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The original Gotthard railway tunnel through the Swiss Alps, took ten years to build and cost 147 lives. It was a mammoth undertaking and required the construction of long ramps on either side totalling 85 miles. Dozens of tunnels, viaducts and bridges were necessary. The ruling gradient of 1 in 37 was deemed to be just about the maximum that the original steam locomotives could handle, even then, trains were usually double-headed and even had banking engines attached at the rear! In order even to keep to this severe gradient, the engineers had to construct a number of additional spiral tunnels to gain height, hewn out of solid rock…

A nest of vampires are dependent on the once famous Alchemist, Perenelle Flamel, to retain their immortality. When Sebastian brings home a modern Alchemist, the vampires are in peril and must escape destruction by the Old Blood.

After his ex-wife Addolorata's death, Giuseppe called "Cicci", a fifty years old manager, has to custody his son and doughter Matteo and Sara. Cicci has a long time relation with his partner Nikolas, a sincere and smart plumber. Cicci has three sisters Giuditta, Silvana and Norina: they grow him up as a son and they will put him in a very severe test on the way and how he has to grow up his childrens. The three women move to Cicci and Nikolas' house dictating their religious morals about the traditional family, inspired by don Paolo's words, a priest.

Documentary about the making of "Lady Frankenstein" and the directing career of Mel Welles.

After forgetting his money on an expensive date, a desperate man decides the only option is to kill his date.

Estefanía, an 8 year old girl, refuses to accept the changes that her sister's illness causes in the family. Without understanding the disease, she thinks they have abandoned her.

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. Directed by Jean-Charles Fitoussi.

Filmed throughout the cities of Berlin, Prague, Budapest and Vienna.

Children as young as three are becoming addicted to mobile phones, harming their development and causing possible long-term damage. We follow some of the youngest cases and hear how our brains are affected by exposure to screens.

An elderly woman at the end of her life reminisces her years spent at a boarding school for girls.

Documentary about a house of witchcraft in Buenos Aires

A series of strange coincidences seem to indicate that the mysterious apparitions of Fatima have changed the course of history of these last 100 years.

The mysterious disappearance of a mountain climber becomes an inscrutable enigma. Ana, the climber’s wife, decides to take up the search herself after two years without any answers.

Marie, her father and her little brother live in an underground bunker hidden deep in the woods. The World as we knew it no longer exists. When the father accidentally shoots a stranger while on a hunt, he sees himself faced with only two options. At home, Marie tends the wounds of the unconscious man. While the father distrusts the stranger, Marie is drawn to him. For her, the bunker feels not like a home but a prison from which she yearns to break free. Can this stranger be her long awaited hope? But when a group of marauders invade the bunker, Marie is not sure who her new friend really is.

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge.

The life of a debt collector Kader turns upside down when he loses a bag full of money. The bag belongs to his boss. While looking for the lost possession, he discovers a huge Dakar landfill, Mbeubeuss. In this dramatic and somehow enchanted place, Kader meets Gnilane, a scavenger who tries to recycle the trash.

On a foggy afternoon, a woman who is lost in the middle of the countryside, finally reaches him on the phone. She calls him “darling” but has to give back his letters.

A tense night of raised pulses on a ferry to England: Adèle, an English teacher, is hiding a 15 year old migrant among her students on board.

Donato, a scoundrel music manager, to escape the two henchmen of a boss who, due to his inefficiency, has caused him to lose a lot of money, taking advantage of a letter from his uncle the bishop, introduces himself to the parish priest of a village church, Don Dino, dressed as a priest, and pretends to have been sent there by the bishop as assistant parish priest. Don Dino's church is always empty. In fact, the town's faithful frequent the new church, run by Don Gabriele, a pimp priest who knows how to deal with people. Donato's arrival initially seems like the final blow for Don Dino's church: Donato doesn't know where to start a mass, he has never confessed or married anyone, the mere idea of ​​performing an extreme unction scares him. Don Dino begins to argue with Donato: he seems anything but a priest. But little by little, Don Donato's extravagant ways, his open-mindedness as a "sinner", his mentality as a rock priest, begin to attract the faithful.

In Valencia, Spain paella is much more than a dish; it's part of the identity of every resident.

Playful, moving portrait of Raymond Briggs, told through interviews with Raymond, animation illustrated by Chris Riddell, and contributions from friends and admirers.

Solo in front of the camera, the musician/improviser Jérôme Noetinger plays his reel to reel tape recorder, he manipulates a complex sonic organism through the power of recording and playback – using microphonic captures, electromagnetic static, and random radio.

At the end of WWII, the General De Gaulle decides dissolve all the French resistance networks that helped the allies. Only one was spared, the "304". Kept alive until today, it's mission hasn't change: fight the inside enemy. In 2018, this enemy is called corruption, lobbies and crooked politicians.

A woman sits waiting for her train home. A stranger sits next to her and starts talking. He knows things about her that he shouldn't know, intricate details of her life and the lives around her, personal details of her past and future. He tells all this because he has a message, something she needs to hear...

A group of friends leave the city for the weekend and camp near a lake in the middle of the woods. Between the campfire flames and the night sky, tensions begin to emerge.

Hail Maria! tells the story of a mysterious cam girl and sex worker who recounts the true story of Harriet Westbrook, the lesser known first wife of renowned romanticist poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley.

An anthology of horror stories based on global conspiracy theories.

