of foul things. When Rodger Flank is invited to play a drinking game with a tight group of friends from college, things start to go terribly wrong. Told out of sequence, and from both sides of the fence, Manhunt is a story of revenge, psychosis, and childhood’s end.
Blocks of white marble from a Greek quarry are shipped to China, where sculptors turn them into Hellenistic-style statues and columns. The leftover grit is processed into fridge magnets and other souvenirs, which are returned to Europe and sold to Chinese tourists.
Hadoum, Fátima, Sheima, and Sokayna are four teenagers from El Puche, a suburb in the Spanish city of Almería, who are proud of their Moroccan and Spanish roots. Together they navigate their first experiences in out-of-the neighborhood schools, that evidence their underprivileged environment. However, this does not affect the intensity of their desires and dreams. On Fatima’s eighteenth birthday, the strength of their self-confidence will be put to the test.