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Based on research by Ariane Chemin, this documentary tells the story of how French soldier Félix Mora recruited young Moroccans en masse for the mines of industrial France in the 1960s and 1970s as the French economy was booming. This recruitment led to a new generation of working-class French citizens through immigration.

Under the baton of its artistic director, Shunsuke Sato, the Netherlands Bach Society performs Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s “Magnificat” at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Bremen.

Out of the ocean and into the city! When the Enchanted Forest magically transforms into a bustling metropolis, the Enchantimals explore a whole new world

Never repentant, never a collaborator with justice, but a 'political soldier' as he described himself in an interview with Sergio Zavoli, Vinciguerra remains a solitary cell, who over the years has repudiated right-wing militancy mixed with the state and its democratic system. Not a neo-fascist, but a fascist, determined to serve his entire sentence without seeking any reduction, as a reminder of the interference between the state and black terrorism, Vinciguerra despises all forms of democratic systems and anyone who is part of them.

Alodia is in the middle of a diode laser session. It is interrupted because of an error that forces her to get up. The escapism no longer works for her and redemption is the only thing left.

A drama on two siblings, that hopes to raise awareness on mental health, bullying and knife crime.

Giorgio is a young talented boxer who lives with his mother and dreams to became a champion.

What if science could reverse the aging process? Follow the researchers as they decipher these mechanisms, with the promise of finding the elixir of youth so you can live longer, healthier lives!

Mbissine Thérèse Diop played the starring role in Ousmane Sembène’s landmark first feature, 1966’s Black Girl (La Noire de…). Today, she looks back on her experience as a Black actress in the 1960s.

Benjamin Kling is an audio describer. He translates movies for blind and visually impaired viewers. After more than a hundred audio described films and series and while working on Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion, he feels the need to question his practice: is he too objective? Does he do justice to the films in all their diversity, in all their art, in the craft of the director? To answer these questions, he decides to meet blind and visually impaired people from different backgrounds. He wants to learn more about their singular way of "watching" films (they insist on saying “watching a movie”) and their expectations about audio description. What can we learn, us as sighted persons, from their way of experiencing cinema?

It has been a year since the events of the first movie, and the survivors are about to reopen the camp.. However, something sinister lurks.. And all is not what it seems.

'Carmela's diary' tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who lives on the outskirts of Naples and is forced to work for her family's shopping center. Caged in a life that only promises her an uncertain future. Carmela perceives her adolescence as captivity, forced to live as a prisoner by her mother, Maria, who forces her to sell drugs along with her older brother, Ciro. War breaks out amongst the gangs in the neighborhood and Carmela is forced to stay indoors, with the windows well sealed, and give up everything, even one of the things she loves the most, going to school.

After a couple of drinks, a girl admits to her best friend that she’s always wanted to know what it feels like to be kissed by a girl. But how will they feel, and has their friendship been altered forever? After the After Party is part of the Words First series of spoken word animations, commissioned to celebrate the finalists of the 2022 BBC Words First talent development scheme.

This unique and cheeky documentary explores Britain and what makes our country great from our traditions to our self-deprecating sense of humour.

Tom falls deeply in love with a delivery boy. To see him again, he orders lots of food, which his roommate has to eat. But every time, it seems that someone else is delivering his food. To see the love of his life again, Tom has to find another strategy…

For decades, secrets have been kept from us. After years of silence and secrecy the US government has finally revealed evidence of extra-terrestrial life which could shatter our very perception of mankind’s place in the universe.

Stewart Lee is a ‘snowflake’, and in this hour from his tour, the Bafta-winning comedian illustrates how being ‘woke’ doesn’t mean having to sacrifice freedom of speech.

With his wild hair, Jean Rondeau is a rock star of the harpsichord. Profile of the young French harpsichord player who is breathing new life into an instrument that is too often ignored.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the two richest men in the world, have the same dream: to conquer space and send millions of people to live on Mars or in orbiting stations. In just twenty years, these two ambitious entrepreneurs have succeeded in developing and launching their own rockets, a feat previously reserved only for governments. Under their leadership, a new space epic is being written. Their "New Space" is turning space into a gigantic, ultra-competitive market. Behind this duel, another battle is being played out, that of the supremacy of the States in the race to the stars.

An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren't willing to be ruled.

1994. A film about a coach trip, male beauty and the gaze of teenage girls. Two 15 year old girls leave South London in 1994 and find their teenage gaze in Venice, in a promise that is never fulfilled. Was being 15 truly the last invincible age of their romantic lives?

A short horror film.

Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.

