The story behind the production of "Il Kapitano: Una dedica a Francesco Silvestre" (2025)
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The story behind the production of "Il Kapitano: Una dedica a Francesco Silvestre" (2025)
New York. On a sweltering night, Eli gets lost in the city in search of his own body.
On 23 March 2025 in Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, Israeli forces massacred fifteen Palestinian aid workers travelling in clearly marked humanitarian vehicles, later burying their bodies and vehicles in a shallow mass grave. Earshot and Forensic Architecture worked with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and survivors of the massacre to reconstruct the incident with unprecedented precision. The Last Responders is an investigative documentary about this massacre. Anchored in the situated testimonies of two survivors, the film draws on firsthand video and voice recordings captured during the night of the attack by the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Through these materials, the film probes acts of execution and concealment, while reconstructing a fuller account of what unfolded in Tel al-Sultan in the hours and days that followed.
Stéphane is a drifter, a man passing through, who quietly slips from house to house. One evening, he pushes open the door of a large estate and comes face to face with a corpse. With Christian, a stranger he meets there, they decide to bury it.
This show is a vibrant tribute to the cult filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. Blending hip-hop, contemporary dance and Armenian traditions, the stage becomes a veritable living tableau where electronic music and traditional instruments, theatre and cinema intertwine to bring to life the baroque and poetic world of the film Sayat-Nova (The Colour of Pomegranates).
Eva, raised in an artificial Eden to obey the voice of a god who controls her, discovers a message revealing that her world is a carefully constructed lie. Driven by her need for freedom, she must challenge the system to escape the only place she has ever known.
"Don't go out on the night of the Ghost Festival." A warning that all children with Chinese mothers are all too familiar with. 18-year-old Ming feels like the only weirdo in the small German town. On this midsummer night, after a disastrous party, she stumbles upon strange beings... In this surreal moment, she realizes who she truly is.
In a hidden place, beyond a door no one dares to open, a dark plan is about to unfold. When the Great Wizard unleashes his power, you will be swept into a vortex of pure madness and begin a journey you will never forget. You will soar over dizzying mountains, face colossal dragons ready to unleash their fury, dive into digital worlds where gigantic fruits rain down like meteors, rush through torrential forests, unstoppable rapids, and deep space ruled by an insatiable black hole. But there is one thing the Great Wizard did not foresee. A force greater than any spell; a force that knows no fear; an energy no magic can extinguish: the fun of Prezzemolo!!!
A Facebook conversation between a father and daughter defined by time and distance.
A journey through the history of paper in Fabriano, where the Giano River nourishes the fibers that give rise to culture. From its medieval roots to the historic Miliani paper mill—now the Fedrigoni Foundation—the film explores a universal material, a symbol of knowledge and art, which here became Italy’s first true industrial system.
A young nun's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.
A young Frenchman of Cambodian origins goes to his country in search of himself.
Seventy-five years after the release of the film *Miracle in Milan*, Claudio Longhi and Lino Guanciale invite us to revisit this unforgettable, beautiful fairy tale, to rediscover, in the mirror tarnished by the passing years of this fantastical epic tinged with magical realism, the truest features of our own faces. But what is a miracle?
The work of one-of-a-kind funeral director Hayley as she help families make their personal farewells in her own unique way. Filmed over 10 months, the documentary tells the story of three families navigating loss - a daughter mourning the mother she never got to say goodbye to, a family burying their father a year after losing their sister and a woman in her 40s planning her own funeral.
In autumn, in the Vésubie valley, a small farm prepares quince paste and nougat. The film adopts direct cinema to follow these artisanal gestures, and allow the intimate relationship between time, nature and work to emerge.
Set against the rise of social media, Free Lyric revisits one of rap culture’s earliest viral moments: the public shaming of a 17-year-old female rapper after a sexual confession spreads online. Through Niki’s story, the film explores gender, consent, and the early roots of online call-out culture.
Every year, Moira tries to win her local gardening competition against longtime title holder and rival neighbour, Margaret. This year she wishes to take Margaret down and will do anything to claim the winning title.
The relationship between a Frog and a Lumberjack intensifies as they argue over who has the rights to the river.
A space traveler crashes back on Earth unaware of having brought an alien parasite with him, living and haunting him just below his skin.
An anthology film about a faceless man, a guilt filled confessor and two paranoid friends
Four students investigate mysterious lights above a government-restricted meadow.
The school at the temporary housing facility for migrants in the small town of Ivry-sur-Seine is the center of the world for the children who live there. To them, the school is not just any old place; it´s where they make new friends and find a home away from home. This heartwarming documentary gives children the space to portray their lives in exile from their own perspective.
Filmmaker Michael Höft and his team travel to Kyiv during the coldest winter of the war. There, experts from the Ukrainian military intelligence service present the ARD team with surprising findings: downed Russian drones contain numerous components manufactured in the West, including electronic parts from German companies.
