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Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
Everywhere in Artois, Juliette is said to treat sick cows. Juliette is a healer, for want of better, but her dream is to raise and sell animals. One evening, an unexpected opportunity arises: if she cares for a cow from the big Jourdel family, they could well hire her. But that night, the healing doesn’t go as planned.
Adam Boulton explores the changing relationship between politicians and media over the span of his 30-year career in Westminster.
A portrait of the myth of maternity around the story of Pepa and her daughter, who are evicted from their home and forced to wander for a place to live with no support network.
No profession, no say, no freedom of expression. Life as a prince consort is not exactly pleasure taxing. No constitution ascribes any function to the husband of a queen. Nowhere does it say what he must or must not do. A life in the shadow of the crown. Can that go well?
Thoughts, sometimes just numbers, reach us from offscreen almost like music, like a mantra or a prayer. What we see are circular fragments from familiar spaces: a mirror, a magnifying glass. A day like any other day: without medication, or perhaps better with? A film like the investigation of an uncertainty principle: do we really see better with a magnifying glass? A face scratched out of the family album: the gap is draped with flowers and cut-out pictures of clothes and finally filled again by a drawing.
Pierre, a serviceman with a strong character, goes back to his childhood housing estate to take over his dying father’s driving school. But things have changed a bit while he’s been away, and the teaching methods are very different. After a rough first encounter, Pierre has to adapt, ditch his prejudices and turn his life around
On German Reunification Day, Peter picks up his son from his ex-wife Anja for a long weekend. Everything gets delayed, and a long-overdue argument breaks out. Ellen, Anja’s father’s new girlfriend, tries to mediate between the quarreling ex-couple and increasingly becomes the target of their arguments.
Sapphic couple enjoys their time together reading
Four children aged between eleven and 14 take us on a journey into their secret world - a world where there is no bullying, no racism and no money. But there is plenty to discover: lion tongue fights, experiences of an escape, cat people and shiny blue crawling beetles!
A greengrocer tries to save the radio device that kept him company for most of his life. His pilgrimage through the streets in search of a solution confronts him with a city that has resigned itself to the disappearance of life forms and the loss of scenes from the past in memory.
Rural United States and modern urban Mexico meet in this tale of restlessness, secrets, and a very promising southward journey to reunite a family ruptured by a brutal tragedy.
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
Ben wakes up from an artificial coma after a failed mission. The personal protector has to deal with the fact that he could not prevent the death of a little girl. In order to recover, the BKA officer takes a break from the police service and drives to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend Marion. He spent happy days there as a child. The first visit to his parents in years is at the same time the return to the place of painful memories, because back then his best friend Timmi was killed in a mysterious accident. To his astonishment, he now learns that Timmi, now an adult, is alive and lying in a hospital as a coma patient. Together with Marion, a doctor who specializes in this diseases, Ben wants to reach Timmi with the help of MRI technology. Perhaps the trauma can be resolved if the cause can be brought to light. Unlike Ben, however, neither Timmi's father nor the village cop Nolting seem interested in it. A web of guilt, lies and deception has to be unraveled to clue to the puzzle.
Experimental short film.
Tashi yielded many names and lives before becoming a Buddhist monk: Navadeep Reddy, the prodigal son of a conservative upper caste family from Hyderabad, India. Matharani, a mother goddess for his LGBTQ family during his years of activism. And now @buddhistandqueer on Instagram. Tashi is the living oxymoron and mirror of India as he walks the path of his faith and queer identity in the turbulent oceans of contemporary Indian politics.
The story of Fabio Quagliarella's life and his problems with a stalker.
Former footballer Paul Merson sets out to understand why his life has been so blighted by gambling and asks if enough is being done to prevent others following in his footsteps.
March 2020. Fabrizio, a photographer and filmmaker who lives in Luxembourg, returns to his family in central Italy after his father has suffered a heart attack. It’s the beginning of the pandemic, the country is in lockdown. An intimate diary and an ode to filial love in the face of the most trying circumstances a son can face. A tale of the soul and personal hardship in the context of a broader collective tragedy.
In search of healing, a young woman returns home, to Nigeria, the country of her birth.
Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.
Piero Maccarinelli directs the student actors of the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in a play by Luigi Sturzo performed in 1900, which sheds light on the murky and persistent link between politics and crime.
Sibirian tiger Pascha and panther lucky want to perform at a circus festival with their trainer. After the final rehearsal fails, the trainer starts crying. Because stereotypes are so prevalent, this leads to suspicions that he might be gay.