When filmmaker Elettra Fiumi inherited her father Fabrizio Fiumi’s archives, she discovered a man she knew nothing about. Fabrizio, along with the group of radical architects called 9999, imagined architectural innovations and anticipated a future that is still forthcoming. He was also founder of the Florence Film Festival. In coming to know her father, Fiumi unveils a visionary genius we don’t know enough about.

The director addresses mental health, homosexuality and the identity of Canarian women in the rural world.

When Tariq’s older brother arrives from Egypt - the first time he’s seen him since he came to the UK and since his transition - he’s forced to confront his complicated feelings about family. Denise, his friend, a fellow trans refugee and teammate, shares her own story about friends and family. A film about the family we're born into and the families we make from our friends.

One of the world's greatest singer-songwriters, Joan Armatrading, does what she does best, accompanied by a full live band. Filmed at Asylum Chapel, London, in 2021, the show contains a plethora of new songs and classic tracks from across Joan's successful career - including Better Life, Consequences, Love and Affection, Drop the Pilot, Down to Zero and Me, Myself, I.

To err is human.

A film by Eckhart Schmidt made in Venice that plays experimentally with image and sound.

With a deep yearning for the perfect partner, Simon, a socially withdrawn man, applies to a futuristic matchmaking agency with a highly advanced algorithm. Things get complicated when Simon meets Hannah, a woman with the exact same ideal features he described in the examination room, down to the specific detail of a birthmark. Shocked yet intrigued, he strikes up a romantic connection with her. Unable to extract more information about his result, Simon must soon choose between pursuing an organic, real-life relationship with Hannah or putting his faith back in the numbers and waiting for his scientifically calculated match.

A visually dazzling, hilarious ode to losing at video games and the egos which get battered along the way.

Two different worlds, art, and cuisine collide in a tense and mysterious thriller.

Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. Sirens is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany’s coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses’ boat through the Sirens’ strait. An odyssey through the dystopian industrial world that has left a permanent mark on earth’s ecosphere.

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.

Compiled from stock footage, Livestock is a visual poem exploring the digital, physical and metaphysical synergy of the modern workplace.

A short film written by Jacob Meadows, shot in Hammersmith as a one-take with Jacob and Vincent playing a couple at a crossroads in their relationship.

On her first business trip away after the birth of her child, a young mother has to fend off the unwanted advances of her boss, triggering a traumatic childhood event involving a monstrous figure called Mama.

Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.

Carlo has to dress warmly for a dubious deal on a lonely street on a hot summer's day. But who or what is he actually waiting for?

Zoe's reserved nature speaks volumes when her familiar, unwanted inner critic comes out to play.

The extraordinary moving story of Toni Crews, a young mum with a rare terminal cancer who charted her illness online before donating her body for medical research and public dissection.

After searching for her missing daughter, a lady will discover the deadly legend behind the famous Nursery Rhyme.

Oliver, former European champion in the decathlon, came out after the end of his sporting career and divorced his wife Carolin. Since then he has had little connection to his 15-year-old daughter Alma. Oliver now lives in Hamburg with Felix, the owner of an outdoor shop. When Oliver's ex-wife dies after a car accident, Alma moves in with them at the request of her aunt Franziska. Full of mistrust of her homosexual father, the traumatized girl tries to initiate conflicts between Oliver and Felix and to break them up. Alma's friend Johannes also has reservations about gays. His family provides Alma with emotional support. Because Felix also shows a lot of understanding for Alma's needs, Oliver gets caught between the fronts.

After threatening his ex-partner for years, Marcos M. murders his 11-year-old son with a shovel. A year later a popular jury condemns him for murder, to kill making full use of his faculties, and determines that the crime against the child did not seek anything other than to punish the mother. In the fact on which we base ourselves, violence, harassment, the murder of a child to harm the mother and the death threat that still hangs over the woman concur.

Deep in the Pyrenees, two close friends at rock bottom have the idea of the century: to pull themselves of their misery, they will launch a horse trekking tour, a voyage through the mountains for tourists in search of nature, silence and adventure.

From Muybridge and Porter, passing by John Ford and Howard Hawks, all the way to Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, a story of a cowboy trying to escape death cut from over 100 films.

Viewers from around the globe send in their questions for Adam Meszaros.

One night, Samuel discovers that the light bulb in his bedroom ceiling has switched itself on. His neighbours are fascinated - it's a miracle.

Based on real-life personal experiences, Iratxe Fresneda takes us on a personal journey where past and present blend in a stunningly sensorial visual experience; from the calm shores of the Danube to the hectic life of Madrid, four interlaced stories converge and get lost in the mysteries of Tetuán.

A documentary that tells the story of how this very low budget indie production company was born in 2005, how it achieved fame in Latin American countries and the constant censorship it had to deal with in order to release its projects, including six attempts to make its first film.