Ilama only intended to water her friend's flowers for two weeks—instead, she stumbles into a flower graveyard and the mistrust of an elderly lady from the neighborhood. What begins innocently escalates into a small-town crime thriller with dramatic mix-ups, overwhelmed retirees, and a carpet that sets everything in motion.
If the world doesn’t accept you and your kind, trailblaze a world that does. Inspired by the Black and Latinx underground Ballroom culture of New York, Sun, Teddy, and Xyza create Ballroom communities in Southeast Asia as safe havens from homophobia, transphobia, color discrimination and HIV stigma.
Chilling and uncanny, we follow three young men in their attempt to retrieve a red case that harbours a horrifying secret. But they are not alone in these woods and cannot even trust one another—not the girl they've taken hostage, nor the puppet master who lured them here. They are all alone in the dark, except for a 1957 Black Wolseley 15/50 that prowls silently in the night. Do not look into its red headlights...
“open and shut” is a short film about two sisters who find themselves stuck in old roles after their parents’ separation. Sascha and Liz are searching for closeness, but their efforts are repeatedly thwarted by arguments. In three repetitive cycles that grow longer with each iteration, they find themselves at the same threshold—a room cluttered with vases by their obsessive father—where new conflicts arise before each argument breaks off and starts all over again. In the end, two portraits remain: Sascha and Liz, who want to say something to each other but cannot. They are stuck. The film forms a duet with "TAKE CARE" (2025).
Alaeddine spends his days in Epinay-sur-Seine, lying to the north of Paris. With urban imagery, poetic digressions and scenes from everyday life, the film tells the story of the condition of extraneousness in a land far from one’s own, the loneliness imposed by metropolises such as Paris, the need to feel part of a community and the quest for personal balance, between cultural rootedness and discovery of the Other.
When relaxing in the park, a strange man approaches Jack. Together, the two begin to look further into the backstory of the legend that was Mr. Mole, an amazing scientist who had since gone insane.
Five childhood friends reunite for the first time after the death of their classmate Pedro, an unconditional Shrek fan. They are entrusted with an important mission: to honor the memory of the deceased by scattering his ashes at Shrekfest, a festival in honor of the green ogre and taking place in Wisconsin, USA.
Haunted by the memory of an absent, violent father, Paul moves restlessly through Berlin’s night, drifting into fleeting encounters that only deepen his loneliness.
Two journalists head to the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, to interview young people about how often they frequent this place and what motivates them to go there.
An 11-year-old boy is preparing for his performance at the end-of-year show. But he gets stage fright and spills something on his costume. He runs off to wash the stain out and embarks on a journey of self-discovery that, after many detours, gives him new self-confidence.
Two Chileans adopted in Europe embark on a journey. Daniel was declared dead at birth; Juan dreams of a wounded woman. Both seek to understand their origins, find a mother, and reconstruct their stories. Landless Children is an invitation to a journey—both mental and physical—into the depths of a forgotten land.
group of teens loses disneyland tickets before if begins
A daughter grapples with dual inheritances from her birth family and marriage. The film examines the transmission of care, discipline, labor and faith through women’s daily work spanning different geographies and generations.
Behind her husband’s back, a housewife goes live on TikTok to sell hyper-feminine bridal products. When he enters mid-stream, the bubbly performance begins to crack, and what feels like harmless online commerce slowly reveals a chilling reality of control and offscreen violence.
a body, stripped of its dance, faces the void of its own absence.
An ephemeral being lives for just one day: a ritual and fragile dance that celebrates the intensity, transformation, and beauty of fleeting moments.
A commission by Marc Salicrú to Jordi Boquet about the 3rd action at FiraTàrrega: an incursion by the Brigades of Popular Confusion before thousands. A city concert with over 350 participants (bands, firefighters, buses…) that shattered urban liturgy into a procession toward collective ecstasy.
A nonbinary transmen of colors journey and reflections through sex work, trauma without being able to get penetrated and the complications this bring with it.
On November 2nd, 2019, a young woman vanished from a small Italian town, leaving no trace behind. These are the last moments captured by surveillance cameras.
What begins as a quiet photography project turns into a harrowing journey into the depths of a parallel religious world. Photographer Andreas Reiner meets former members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses—people who had the courage to leave a strictly controlled religious community. In open, poignant conversations, they talk about their childhood and youth within the tight corset of religious rules, psychological pressure, sexualized violence, conversion therapy, and the existential rupture that came with leaving.
Marie and her best friend Tara (both 17) are apprentices at a rural German hotel, passing the time with TikTok videos and dreams of viral fame. When a film shoot comes to the hotel, Marie is fascinated, Tara suspicious. After the main actress drops out, Marie seizes the chance to step in—only to realize too late that the shoot is a social media campaign for a far-right party. As Marie pushes her limits for attention and success, Tara tries to stop her, escalating to drastic measures. In the end, friendship and morality collide amid the chaos.