For 12 years now, Mathieu Amalric has been filming the stupendous New York saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Whirligig films that Zorn likes to programme during his concerts, like a musical set. They are screened here for the first time out of a concert setting. Music in the making, constellations of energies, an ever-expanding universe of sound…

What seems to be the story of a promising young artist, Tito Lombana, and that of his romance with an intelligent and liberal Italian, begins to dress in shadows. Why the most famous work of Lombana, "The old shoes" (in Cartagena), is not accredited to his name? What is the reason for the taboo that covers it in your own family? The granddaughter of the artist explores the life of his grandfather without sparing himself uncomfortable questions. Through the testimonies of his wife, his family and the people who knew him, the character reveals his folds... From FICCI

This personal portrait of the British singer-songwriter, filmed by his cousin Murray Cummings, follows this modest performer’s creative process as he writes a new song from scratch that will entrance millions.

Georges Livanos. A name that hardly evokes anything, or not much, even in the heart of Chamonix, the Mecca of mountaineering. And yet, the one nicknamed “the Greek” in the 1950s, because of his paternal ancestry, was undoubtedly one of the most important French mountaineers of his time. High mountain guide, Yann Borgnet, is also passionate about the history of mountaineering. “The Greek” is one of the “old ones” who particularly marked him. Yann wants to follow in Georges’ footsteps. So the young guide imagines an alpine journey, designed to visit the great routes opened by Livanos. A dive into the heart of an immense vertical heritage, to meet a great, almost forgotten, figure of mountaineering and his heritage.

A teenager in an English town struggles to come of age, braving sexual awakening and fighting her controlling parents by refusing to eat...until a nightmarish ghost appears that may be real, or may be a deadly creation of her starving body.

A staging of Marivaux's play "Arlequin poli par l'amour" by Thomas Jolly.

Two teenage girls are making love. Then one of them suddenly turns into a boy. After a fever dream everything appears to be back to normal again. Yet it isn’t.

"Radici" is the story of "us" new immigrants of the millennium. Three generations to compare, each one with a distinct path of life yet dependent from one another.

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has dressed Lady Gaga as well as John Paul II, Daft Punk as well as Beyoncé; he has also danced with the Sex Pistols and haunted the nights of the Palace... A colorful (self)portrait of a couturier in a class of his own, an eternally inspired jack-of-all-trades.

Inspired by the Black feminist tradition of quilting, Natasha A. Kelly’s film Milli’s Awakening brings together the voices of eight Black German women of different generations. Through their artistic practices all of them have found a way to define a self-determined position within white German mainstream society. The result is a documentary that simultaneously reflects the diversity and connectivity of their (her-)stories. (Adapted from Berlin Biennale synopsis)

Arctic Monkeys perform live for BBC Radio 1 at the legendary Maida Vale studios, with tracks from their new album Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino, and classics from their back catalogue of hits.

Eric Friedler, multiple winner of the Grimme and German Television Awards, accompanies the actors from back then on a journey into their past. In intense encounters and interviews, he unearths painful confessions and suppressed feelings of guilt and shows how close fame and misery, rise and fall lie to one another.

National and regional police team up to solve the case of a young woman found dead in a hotel swimming pool.

Ivor kicks a football over the wall of a mysterious neighbour and has to form a rescue team to retrieve it.

Filippo did not expect to have to spend the day with Alice, a charming young girl with Down syndrome he meets on a train. On their journey, an unexpected bond forms between the two.

The two friends have traveled the world for many mountainous adventures, but while skiing in distant locations this idea grew in their minds: a ski expedition that starts right on their own doorsteps. Six weeks, 1.800 km, 35.000 vertical meters and a dream come true. After pedaling and skiing through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France, they reached the beach in Nice in early June 2018. The movie premiered at St. Anton Filmfest in August 2018.

At the height of her fame in 1954, actress Ava Gardner transplanted herself from Hollywood to the country of Spain. As she lovingly stated in her autobiography, “I don’t know if it was the climate, the men, or the music, but as soon as I set foot in Spain, I had a crush on this country.” In this documentary by Sergio Mondelo, the filmmaker explores the motivations behind this move and contrasts Gardner’s glitz and glam lifestyle with the hardships faced by the Spainish people under Franco’s rule.

Seven children and teens are killed with guns in the U.S. on an average day.

She is excited, angry and scared as she meets her biological father for the first time. Can she sort out her chaotic emotions?

Antonio is a retiree who spends his time in chatrooms singing song classics. He meets a German pianist and a friendship develops between the two.

En route to a party they are not keen on attending, the Famous Five are almost relieved when Aunt Fanny's car breaks down, stranding them in a small town. To pass the time, they visit the local natural history museum, where some newly-discovered dinosaur bones are being unveiled. Here they meet Marty, who tells them that his father, long dead, supposedly found a complete dinosaur skeleton and made a map of its whereabouts. Unfortunately the map has been stolen. Unable to let a good mystery go unsolved, George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy, join a guided hike through the Valley of Dinosaurs. But their fact-finding mission soon turns into a race to find the dinosaur when they suspect that the thief is one of the group.

Ruby is a woman who lives in excess. One night at a bar, she meets Manolo, a lonely and shy man who doesn't like to socialize. Little does Ruby know that her encounter with him will make her witness the darkness that sometimes lurks in the peaceful shyness of some faces.

Short film by Victor Erice, based on the photographs that he has taken over time in the same place

Riding through a children’s wonderland of ice cream parlours and amusement parks, a Little Girl’s innocent adventure is interrupted when her beloved bicycle is stolen. Forced to choose between giving it up, or giving chase, she sets off on a new and daring adventure in pursuit of the Big Man who has taken it.

Georg Weiser has learned all his life not to feel emotions, to ignore the opinions and rights of others and to give free rein to his resentment. When he loses his wife, it seems as if he is not particularly affected. But his children will not rest.

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out to create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.