Billy Pitcher is racist. His daughter dates a black man and convinces him to attend an African church to embrace her partner's culture. He miraculously wakes up the next morning in a black person's body.
In a deafening noise of chainsaws, loggers happily humming as they cut down trees to be used as decor for a fashion show. A contemporary cartoon satire, in the form of a musical comedy and burlesque action, leads us into a delirious whirlwind of chain reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque.
A concert to celebrate Maestro Muti's 80th birthday, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from the podium of La Scala in Milan.
A surgeon steals from the clinic where he works as an endoscopist a video report of a colonoscopy of a patient suffering from rectal cancer, for the purpose of masturbation. In this film the anus is inserted into the iconographic image of the keyhole through which the voyeur spies on his object of desire.
Paul Vidal is a country doctor in a small town. A husband and father, he seems to have all he needs to be happy. Yet he suffers a serious nervous breakdown, making him unable to practise.
The Character suffers from cinema-psychosis, a mental disorder defined as the obsessive idea that the person is inside a movie. Locked in his room for an endless day, he must cope with the consequences of his illness, lamenting his own fiction and raving about his existence. He needs to elucidate if his world is real or if it is just a movie...
Documentary on the art and culture of Florence in 15th century Tuscany and, in particular, the work of Eary Ranaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1501).
Les Vivants et les morts begins with a long sequence in both Berlin, mainly West Berlin, where I stay the whole month of January, thanks to a grant from the Goethe Institute. Then, most of this episode is a daily observation of Paris and the Butte Montmartre seen from my flat in Montparnasse.
It is a tribute to the people who dedicated their lives to sharing their soul with beings who never had it. To those who gave voice and life to objects that had a lot to say. To tell stories recovered from oblivion. To the puppeteers who, due to their profession, could not be buried in cemeteries because they were considered soulless beings.
German realist painter Rolf Kuhlmann is known for his complex, multilayered figures in compositions which evoke the world of dreams. In this remarkable documentary, director Claudia Schmid spends a year following the artist as he visits German forests, and ancient archeological sites and refugee camps in Greece. The Endless Moment documents the extraordinary creation of ambitious, large-scale double triptych paintings—from life studies to tactile three-dimensional objects—as the camera captures moments of conception, rumination, execution, and revision.
The history of italo disco, a musical genre that conquered the world during the incredible eighties, the most cybernetic decade; a style that was not just another kind of dance-pop music, but also the origin of an aesthetic, a true social phenomenon and the creative center of a very profitable industry.
Camila, an explosive teenager with dreams of being an activist leader, organizes a pacific student protest. When no student shows up for the protest, she convinces her friends to take up arms to take over their school. Things take a turn when the Principal corners Camila and her friends, forcing her to make a choice: to surrender or push forward.
Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are lots of these “artisanal” oilfields dotted around Myanmar, where people have swapped crop cultivation for selling the oil they pump from the ground by hand.
My Garden of a Thousand Bees follows wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn, who turns his lenses on the surprising and spectacular bees living in his own urban garden in Bristol, England.
After a ceremonial sea burial in the Mediterranean, the yacht of a wealthy community runs aground. The luxury of some sinks with the desperation of others.
The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.
Three women, three men, all very high level athletes, Olympic medalists, world champions in basketball, judo, rugby, fencing, swimming and figure skating have agreed to testify in a documentary. For the first time, they publicly reveal their homosexuality.
Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the doomed Control Room 4 where the disaster first began to unfold.
When three dazed and confused strangers wake up in a pub to a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing, they must figure out what happened to her in order to ensure they don't meet the same fate.
In February 1971, a majority of Swiss men finally granted women equal political rights. However, eight cantons were still unable to bring themselves to take this step, including three cantons with a long tradition in Switzerland.
In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who then sell them to Russian slaughterhouses. Shukhert, a brave horseman, relentlessly pursues them through the Mongolian taiga, bordering Siberia.
Blacher: Fanfare Festive (premiered at the opening of the Philharmonie, 1963) Ives: The Unanswered Question Mozart: Serenade No. 8 in D Major, K. 286 (269a) Notturno Penderecki: Emanations for 2 string orchestras Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 in G Major, Op. 55 Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Mateo, a teenager in a religious family, must decide to follow the religious path of his parents and stay a part of his community or find his own way.
A story about a teenage boy who is waiting to meet his father who went to Afghanistan for military service.
